Science
&
Spirituality
Presents…
Science
in
Vedas
His divine grace
A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami praphupada
Founder Acharya of
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
(ISKCON)
100-150 Years Back!
"Vedas were worse than savage" and "India must be
conquered again by education... it's religion is doomed“
(Max Muller, 1823, the most well known
early sanskritist and indologist)
[Vyasadeva], a mythical seer of primitive times is named
as author
(Moriz Winternitz, 1863
eminent Austrian Orientalist)
"Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, in opinion, in
morals, and in intellect.“
(Thomas Macaulay, 1800, British poet, historian
and politician, hired by East India Company)
14 Branches of Knowledge
1. शिक्षा 1.Ayurveda
2. व्याकरण
3. निरुक्त 2.Arthasastra
4. छंद 3.Dhanurveda
5. ज्योतिष 4.Ghandarva
6. कल्प Veda
7. न्याय
8. मीमांस
9. सूत्र
10. पुराण
MATHEMATICS
SULBA SUTRA
Pythagoras, 570 BC Baudhayan Rishi, 800 BC
dīrghasyākṣaṇayā rajjuH pārśvamānī, tiryaDaM
mānī, cha yatpṛthagbhUte kurutastadubhayāṅ
karoti.
The diagonal of a rectangle produces by itself
both (the areas) produced separately by its two
YAJUR VEDA sides (Sulba Sutra 3.11)
“the units of measurement used in Vedas easily lead to the
accuracy of the diagonal "roughly one-thousandth of the
thickness of a sesame seed.”
(John F. Price, School of Mathematics,
University of New South Wales, Australia)
Like Rig veda 10. 130. 3: Prama, Paridhi,
Pratima.
Yajur Veda 7th Mandala : Series of odd numbers.
Taittriya samhita Yajur Veda 7.2.11-20: Powers of tens and
Zero
Atharva Veda samihta (6.25.1-3): Decimals systems
Sathapath Brahmana (2.3.4. 19-20): Multiplications
RiG veda 10th Mandala. Verse 90: Fractions
Taitariya samhita Yajur veda 5.2.7 and 10: Infinity
Geometry must have been known in
India long before the writing of Surya
Sidhanta (2000B.C).... ... Surya
Sidhanta contains a rational system of
trigonometry…
Prof A.R.Wallace, British Naturalist,
explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist
Physics & Astronomy
Law of Conservation of Energy
nasato vidyate bhavo/ nabhavo vidyate satah
ubhayor api drisho 'ntas/ tv anayos tattva-darshibhih RIG VEDIYA
Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the
nonexistent there is no perseverance and of the eternal BRAHMA
there is no change. This they have concluded by studying TARKA!
the nature of both.
(Bhagavad-Gita 2.16)
"Vedic Cosmology is the only one in which
Jyotish Siddhanta
the time scales correspond to those of
modern scientific cosmology."
(Carl Sagan, Astronomer and Physicists)
“[Vedic] a Cosmogony is which no
European conception has ever
surpassed."
(Nobel laureate Count Maurice Maeterlinck)
You hail from India… Yet you have not cared to learn
sanskrit. Come along and see my library which
treasures classics from sanskrit, the Gita, and other
treasures on Hindu Philosophy. They are the main
sources of my inspiration and guidelines for purpose of
scientific investigations and formulation of theories.
Albert Einstein, from reputed magazine Science Today
Mathematical science was so perfect and
astronomical observation so complete that the
paths of the sun and the moon were accurately
measured.
