The fact the scientists believe: The universe is governed by laws—itself connotes—its creation is based on certain laws. If there are laws for its creation, as is being accepted, then it is a foregone conclusion that these laws were there even before its creation! The students of cosmology know that any mass that goes into the black hole, its particles do not return to our universe. For all we know, these might be joining some other baby universe! This probability looks good within the gambits of general theory of relativity.
When we accept the fact of determined laws, we automatically accept the issue of Creation: that it had a beginning. Anything that is created has its beginning. We therefore come to the same old conclusion that life is finite and its creation—physical bodies are finite too. Creation itself is finite. It was created on a ‘Principle’ and is governed on well-defined laws. How it evolved from an Infinite-Principle is not the subject matter of science fraternity, unless they function in unison with the spiritualists and try to know subtle worlds of mind-spirit-divinity!
Likewise spiritualists should also remain within their confined boundaries and should not venture into answering questions, which do not fall within their domain. Whenever the ‘thinkers/philosophers’ tried to don the role of scientists of natural sciences, they have miserably failed. Not that these two fields are separate or unrelated to each other. Only their system of education is different and unlike each other. That is why any one who is not adequately qualified in one system of science cannot be expected to, automatically, claim expertise of the other. The result of such an exercise has always been disastrous.
The l.s who is the source of these ‘work’ has also delved in the unknown fields of science and it is a foregone fact that he being a novice, he might have faltered enormously! There are countless instances of such foolish ventures, especially from the religionists, which compel the good intentioned, well informed intellectuals to keep away from their home-spun ‘theories’—which have mushroomed in as many religious sects—that they simply spurn them. Their disdain is justified. Just one example, a repetition of course:
“According to Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions, the universe was created only in the recent past. (In seventeenth century Bishop Ussher calculated a date of 4004 BC, for the creation of the universe, a figure he arrived at by adding up the ages of people in the Old Testament).
“According to St. Augustine (Book of Genesis) it is 5000 years. “But according to Vedic Scriptures, a ‘Purant’ cycle is completed in 311,040,000,000,000 years.
Just see the difference!
The ancient Indian astronomy like other disciplines of science was far ahead of the West. Rather it would not be an exaggeration to mention here that the Westerns were behaving like barbarians, while this country was reveling, both in spiritual enlightenment and material abundance. How the West treated their scientists can just be imagined by the fates of Copernicus, Bruno and Galileo! The treatment meted out to them is still fresh in the minds of the present generation of scientists. Had this fraternity taken our scriptures seriously, especially Upanishads, their ridicule towards spiritualism would have been subdued substantially. As to how much scientific methodology has been followed in decoding the spiritual ‘thought’; there is always an element of doubt and disbelief in the minds of research scholars! As their testing ground of new discoveries is the laboratory, not the spatial realms of the mind. But pseudo spiritual quacks, unlike the genius cosmologists, are presently at a premium to hazard wild ‘prophesies’, because most of the theories relating to cosmology are yet to be proved. To the misfortune of the Western scientists, the depth of insight of their ruling masters is not remotely in consonance with the new discoveries made in the fields of matter. They wasted the golden opportunity they had, for two hundred years of rule over India—for learning the sciences, this country had the mastery on. The ancient Indian ‘thought’ on matter and spirit is so deep that even the present day scientists with all the facilities at their command, cannot in their wildest imagination, touch upon the outer fringes of the vast ocean of knowledge, which this country’s masters of yore had probed in the realms of Conscious and which is immanent in matter and spirit. The basic essence of their ‘thought’ was: The innate nature of matter is conscious. This is a clear line of division between the matter and spirit: between the scientists and the wise: between the knowledge of science and Divine. Where the present theories about Creation lead to, is in fact, the starting point of the spiritualists in their Sadhna(quest)!