An insight into Hinduism

Hinduism is one of the oldest religions in the world. Dating back to before even Christianity, the original name for this religion was "Sanatan Dharma" meaning "Universal Laws". As I have come to believe, the scriptures in the Hindu texts and tablets are more of a scientific hypothesis rather than hymns to lords. Scientific hypothesis that are universally true. Now lets delve into the Hindu Vedic scriptures and bring out the massive scientific date they contain.

The typical Gods are omnipotent, omnipresent and all seeing. I don’t want to question that for now. However, it is also asserted that they are immortal beings. The Hindu mythology has a different viewpoint. The Hindu Gods are not immortal. It is said that after every day of Brahma, all the lower gods and everyone else other than a chosen few will be killed and reincarnated. This continues for 100 Brahma years following which Brahma himself will die and after a gap of another 100 Brahma years, the process begins anew. Also there is a story of a hairy sage, with a bald spot on his chest. It is said that for every time Brahma dies he loses a hair. And since his hair doesn’t grow, there came to be a bald spot on his chest. And after he loses all his hair, even Brahma won’t be able to take rebirth, and our Universe as we know it will face a Thermodynamic death.

A lot of debate and discussion has always featured around the sound Om. Most often that not, it is said to contain all the vibrations of the universe. I doubt that. I believe Om is more of energy rather than a sound.

It is said that at the start of a universe, Brahma is born out of an egg that emerges from the navel of Vishnu. The egg explodes into the Brahmand or the Universe. Brahma at the time of its birth produces a single sound – Om. This Om is said to resonate throughout the entire Universe for the rest of eternity. Now cut to modern concept. The universe was born out of an explosion from a single point containing a massive amount of energy. This we all know as the Big Bang. This energy was Brahma. The resulting explosion created a huge amount of radiation, which we currently call the Backround Radiation Noise. Much like the Om, it is to resonate throughout the universe for all eternity.

Multiverses are a fascination for everyone. And I believed it to be a rather new concept. However, when I started digging into the Mahabharata, I came to believe that I was wrong. And I'll show you why.

In the Bhagavata Gita, there is reference to multiple universes:

“Because You are unlimited, neither the lords of heaven nor even You Yourself can ever reach the end of Your glories. The countless universes, each enveloped in its shell, are compelled by the wheel of time to wander within You, like particles of dust blowing about in the sky.”

It is really hard to believe that the word "countless universes" was just a slip of tongue. I believe that they knew what they were writing.

Know everyone knows that The Theory of Relativity was propounded by Albert Einstein. I am not questioning his genius - my own fascination for Physics grew because him among others like Leonardo Da Vinci and Stephen Hawkins. However, I do believe that he wasn't the first to actually know relativistic concepts and the fact that there is no such thing as absolute time.

When the Hindu scriptures talk about time, they make a clear distinction that the time period of a human being is different from that of a God. Unlike what we would expect, they had the concept that time is not absolute and hence never referred a year as a year. Instead we find references to Earth sec/day/year and Brahma sec/day/year. One passage of the Mahabharata speaks about a king named Kakumdi and his beautiful daughter Revati. They lived in an underground kingdom named Kusasthali (someone said Jules Verne?). When Revati reached a suitable marriageable age, finding no one suitable enough for her, Kakumdi took Revati along with him to Brahma to ask him who would have been a suitable husband for her. When he reached there, Brahma was watching a dance by a Gandharva. After the dance, when Kakumdi placed his predicament in front of Brahma, the latter started laughing. He told him that time travels differently at different places. Thus in the short time that had passed while he was waiting, 432 billion human years had passed on Earth. Finally seeing Kakumdi disheartened, Brahma told him that at the moment Krishna and Balaram were on Earth and Balaram would be a suitable groom.

