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which reference has been made above wing. According to science a funis as follows, God (Isvara) is the damental property of matter is its Giver to the universe of its laws indestructibility. How then can of science as we have already seen that in men and women, the soul Now, the exact sciences in their ('atman'), which perceives this be higher walks are all mathematics, itself destructible since the perceiver its symbols, equations, formulae etc. is greater than the perceived ? As as Eingstin, prof. A. N. Whitehead, Shelley puts it poetically. sir James Jeans, and others will Naught we know, dies, shall point out. Thus the laws of science that alone --which knows Be as a embedded in the universe, or in sword consumed before the sheath Nature if one will, and governing it By sighless lightning ? (Adonais, are expressible only in mathematical Stanza xx, "lines 6–8). .. language. As Sir James Jeans says, 'We conclusion have (in Nature) a perfect specifi
The conclusion of Samkara-Vedacation of the pattern of events
nta about the soul in fact the very written, as it necessarily must
substance of Samkara Vedanta, is: be, in the language of mathematics, but this does not admit of
'Slokardhena pravaksyami yadukinterpreation in mechanical terms, or
tam grantha kotibih Brahmasatyam indeed in any terms other than
Jaganmithya Jivobrahmaiva napa
rah. those of mathematics' ('physics and philosophy', 1942, p. 121-22). Patan 2. (North Gujarat) God is thus primarily a mathemati- Monday, 17/10/1983. cian, supreme of course.
(K. N. Iyer)
1 I express in half a verse what On the immortality of the
has been said in crores of treati. soul.
ses : Brahman is (true), the perceiAn independent (i, e., non scri- ved universe is false, the indivi. ptural), scientific argument in favour dual soul is none other than of the soul's immortality is the follo B rahman,'.
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