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[luvnpeas]

[Rteacher]

In Vedic literatures there are several references to timingila fish which were so large that they would eat big whales...

Apparent loving affection exhibited by animals with relatively developed consciousness - especially toward their young offspring - is due to the fact that all living beings are part-and-parcels of the original personal source of all loving relationships. (Jesus never said that animals have no souls - most early Christians were vegetarian and believed in transmigration...)

If America abandons "In God We Trust" in favor of "In Science We Trust" a lot of people will fall victim to blindly following materialistic speculators to hell...

[tomato]

Rteacher, I thought your religion didn't believe in hell.

[luvnpeas]

[Junior]

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[Nowhere Man]

[Nowhere Man]

[Junior]

[ED209]

[Nowhere Man]

[Rteacher]

According to Vedic (and Hindu) cosmology, there is a partial, cataclysmic devastation of the universe (including Earth) by fire and water elements at the end of each day of Brahma (demigod empowered with universal creation...) Each of Brahma's days lasts four billion, three hundred twenty million years (4,320,000,000) Brahma lives for 100 (of his) years , and at the end of his lifetime there is a total devastation, with all material and spiritual energies winding back up into the body of MahaVishnu (for a period equaling another 100 of Brahma's years until it's time for a new creation.) The creation-destruction cycle of material universes repeats endlessly (but virtually all evidence of life is wiped out by the cataclysms that occur during Brahma's nights ...)

Here is a more extended version of the famous quote by Carl Sagan in reference to Vedic cosmology (sure to tic off "mindmetoo" again...):

"The main reason that we oriented this episode of Cosmos towards India is because of that wonderful aspect of Hindu cosmology which first of all gives a time-scale for the Earth and the universe -- a time-scale which is consonant with that of modern scientific cosmology. We know that the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old, and the cosmos, or at least its present incarnation, is something like 10 or 20 billion years old. The Hindu tradition has a day and night of Brahma in this range, somewhere in the region of 8.4 billion years."

"As far as I know. It is the only ancient religious tradition on the Earth which talks about the right time-scale. We want to get across the concept of the right time-scale, and to show that it is not unnatural. In the West, people have the sense that what is natural is for the universe to be a few thousand years old, and that billions is indwelling, and no one can understand it. The Hindu concept is very clear. Here is a great world culture which has always talked about billions of years."

"Finally, the many billion year time-scale of Hindu cosmology is not the entire history of the universe, but just the day and night of Brahma, and there is the idea of an infinite cycle of births and deaths and an infinite number of universes, each with its own gods...
http://www.answers.com/topic/hindu-cosmology
There are numerous other quotes from great thinkers regarding the science of ancient India in the above-cited answers.com article...

[mindmetoo]

[Rteacher]

He didn't endorse the Vedic/Hindu cosmology over that of modern science, but Sagan did single it out as the only ancient religioius tradition with a time-scale of the universe that was within the ballpark figure of current scientific estimates. Moreover, he expressed appreciation for the sophistication and "clear concepts" of the "wonderful Hindu [Vedic] culture, which regards the entire history of this universe as just the duration of one day and night in the life of Brahma, further contextualized by the "idea of an infinite cycle of births and deaths and an infinite number of universes, each with their own gods"...

Some scholars have noted that scientists of ancient India also had advanced ideas in other areas:

"... They came closest to modern ideas of atomism, quantum physics, and other current theories. India developed very early, enduring atomist theories of matter. Possibly Greek atomistic thought was influenced by India, via the Persian civilization."
(quote from D. Teresi)
http://www.answers.com/topic/hindu-cosmology

The fact that ancient India didn't use its scientifc knowledge to produce material technology like the west is because of its advanced philosophical understanding and technical science of spiritual values (essentially presented in Bhagavad-gita...)

[Junior]

[Junior]