[Posted October 11, 2009]

So is there water on the moon?

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

A hit and miss operation might/might not confirm water on the moon

My Way News Oct 9, 2009 - SETH BORENSTEIN

NASA probes give moon a double smack

NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed four minutes later by a probe with cameras taking pictures of the first crash.

...NASA officials said their instruments were working, but live photos of the actual crash were missing. go to story

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The moon is not lifeless, barren

Life on the Moon A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Now, the argument is that "There is no vegetation. The atmosphere is different, where living being cannot stay." They say like that. But from the Vedic information we understand that moon planet influences the vegetation in all other planets. So if the moon planet helps vegetation in all other planets, how it is that there is no vegetation? So there are many things, contradictions, and practically we see, they are going to the moon planet, but they cannot stay, uselessly going and coming. So let them do that, but we have got our other sources of information, that we cannot go to the moon planet. It is not possible. more

8 material elements present throughout the universe

excerpt from Life Comes from Life, Chapter 1, "The Universe in the Atom"

DR. SINGH: Because the scientists haven't detected any water on the surface of the moon, they've concluded that no life could survive there.

PRABHUPADA: They haven't seen the whole surface of the moon. Suppose someone were to come here from another planet, drop into the Arabian Desert and then return home. Could he come to a complete conclusion about the nature of the whole earth? His knowledge would not be complete.

KARANDHAR: They have a device that senses water. They say they've had it orbit the moon, and they've concluded that the moon has no water and therefore no life.

PRABHUPADA: Even if, as on the sun, there is apparently no water, still there are living entities there. How does a cactus grow in the desert, apparently without water?

KARANDHAR: It gets water from the atmosphere.

PRABHUPADA: Yes, because the atmosphere contains all the elements needed to sustain life: earth, water, fire, air and ether. In anything material, all these elements are present. For example, in my body there is water, although you cannot see it. Similarly, you don't see fire in my body, yet my body is warm. Where does this warmth come from? You don't see any fire. Do you see any fire burning in my body? Then where does the warmth come from? What is the answer?

All matter is a combination of five gross elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether) and three subtle elements (mind, intelligence and false ego).

KARANDHAR: According to the Vedic science, material energy begins with the false ego and then develops into the intelligence, then the mind and then the gross elements—ether, air, fire and so on. So the same basic ingredients are present in all matter. Is this right?

PRABHUPADA: Yes. The creation of the material universe is like the growth of a great banyan tree from a tiny seed. No one can see the tree within the seed, but all the necessary ingredients for the tree are there, including the required intelligence. Actually, everyone's body is simply a sample universe. Your body and my body are different universes, small universes. Therefore, all eight material elements are present within our bodies, just as they are within the whole universe. Similarly, an insect's body is another universe.

KARANDHAR: How about the atom?

PRABHUPADA: The same formula applies: all these constituents are within the atom. Anor aniyan mahato mahiyan (Katha Upanishad 1.2.20). This means that whether something is extremely large or infinitesimal, it is still made of the same basic elements. This is true everywhere in the material world. Just as a woman's small watch has all the requisite machinery for its smooth functioning, so an ant has all the necessary brain substance to manage its affairs nicely. How is this possible? To answer this properly, you must minutely examine the brain tissues in the ant. But this you cannot do. Moreover, there are innumerable insects smaller than the ant. So there must be a mechanical arrangement for all this detailed activity, but scientists cannot discover it.

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