Can a microbe living in a petri dish conceptualise anything of the world outside his dish , the laboratory where the petri dish resides , or the town the laboratory is situated , everyone one would probably give the same resounding answer….NO !
Could a frog born in a well conceptualise the oceans , he has some experience of water after all , and theoretically could compare his experiences of the water within his well to the oceans of the world , he might say is the ocean 10 times or 100 times or 1000 times bigger than my well ? , his well is his only reference point, after all , which most definitely are only his own limited experiences.
Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita wherever the mind wonders bring it back under the control of the self . A mind is limited, and so too the intelligence, but the Vedas say not the consciousness , in the sense that consciousness can connect to the origins of the consciousness . What are the origins of consciousness, must be another consciousness, in our experience life comes from life .The mind and intelligence are not per say consciousness origins, but are temporary expressions of it .
In the Srimad Bhagavatam, there are passages describing great souls leaving their bodies at the time of death . How they, before reaching Goloka Vrndavana ,which the Vedas says is the top most planet in a spiritual realm , pass through the many different planetary systems , both lower , middle, and higher and traversing on they are carried by the speed of their pure minds , past all the heavenly abodes , past Lord Bramha’s abode ,the chief engineer of this universe, past all the Vaikuntha planets , which are also parts of the spiritual realms . The great souls watch all those various planet’s pass by before them and then reach their destined abode , Goloka Vrndavana.
These passages given in the Bhagavatam bring an understanding of the inconceivable vastness of the material and spiritual realms . It is said that to understand Krishna or Divinity it is imperative to accept that He possesses inconceivable energies . We are like a microbe of consciousness, God is like the size of the Sun if we want to draw comparisons.
So intellectually using rationale , we should accept that just as the microbial creature in his petri dish could never have capacities to understand anything of the vastness of his laboratory , or Dr Frogg PHD could never really understand the vastness of the oceans by using his well as a comparison . A sane person will accept the limited senses , limited mind , as well as limited intelligence , and they obviously limit our capacities . Not to say we should not use our God-given intelligence to advance our understanding .God gives intelligence to understand and realise something of a spark of His unlimited opulences. We should definitely do so , Oxford and Cambridge universities originated for that purpose . We should understand how great our universe is. But the true greatness of Divinity is beyond our capacity to understand , although a fraction may be comprehended perhaps. The Vedas says His very sweet personality , which He is only more than willing to share , along with His playful and artistic nature, can greatly expand, allowing the limited to begin to directly relate with the unlimited . Understanding Divinity is a decending process rather than an ascending one .
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