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...ls. workshop) GLIMPSES IN REALITY..........25.

The l.s who is the source of these ‘work’ has also delved in the unknown fields of science and it is a foregone fact that he being a novice, he might have faltered enormously! There are countless instances of such foolish ventures, especially from the religionists, which compel the good intentioned, well informed intellectuals to keep away from their home-spun ‘theories’---which have mushroomed in as many religious sects---that they simply spurn them. Their disdain is justified. Just one example, a repetition of course:
“According to Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions, the universe was created only in the recent past. (In seventeenth century Bishop Ussher calculated a date of 4004 BC, for the creation of the universe, a figure he arrived at by adding up the ages of people in the Old Testament).
“According to St. Augustine (Book of Genesis) it is 5000 years. “But according to Vedic Scriptures, a ‘Purant’ cycle is completed in 311,040,000,000,000 years. The later ‘concept’ is also supported by the modern scientists, e.g. Paul Steinhardt and Neil
Turok say something very interesting about these ancients concepts. This is
what they say:
“Ancient Hindu cosmology presents a remarkably detailed and quantitative
version of cyclic evolution. The full picture has cycles within cycles within
cycles, where each level of cycle has a different duration. The levels
correspond to various timescales in the lifespan of Brahma, the god of
creation. For example, one kind of a cycle corresponds to a day and night in
Brahma’s life, another to a year, yet another to one hundred years, and so on.
Converted to Earth years, some of these levels have surprisingly similar
timescales of interest to contemporary cosmology. A day and night in the life
of Brahma lasts a kalpa, a period of 8.64 billion years, roughly the duration of
the matter-dominated epoch in modern cosmology, during the period in which
galaxies formed. The Vishnu Puranas say that each of these cycles is
followed by a drought that lasts until all the waters dry up. In modern
cosmology, matter domination is followed by dark energy domination during
which no new galaxies form. The next level of cycle, corresponding to a year
of Brahma or 360 kalpas, last 3.11 trillion years. The duration is roughly that
of a single cycle in the [current versions of] the cyclic model. The lifetime of
Brahma is a factor of one hundred longer, after which the Universe takes a
respite.
Just see the difference!
The ancient Indian astronomy like other disciplines of science was far ahead of the West. Rather it would not be an exaggeration to mention here that the Westerns were behaving like barbarians, while this country was reveling, both in spiritual enlightenment and material abundance. How the West treated their scientists can just be imagined by the fates of Copernicus, Bruno and Galileo! The treatment meted out to them is still fresh in the minds of the present generation of scientists. Had this fraternity taken our scriptures seriously, especially Upanishads, their ridicule towards spiritualism would have been subdued substantially. As to how much scientific methodology has been followed in decoding the spiritual ‘thought’; there is always an element of doubt and disbelief in the minds of research scholars! As their testing ground of new discoveries is the laboratory, not the spatial realms of the mind. But pseudo spiritual quacks, unlike the genius cosmologists, are presently at a premium to hazard wild ‘prophesies’, because most of the theories relating to cosmology are yet to be proved. To the misfortune of the Western scientists, the depth of insight of their ruling masters is not remotely in consonance with the new discoveries made in the fields of matter. They wasted the golden opportunity they had, for two hundred years of rule over India---for learning the sciences, this country had the mastery on. The ancient Indian ‘thought’ on matter and spirit is so deep that even the present day scientists with all the facilities at their command, cannot in their wildest imagination, touch upon the outer fringes of the vast ocean of knowledge, which this country’s masters of yore had probed in the realms of Conscious and which is immanent in matter and spirit. The basic essence of their ‘thought’ was: The innate nature of matter is conscious. This is a clear line of division between the matter and spirit: between the scientists and the wise: between the knowledge of science and Divine. Where the present theories about Creation lead to, is in fact, the starting point of the spiritualists in their Sadhna.
Tbc.......