Here we find a clear reference to the famous relativistic principle – “Time is not absolute” and that time can run differently at different places. It seems the people of the time clearly understood such advanced topics. Also it is evident that the concept that people could easily travel to visit the Gods. Inspite of that most of the people did not go to visit them. Rather they prayed that they would come to visit them. (This can be found from various texts that the Gods used to come down to meet their followers). This could possibly because they had the knowledge of relativity. Also, we come to know of an entire kingdom under the water. If you’ve seen Star Wars, it won’t be hard to imagine something like a Gungan city with people inside it instead of Gungans.

Finally I would like to touch the Hindu views about the universe or the Brahmand. After Edwin Hubble showed us the Universe, it has been an object of fascination for many. Since then man has always wanted to know more. The finding of such a huge unexplored expanse was adding fuel to his ever-burning desire of wanting to know more. But we have been able to understand and comprehend only but a fraction of the entire universe. However, it seems that for the Hindus the answer was always right under their noses. They just had to look for it. Like I did.

The vedas state that in the life span of a hundred years of Brahma, every day is divided into 2 halves - the day part and the night part. The day part is called a Kalpa which translates roughly into 4.32 billion Earth years. Each kalpa is further subdivided into 14 Manvantars, each of which is ruled over by a Manu, who manifest and regulate the Earth. Each of the Manvantar is divided into 71 Chaturyuga, and each Chaturyuga into 4 Yugas. The yugas are in order – Satya, Treta, Dwapar, and Kali. The Satya yuga lasts for 1,728,000 human years, the Treta yuga lasts for 1,296,000 human years, the Dwapar yuga for 864,000 human years and the Kali yuga lasts for 432,000 human years. In retrospect, the various yugas are in the ratio 4:3:2:1. At the end of a Chaturyuga, various calamities cause a good deal of damage. However, life continues on these worlds. After the 71 chaturyugas, when a Manu dies, a massive calamity occurs, and all but a chosen few of this world are devoured by the deluge. The chosen few are left for repopulating the world. Finally at the end of the kalpa, a pralaya occurs which bares all the worlds and the heavens of all life. This is followed by a period of unmanifestation during the night time of Brahma, which lasts the same time as the kalpa. The next day Brahma recreates the worlds and the process starts over. This continues for 100 years of Brahma after which he dies and the entire universe is destroyed. The lifespan of a universe by these calculations approximates to 311 trillion, 40 billion human years. This figure is nearly same to the scientific findings. This is followed by a period of 100 Brahma years, when nothing happens. Following this, Brahma is reborn and the process continues over and over again. This keeps on happening till Brahma is no longer able to take rebirth and everything simply ceases to exist.

Now if I were to explain this, I should also remind you that this is my explanation and you may not accept it. However, as I said these are based on inferences and not facts.

I presume that at the end of a Chaturyuga, we face a change in the Earth’s dipoles. The change takes place every few million years, so our assumption may not be incorrect as the Chauryuga lasts for 4.32 million years. This change in dipoles would infact provide scope for some solar wind to penetrate our atmosphere, which would cause the good deal of damage as stated. Following this at the end of a Manvantar, which lasts about 307 million human years, a massive deluge will occur, much like Noah, or the flood of Deucalion. Now there are many stellar bodies in space and each have a rotational period. Like the Halley’s Comet which has a time period of 76 years. Now there may be a stellar body in space that has a time period of 307 million years, and has such a massive amount of gravity that it causes a deluge on Earth. This would explain the repetitive nature of this deluge. Finally at the end of Brahma’s day which would take about 4.32 billion years, all life on this planet would cease to exist. Now, by scientific calculations it has been estimated that in around 4.32 billion years, the Milky Way’s closest neighbor, the Andromeda will collide into the Milky Way. Though no collision between stars or planets will take place, the friction caused by the intergalactic gases would heat it up and ignite it. And the Earth would be reduced to a cinder. In other words, the Earth would be bared of all life. Following this the hybrid Andromeda - Milky Way, would take time to cool down till life would be able to start all over again. This would continue for 311 trillion, 40 billion years after which we would face the Big Crunch, when all matter would be compressed into a single point. This would again be followed by a Big Bang and the universe would start its creation again. However, at such a high gravity singularity, one would need to take into effect the yet unknown effects of Quantum Gravity. I can therefore, for the time being and for simplicity’s sake, assume that this is what they meant by the 100 years long sleep. However, this oscillatory model of the universe is not really all that stable. With each oscillation it produces massive amounts of entropy, which cannot be converted back to energy. In simplest terms, the Universe keeps losing energy with every oscillation. This will finally get the better of the Universe to a point where it has no energy left. That is called the Big Freeze or the Thermodynamic Death of the Universe. Much like Brahma, our Universe will have finally outlived itself.

