Is thinking only about God and not at all about the world not a restriction of the mind?

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so in the vedas everything is about result not experiment and it is said that do not think of anything created by god in this world only think of him is this not confinement of mind in spite of being engineering student answer nowhere does the bhagavad gita say don’t think about the world think only about god it only says don’t think about the world independent of god it says don’t think about the world as disconnected from god in fact in the bhagavad gita again and again krishna helps us see him in the world in the 10th chapter is vibhuti yoga vibhuti yoga means krishna says the universal principle that in 10.41 in the gita krishna says that know that all opulent beautiful and glorious creations spring from but a spark of my splendor so what krishna is saying here is that when we see anything wonderful in this world don’t think that it is wonderful on its own think that it is wonderful based on because it manifests krishna’s opulence so a rose is explicitly beautiful how did his beauty come about it is by krishna’s arrangement it is a spark of krishna’s beauty manifested in this world the science reveals to us a magnificently designed universe with laws of mathematical precision now what do we see by this as shrinivas ramanujan India’s famous mathematician he said that an equation for me has no meaning unless it represents the thought of god so again what is being done is here we see the star we see the creation but we see it in such a way that we connect it with the creator so as engineering students certainly nobody is telling that you should not do engineering studies but the point is we use our knowledge of philosophy coming from the bhagavad gita to see our subjects in a god connected way that means if we can with a cell phone send message immediately in one moment from one part of the world to another we can get dazzled by science or we can get attracted towards the supreme scientist yes science has dazzling technology in terms of how by just clicking a few buttons a message can go immediately over millions of miles thousands of miles hundreds of miles whatever but the point is science uses mechanisms that are pre-existing in nature we may use like telecommunications for communicating from here to I may communicate from Australia to India now to Pune but now when we are doing this the mechanisms for this are only discovered by science they are not created by science they have been where have they originally come from so even in the wonder of technology a devotee can see the wonder of god what I mean by this is suppose there is a tribal who doesn’t know anything about agriculture or horticulture or any kind of systematic growing of plants, vegetables, fruits and he comes to a fruit farmer who has got an archer and then he sees he observes this fruit farmer and then when a mango is produced on a tree he eats the mango and he is amazed and he says oh my god this farmer has done a miracle he has converted mud into mango so now has the farmer done that the farmer first of all did not create the mango seed the farmer did not create the mechanism by which the mango seed would transform into a mango tree and give fruits what the farmer did was used pre-existing resources and pre-existing mechanisms and just allowed and provided a conducive environment for them to provide a result produce a result so pre-existing resource was the mango seed pre-existing mechanism is the mechanism within the mango seed to eventually fructify and produce a tree so now certainly the farmer has done hard work in maintaining the mango orchard and for that credit should be given but it is not that the farmer has produced a mango from nothing the farmer has tapped pre-existing mechanisms and similarly when science say uses offers instant messaging or instant communication now this is largely used, largely done first of all using semiconductor effect in electronic chips now the question comes up science did not make semiconductors some elements are conductors some things are conductors, some are insulators why are some semiconductors so science did not make that the semiconductor effect which is fundamentally required for telecommunications that already existed in nature that was only tapped by science similarly the mechanism for transmitting electromagnetic electromagnetic waves through the atmosphere, specifically the ionosphere that mechanism is also not created by science that mechanism already existed in nature and science tapped that mechanism so certainly the level of tapping that is done by science in developing electronics communication or telecommunication that is much more sophisticated than a farmer’s tapping when the farmer raises some trees so the scientists definitely need to be given credit for the sophistication of their methods of tapping but still we need to remember that the mechanisms and the resources were not created by science so even in the magnificence of technology a devotee a bhakti yogi can see the magnificence of god so it is not that if we become devotees we don’t care for the creation at all and only think about god no we think about the creation as connected with the creator as manifesting the glory of the creator and when we become more informed in the philosophy of bhakti yoga then even in science we will be able to see the magnificent hand of god and we will be able to understand how the whole of science works not just because of human brilliance but also because of god’s prearrangement so human science I will conclude with this point, human science rests on divine prescience prescience prescience means the foresight, the wisdom in advance, so god in advance has created nature has permeated with many different mechanisms and then science discovers those mechanisms and taps those mechanisms so we can see the glory of human science and in the glory of human science we can see divine prescience and in that way we can prescience, prescience means foresight and in that way we can you dovetail even our engineering study in connection with our bhakti yoga so it’s not that we have to stop thinking about the world and think only about god we don’t think of the world as an independent reality having nothing to do with god but rather we see the world and its wonderful mechanisms as manifesting the glory of god