What do these seven horses signify?
What do the snakes signify?
On carefully thinking, we will find that this is just a poetic verse describing the nature of light as being composed of 7 rays and the snake symbolizes it's curved path. Now, its meaning is clarified for us in the Atharva Veda, where it tells us there are seven rays of the sun. Now, these colors are actually described as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, Indigo and violet in the Ramayana, the yoga sutras and the Vedic Upanishads. So it becomes quite clear that this is indeed referring to the 7 colors of light. This was not discovered in western science till Newton split light into it's 7 colors by a prism.
2) Bigbang
Vedas say: All emanated from HIM
“Mahavishnu is lying in Causal Ocean. Millions of Universes are created while he exhales”
It further states that Millions of Universe go away from Mahavishnu till he exhales and come back again to Mahavishnu when he inhales. His one cycle of breath (i.e. exhale+inhale) is very very long almost around billions of years.
Does it sound similar to the Big Bang?
All matter is concentrated in a whole. An explosion and millions of galaxies/ universes are created & they are receding apart. Prof. Stephen Hawking states in his book "A Brief History of Time" states that life cycle of universe when plotted against time, will take a parabolic shape. It will expand till a point of time (the inflexion point) & then it will be reversed i.e. Universe will start contracting and again get concentrated in a dense form of matter.
Thus, we can say that Vedas may have tried to explain this phenomenon by drawing an analogy with a superficial entity called Mahavishnu or Para-Brahm.
More specifically read the nasadiya suktam (Rig veda 10.129).
ReplyDeleteIt perfectly describes the big-bang, not approximately.