Vedanta - The Indian Big Bang
K M GUPTA
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India's Sphota Vada said just what the Big Bang model says: that creation was born of one initial explosion. When we utter a sound or word, Aum, for example, the Big Bang is duplicating itself in our mind.When a bird sings or a cow moos, a dog barks or a cat mews, or thunder issues forth from the sky , it is an imitation of the Big Bang.Einstein lamented that we have to purchase all the great edifices of science at the cost of emptiness of content. That is because the substance of the world is the Big Bang.
Why is this Indian Sphota Vada not known to the larger world? Why was it not talked about much before modern science came up with the idea of the Big Bang? Why do we have to subject our selves to the charge that Indians have a nasty habit of claiming that everything science discovers today has already been discovered by our ancestors?
The `credit' for Sphota Vada becoming obsolete should go to Acharya Upavarsha.
He can be described as the Fred Hoyle of ancient India -he rejected outright the Big Bang theory . A rebel intellectual, he was reverentially called Bhagavan, but not much is known about him as none of his works has survived.
He seems to have wielded enormous clout in the intellectual world. Upavarsha influenced his peer group to not take the Sphota Vada seriously . Shabara and Shankara followed him faithfully . Since Shankara has dominated Indian thinking in many ways for the last 1,200 years, the Indian Big Bang theory became obsolete.
Why is this Indian Sphota Vada not known to the larger world? Why was it not talked about much before modern science came up with the idea of the Big Bang? Why do we have to subject our selves to the charge that Indians have a nasty habit of claiming that everything science discovers today has already been discovered by our ancestors?
The `credit' for Sphota Vada becoming obsolete should go to Acharya Upavarsha.
He can be described as the Fred Hoyle of ancient India -he rejected outright the Big Bang theory . A rebel intellectual, he was reverentially called Bhagavan, but not much is known about him as none of his works has survived.
He seems to have wielded enormous clout in the intellectual world. Upavarsha influenced his peer group to not take the Sphota Vada seriously . Shabara and Shankara followed him faithfully . Since Shankara has dominated Indian thinking in many ways for the last 1,200 years, the Indian Big Bang theory became obsolete.
