In the
ancient times even the scientific secrets ware represented in the language of
the heart, in the poetic form as the ancients were heart oriented people. So
naturally we, the mind oriented people fail to understand their scientific
secrets. The Nataraj idol, the dancing avatar of lord Shiva, has many such scientific
secrets – which even the most famous scientists of our age, professors in the
famous universities like Oxford, Cambridge are fascinated about.
Some
of these scientific secrets of the Nataraj idol were presented in the earlier
articles on the site, now some more will be presented in this article, the more
general ones.
The
pedestal of the god dancing upon is a demon, in the Nataraj idol as given in the
figure here and the dancing god is nothing but the universe. According to the
Hindu philosophy this represents this; the universe came to existence due to
the ego, in other words the ego is the basis for the universe. If the ego ceases
to be, then there is no universe at all, the universe is an illusion. The string
theory in the modern science also says this – due to the vibrating strings the universe
seems to be but, actually the universe is not present here.
The god
is dancing and here, the god represents the universe. This implies that the
universe is dynamic in nature, always changing. The modern Big Bang Cosmology also
agrees with this concept of dynamic Universe, the expanding Universe. Nothing is
stable here in the Universe - everything is changing always – as in a dance.
The
circular structure around the god – says the universe is finite in nature, has bounds.
This is as predicted by Albert Einstein in his general theory of relativity, which
says the Universe is finite and bounded.
In
Hindu mythology, the snakes represent time too. So, the snakes on the body of
the ‘god’ say, at different points of the universe the ‘time’ travels
differently. This is in accordance with the special relativity of Albert
Einstein in the modern science, the relativity of time.
One hand
of the ‘dancing god’ is holding ‘fire’. This implies that, the Universe has
fire in it or the universe is hot in nature.
In one
hand the ‘god’ has the sounding instrument, the drum. It says that – the sound is
inherent in the Universe. This ‘sound’ does not imply the general sound we here
with our physical ears but, it is more subtle. In the modern science such
sounds in the Universe were first discovered by Nelson and Penzias few decades
back and they were awarded a Nobel Prize for this discovery. This is sound is
present everywhere in the Universe uniformly, the modern scientists call this
as ‘primordial noise’ associated with the birth of the Universe.
Only
few scientific secrets in the Nataraj idol are presented here but, still some
more will be presented later in another article in the future.
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