Irrational Numbers - another display of Krishna's genius

Jai Srila Prabhupada

Recently something had spurred in me a lot of interest for Math. I came across the concept of irrational numbers. You can create an irrational number in a number of ways. One of which I know is by taking the square-root of a number. There is also a ready to use irrational number - the pi.

Thinking of the pi made me appreciate the creative genius of Lord Krishna. The definition of the pi is: The number that you get when you divide the circumference of a circle by its radius. Fascinating isn't it? Just think of it. Draw a circle. Find its circumference. Then divide it by the circle's radius. And lo; you get a number that's having infinite digits with no repetition. That means you just can't express the pi using pen and paper like you do for other (rational) numbers. What special property that the circumference of a circle has that gives this special number - the pi - the irrational nature? We can only appreciate the genius of Krishna whenever we look at the pi.

Jaya Sathguru Bhagwan Sridhara swamy maharaja.

A Vaishnava is known when he speaks

Jai Srila Prabhupada.

I was chatting with my brother-in-law yesterday on a bus from Tirupathi. The kind Lord inspired me with some realizations which I shared with my brother-in-law. A vaishnava is known when he speaks. He cannot be understood by his actions or appearance.

There's a small anecdote to illustrate this. Once a scholar challenged Akbar. The scholar could speak many languages with equal fluency. The scholar's challenge was that there was no one in Akbar's kingdom who could find out what the scholar's mother-tongue was. Akbar called all his ministers to plan defeating the scholar. According to the opinion of the ministers, many expert linguists were summoned from different parts of Akbar's kingdom, but no one was able to find out what the scholar's mother-tongue was. Finally, Akbar summoned Birbal, the cleverest of his ministers to oust the scholar's challenge. On one dark night, Birbal stealthily entered the room where the scholar was asleep and splashed some cool water on the scholar. The dazed scholar shouted something in his mother-tongue and thus his challenge fell apart. Moral: The chastity of a devotee to his Lord is known in the hour of danger.

A vaishnava is known when he speaks and what he speaks in the hour of danger. Does he call out to the Lord or is he gripped by the fear of death?

Jai Sathguru Bhagavan Sridhara swamy maharaj.