380 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
the spiritual sky is the planet called Krsnaloka, which has three divisions, namely
Dvaraka, Mathura and Goloka.

To a gross materialist this kingdom of God, Vaikuntha, is certainly a mystery.
But to an ignorant man everything is a mystery for want of sufficient knowledge.
The kingdom of God is not a myth. Even the material planets, which float over our
heads in the millions and billions, are still a mystery to the ignorant. Material
scientists are now attempting to penetrate this mystery, and a day may come
when the people of this earth will be able to travel in outer space and see the
variegatedness of these millions of planets with their own eyes. In every planet
there is as much material variegatedness as we find in our own planet.

This planet earth is but an insignificant spot in the cosmic structure. Yet foolish
men, puffed up by a false sense of scientific advancement, have concentrated their
energy in a pursuit of so-called economic development on this planet, not knowing
of the variegated economic facilities available on other planets. According to modern
astronomy, the gravity of the moon is different from that of earth. Therefore if one
goes to the moon he will be able to pick up large weights and jump vast distances.
In the Rdmdyana, Hanuman is described as being able to lift huge weights as heavy
as hills and jump over the ocean. Modern astronomy has confirmed that this is
indeed possible.

The disease of the modern civilized man is his disbelief of everything in the
revealed scriptures. Faithless nonbelievers cannot make progress in spiritual reali-
zation, for they cannot understand the spiritual potency. The small fruit of a
banyan contains hundreds of seeds, and in each seed is the potency to produce
another banyan tree with the potency to produce millions more of such fruits.
This law of nature is visible beforé us, although how it works is beyond our under-
standing. This is but an insignificant example of the potency of Godhead; there are
many similar phenomena that no scientist can explain.

Everything, in fact, is inconceivable, for the truth is revealed only to the proper
persons. Although there are varieties of personalities, from Brahma down to the
insignificant ant, all of whom are living beings, their development of knowledge is
different. Therefore we have to gather knowledge from the right source. Indeed, we
can get knowledge in reality only from the Vedic sources. The four Vedas, with
their supplementary Purdnas, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and their corollaries,
which are known as smtis, are all authorized sources of knowledge. If we are at all
to gather knowledge, we must gather it from these sources without hesitation.

Revealed knowledge may in the beginning be unbelievable because of our para-
doxical desire to verify everything with our tiny brains, but the speculative means
of attaining knowledge is always. imperfect. The perfect knowledge propounded in
the revealed scriptures is confirmed by the great dcdryas, who have left ample
commentations upon them; none of these dcdryas has disbelieved in the Sastras.
One who disbelieves in the Sdstras is an atheist, and we should not consult an
atheist, however great he may be. A staunch believer in the Sdstras, with all their
diversities, is the right person from whom to gather real knowledge. Such knowledge
may seem inconceivable in the beginning, but when put forward by the proper
authority its meaning is revealed, and then one no longer has any doubts about it.
