Unraveling the Mysteries of the Sacred Universe

Sponsored by the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies and the Alachua Krishna Institute

Through multimedia presentations, discussions and class activities led by Mauricio Garrido (Murali Gopal) who holds a PhD in Physics, participants learned to:

  • Relish reading the Fifth Canto’s cosmography having acquired a working mental picture of it.

  • Understand the role of interpretations.

  • Recognize what we understand and don’t understand yet of this cosmography.

  • Address issues like flat earth theories, geocentric vs heliocentric views, and distances to the sun and the moon.  

Participants enjoyed a field trip to Santa Fe College’s planetarium at the end of the workshop to contrast the Vedic view with the modern view of the cosmos.