![]() “As far as, verily, this great akasa extends, so far extends the akasa within the heart.Now what exists within that small akasa, that is to be sought after, that is what one should desire to understand. There is in this city of Brahman an abode, the small lotus of the heart within it is a small akasa. The power of thought is not fully understood by the western scientists yet.ġ. Mind can travel to a star 500 million light years away in a fraction of a second. But Hindus believe that Mind is faster than anything else. Light is the fastest thing in the universe according to physics. ![]() The more we understand science the better we understand our Vedas. ![]() It is unmoving it is one and it is faster than mind. If we take away the fullness of fullness, even fullness then remains (ibid.V.2.1) “It is full, this is full, from fullness, fullness proceeds. This is the oldest of the Upanishads dated to 850 BCE. It eats nothing, nothing eats it (Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad III.8.8, translated by Dr S Radhakrishnan). “It is neither gross, nor fine, neither short nor long, neither growing red like fire, nor fluid like water, neither shadow, nor darkness, neither air nor space, unattached, without taste, without smell, without eyes, without ears, without voice, without mind, without radiance, without breath, without mouth, without measure, having no within and no without. This is how the Upanishads describe the Ultimate reality. The matter inside an atom cannot be said to be moving nor can it be said to be static. ![]() In the same way, connection between modern physics and Indian mysticism has also become inseparable. The entire universe is inter- connected, inter-related and inseparable. This is the essence of Quantum theory also. Yat pinde tad Brahmande – that which is in microcosm is in the macrocosm – that is what the ancient seers of the Upanishads had said - One is in all, All is in one. They found that if they could know the atom, they could know the whole truth of the cosmos. They saw everything within the atom – the speed, energy, waves and matter all mixed. “The scientists who attempted to see the atom found a world within it that could not be described in ordinary language. Sanskrit scholar Radha Vallabh Tripathi, in his article ‘Vedic World View and Modern Science’, says, Macrocosm means the earth or the whole universe. They considered man as a world in miniature like the Hindus. Sufi Muslims, who are 50 percent Hindus in their approach to spiritualism, also had similar principle. Yat Pinde Tad Brahmaande is the Sanskrit saying. Tamils say that “Andaththil Ullathu Pindathilum Ullathu” = What is found in the Universe is in your Body. But not many people know the concept of microcosm and macrocosm also went to Greece from India. ![]() Vedic dog story (Sarama=Hermes), Five elements (Pancha Bhuta, Earth is Mother (Gaia = Atharva Veda-Mata Bhumi Putoham) and hundreds of things were borrowed by the Greeks from India. Since Hindus migrated to Greece and other European countries long before Socrates and Pythagoras, we find lot of Sanskrit and Tamil words in Greek language (I have already given the list of Tamil words in Greek in my earlier post). Vegetarianism, Rebirth, Upanishadic question and answer method (which the westerners named as Socratic Method later) and several other Hindu principles entered the Greek world through these people. Plato and his Guru Socrates were interested in Hindu Upanishads. It is a well-known fact that Alexander the Great developed great interest in Hindu ascetics because of his mentor Aristotle who was trained in Plato’s Academy. ![]()
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