General A. Cunningham, British Archaelogists and Army General
Chemistry
• Yajnavalkhya smruthi 78 :
Purification of metals
• Rasratna Samucchaya: Preparation of alloys of Bronze, Brass, Bell
Metal and ores of Lead
• Rasarnavanam (4.52): Extraction of Gold, and sublimation and
distillation processes
• Sarangdahara Samihta: Pharmaceutical Formulas
Hiranayam ca me sisam Ca
me tripura ca me Shyamam
I want Gold, silver, copper,
Lead, Tin, and Iron
(From Krishna Yajur
Veda 4/7/5)
Modern Vedic Chemistry
Extraction Maran
Purification by
Distillation and Sodhan
Fractionation
Alloy
Bhandha
Medicine
Bhela Samhita 20.3: Blood Circulation
Shurshruta 16.27,28: Plastic Surgey of Nose
Shushruta Samhita13,14,15 ch: Cautery
Charak Samhita: Allopathy (Vyadhi Vipritah)
Charak Samhita: Genetic disposition of Diabetes
Modern Surgical Instruments Shushruta Surgical Insturment
Modern AyurVeda
Allopathy Hetu Viprita
Kari Vidya
Homeopathy Vyadhi Viprita
Kari Vidya
Naturopathy Ritu Charya and
Panchkarma
Alternative Ras Tantra
Medicines Samucchaya
Modern Vedic
Medicine Kaya Chikitsa
Surgery Shalya Chikitsa
ENT Shalakayam
Padeatrics Kumar Bhrityam
Psychiatry Bhuta Vidya
OBG Prasuti Vidya
Forensic Visharga Virodha
Chikitsa
Geatrics Vajikaranam
Philosophy Modern Vedic
Epistemology
Nyaya
Ontology
Sankhya
Logic
Tarka
Ethics and
Morality Dharma Shastra
Aesthetics
Rasa Shastra
Psychology
Taittreya Upanishad 2.5 Yaujr Veda
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Dictionary and Language
Nirukta: Vedic Dictionary
Modern Vedic
Rhetorics Alankar
Syntax and
Diction Karaka
Words Origin
and Lexicon Dhatukosa
saàjïä ca paribhäñä ca / vidhir niyama eva ca
atideço ’dhikäraç ca / ñaò-vidhaà
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“The six kinds of sütras are saàjïä, paribhäñä, vidhi, niyama, atideça, and adhikära.”
Computers
saàjïä ca paribhäñä ca / vidhir niyama
eva ca atideço ’dhikäraç ca / ñaò-vidhaà
sütra-lakñaëam
“The six kinds of sütras are saàjïä, paribhäñä,
vidhi, niyama, atideça, and adhikära.”
“He has always acknowledged his debt to
Pāṇini for his modern notion of an explicit
generative grammar”
(Wikipedia, 11 may, 2013)
Modern Computers Sanskrit (Panini)
(Computer Language)
Production Rules,
Adesha and
substitutions
Samyag sutra
Start Symbol Paribhasha Sutra
Empty Strings
Lopa
Voice Recognition: Siksa
(Phonological theory)
Architecture
VASTU SHASTRA AND SHILPI SHASTRA
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Politics and MBA
“Power over People” vs “Power over Mind”
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Law
Modern Vedic
Civil and
Criminal Achar
LAW
Ethics
Vyavahar
Punishments
Prayaschita
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Defence
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Agriculture
Civil Engeenering And Architecture
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Entertainment
Western Indian
NOTES and
PITCH Sur
Arpeggio Aroha and
Avaroha
SCALES
Raga
TEMPO
Laya
BEAT
Tala
Other Branches
Vastu Shastra: Arhictectural Science
Viman Shastra: Aeronautics
Gandharva Shastra: Music & Drama
Shilpi Shastra: Science of Sculpturing
Artha Shastra: Politics
Panini: Grammar and Linguistics
Dhanur Veda: Military Science
“The literature of India makes us acquainted with a great
nation of past ages, which grasped every branch of knowledge,
and which will always occupy a distinguished place in history
of civilization of mankind”
Count Bjornstjerna (Swedish Theosophists, 1800)
– Theogeny of the Hindus P.85)
“Indian psychology is far more perfect than European
psychology.”
Mrs. Annie Beasant, British socialist, Theosophist, 1847
“In its (Rigveda) noble simplicity, in the loftiness of its
philosophic vision, it is probably the most admirable piece of
philosophy of olden times.”
Prof. Paul Deussen
“ Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind
has conceived.“
Alfred North Whitehead
(British mathematician, logician and philosopher)
“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous
philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita... in comparison with which...
our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.”
(Henry David Thoreau, American author, poet,
philosopher, and leading transcendentalis
• Ambassadors and Philosophers Greek Egyptians (4 th B.C to 6th
A.D) came for knowledge to INDIA
“Prior to Alexandar there
was no culture of science
in Greeks”
(Plato, 400 B.C.)
Taxila Nalanda
• Persians And Arab Kings came to India (600 B.C. to 11 th
A.D)
Zij- I - Shahryar
Khusrao I
“House of Wisdom” (Toledo Library at Baghdad)
• Europeans Stole from Arabs ( From1492 to 1791)
"... everything has come down
to us from the banks of the
Ganges.”
Francois Voltaire
(1775, French Enlightenment writer, historian
and philosopher)
GOD
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
