Origin of the Universe (contd.)

   The scientists like Fred Hoyle, Littleton, Nerlikar, Stephen Hawking and many others have put forth theories and hypotheses that deal with the Creation. After physicists and chemists came the biologists who explored origin of life and now we have a bundle of knowledge that is given by different specialists. All these do not go beyond five hundred years! However, the Indian saints had visualized these well half a million years ago! The Pancharatra Agama Shastra (about 250 samhitas), the Brahmasutras, the Upanishads (180), the Veda, Vedanga, and Upangas, and the Veda Pratishakhyas- all numbering forty, have given us a complete treatise on the creation. Unfortunately, most of these scriptures have been stolen, burnt (especially in Takshashila University), and many carried away by the invaders. Even now a number of the originals are preserved in Nepal, British Library in UK, and other remote places with Gurukulas and Ashrams. The language is terse full of symbolism, metaphors, coded syllables words and phrases, and many dummy words, too. These are secret documents and well preserved so that they do not get into the hands of bad people like the terrorists. Some people argue that there is no gainsaying the fact that all these are there 'unless they are of practical value, functional and useful'. But these people forget that it is our duty to do an in-depth study of the available ones and resurrect them and make them available to young scientists. Thus, there are just arguments and counter-arguments and nothing else.

   Now, coming to  our knowledge about the science, philosophy, religion, spirituality, etc. little do we bother to know that all 'knowledge' is one and 'one only'. A person may have a specialized view and come out with a particular invention or discovery but it does not mean anything in larger perspective. Only total knowledge, a comprehensive one at that, is important. All faculties do not give a holistic knowledge as long as they are specialized and look under microscopes and telescopes. There are no inter-disciplinary studies so far and Vedanta holds the key. 

   The Vedantic view of creation as stated in the nasadiya sukta and purusha sukta of the Rk Veda give a clear idea as to the nature of existence in the subtle state, as well as, their emanation or manifest forms in solid, liquid, and gaseous gross states. The pancha-mahabhuta, tanmatra, the sense organs to experience the creation are all explained in Vedanta and, now modern science, too, has come close to these in recent days. Some of these are discussed in the following.

(to be contd.)