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GITA and SCIENCE

When the entire world civilization was in the cradle, the sages of
India had already recited the Vedas. The ancient texts of India are
considered to be a treasure of knowledge. The scriptures in ancient
India were penned with extraordinary scientific temperament. The
Bhagavad Gita, among all, is studied, analyzed and interpreted the
most.
भमि
ू रापोऽनलो वायु: खं मनो बुद्धिरे व च |
अहङ्कार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा ||
(Ch 7 verse 4)
Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, and ego—all together
these eight constitute My separated material energies.
The verse mentioned above throws light on mass and energy
relations. Almost the same theory was announced by Dr Albert
Einstein- centuries after the Bhagavadgita was recited.
The same theory was used by Robert Oppenheimer to make ‘little
boy’ a nuclear bomb containing tremendous destructive potential.
After a successful experiment, he quoted the following shloka:
कालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवद्ध
ृ ो
लोकान्समाहर्तुमिह प्रवत्ृ त: |
ऋतेऽपि त्वां न भविष्यन्ति सर्वे
येऽवस्थिता: प्रत्यनीकेषु योधा:
( Ch 11, verse 32)
I am powerful Time, the source of destruction that comes forth to
annihilate the worlds. Even without your participation, the warriors
arrayed in the opposing army shall stop existing.
Even the words ‘ दिवि सर्य
ू सहस्रस्य भवेद्यग
ु पदत्थि
ु ता ‘ (a thousand
suns were to blaze forth together in the sky) indicate the generation
of enormous illumination during the bombardment on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
Even the existence of the soul is frequently mentioned in Gita.
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय
नवानि गह्
ृ णाति नरोऽपराणि |
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा
न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि दे ही |
( Ch 2 verse 22)
Just as a man removes worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so
also the embodied Self leaves worn-out bodies and adopts another
body which is new.
The immortality of the soul is considered to be the permanence of
energy in the universe which is neither generated nor destroyed.
The examples are, thus, endless. One can conclude with a quotation:
“Gita can be seen as the main literary support for the great religious
civilization of India, the oldest surviving culture in the world.”
Thomas Merton
Late Catholic theologian, and a monk

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