The secret behind the shining sun

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The secret behind the shining sun

By Pramod Saini

 

Drashtavya jagat ka yathartha; Two volumes; by Om Prakash Pandey; pp

288 (vol. I); 280 (vol. II); Price Rs 300 each vol.

 

What is the significance of the Vedas, Puranas, Upanishads and other

ancient Indian scriptures in today's context? Are they relevant

today? When, how and from where this universe came into existence?

What is the secret behind the shining sun and moon as well as the

twinkling stars? What is galaxy or universe? How, when and from whom

were they originated and how long will they exist? Such complicated

questions have been agitating the human minds for centuries.

Undoubtedly, various scholars in different phases of time have tried

to answer these questions at their own level, still there exit

queries and confusion. Although westerners might be seeking their

answers, we in India know that all these questions have been answered

in our ancient scriptures. But we continue to ignore those

scriptures. Whenever any western scholar comes out with a

new "invention", we say this has already been said in our Vedas, etc.

Shri Om Prakash Pandey, the author of Drashtavya Jagat ka Yathart,

has tried to find out the reasons behind this ignorance. Shri Pandey

has also answered most of these queries citing references from the

modern science in his two-volume book. Originally the book written in

Hindi, is in the process of translation into English and some other

Indian languages.

 

The author defines the references revealed in the Vedas, Puranas,

Upnishadas, etc. in today's perspective. The nine forms of the

goddess Durga, worshiped in India as the forms of shakti, have been

defined with the nine forms of energy—potential, kinetic, nuclear,

thermal, magnetic, chemical, sound, light and electricity, as defined

by the modern science today. According to Valmiki Ramayana (shloka

16/17, sarga 37 of Balkanda) Agnidev due to the uncertainties of

Parvati's conceiving, had implanted that foetus into the womb of

Ganga. This is how a surrogate mother (Ganga) delivered the first

test tube baby of the world in the form of first son (Skanda) of Lord

Shiva and Parvati.

 

Similarly, unearthing the cover from modern clone system or designer

baby, Shri Pandey quotes from Mahabharata, which says Rishi Vyasa,

while dividing the foetus of Gandhari into hundred pieces, kept them

into separate pots and subsequently they were implanted into the

wombs of various queens of king Dhratarashtra. It was because of

those foetuses, one hundred Kaurvas with similar character were born.

Similarly the akshya patra, granted by Lord Sun to Yudhishtar during

the first phase of exile, was also no less than today's mobile solar

fridge, which kept the fruits and food fresh for long time.

 

The author says the vision and sight that was needed to understand

the proper meaning of the Vedic hymns had been hampered in India for

many centuries. The western oriented new generation of so-called

Indian scholars find themselves uncomfortable to understood the

knowledge of old Indian scriptures in right perspective, because of

educational structure provided to them were designed by the

Britishers to protect their colonial interest. The Vedas talk about

the absolute truth while the science look at every problem into

pieces. What Newton said Einstein invented beyond it and that too has

now gone beyond with changing concept by the Hawkins.

 

The author says the devtas mentioned in the Vedas were invisible

powers that control or energise the human kind and other species.

They were not in the human form but they are the eternal powers and

are still in the universe. "The confusion developed after the

historic figures naming in the Puranas were connected with the name

of devtas revealed in the Vedas. In fact, the foreigners took

advantage of this confusion and jeered over our ancient knowledge.

Even the Sanskrit grammar developed by Rishi Panini during the

Shungvansh period does not fully explain the knowledge of the Vedas,

as he was born centuries after the revelation and composition of the

Vedas. Panini himself claimed that 18 grammartarians had been before

him. Out of those 18 grammartarians, Yask was the oldest. And Yask

too said that there had been 12 grammartarians before him. The

niruktas and nighuntas composed by Yask explain the meaning of the

Vedic hymns to a great extent," the author claims.

 

"In the Vedas, the meaning of the word sahastra is more than the

particular number. But in the Panini grammar it means thousand.

Similarly samudra word has been used in the Vedas for space. But in

Panini grammar it means sea. It is believed that the earth has been

developed by Lord Barah. It does not mean that Lord Vishnu emerged

with the earth in the form of a Barah. Basically the word, Barah, has

been used in Vedas for the thing that eats water i.e. cloud. The

modern science also named the cloud composed by a cosmic dust as

nebula. Indeed, the clouds of cosmic dust after transactions of

millions of years produce galaxy, various planets, stars, etc. NASA

has recently put up some telescoping pictures of the primary form of

nebula, which surprisingly looks like a horse-head, on its website.

This is what the first incarnation of Lord Vishnu, as per Puranas,

who is also believed as horse-head, is regarded," the author says.

Explaining it further he added that during the Vedic period there

were 108 alphabets in the grammar, which with the passage of time

reduced to 78 then 64 during the Yask period and further reduced to

53 during the Panini period. Now they have further been reduced to 48

in Devanagari, 32 in Arabic, 26 in Roman and only two words (vit and

bytes) in computer. Today's composition of alphabets is not

sufficient to explain and define the accurate meaning of the Vedas

and thereby lead to confusion.

 

Without properly knowing the language and deciphering inability of

code most people today call the Vedas full of incoherent things. The

author says that time has come to clear this confusion with deep,

concentrated and scientific study of the Vedas by the researcher in

real task of content available in Vedas. The manuscript of this book

was evaluated by the late Dr Vidya Niwas Mishra, the renowned scholar

in Sanskrit, Hindi and English.

 

Dr L.M. Singhvi, noted scholar, in the preamble of the book describes

it as a unique Vedant of Indian culture. "In this background the

explanations by Shri Pandey seems miracles that develop attractions. …

the innumerable references of Indian literature, philosophy, Puranas,

traditions, geography, history and Sanskrit used in the book appear

an encyclopaedia," Dr Singhvi said.

 

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