I guess everyone should have watched Nat Geo. one among the many amazing
channel TV relays. When i was in 11th grade, there was a show called
"Time". The show essentially involved discussions from world renowned
experts on the concept of time and how time evolved.
Till date many of the particle physicists like Dr. Michio kaku and Astrophysicist like Dr. Hawking repeat these lines when it comes to time "It all started with Big Bang". How many of you would agree that time originated at the moment of Big Bang. If that is so is Big Bang really the beginning of universe and hence time. What if there are parallel universes. Are there human races far advanced in time than us in other universes?
These are few of the many questions that the show discussed upon. Somehow i was not convinced with their explanation. I hoped that there should be something which is more reliable and old and which is accepted widely.
I was recently chatting with my cousin who just graduated as a doctor and he was very much against homeopathy. I asked him why? He said practitioners of homeopathy always rely more on aesthetic sensibilities than medicine and cure. Which means they try to make their patients believe that they are feeling well, rather than giving them medicines and make them feel well in real sense.
I did not care much about his statement but struck me a thought about my beliefs. Immediately i recollected that we all believe Time came into existence and started with Big Bang. We were made to believe that this is true just because experts and channels say this repeatedly. I retorted "Why cannot there be an alternative explanation?" well i referred web, astoundingly not many alternative explanations from scientists, but many from philosophers.
Without any further way i just referred books in Philosophy and all were diverse with explanations on origin of universe. I read a book called "Sribhashyam" which explained the origin of universe and the position of earth and how was it created. I cannot give a scientific explanation to all the ideas in the book; i should say some were beyond the reach of science. Nonetheless like playboy, party whirl in Deccan chronicle or chennai times (metroplus) it was fun reading it and i also loved to believe the universe to be in that way.
The first part of the book explains the concept of time, which essentially bowled me down. It goes like this
"Time is an eternal curtain using which god has subdued our minds" i was taken aback and realized how truthful the statement is? Just think of it... we do not do a job just because we do not have time mostly or that the day is ending (night or day which in essence is time). Think that a day has 48 hrs. can we all work for 40 hrs. and then sleep for 8hrs? The point is we are tuned to the concept of time as 24 hrs. per day that all our activities invariably depend on it.
What if i say you are now in a world where 6 months is 1 day and the rest 6 months is one night. essentially now 24 hrs is equal to 1 year and we have more time, will we be able to achieve a lot?
We all read from our own religion that god holds the elixir of life and those gods live forever and they never age. This book says gods do have age like all of us. Can u believe this? As this book is in line with the Hindu philosophy it elaborates that age of people living in various lokas (i.e. planets).
Pitru Loka (where our ancestors live) - 6 months in earth is 1 day there and other 6 months is 1 night. So 1 year for us is 1 day for our ancestors.
From this point the math becomes big and is based on scale called yugas. Like how we have eras in geography (Cambrian, Precambrian, Mesozoic, Palaeozoic etc...) we have yugas in Hindu philosophy. They are four in ascending order.
1. Kali Yuga (we now live in this, which is 4,32,000 years in time).
2. Dwapara Yuga (krsna lived in this yuga, which is 4,32,000 x 2 years i.e. 8,64,000 years).
3. Tretha Yuga (Rama lived in this, which is 8,64,000 x 2 years).
4. Kritha Yuga (which is 8,64,000 x 4 years)
Now adding all this the total years is 43,20,000 years (43 lakh 20 thousand years) this is called one maha Yuga i.e. the additive of all four yugas. here comes the result. As you may know Hinduism has 3 major gods - Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma.
Shiva and all other gods are classified under devas. For devas One maha yuga is 1 day and 365 maha yuga (i.e., 43,20,000 x 365 years) is i year for them. Based on this time scale they live for 100 years.
Now it gets even bigger for Brahma. For him 1000 maha yugas is one day and other 1000 maha yugas is one night. therefore 2000 maha yugas (i.e. 43,20,000 x 2000, is one day). Like this he has 365 days a year and lives for 100 years.
PS: The book says the current brahma is 51 yrs. old and is living the first day of his 51st year!!!!
and Vishnu's age is not discussed
Pheww. The point is we need not get astounded by their time and age. All we will take is, think that you have time equal to brahma which is essentially very huge. Spend more time with family, friends and loved ones. The moment you remove the curtain that 24 hrs is one day, everything seems possible and you will have time for everything and everyone.
Human race stands apart not because we have sixth sense but we have sensibility...
