Month: June 2021

The ancient Hindi time scales recorded very early were part of a very ancient text of at least 2 million years old. The text is named ‘Surya Siddhanta.’ The present version of the book available is still 2500 years old, making it the oldest book on astronomy on Earth. Though mythological texts consider the contents of the book as the knowledge given by the Sun god to a demon (asura) called Maya, it becomes illogical to accept that a non-living celestial object like the Sun could deliver knowledge to an entity on Earth. Surya has to be a very bright knowledgeable, divine sage of the early members of creation.

The Renowned Astronomer and Cosmologist Carl Sagan once said, “The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang”.

With the manifestation of the Cosmos and the Universes, Astronomy and Physics’ space-time concept came into existence. It represents a combination of the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time, making it a single four-dimensional manifestation.