Are there mysteries in Vedas?
Newton discovered Gravity. Copernicus first said that Earth revolves around the Sun. Mostly, German Scientists, Greeks, etc., are seen in the field of Science. Didn't Indians address Science? Not existing the name of India in the world in Science doesn't mean that Indian Literature did not address Science.
Even before the theories of Western Scientists, Indian Literature consisted of Science. You will be mesmerized after learning about Science in Indian Literature. Here are 5 amazing Science concepts that are there in Vedas or Indian Literature.
1. Heliocentric Theory
What is meant by Heliocentric Theory? It's simple. For thousands of years, the entire world believed that Earth is at the center of the universe, and the Sun, stars, other planets revolve around the Earth. In fact, up to 1500 A.D entire world believed this. People humiliated and opposed any person who says that Earth is not at the center but revolves around the Sun. Up to 1500 A.D, people believed that Earth is fixed at the Centre. This concept is called Geocentric Theory.
For the first time, Copernicus stated that Earth does not remain in the Centre of the Universe, but Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. This concept is referred to as Heliocentric Theory.
So, Geocentric Theory is the concept in which Earth stays at the Centre and the Sun, moon, stars, planets revolve around the Earth.
Heliocentric Theory is the one in which Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun.
When Copernicus first introduced Heliocentric Theory, everyone condemned it. Unfortunately, Copernicus failed to prove his Theory. All this happened in the period of 1500 A.D. Then in 1610, Galileo proved Heliocentric Theory.
So, there was a fight going on between Geocentric Theory and Heliocentric Theory. Do you know that in Indian Literature, there was no debate around this matter? That's because Krishna Yajur Veda consisted of the Heliocentric Theory.
"Mithro dadhara prithivimuthadhyam, Mithra krishti"
The meaning of this Shloka is "Earth and other planets are under the control of the Sun. The Sun has the power to hold Earth and other heavy planets." So, our Vedas stated about Heliocentric Theory long back.
How old are Vedas? Indian Culture believes that Vedas existed from the origin of Earth. That means Vedas stated about Heliocentric Theory very long back. Famous Philosopher Max Muller referred to Vedas to be of 4000 B.C in his research of Vedas. So even considering the period of Vedas, he stated, it's thousands of years back Vedas said about Heliocentric Theory.
For the people who don't know about Krishna Yajur Veda, there are 4 Vedas. Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda, Atharvana Veda. Yajur Veda consists of two parts. One is Krishna Yajur Veda, and the other is Shukla Yajur Veda. Krishna Yajur Veda consists of Heliocentric Theory
2. Elliptical Orbits
Sun is at the Centre and planets revolve around the Sun. This is Heliocentric Theory. If Heliocentric Theory is accepted, then what is the next question that arises? In which path do these planets revolve around the Sun? People thought that these planets revolve in a Circular Path. But in 1609, Kepler proved that Orbits, i.e., the paths of the planets, are not circular but elliptical.
What happened in Elliptical orbits discovery is, Tycho Brahe was a wealthy Astronomer. He collected all Copernicus' research content. Kepler joined as an assistant near Tycho Brahe.
Tycho Brahe believed in Geocentric Theory. So, he didn't like the Heliocentric Theory proposed by Copernicus. That's why he did not provide Copernicus' research literature to his assistant, Kepler. Tycho Brahe hid many research elements from Kepler. After Tycho Brahe's death, Kepler got all his observations. With all those research elements and observations, Kepler proved that the orbits were not circular but elliptical in 1609.
There were debates during that period about "Who discovered Elliptical Orbits? Is it Kepler or Tycho Brahe?" But finally, Kepler was acknowledged for the discovery of elliptical orbits. This way, debates took place about the discovery of elliptical orbits. But this was already defined in our Vedas.
"Thrinabhi chakra majaramanarvam yatrema Vishwa Bhuvanadhi thasthu"
This is a line of a Shloka from Rig Veda. The Shloka is explaining about the shape that is made with three constraints. The Shloka is defining that in this shape only, all the planets are revolving. We can draw an ellipse with three constraints. Those are two focus points and a drawing point. This is the statement that is defined in Shloka.
If the orbit was circular, then to draw the circle, only two constraints were required. One is the focus point, and one is the drawing point. So, in Vedas, Elliptical orbits are defined. Not only in Vedas, in 476 A.D, Aryabhatta stated that Earth rotates about its axis and also revolves around the Sun in elliptical orbits. Even considering the statement of Aryabhatta, its almost 1000 years before Copernicus and Kepler.
3. Gravity
Gravity reminds the name of Newton. Newton published about Gravity in 1687. But even before Newton, some people referred to Gravity. Aristotle, Galileo spoke about the attractive power of the Earth.
What is Gravity? Simply, it is the attraction of all the bodies, elements, and everything on the Earth. Not only on Earth, Gravity exists for the moon, other planets also. Then why only Newton got fame for the discovery of Newton?
