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So that you can understand the mysteries of Universe you've got to turn to Nataraja, The King of dance says Carl Sagan, the world renowned astronomer. That 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 approximately ten million viewers in January 1982. He said that "The Hindu cosmology might contain the answer to the present day day astronomers' conflicting views that the universe may either be expanding or contracting. " "If the universe is expanding as per the 'Big Bang' type of Fred Hoyle and Able Le Maitre, then what goes on to the stars that expand, explode and died? Off, as still another school of astronomy says, the universe is contracting and that the stars and galaxies are increasingly being pulled back again to a centre of creation, where do they all go? " To find out the clear answer with this question he traveled to India. That he found the answer in Nataraja, the Hindu God worshipped by millions of Hindus. Pointing to the statue of Nataraja, the ACTING model of Shiva, 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. " He was wonderstruck on once you know the wonderful facet of Hindu cosmology. Why he's plumped for India for Cosmos: an individual Voyage? He explained it very plainly:

"The main reason that we oriented this episode of COSMOS towards India is because of that wonderful aspect of Hindu cosmology which first of all provides a 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 approximately 4. 6 billion years old, and the cosmos, or at least its present incarnation, is something like 10 or 20 billion years of age. The Hindu tradition has a night and day of Brahma in this range, somewhere approximately 8. 4 billion years.

As far as i know, it is the only ancient religious tradition MODELS on the Earth which talks about the right time-scale. You want to get throughout the concept of the right time-scale, and also to show it is not unnatural. In the West, folks have the sense that what exactly is natural is for the universe to become a few thousand years of age, and that billions is indwelling, with no one can understand it. The Hindu concept is very clear. Listed here is a great world culture which has always talked about vast amounts of years. Finally, the countless billion year time-scale of Hindu cosmology just isn't the whole history of the universe, but just the day and nights Brahma, and there is the idea of an infinite cycle of births and deaths and thousands of universes, each with its own gods. And this is a very grand idea. "

Not merely Carl Sagan, Fritjof Capra the famous scientist also admired Nataraja.