Sri Ramanuja taught that the whole universe, every star and every soul, is the body of the Lord, real and distinct, yet held and moved by Him from within. The Body of the Lord takes that teaching to the questions science asks: what matter is, why nature keeps its laws, how the cosmos breathes out and in, and why the same pattern repeats from atom to galaxy.
Across ten short chapters it meets Rta as the Lord's unbroken promise, sets the Veda's account of creation beside modern measurement, listens to what the physicists said when they read the Upanishads, and is careful about what we must not claim. Wonder is meant to end in worship.
What is inside
- Invocation
- Preface: A Lamp with Oil
- Chapter 1: The Universe as the Body of God
- Chapter 2: The Three Lamps — Three Ways of Knowing
- Chapter 3: Achit — What Science Calls Matter and Energy
- Chapter 4: Rta — The Laws of Nature as God's Unbroken Promises
- Chapter 5: The Breathing Cosmos — Creation and Dissolution
- Chapter 6: As Is the Small, So Is the Great
- Chapter 7: When the Physicists Read the Upanishads
- Chapter 8: The Humming Universe — Om and the Sound of Creation
- Chapter 9: What We Must Not Claim — Truthfulness as Worship
- Chapter 10: From Wonder to Worship
- Bibliography