Thread by @AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵A #MustRead : The business of Vedas is not actually physical sciences. But, in the course of developing philosophy, Vedas make some scientific statements. When we consider the question of space. The Vedas say that space is not empty; it is not vacuum. There are pages &

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pages of arguments to prove that there are some qualities for free space and therefore it is not vacuum. It is precisely those qualities that we associate with space today, e.g. propagation of light and radio waves. Then the Vedas say that space is distorted in the presence

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of matter! There is a discussion in the Shastras about the dimensions of the individual soul. Such a question is not even raised in science -whether in biology or psychology. What is the dimension of the individual soul? The first argument that it is of the size of

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the body is shown to be incorrect. Then someone argues that it is tiny, it is atomic. It sits somewhere in a corner of the body. An example is given: Just as light spreads from a flame in a corner to a large portion of the room, the tiny soul in a corner of the body

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spreads its influence throughout the body. Refuting this analogy, Shankaracharya points out that Guna and Guni cannot be separated. Guni is substance and Guna is its property. You cannot separate the substance and its property. Now, in the example, the flame is the substance

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and light is its property. Shankaracharya says that the light we see is not different from the flame which is patently matter. The difference is only that this matter is dense in the flame and sparse outside. Here is a man, indeed a lad of 14 years, who propounded 1200 years

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ago that light is not different from matter & Einstein proposes this in 1905 and wins the Nobel prize.
Then take the question whether Akasha is blue. Everybody says that it is. But the Shastras say that Akasha is not blue. Then why does it appear blue? In the Shastras there

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is profound discussion on why the Akasha has no colour. The work of Rayleigh and of Raman, both of whom got Nobel prizes, is precisely based on this idea.
Roger Sperry is a neuro surgeon. He had to treat an epileptic patient. They say that the neuronal firings in the fibres

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connecting the right and left parts of the brain are very chaotic in an epileptic. What Dr Sperry did, to put it crudely, was to cut some of the nerves so that the neuronal current could not pass from one part to the other. He found that the patient had started improving!

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In the process, he realized that there were two parts in the brain -the left and right. He studied these two parts separately and found that the right part is holistic while the left is mechanical. It was noted in this connection that the right eye is subtler

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than the left eye. Now, the Upanishads say that Akshipurusha-the God associated with the eye-(in our Shastras with every activity a God is associated) resides in the right eye! Why should the Shastras be so specific instead of simply stating that there is an Akshipurusha?

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- Swami Paramananda Bharathi (Dr Shankara in Purvashrama was a scientist who worked at IIT Chennai, he was offered a job by no less than Dr Prigogine who was a Nobel Prize winner)

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