Several other incidents prove beyond a doubt that the Hindus then knew much more about everything  than we currently can even comprehend. Though I hope not o hurt anyones sentiment with my following statements, I do hope that I am forgiven if I do offend you in any way. I would, thus request all Hindus to look beyond their conventional viewpoints of gods and religions and start viewing their religion from a scientific viewpoint. Try looking at the religious texts as scientific manuals. For I believe that what we perceive as religion was originally established as science. As Universal Laws.

            

Certain facts from around the world

Though I don't know how many of you already know the facts that I am about to share with you, but still I would like to bring these facts to light.
Abydos, Egypt houses a great many Egyptian antiquities as well as their culture and temples. One of particular interest is the Temple of Seti. On the numerous engravings etched onto the walls, we find these etchings

As can be clearly seen here, the walls depict 4 very modern machines and very accurate pictures of them, I dare say.
Not far from Abydos, in the Dendera region you'd find the temple of Hathor, an Egyptian goddess. There under the temple ruins you'd find this very interesting piece of handiwork, a sketch of a light bulb.

This lightbulb has been argued by a great many skeptics to be actually a lotus and the glass dome to be the aura of incense. But I am a skeptic that the skeptics have a sane mind. So I would vehemently oppose their obviously preposterous notion of a lotus and its visible incense.

As shown here more clearly, the light bulb has a wire powering the device at the base(A), and a filament(B). Also shown are the wire connecting the filament(C) and the glass cover of the bulb(D). The empty space inbetween(E) may be vacuum or may be filled with some gas (like Nitrogen perhaps ...). I would plead you to compare it with the modern incandescent light bulb given by its side
Lets move out to Russia. A lovely place during Winter. However my interest in Russia is not because of its weather, but rather because of a particular bison skull. It is very old around 10,000 yrs old, give or take a few hundred. But you'd say, what's so special about it. Well here's what making news. The skull has a bullet hole, or at least a hole made by some very high speed projectile with a perfect shape.

Creepy you say, but history has it that the tribal used to worship it as the their forefathers had seen the bison being liberated from its earthly shell by the gods themselves.
Now lets get back from the chills of Russia to the warmer Mediterranean region. In October 1900, off the coast of Crete, a ship wreck was found which dated back to 1-2 BC. The name of the shipwreck was given the Antikythera ship wreck. Of all the artifacts recovered from there, the most important was the Antikythera mechanism. It contained level of workmanship and technology, that wasn't to be seen till the late 1400s. The antikythera mechanism in true sense was ahead of its time.