Newton's theories consisted of mathematics. And also, Newton described Gravity in a constructive format. The laws he stated can be easily applied in the real world. So Newton deserves the credit for the discovery of Gravity.
Our Upanishads discussed Gravity also. A shloka of Prasnopanishad is this way,
"Prithivyam yaa devatha sysha purushasyapanamavashtabhyanthara yadakasha sa samaano vayurvyan"
This is stating that the Goddess called Earth is controlling the 'Apana' of the 'Prana'. 'Apana' means excretion. The brief meaning of the Shloka is 'living beings on Earth have excretion without effort with the help of a Power.' That power is called Gravity. Studies depict that Excretion for Astronauts is somewhat tricky in space. That means the Gravity on the Earth is making it easy for our excretion.
Adi Shankaracharya wrote a commentary on this. It states that 'like a goddess on Earth attracts everything on it, it also attracts Apana from Prana. In the absence of that Goddess, everyone would float like in space.'
Briefly speaking, Goddess, the gravitational force attracts everything. If there is no Goddess, i.e., Gravity, everyone floats like in space.
Which period does Shankaracharya belong to? It's 700 A.D. Shankaracharya's period was old, and the Upanishads are too older than this. That means Upanishads defined Gravity very long back.
4. Speed of light
Does light have speed? Most of you might know that light has speed. What is the speed of light? It's 3×10⁸ m/s which is equal to 3 lac km/s. We can not experience that light has speed because it has an incredible speed. Tremendous research has been done to find the speed of light.
The speed of light was confirmed and then reiterated many times. In 1675, 1729, 1849, 1862, 1907, 1950, 1958, 1972, 1983 experiments were conducted on light. The present speed of light value was finalized in 1983.
Its value is 2,99,792.458 km/s.
'Tharanirvishwadarshatho jyothishkrudasi surya, vishwamabhasi rochanam.'
This is a Shloka of Rig Veda. It states that 'the Sun with a tremendous speed is lighting up the whole world.'
Sayanacharya wrote a commentary on this.
'thathacha smaryath yojananaam sahasram dve dve rathe dve cha yojane, ekena nimishardhena, kramamaana namosthuthe.'
Sayanacharya wrote this commentary in 1300's. The meaning of this Shloka is 'the Sun travels 2,202 YOJANAS in half NIMESA.'
So what is the distance traveled?
2,202 YOJANAS. 1 YOJANA is equal to 9 miles, 110 yards.
2,202 YOJANAS is equal to 21,144.705 miles.
What is the time taken to travel this distance?
Half Nimesa, which is equal to 0.114286 seconds.
What is speed?
It is Distance divided by time. 21,144.705 miles divided by 0.114286 seconds, which equals to 1,85,016.169 miles/second.
Present value of speed of light is 2,99,792.458 km/s. Converting to miles/second, it equals to 1,86,282.397 miles/second. The Shloka had an almost accurate value of the speed of light.
5. pi (π) value
What is 'pi' value?
π = 3.14159265...
The 'pi' value was also written in Indian Sanskrit Literature.
'Gopibhagya madhuvratha shringishodadhi sandhiga, khala jeevitha khathava galahalarasandhara.'
It has a simple meaning. We are praying to Lord Krishna to save us from all the hurdles.
Then what is the relation between this Shloka and the 'pi' value? Let's do a small analysis.
What do we do to write any information or matter? We write it on paper or in any book. Or else we store it digitally on mobile phones. But in ancient times, there were no papers or books. They used to write on rocks, talapatras, leaves, etc. If you had a small piece of paper and you were to write a significant matter, how would you write that? You convert it into a coded form or short form and write it on that piece of paper. Right?
During the ancient period, there were no pens and papers. So they compressed a lot of knowledge, information, observations into a small Shloka.
To convey and pass the Shlokas' deep meaning to future generations, Rishis, who wrote those Shlokas appoint some Intelligent interpreters. They decode those Shlokas. This way, the knowledge is transferred to the next generations through a small Shloka.
One of those decoding methods is KaTaPaYadi. In KaTaPaYadi system, every letter is assigned a number. Writing the numbers for all the letters of the Shloka, we get this number.
To which value does it match?
The pi value. This Shloka represents pi value up to 32 decimal digits accurately.
Not only these five things, but many other elements also exist in our Indian Culture and Literature. Unfortunately, in our education system, no one teaches Sanskrit. But some foreign countries are teaching the Sanskrit language.
We can know many other things, theories by doing proper research on Vedas, Upanishads, and Indian Literature. The purpose of this post is not to discriminate the western and foreign scientists. They have made theories mathematical. It's too great work.
The purpose of this video is to focus on Sanskrit Literature so that many unknown concepts may be unveiled. Not only these five things but many other concepts have been extracted from Vedas till now. But what we have known till now contributes to a meager percentage.
There is a lot to know.