Re: How do you know God Exists? does Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji prove god exists?
Folks it does not hurt or may even be appropriate to keep focus on what is in front of our noses. However we must recognize that the message and guidance from Guru ji in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji is quite a bit beyond that.
Read the following at your leisure and let us review what difference does it make in the long term activities in the universe what any one of us thinks. The only difference that our myopic infatuation of the micro aspects of the universe, albeit looking for proofs to believe, believing without proofs or not believing in God or creator. Let us remember though that what ever God or creator or lack thereof is, the wisdom or the truths behind all creation, it will always be mystery in part small or large vis-à-vis our lives and how we live.
Guru ji’s teaching in this regards is “consonance”. Consonance with all life and non-life that abounds around us. Cherish life, cherish nature and be synergistic part of all that is around.
Hence,
- If we develop wisdom to avoid catastrophes as flagged in the article, that is also consonance.
- Intercept and blow the peace of rock before it hits us
- Lasers, missiles, bombs conventional or otherwise
- If we don’t that is also consonance.
- Many things come to be because we are not capable at that moment to respond or we ignore consonance in the first place
- The consequences of this are consonance as and when things happen based on environ of the moment
Note: Closing your eyes, blindly praying, throwing water at it, etc., is not Sikhi. Check your bearing and get real.
Sikhism teaches us to keep all of this in a perspective while learning about all forever more and live improvingly with each passing day.
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http://news.yahoo.com/large-asteroid-heading-earth-pray-says-nasa-005545942.html
Large asteroid heading to Earth? Pray, says NASA
By
Irene Klotz |
Reuters – 3 hrs ago
Reuters/Reuters - The passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system, is depicted in this handout image from NASA. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout
By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA chief Charles Bolden has advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed toward New York City: Pray.
That's about all the United States - or anyone for that matter - could do at this point about unknown asteroids and meteors that may be on a collision course with Earth, Bolden told lawmakers at a U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee hearing on Tuesday.
An asteroid estimated to be have been about 55 feet in diameter exploded on February 15 over Chelyabinsk, Russia, generating shock waves that shattered windows and damaged buildings. More than 1,500 people were injured.
Later that day, a larger, unrelated asteroid discovered last year passed about 17,200 miles from Earth, closer than the network of television and weather satellites that ring the planet.
The events "serve as evidence that
we live in an active solar system with potentially hazardous objects passing through our neighborhood with surprising frequency," said Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat.
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We were fortunate that the events of last month were simply an interesting coincidence rather than a catastrophe," said Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, who called the hearing to learn what is being done and how much money is needed to better protect the planet.
NASA has found and is tracking about 95 percent of the largest objects flying near Earth, those that are .62 miles or larger in diameter.
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An asteroid of that size, a kilometer or bigger, could plausibly end civilization," White House science advisor John Holdren told legislators at the same hearing.
But only about 10 percent of an estimated 10,000 potential "city-killer" asteroids, those with a diameter of about 165 feet have been found, Holdren added.
On average, objects of that size are estimated to hit Earth about once every 1,000 years.
"From the information we have, we don't know of an asteroid that will threaten the population of the United States," Bolden said. "But if it's coming in three weeks, pray."
In addition to stepping up its monitoring efforts and building international partnerships, NASA is looking at developing technologies to divert an object that may be on a collision course with Earth.
"The odds of a near-Earth object strike causing massive casualties and destruction of infrastructure are very small, but the potential consequences of such an event are so large it makes sense to takes the risk seriously," Holdren said.
About 66 million years ago, an object 6 miles in diameter is believed to have smashed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, leading to the demise of the dinosaurs, as well as most plant and animal life on Earth.
The asteroid that exploded over Russia last month was the largest object to hit Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event when an asteroid or comet exploded over Siberia, leveling 80 million trees over more than 830 square miles (2,150 sq km).
(Editing by Kevin Gray and Paul Simao)
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What you think?
Sat Sri Akal.
PS: I added emphasis in the article to flag certain aspects related to our thread.
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