(This is all that is left of the antikythera mechanism)

The mechanism is said to be able to accurately predict the position of all the stars in the sky. Though it seems easy, such a stellar mapping wasn't possible till Hubble or so, who had access to supercomputers and limitless resources. A stellar map requires a high level of calculations and computations which would not have been possible without a computer. The antikythera mechanism did exactly that. It was an ancient computer. And one that was safe from the ill effects of mother Earths geomagnetic telemetry. Modern day computers (and even more the supercomputers) are very susceptible to magnetisms. And since the Earth itself produces such a large field, these supercomputers could easily get screwed up. Because of which care has to be taken, so as to prevent their effects from being felt in the minute calculations. The antikythera mechanism found a way to get round that problem, by eliminating all the parts that could be affected by the geomagnetic effect. As a result, we have an analog computer, made up of cogs, screws and gears, and providing an accuracy of any modern age supercomputer.
Now we zoom into the dense jungles of Mexico. There we come across the most famous Maya king, King Pakal. His people state him to be a God, and that he had the power to travel and meet the other Gods. He had his own flying vehicle and that on the day of his demise he sat on his vehicle and left for the starry heavens. More interesting is the cover of the lid of his sarcophagus.

Pakal can be clearly seen driving what seems to be a spaceship and the exhaust of his engine and the gears and handles are also clearly visible
No discussion will be complete without the Nazca lines. They are a set of geographic lines that are drawn over the flattened mountain top. And none of the symbols can be made out from the land itself. Only from high above in the air are they recognizable.

(This is just one of the many Nazca figures. This is a spider)

Now to complete my list for now, I'd like to add the name of Piri Reis. He was a Turkish captain during the late 1400s. He had in his possession a map - a map showing places not even discovered at that time. Most notable was Antarctica. Though Antarctica hasn't been ice free for some several thousands of years, the map aptly shows the true landmass of Antarctica, which has been confirmed by current geographical surveys and studies.

I hope you liked it. If you too have any fact that I may have missed out, please feel free to remind me about the same

Starting Off

Well, for all those wondering what this blog is about, it is a different take on the traditional view of god. I owe all my gratitude to Erich Von Daniken. When I first read his book "Chariots of the God", I was mesmerized by the facts that lay all around us. However, I was not satisfied by all that and I started my own research, and believe me when I say I didn't have to look very far. I am an Indian and also a student of Sanskrit. As a result I found it to be not so tough to read the ancient Hindu texts. The texts that all the religious heads of the Hindu society had been using as hymns and praises for the lord. When I started translating, I found that these texts had been grossly misinterpreted. At first I thought that I was the one misinterpreting them, but soon I realized that all the texts I translated were following the same trends. They were no religious books. They were in fact books on science, mathematics, politics, astronomy, biology, medical science, and other concepts we haven't even started to comprehend. They cover topics in mathematics from the basics of mathematics including addition and subtraction to the most complicated mathematical computations like calculus and even Artificial Intelligence. They even teach you how to increase your calculation speeds so that you can perform a 24 digits square in a matter of 2-3 seconds, and even without writing a thing down. The medical texts contain methods to cure practically any forms of diseases including the currently incurable Cancer, and they even have the proper scientific explanation of their techniques working. They covered topics in Physics from the basic equations of motion (laid down by newton some 5000 years later) to relativity. They have even covered topics of which I understand very little. I wouldn't be surprised if they had found a way to solve the Grand Unified Theory problem faced by most of the physicists. They had texts covering the construction of aerial vehicles called Vimanas. Apparently these vimanas were created out of 18 or more metals, out of which only 3 occur naturally and which we know of. The rest of the metals are still unknown. These vimanas had the capability to raise protective force fields, scramble the enemy force fields, become invisible, be resistant to destruction, and have the capability of inter stellar travel. The Mahabharata itself contains various such excerpts pointing to the same facts and trends. However, the supreme 3 gods - Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva - were in a perpetual meditation of some higher being that they called Narayana. They believed Narayan to be the supreme power in the universe. That made me rethink on my complete disbelief in God, and soon I found my own theory that would effectively enable us to understand what God is, and enable us to accept that God and Science aren't on the opposite sides of the battle field. God is required by every one of us to live, and Science itself proves the existence of God.

I will try to explain my idea and theory to all of my readers, and I hope that they too will be able to see my viewpoint. I will try to prove my point by providing you with ample evidence from India and outside. I hope you'll like it and you'll appreciate it