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In order to comprehend the mysteries of Universe one has to turn to Nataraja, The King of dance says Carl Sagan, the 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 contain the response to the modern day astronomers' conflicting views that the universe may possibly either be expanding or contracting. " "If the universe is expanding according to the 'Big Bang' model of Fred Hoyle and Able Le Maitre, then what are the results to the stars that expand, explode and died? Off, as another school of astronomy says, the universe is contracting and that the stars and galaxies are being pulled back once again to a centre of creation, where do they all go? " To learn the clear answer for this question he traveled to India. He found the solution in Nataraja, the Hindu God worshipped by countless Hindus. Pointing to the statue of Nataraja, the ACTING model of Shiva, he said, 'The answer is based on Hindu Cosmology. " Pointing to the conch held by Shiva, Carl Sagan said: " "This symbolizes creation of the universe, stars, galaxies and the person. " 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 aspect of Hindu cosmology. Why he's got opted for India for Cosmos: a Personal Voyage? He explained it very clearly:

"The major reason that we oriented this episode of COSMOS towards India is due to that wonderful facet of Hindu cosmology which to begin with gives a time-scale for the Earth and the universe -- a time-scale which can be consonant with that of modern scientific cosmology. We all know that the Earth is approximately 4. 6 billion yrs . old, and the cosmos, or at least its present incarnation, is something such as 10 or 20 billion yrs . old. The Hindu tradition features a day and night of Brahma in this range, somewhere around 8. 4 billion years.

In so far as i know, it is the only ancient religious tradition MODELS on the Earth which covers the proper time-scale. You want to get throughout the concept of the proper time-scale, also to show that it is perhaps 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 understand it. The Hindu concept is extremely clear. Listed here is a great world culture which has always mentioned huge amounts of years. Finally, the numerous billion year time-scale of Hindu cosmology just isn't the whole history of the universe, but just your day and night of Brahma, and there is the notion of an infinite cycle of births and deaths and an infinite number of universes, each with its own gods. And this is really a very grand idea. "

Not just Carl Sagan, Fritjof Capra the famous scientist also admired Nataraja.

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