It is necessary to search across mantras to understand scientific ideas in the Vedas. The Hiranya Garbha Suktam, for example, adds details to an important idea in the Nasadiya Suktam. The Nasadiya Suktam tells us that the Devas did not appear till the diversity phase in creation. The Suktam leaves us with a question regarding cosmic mind. The Hiranyagarbha Suktam picks up this thread. Nasadiya Suktam does not provide a name for the consciousness which saw the birth of the universe. We find its name in the Hiranyagarbha Suktam. The video presents the sequence of events per Inflation cosmology in context of the birth of Devas. Matter as we know appeared when CMB filled the universe. The universe remained in total darkness for 300-500 million years. Nasadiya Suktam also talks about the creation of matter. It uses theterm Mahimana or the root element of creation. Radiation accompanied the creation Mahimana as per Nasadiya Suktam also. Nothing much happened for 300

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A delicate balance between forces of affinity (Mitra) and of freedom to expand (Varuna) keeps everything in balance. Mitra-Varuna device as described in Aghastya Samhita is known popularly as the “Baghdad Battery”. This device is illustrates the complementary natures of Mitra and Varuna. Rishis cognized the play of the Devatas, universal impulses, in every field of existence as they knewn to them then. Astronomy was an important science in the Vedic tradition. Rishis therefore assigned different regions of the sky to different Devatas based on the unique phenomenon that came to their attention in their meditative state of consciousness. They used 27 such divisions for the purpose of tracing and predicting the movement of luminaries in the sky. They assigned the region close to the galactic center, in the tightly packed galactic bulge, to Mitra Devata where stars have to move delicately while avoiding the gravitational pull from other stars in such close vicinity. The Vedic name of the region,

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Spanish, Dutch, French and British Governments in the 16th and the 17th centuries offered huge prize money for anyone who could produce reliable navigational charts. Sailing expeditions in the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries faced severe impediments because of poor nautical maps. A few Jesuits scholars traveled to India to study the Hindu Panchang system which were known to make use of ready made tables based on local “longitudes” to produce accurate calendars for different parts of the subcontinent. Astronomers in Europe were aided by the information which the Jesuits gathered. Famous astronomer Cassini consulted the famous Siam Table while some others used the Krishnapuram and the Thiruvallur tables which were known equally for their accuracy. Thiruvallur is a town close to Channai, India. An interesting Panchang revolution took place two hundred years later close to Thiruvallur. Temple at Thiruvallur By the close of the 19th century native Hindu calendar makers, however, had lost touch with an important principle of predicting the position

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Credit : Devender Singh Bhati Popular Hindu literature pictures Gandharvas with semi-divine beings who play captivating music. This maybe because a Upa-Veda (subsidiary Veda) text which contains the principles of classical Indian music is named after the Gandharvas. However the Gandharvas, like the Devatas are not physical entities but are responsible for a certain aspects of existence. The Gandharvas are responsible for resonance in the universe. For example, the Gandharvas are considered as the cause for a peak sensual experience in the human nervous system. Their nature is therefore considered to be amorous. The stories in the Vedas connect Gandharvas with Soma, the Devata associated with exhilaration. Gandharvas, though they don’t have a physical body, enjoy the sense of thrill within the nervous system of stage performers such as a rock star. They gift humans with the skill to enthrall a large audience. In that sense they create resonance among all nervous systems present in a concert hall. This influence

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The famous rust resistant Iron Pillar in New Delhi was a part of an ancient Astronomical observatory some 750 miles away from its current place. It was claimed as a war trophy by Islamic rulers who moved it about 700 years ago from its original place in the Udayagiri mountains. The enigmatic cave temple complex in Udayagiri once was an active sky observatory which was used by experts familiar with astronomical models found in Vedic texts. The pillar was placed at the entrance of a passage cut through rock and it cast shadow into the passage as the Sun rose on Summer solstice day. The rays of the rising sun still falls on the feet of reclining figure of Vishnu in the cave adjacent to the rock passage. Markings on two hilltops, on the north and the south clearly show the astronomical significance of this site. The stone pillar found on one of the hilltops is a twin of the

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Reporting in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team of scientists brought a new clue to the puzzle of how life formed on planet Earth 4 billion years ago. Amino acids are the basic building blocks of protein and other longer chain molecules seen in life forms. The team’s experiment adds yet another explanation for how amino acids arrived on the planet. Molecules supporting life arriving on a comet from an alien region had been the popular theory before the results from the new research became available. These new experiments add credence to the possibility of genesis being earth based. They establish the idea of the formation of amino acids from simpler molecules such as water, carbon dioxide ice and others which were available in the nascent solar system. Intending to study the impact of comets on the atmosphere of a young earth, the team fired projectiles through a high speed gun into a chamber containing a mix of air molecules

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