Basic HTML Version
Vedas are Scientific, Rational and All-Encompassing:
Vedas
are and must be scientific. They can not and do not contain
anything that goes against what is seen in the creation. It must
indeed be so because the creation and the Vedas are from the
same source. This has been briefly discussed in the context of
the aphorism
tattu samanvayut
from Brahmasara. They must
contain knowledge of all the disciplines that man may ever get
interested in, such as humanities and economics, political and
social sciences, earth sciences and astronomy, chemistry and
biology, physics and mathematics, technology and engineering
sciences, etc. and the spiritual sciences about the individual
soul and the infinite soul called God. Needless to say, there is
absolutely nothing in the Vedas that can go against the rules of
the nature.
For example, the earth sciences are covered under the word
bhugola —
the very word meaning that the earth is round. Even
the layman in India since time immemorial knew that the earth
is round like a spherical ball and it revolves around the sun.
The Vedas clearly state that the earth revolves around the sun
completing one orbit in one year. ...
ksalt susnam pradaksini
(Rg 10.22.14) This has given rise to the classical Indian
calendar called
paticatiga
that is most scientific. It relates to
both lunar and solar events. Its months are based on the lunar
events of new moon and full moon, while the year is well
synchronized with the earth's complete revolution around the
sun. Other prevailing calendars either tally with the solar event
of one year or with the lunar events of full moon and new moon.
The former calendars, such as the Christian calendar, do not
relate to the lunar events of full moon and new moon. On the
other hand, the latter ones, such as the Islamic calendar, lack
synchronization with the earth's complete revolution around
the sun in a year. Furthermore, the latter ones find a particular
month falling in different seasons. For example, we see that
the Islamic month of Ramzan falls into different seasons over
14