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To be able to understand the mysteries of Universe you have to turn to Nataraja, The King of dance says Carl Sagan, the world renowned astronomer. 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 an estimated ten million viewers in January 1982. That he said that "The Hindu cosmology may contain the reply to the present day day astronomers' conflicting views that the universe may possibly either be expanding or contracting. " "If the universe is expanding as per the 'Big Bang' model of Fred Hoyle and Able Le Maitre, then what goes on to the stars that expand, explode and died? Off, as yet another school of astronomy says, the universe is contracting and that the stars and galaxies are being pulled back again to a centre of creation, where do they all go? " To find out the answer with this question that he traveled to India. That he found the answer in Nataraja, the Hindu God worshipped by countless Hindus. Pointing to the statue of Nataraja, the ACTING style of Shiva, that he said, 'The answer lies in 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. " That he was wonderstruck on knowing the wonderful aspect of Hindu cosmology. Why he has chosen India for Cosmos: a personal Voyage? That he explained it very demonstrably:
"The major reason that we oriented this episode of COSMOS towards India could be because of that wonderful facet of Hindu cosmology which to start with provides time-scale for the Earth and the universe -- a time-scale which is consonant with that of modern scientific cosmology. We know that the Earth is about 4. 6 billion years of age, and the cosmos, or at least its present incarnation, is something like 10 or 20 billion yrs . old. The Hindu tradition includes a almost all the time of Brahma in this range, somewhere around 8. 4 billion years.
As far as I know, it's the only ancient religious tradition MODELS on the Earth which discusses the best time-scale. We should get across the concept of the right time-scale, and also to show it is not unnatural. In the West, people have the sense that what is natural is for the universe to become a few thousand years old, and that billions is indwelling, no it's possible to understand it. The Hindu concept is very clear. Here is a great world culture which has always discussed billions of years. Finally, the countless billion year time-scale of Hindu cosmology isn't the entire history of the universe, but just your day and night of Brahma, and there is the idea of an infinite cycle of births and deaths and an infinite number of universes, each using its own gods. And this is just a very grand idea. "
Not only Carl Sagan, Fritjof Capra the famous scientist also admired Nataraja.
