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music. Vyasa's work preserved the Vedas (at least that portion of the Vedas heard by the rishis) for generations to come. |
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Vedic Philosophy and Science |
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It bears repeating that the Vedas, especially the Upanisads, are a total amalgamation of spirituality and science. And many of the scientific discoveries expressed in the Vedic texts present a marvel of accuracy. Vedic mathematicians developed the revolutionary concept of the zero; and this early civilization not only was aware of the impact of vibrations on all matter but also had a sophisticated understanding of the inner workings of the universe. |
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Thousands of years before Newton, Vedic scholars had theories about the law of gravity and other notions about physics that predate the West's. They understood how gravitational forces knit the solar system together and had a serious effect on our planet. They understood long before anyone else that the earth was not flat but spherical in shape. They figured out that the earth revolved around the sun long before the Greek mathematician Pythagoras, who lived about 497 BC, and the sixteenth-century astronomer Nicholaus Copernicus. |
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Vedic scholars also had an astonishing grasp of the probable evolution of the universe that is close to present-day speculation. They intuited cycles of creation and destruction in the universe, and speculated that these cycles took place over eons of time. The world, they theorized, took ages to be built, far longer than the Judeo-Christian notion of seven days. The universe, they speculated, exists for trillions of yearsa period of time that represents the life span of Lord Brahma, who is the manifested form of Brahman and the creator of the universe. When His life cycle is completed, the life cycle of the universe also comes to an end. It is destroyed to be reborn with the rebirth of Lord Brahma, who begins the slow process of evolution once again. |
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