ParamaGuru speaks

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In Sankara's commentary on the Upanisads there is a reference to the earth's force of attraction. If we throw up an object it falls to the ground. This is not due to the nature of object but due to the earth's force of attraction. "Akarsana-sakti" is force of attraction, the power of drawing or pulling something. The breath called "prana" goes up, "apana" pulls it down. So the force that pulls something downward is apana. The Acarya says the earth has apana-sakti. The Prasnopanisad (3. 8) states: "The deity of the earth inspires the human body with apana". In his commentary on this, Sankara observes that, just as an object thrown up is attracted by the earth, so prana that goes up is pulled down by apana. This means that our Upanisads contain a reference to the law of gravitation. There are many such precious truths embedded in our ancient sastras. Because of our ignorance of them we show inordinate respect for ideas propounded by foreigners, ideas known to us many centuries before their discovery by them. Our Jyotisa is also some thousands of years old. Even so it foresaw the mathematical systems prevalent in the world today.

http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part10/chap7.htm

 

While the achaaryaal was physically alive,he was respectfully called"Nadamaadum Deivam" (Walking-Mobile God) despite his age and modern facility of transport available,he prefered to walk all over India.He used to enthrall people with minute details of information,that an expert in any field would be humbled by his knowledge of the shastras.Even to have his eyes fall upon us is a grace of the divine trinity of gods.

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