Quote for a life time

Thirukurral:
The following quote was given by Thiruvalluvar, a poet-saint who lived 2000 years ago in Tamilnadu, south of India. A great scholar, he wrote a book called 'Thirukurral' containing more than 3000 short verses called 'Kurrals' but only 1330 had been recovered. He is referred as "Poyyamozhi Pulavar", meaning the poet whose words do not fail.

A kurral is a 2 line verse, with 4 words in first line and 3 words in second line, giving complete meaning of a poem.

Now, the quote rather Kurral.

Kurral:

"Katradhanaal aaya payanyenkol vaalarrivan
nattrall thozhar yenin"

Meaning:

If you don't worship the lord's feet, who is dwelling as pure knowledge, whatever you learned is useless.

Description:

You may learn a thousand subjects and may be a great guru or pundit in all the fields, you may be a great linguist well versed in all the languages, you may proclaim yourself a great rationalist, but if you fail to understand and worship god, who is residing as pure knowledge, then whatever you learned is useless. That is not real learning.

Bhagavad Gita and Big Bang

Bhagavad Gita is one of the holy books of the Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism). Bhagavad Gita means songs of the lord. The lord took birth in the world and gave these verses for the enlightenment of the mankind.

What does Bhagavad Gita has in connection with the origin of universe?

The big bang theory states that at some time in the distant past there was nothing. A process known as vacuum fluctuation created what astrophysicists call a singularity. From that singularity, which was about the size of a dime, our Universe was born.

According to the standard big bang theories, the initial condition of the universe was a point of infinitesimal circumference and infinite density and temperature. An initial condition such as this is beyond mathematical description. Nothing can be said about it. All calculations go haywire. It's like trying to divide a number by 0--what do you get? 1? ... 5? ... 5 trillion? ... ??? It's impossible to say. Technically, such a phenomenon is called a "singularity."


Now, the lord has said,

"..At the beginning of Brahmā's day, all living entities become manifest from the unmanifest state..."

The singularity defined in the big bang is the ummanifested state. The state of singularity is beyond mathematical description. That is why, some scientists oppose Big Bang theory, stating how can infinite amount of matter and energy could have exploded from a point that is indescribable.

But, they need to know that, there are many things that are beyond human rationalism. Human mind is not the limit and the product of human mind without an inner look could not be used understand this nature and its laws. Limiting the theories based on the such tools will lead the western science to nowhere.

Vedic conception of time

According to the vedas (the collection or systemized knowledge structures of the Sanatana Dharma), the universe bustles with activity during the day of Brahma and will remian still during his night. For the uninitiated, Brahma is the god of creation.

This activity and inactivity period will continue forever. Seems like Pulsating theory of western astronomy huh?

The basic unit of time at cosmic level is one yuga. There are four yugas which comprise a yuga cycle and each one have certain characteristic that people of the yuga will inherit.

One yuga has many human years. It varies accordingly.

1. Kritha Yuga - 1.7 million years - Age of truth
2. Tretha yuga - 1.2 million years - Many good and few lies
3. Dwavpara Yuga - 0.8 million years - Evil spreading up
4. Kali Yuga - 0.4 million years - Age of degradation

The day of Brahma is divided into 'Manvandhras' and 'Sandhyas'. Manvandhra constitues 71 Yuga cycles. Sandhya period is equal to the period of Krita yuga.

A day of Brahma = 14 Manvandhras + 15 Sandhyas

We are at present in the 5,000th year of the Kali yuga of the 28th Yuga cycle of the 7th Mandvandhra of the present day of Brahma.

This would give the inhabited earth an age of about 2 billion years. Interestingly enough, the oldest undisputed organisms recognized by paleontologists - algae fossils like those from the Gunflint formation in Canada - are just about that old.

Altogether, 453 yuga cycles have elapsed since this day of Brahma began. Each yuga cycle involves a progression from a golden age of peace and spiritual progress to a final age of violence and spiritual degradation

Oangi ulagalantha utthaman perpaadi...

Here comes a blog from a soul of a creature (jeevathma).

I would like to start by offering prayers to the all merciful lord.

I would put myself as a continuer of the oldest and by far the best civilization in the world. I feel blessed, when I think, I am a follower of Sanatana Dharma and I thank god for putting me here and blessing me with the knowledge of following the holy dharma. I pray to him to keep me in bliss and to keep his lotus feet in my memory all the way through to his feet.

The title you just saw is in the language Tamil (Spoken in Southmost India), which is more than 3000 years old.