Big Bang Theory:
The Big Bang theory is mentioned as early as the Rig Veda, where, in Mandala X – the Cosmos and the ‘Golden Egg’ or the Sun, is born from the Cosmic Void – often called as Asat (Non-being) – also meaning ‘Non-wisdom’ or Chaos.
The highest force in Hinduism from Vedic times is called as nothingness (neti neti – not this, nor that). It is also referred to as darkness and in Buddhism as sunyata (void). The concept of Zero came to us from the Hindus from this concept – as did their numeral system – which we still employ today over the cumbersome Roman system.
The Great Rig Vedic hymn (X.129), dating to before 3000BCE, states in the beginning of creation there was neither being nor non-being, only darkness and no sky, water etc. From the cosmic void was born heat, and from heat desire and from desire came the spirit. This was before even the Gods, and it is said the wise Seers seek to unite with the formless void beyond, as the primal reality (as mentioned above). This is also the basis of Buddhism and it’s atheistic tones.
Another hymn (X.72) states that the Lord of Hymns created the Gods and creation from a cosmic ‘blast’ and hence created existence from non-existence. From productive power were the regions born etc.
Advanced Medical Science:
Ayurveda is recognized as the World’s oldest and most complete medical system, dating back over 5,000 years.
In 700BCE or earlier, the great Indian doctor Sushruta describes over 120 surgical instruments and also 300 surgical procedures, including placing them in eight categories.
As early as the Rig Veda (c.5000BCE) India has mention of artificial limbs, and restoration of sight, through the Divine Physicians, known as the Ashwins (Horse-men). One such mention is artificial limbs, such as legs, made of gold.
Sushruta also performed Cosmetic surgery and re-constructed ears and noses, which were cut off in ancient times, due to punishment. The same procedure is used today, and interestingly, modern science got it (like our numerals and numerical system) from the Hindus.
Earlier than Sushruta was his teacher, Dhanvantri, who is mentioned as the Rig Vedic Seer Kakshivan, and dates no later than around 4500BCE. His own Guru was Bharadvaja – one of the oldest Rig Vedic seers, who taught under Krishna Atreya – who date back as early as 7,000BCE, showing a very ancient lineage.
Dhanurveda (Martial Arts) is also part of Ayurveda and includes branches as Hatha Yoga, or exercise and Pressure Points and Acupuncture (Suchi Karma) that originated with the Seer Rama Jamadagneyi (Parashurama) around 4000BCE. The science was transmitted to China under the Buddhist Monk, Bodhidharma from Southern India – where it is still strong.
Zen Buddhism in Japan arose from Ch’an Buddhism in China, which came from Bodhidharma’s ‘Dhyan’ (Meditation) system from India – which included Martial Arts and the Pressure Points. Hence the origin of later Karate, Judo etc. from India.
Ancient texts also mentioned Atomic warfare, as through Mahabharata and Ramayana, and use of guns. Some Indus cities dated 5,000 years ago, match the Mahabharata’s description of an Atomic War and symptoms – and the skeletons were found to be radioactive!
Yoga itself is a main aspect in Ayurvedic healing, as other methods as steam-therapy and hydro-therapy – mentioned even in Rig Veda, as well as, of course, herbs and Rasayanas, which were part of Soma-traditions and alchemical formulas from the Rig Veda. Atharvaveda around 2500BCE mentions Gold and it’s medicinal values, and other texts deal with astrology, gemstones and power of mantra (chants) in healing – such as Mahamrityunjaya and Gayatri, from Rig Veda.
Sound therapy is only just being realized today with its medicinal value, as also is Yoga. Age-old ‘Shaman ‘remedies have been found more effective than today’s artificial ones.
Ayurveda was also taught to Chinese, Greek, Roman and Persian students who studied at the great Indian Universities as Takshashila in Pakistan and Nalanda in India – as early as 700BCE. Buddhism was also taught here, and ruins of these still exist – testifying to its grandeur.
It is said to have had 2000 teachers and 10,000 students around 700AD. Remembering that India is home to Buddhism – it hence attracted students from Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, China, Korea and Mongolia and Tibet – as well as the West.
Many bronze and other sculptures still exist from this University, and the student accommodations, which included kitchens, bathrooms etc. – in ruins, also show the advancement in the East. It was many hundreds of years earlier than Alexandria in Egypt, and much, much larger.
In 300BCE, there were in fact already many Buddhist and Vedantic teachers (Brahmins) from India, noted by the Greeks, in the region of Alexandria, and also in Athens and Rome. Later these were followed by the Romani (Gypsy) – who still speak a dialect of Rajasthani and who’s influenced shaped medieval Europe with their eastern mysticism and culture.
In 900AD, the text Bhoja Prabhanda Samhita, states that Ayurvedic surgeons successfully practiced brain surgery.
It is known that the Arabs transmitted much from India and spread it into Rome – setting the foundations of Western Medicine and Science. It is hence no surprise that as these Indian Universities and teachings were burnt down and banned by Muslim Rulers in the 12th – 16th centuries, that science was lost.
