Nasadiya Sukta of Rig veda 10:129 - Original Creation hymn

[28janya22]

Love as the primal seed of mind , hmm.

The Music is excellent. What is it?

[SJisBack]

I don't think this hymn from Rigveda has anything to do with Big Bang theory. It is just philosophical musings by teachers or rishis 3000 years ago. And like many other stories of world's creation in other religions has no scientific basis.

[sam7628]

This hymn is the most original hypothesis on creation which can be compared to modern big bang theory. BTW, The antiquity of vedas has been established as around 10,000 bc based on celestial events mentioned in taittariya brahmana. SayanaCharya (1315-1387) has stated that the sun traverses 2,202 yojanas in half a nimesha. This equals to 186,536 miles per second. THIS pre-dates Newton by 300 years. Pingala talks about binary numbers in 200 AD. Baudayana pre-dates Pythagoras by 3oo years.

[28janya22]

I wonder to what extent "science" can extropolate. Our Earth is a tiny speck, so very tiny, on the far end of one of the spirals of the Milky Way Galaxy. There are innumerable galaxies. Can a minisicule speck on a larger speck have what it takes to know the entire universe? The entire universal one?