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To be able to understand the mysteries of Universe one has to show to Nataraja, The King of dance says Carl Sagan, the entire world renowned astronomer. That he was the head of the Department of Astronomy, dance Cornel University. The famous 13 hour T. V serial, Cosmos: a personal Voyage was viewed by around ten million viewers in January 1982. He said that "The Hindu cosmology may possibly contain the response to the modern day astronomers' conflicting views that the universe may either be expanding or contracting. " "If the universe is expanding depending on the 'Big Bang' model of Fred Hoyle and Able Le Maitre, then what happens to the stars that expand, explode and died? Off, as yet another school of astronomy says, the universe is contracting and that the stars and galaxies are now being pulled back to a centre of creation, where do they all go? " To discover the clear answer for this question that he traveled to India. He found the clear answer in Nataraja, the Hindu God worshipped by millions of Hindus. Pointing to the statue of Nataraja, the ACTING model of Shiva, he said, 'The answer lies in Hindu Cosmology. " Pointing to the conch held by Shiva, Carl Sagan said: " "This symbolizes creation of the universe, stars, galaxies and the individual. " Pointing to the fire in the other hand he added: This symbolizes destruction of what has been created. " He was wonderstruck on knowing the wonderful facet of Hindu cosmology. Why he has opted for India for Cosmos: your own Voyage? He explained it very obviously:
"The main reason that people oriented this bout of COSMOS towards India is because of that wonderful part of Hindu cosmology which first of all gives a time-scale for the Earth and the universe -- a time-scale which is consonant with that of modern scientific cosmology. We know that the Earth is about 4. 6 billion years old, and the cosmos, or at the very least its present incarnation, is something similar to 10 or 20 billion years of age. The Hindu tradition includes a almost all the time of Brahma in this range, somewhere in the region of 8. 4 billion years.
As far as I know, it is the only ancient religious tradition MODELS on the Earth which talks about the right time-scale. You want to get across the idea of the proper time-scale, also to show it is maybe not unnatural. In the West, people have the sense that what is natural is for the universe to be a few thousand years of age, and that billions is indwelling, with no one can comprehend it. The Hindu concept is extremely clear. This is a great world culture which has always talked about billions of years. Finally, the countless billion year time-scale of Hindu cosmology just isn't the complete history of the universe, but just the day and nights Brahma, and there is the notion of an infinite cycle of births and deaths and enormous quantities of universes, each with its own gods. And also this is just a very grand idea. "
Not merely Carl Sagan, Fritjof Capra the famous scientist also admired Nataraja.