What we have today in the West is hence a lower level of scientific achievement that was surpassed in the ancient East, as we shall see.
Advanced Cities and Concepts:
The famous Iron Pillar at Delhi was constructed over 1,500 hundred years ago, and, exposed to the sun through heat and also rain and other weather – it has failed to rust or deteriorate, making it a scientific wonder of the modern – let alone ancient world!
It hence represents advanced engineering skills. The Vimana Shastra is also a text dating from around 400BC, but working from much older material, which describes the ‘Flying machines’ used in ancient India, of which many scientists and engineers, East and West, have scrutinized, and proven such machines did exist.
Drawings from 1923, based on this text, still survive. It is interesting that among types of Vimana mentioned are Shakuna (Bird-shape), Mandara (Mountain shape) and Mandala (Circlular-shape). Vimanas are also mentioned in Bhagavata Purana, Ramayana and Mahabharata – and have many amazing qualities and descriptions that fit those of the Vimana Shastra.
The text draws on much older material from Mayamata, ascribed to Maya Danava – the architect and artist of the demons, who is said to have created these flying machines for the Gods and Demons. Padma Purana mentions there are 400,000 types of ‘manusha-like’ or Human-like entities in the Cosmos – some on different dimensions with siddhis (mystical yogic powers) and can manifest.
Other physical evidence is the amazing Vedic-Saraswati or Indus cities in India and Pakistan. These date back over 5,000 years and their town planning is compared to modern NYC, as well as being drawn from the ancient Shilpa Shastra texts.
These cities had two and three story houses, each with separate bathrooms, living rooms and kitchens. They had their own wells and bathrooms had even a sit-down toilet like the Western style (sit-down toilets were continued in India up to the 16th Century and hence are an old Eastern idea) and baths – leading into an underground sewage system via drains going to a septic tank.
Dholavira, a city that is rather ornamental, has marble pillars and use of stone architecture for its palace and an Athenian-like Stadium, the World’s oldest signboard (dating to 2500BCE), and the Indus script – which is an alphabetic one.
It also boast’s a large water reservoir cut from rock.
Lothal in Gujerat boast’s the world’s earliest dockyard. These cities are also amazing as their predecessors as the ruins in the Gulf of Cambay and Mahabalipuram in S.India dating to around 7,500BCE, prove Vedic flood tales correct.
The sunken city of Krishna’s Dvaraka may also be one of the Indus cities, Dholavira or even the later Dvaraka around 1,500BCE, which was recently found and provides a link between Indus and Mauryan India, and continuous art and architecture.
How could the ancients have lived in houses like we did over 5,000 years ago with all of the comforts and also had flying machines, we may ask?
Co-existing racial types:
Today’s view of Race and Civilisation is largely incorrect. The ancient Aryans were not a Nordic-type race, since the earliest type is datable as early as 7500BCE and earlier in India and the rest of S. Asia in the Indus cities.
These cities yielded the Mediterranean Caucasoid, Alpine Caucasoid, Negrito, Australoid and Mongoloid types.
Southern Indians are also classified as the dark branch of the Mediterranean Caucasoid – which we find having dark features as olive to brown skin, black hair and brown eyes. These people created the World’s Oldest Civilisations – from Northern India, Rome, Greece and Northern Africa (Egypt) and dominated the Middle East.
The Himalayan Dardic or Pisacha tribes have Nordic characteristics, because of their association with cooler snowy climates. Lower in the Panjab, people have pale ro olive skin, lighter eyes and hair, and in Rajasthan darker Mediterranean types appear – until we reach the tones of dark brown and black in Southern India – of the Caucasoid branches.
The Dards, however, speaking a language somewhere between Dravidian and Sanskrit (Indo-European) – like Germanic tribes have always been more of a ‘Nomad’ tribal peoples until later times. Hence the term Pisacha (Ghost).
There are also Indo-European Nepalese people in the East, who are of Mongoloid stock – like the dominant racial type in the East, from Eastern India, into SE Asia and China, to Japan and across to Alaska and into the Americas. The Japanese who originate from the Ainu tribe – a Caucasoid Alpine race – speak tongues part of the Finno-Ugric branch, related to Dravidians, and perhaps Pisacha.
Thus, language and race does not denote superiority of culture – as all existed in ancient Sumeria and India – all racial types, as modern Western Nations do today – and in fact, it was the lighter-skinned Nordics that appeared as less advanced.
Britain’s Celts got their strains from the invasion of the Germanic peoples – who appeared to have been Finno-Ugric and ‘Aryanised’ by Celts. Even today we see Mediterranean swarthy features in many Welsh people – and the fact that the original people of Britain were a darker Mediterranean type noted incorrectly as ‘Iberians’ – when they were Celtic Druids – connected to the Romans, Greeks and other Aryan peoples of darker Eastern stock.
Source:: AMAZING SCIENCES OF THE EAST:The Wisdom of Ancient India ---By Rodney Lingham
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