Similarities between Vedic Sciences and Modern Physics

Several years ago, Vedic scholars witnessed these new physics discoveries. The ultimate truth, according to the Vedas and Upanishads, is that the entire creation is one, unified, and interpenetrated by the essential truth, which they named “Brahman.” The actual fact of Brahman is eternal and everlasting life, energy, and consciousness.

As a result, Brahman is pervasive and ubiquitous, and the entire cosmos, including human consciousness, is a part of it. These ideas are also thoroughly articulated in the ‘Manduka Upanishad. The “Jiva,” or unique Consciousness, is not dissimilar to Brahman (universal consciousness); the only difference is that the individual self is conditioned by the body’s restricted manifestation (Upadhi), and so everything arises from Brahman and eventually dissolves in Brahman.

‘Kapila Muni’ is supposed to have founded the ancient Indian philosophy “Samkhya,” which implies the investigation and study of the entire Universe by enumerations. The Samkhya philosophy tries to find the truth by taking into account all of the required aspects of the entire cosmos, including human conditions.

The Samkhya philosophy states that what we’re seeing in cosmos is the ‘result’ of its fundamental ‘causes,’ but that the clarity of truth can only be realised via a proper comprehension of the combination of both the effect and causation. The Samkhya places a strong emphasis on “Sat-Karya-Vada,” or the study of cause and consequence.

This philosophy is very similar to the ‘determinism’ idea, which states that the ‘effect’ has already existing in its ‘cause’ before it occurs. Ancient sages considered the gift of intuitive insight to grasp the reasons for the causes behind its effects.

The practise of meditational yoga is employed as a means of achieving intuitive insight. The essence of Samkhya is that “navastuno vastusiddhi” and “aavastunobhavath vastusiddhi bhavotpatiranava sambhavati” -an object cannot be created out of nothing, and an object cannot arise out of nothing (Sinha, n.d.). That essentially suggests that matter and energy (Brahman) coexisted eternally, and that they were never in a static state, but were continually changing.

The Vedic belief in the concept of ‘Samsara,’ a continuous series of occurrences or endless flow of existences, corresponds to current physics concepts. The Vedas also demonstrate the concept of ‘Maya,’ which indicates that everything we think of as the universe’s forms and manifestations are fleeting illusions (Mithya) of ultimate reality and permanence — the Brahman.

Conclusion

The absence of a theory of independent, separate, and isolated matter entities was confirmed by particle physics. While relativity theory demonstrated the relative existence of all matter in the cosmos, and quantum science is edging closer to disbelieving in the objective reality of matter, what we think of as matter is intrinsically and profoundly tied to the entire cosmos.

Though both Science and the Vedas have the same purpose of uncovering the truth, there is a difference in how they go about doing so. Science necessitates a methodical examination and study of reality, which establishes and builds knowledge by predictions and experiments regarding reality, whereas Vedas-the truth-has been experienced through the creative insistence of intuition that exists in exterior dimensions of intellect. As a result, eastern mysticism’s intuitive wisdom based on knowledge presents a parallel to western scientific familiarity.

Reference:

1. CHAKRABARTI, C. (2020). CHAPTER TWELVE MODERN PHYSICS AND EASTERN MYSTICISM CHANDANA CHAKRABARTI. Revisiting Mysticism, 186.
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