If you are reading this line, you probably have spent a huge amount of TIME in my blog. click next to read other blogs...
With love from Chennai....
Till date many of the particle physicists like Dr. Michio kaku and Astrophysicist like Dr. Hawking repeat these lines when it comes to time "It all started with Big Bang". How many of you would agree that time originated at the moment of Big Bang. If that is so is Big Bang really the beginning of universe and hence time. What if there are parallel universes. Are there human races far advanced in time than us in other universes?
These are few of the many questions that the show discussed upon. Somehow i was not convinced with their explanation. I hoped that there should be something which is more reliable and old and which is accepted widely.
I was recently chatting with my cousin who just graduated as a doctor and he was very much against homeopathy. I asked him why? He said practitioners of homeopathy always rely more on aesthetic sensibilities than medicine and cure. Which means they try to make their patients believe that they are feeling well, rather than giving them medicines and make them feel well in real sense.
I did not care much about his statement but struck me a thought about my beliefs. Immediately i recollected that we all believe Time came into existence and started with Big Bang. We were made to believe that this is true just because experts and channels say this repeatedly. I retorted "Why cannot there be an alternative explanation?" well i referred web, astoundingly not many alternative explanations from scientists, but many from philosophers.
Without any further way i just referred books in Philosophy and all were diverse with explanations on origin of universe. I read a book called "Sribhashyam" which explained the origin of universe and the position of earth and how was it created. I cannot give a scientific explanation to all the ideas in the book; i should say some were beyond the reach of science. Nonetheless like playboy, party whirl in Deccan chronicle or chennai times (metroplus) it was fun reading it and i also loved to believe the universe to be in that way.
The first part of the book explains the concept of time, which essentially bowled me down. It goes like this
"Time is an eternal curtain using which god has subdued our minds" i was taken aback and realized how truthful the statement is? Just think of it... we do not do a job just because we do not have time mostly or that the day is ending (night or day which in essence is time). Think that a day has 48 hrs. can we all work for 40 hrs. and then sleep for 8hrs? The point is we are tuned to the concept of time as 24 hrs. per day that all our activities invariably depend on it.
What if i say you are now in a world where 6 months is 1 day and the rest 6 months is one night. essentially now 24 hrs is equal to 1 year and we have more time, will we be able to achieve a lot?
We all read from our own religion that god holds the elixir of life and those gods live forever and they never age. This book says gods do have age like all of us. Can u believe this? As this book is in line with the Hindu philosophy it elaborates that age of people living in various lokas (i.e. planets).
Pitru Loka (where our ancestors live) - 6 months in earth is 1 day there and other 6 months is 1 night. So 1 year for us is 1 day for our ancestors.
From this point the math becomes big and is based on scale called yugas. Like how we have eras in geography (Cambrian, Precambrian, Mesozoic, Palaeozoic etc...) we have yugas in Hindu philosophy. They are four in ascending order.
1. Kali Yuga (we now live in this, which is 4,32,000 years in time).
2. Dwapara Yuga (krsna lived in this yuga, which is 4,32,000 x 2 years i.e. 8,64,000 years).
3. Tretha Yuga (Rama lived in this, which is 8,64,000 x 2 years).
4. Kritha Yuga (which is 8,64,000 x 4 years)
Now adding all this the total years is 43,20,000 years (43 lakh 20 thousand years) this is called one maha Yuga i.e. the additive of all four yugas. here comes the result. As you may know Hinduism has 3 major gods - Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma.
Shiva and all other gods are classified under devas. For devas One maha yuga is 1 day and 365 maha yuga (i.e., 43,20,000 x 365 years) is i year for them. Based on this time scale they live for 100 years.
Now it gets even bigger for Brahma. For him 1000 maha yugas is one day and other 1000 maha yugas is one night. therefore 2000 maha yugas (i.e. 43,20,000 x 2000, is one day). Like this he has 365 days a year and lives for 100 years.
PS: The book says the current brahma is 51 yrs. old and is living the first day of his 51st year!!!!
and Vishnu's age is not discussed
Pheww. The point is we need not get astounded by their time and age. All we will take is, think that you have time equal to brahma which is essentially very huge. Spend more time with family, friends and loved ones. The moment you remove the curtain that 24 hrs is one day, everything seems possible and you will have time for everything and everyone.
Human race stands apart not because we have sixth sense but we have sensibility...
If you are reading this line, you probably have spent a huge amount of TIME in my blog. click next to read other blogs...
With love from Chennai....
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