...something that expanded rapidly from the singularity with a big explosion or Big Bang from which formed the galaxies, stars and the rest of the Universe.
However, the science in our Vedas explained these concepts since millennia. Rig Veda mentions Hiranyagarbha and Brahmanda..
...Visphotak which talks about a similar theory.
The concept of Parallel universes may be novel to the modern scientists but it rests very comfortably in ancient Hindu Cosmology. The Puranas are replete with descriptions of many worlds whose inhabitants are ruled by kings in...
...the human plane and Gods in a higher plane. The many Gods in turn belong to many different worlds and planes of existence. At the highest level of hierarchy are the trinity namely Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesha, ruling the divine Kingdoms. Brahma is the creator who dreams...
...the Universe into being, which is maintained by Vishnu. What Humans perceive as reality is in fact the dream of Brahma, misled by matter. Brahman( not to be confused with Brahma) is the ground of all reality & existence. Brahman is uncreated,external, infinite & all-embracing.
Brahman is the ultimate cause and goal of all the exists. All beings emanate from Brahman and they return back to Brahman. Brahman is in all things and it is the true self(Atman) of all beings.
Physicists hypothesize several levels of parallel Universes. Max Tegmark of MIT...
...even envisions an infinite number of parallel Universes.
The Paingala Upanishad describes the many worlds created by Brahman,"With those quintuplicated elements he created endless cores of macrocosms and for each of these 14 appropriate worlds and globular gross bodies...
...fit for each planes of them all."
Rig Veda mentions,"the speed of planets is inversely related to the distance of the planet's from the Sun". This is in perfect coordination with Newton's Law of Gravitation and Kepler's law of Planetary Motion. The modern discoveries are...
...the proofs of Vedic Verses mentioned in the Rig Veda.
According to Surya Siddhanta, the measuring unit 'Yojan' is approximately five miles in modern calculations. In Surya Siddhanta the diameter of the Moon is 2400 miles which is very close to modern calculation of 2160 miles.
It also mentions the distance between earth & moon to be 258000 miles against the modern calculation of 238900 miles. The creation of the Universe in Vedas has been explained in 129th hymn of the 10th mandala of the Rig Veda. It also gives an insight into the age of the Universe.
Indeed the science written in the Vedas was as profound as it was poetic.
In his best selling series 'Cosmos', renowned astronomer Carl Segan reflected on the parallels between modern cosmology and Hindu Philosophy," Hindu religion is only one of the world's greatest faiths...
...dedicated to the idea that the cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt, to those of modern scientific Cosmology. There is a deep and appealing notion that the...
...Universe is but the dream of God who after a 100 Brahma years dissolves himself into a seamless sleep and the Universe dissolves with him until after another Brahma century he starts recomposing himself and begins again the dream, the great Cosmic lotus dream. Meanwhile,..
...elsewhere there are an infinite number of other universes each with its own God dreaming the cosmic dream."
The process of manifestation of matter and the Universe has been termed in the Hindu Texts as 'Panchikaranam'. Panch means 5 and Karanam denotes acting.
The term Panchikaranam was given to denote the interplay between the 'Five'. What were the five?
The five represent the Panchabhuta or Primordial Elements namely
-Aakash -Space/Ether
-Vayu - Air
-Tejas - Fire
-Apah - Water
-Prithvi - Earth
These 5 elements undergo a churning...
...process described as Panchikaranam, where the 5 interact and it is from this that the Universe in all its size, space and matter manifests.The process of Panchikaranam is a continuous process, right through the life of this Universe &also before and after the life of Universe.
So, it's an eternal process.
Vedic Cosmology has scores of other eerie parallels with some of the most cutting edge recent cosmological theories of the multiverse, oscillating Universe and the Big Bang, so it should come as no surprise that some of the greatest minds in...
...Science have turned to these 3500 year old Cosmological ideas for inspiration and questions about our enigmatic Universe.
Sir Roger Penrose, an eminent British Mathematician and relativist who is known for his work on the Black holes, made a revelation in his statement.
He said,"The Big Bang Theory in a certain sense is not the beginning. The Big final stage may also be the initial stage when there is only radiation left and the Universe loses track of its scale".
While to many this is a new concept, the Puranas had already mentioned it in...
...the form of Adishesha, the snake bed of Narayana. In Hinduism, Shesha also known as Adishesha, is the nagaraja or King of all Nagas and one of the primal beings of creation. The earlier cycle of creation after its lifespan, contracts itself back into the Hiranyagarbha.
According to Nasadiya Sukta of Rig Veda, Hiranya means Golden and Garbha means Womb. This golden hued cosmic womb is said to be an indescribable power and energy center which is in oscillation, equating it to be a type of breathing activity, constantly pulsating.
The early cycle of creation after its lifespan, contracts itself back into Hiranyagarbha. The remnant is known as Adishesha. Adi means The original and shesha means remnants. Adishesha and Narayana, thus are symbolic of the state of the cosmos between any two successive...
...endless cycles of creation. The endlessness of these cycles have been brought forth through the name Anantha Shesha. This Anantha and the symbol of the coiled serpent surprisingly is similar to the symbol of 'Infinity'.
I want to bring your attention to India's great and...
...vast past in logic, mathematics and medicine where the division between traditional art and science is extremely blurred. Art was Science and Science was Art.
Nowadays, we try to dismiss traditional Indian Arts as we think that there is no empirical proof in these Arts...
..but more we do so,more the modern Science compliments it by giving proofs.Same is observed when people dismiss the Vedic Knowledge of Solar System & Universe as a whole.The fact remains dat the Vedic Science of our glorious past supplements & complements the modern experiments.
It has shown us dat Hindu Cosmology and modern science go hand in hand.Therefore,being dismissive of the Hindu Scriptures makes a person ignorant to a vast amount of knowledge which was produced with meagre apparatus but is as accurate of the modern discoveries.
Jayatu Sanatan🙏
