The Vedic moon ….
Sadaputa analysis is that in an astrolabe model the moon is shown last on the layers of orbits , so it looks like the moon is further away than the sun , but that is just a feature of the astrolabe model.
Srila Prabhupada sent Sadaputa prabhu to South India to consult the followers of Ramanuja Acarya regarding details of 5th Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam
So Prabhupada never claimed to be an expert at everything in cosmological matters and wanted Sastra evidence from the Vedas that Sadaputa collected and analysed along with other Vedic texts .
The multidimensional universe can mean the moon is most definitely a heavenly realm within one plane of Vision.Its moonlight flavours the vegetation according to the Vedas , as it transforms the suns rays to moonlight rays . The moons’ powers also pull the oceans’ currents, and it’s seen to affect the minds of the conditioned souls . In the tenth Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam the moon causes Lord Krishna to enter the most romantic of all romantics ,Rasa dance , He sees the beauty of the Gopies faces in the full moon ,and romance floods the reals of Vraja .So the moon is no ordinary lump of rock .
But conditioned senses and souls attached to the material atmosphere will not see or have any insights into these aspects of the moon .
Like bulls tethered to a post , they are limited in everything. Prabhupada says.
So , if they did land on the moon ,and the jury is out , but , the moon according to Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami’s Surya siddhant litrature , is 238.000 miles away , they may have landed ,and could simply only see rocks and collect dust ..and not its heavenly features.
Unable to enter into the other higher realms of the heavenly planes, that takes development of consciousness.
Prof Lisa Randall PhD Harvard Prof, writes on the multidimensional universe, akin to the Bhagavatam , recognition of planes of existence not seen with our senses .Her branes Hypothesis, as in membranes,.
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