Swami B.B. Vishnu - Vedic Science & History: Ancient Indias Contributions to the Modern World

VEDIC SCIENCE

& HISTORY

Swami B. B. Vishnu

G O S A I

P U B L I S H E R S

Praise for Vedic Science & History

Vedic science is unique in that it comprehends both physics andmetaphysics in a single reality of consciousness, within time andspace and beyond time and space simultaneously. Swami Vishnuhas provided a detailed account of Vedic Science, its history andrelevance today, in a clear and concise manner that will transformyour view of knowledge and awaken a deeper inspiration within you!

Dr. David Frawley

(Pandit Vamadeva Shastri),

Padma Bhushan, D. Litt.

I enjoyed reading Vedic Science & History. It will be a very valuableresource to those who wish to understand the scientificunderpinnings of the Vedic culture and civilization. I recommend itstrongly.

Dr. Subhash Kak,

Computer scientist,

Author of "In Search of the Cradle of Civilization", and "The Architecture of Knowledge"

Swami Vishnu has done an excellent job of providing the evidence toshow how profound and progressive early Vedic culture was, howmany scholars throughout the world were impressed with what Vediccivilization offered, and how many contributions to humandevelopment originated from the Vedic traditions and sciences itintroduced. This books provides the information that much of theworld is forgetting regarding how important Vedic culture was andstill is to humanity at large. This book is an important contribution toour research on early Indian civilization, and deserves to be in everyresearcher's library, and read by everyone who appreciates Vedicand Indian history.

Stephen Knapp,

Author of over 30 books on

various aspects of Vedic tradition

About the Author

Swami B.B. Vishnu (David H. Osborn)

graduated from Clarkson College of

Technology, Potsdam, New York in 1968

with a Master of Science degree in Physics.

He received his Bachelor of Science degree

in Physics from Marietta College, Marietta,

Ohio, in 1965. As a candidate for a

doctorate (Ph. D) degree, Swami Vishnu

underwent his pre-doctoral studies under a trainee-ship from the North American Space Agency (NASA). Swami Vishnu also served as a research assistant sponsored by the then Atomic Energy Commission. During his tenure as a scientist, Swami Vishnu published a number of scientific papers in the field of space radiation dosimetry, and energetic-neutron spectrometry.

In years to come, Swami Vishnu became inspired by the teachings of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and was formally initiated by him in 1975. After the passing of Prabhupada in 1977, Swami Vishnu met Swami B. G. Narasingha and the two of them began a unique programme known as the Museum of Vedic Culture an exhibition that taught people about Indian culture, history and philosophy.

In 1986 Swami Vishnu received the order of sannyasa and the title

Swami from Swami Narasingha.

Swami Vishnu was the associate editor and Sanskrit editor of magazines such as Clarion Call, Gaudiya Vedanta and Saranagati and is currently the science editor and writer for Gaudiya Touchstone e-magazine. He has also published a number of books, articles and videos on Indian culture and Vedic science.

Since 1994 Swami Vishnu has resided in Sri Narasingha Chaitanya Ashram in Karnataka, South India, where he teaches and writes

articles on the relation between modern science and the Vedic theological perspective and the many contributions of ancient India to science and world culture.

Swami Vishnu may be contacted thru his website: vedicsciences.net

or by email: gosai@gosai.com

VEDIC SCIENCE & HISTORY

Copyright 2017 Sri Narasingha Chaitanya Matha TrustAll rights reserved.

Published by Gosai Publishers 2017

Srirangapatna, Karnataka, India

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Edited BySwami B.V. Giri

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Recent findings regarding ancient civilisations from multiple disciplines utilising modern scientific methodologies are significant enough to rewrite the history of the world. It has been suggested that history should be scientifically reconstructed by correlating the research from these disciplines of science.

These findings in particular shine a spotlight on the innumerable significant contributions from ancient India to our modern technological world as well as highlighting the vast distortions and untruths taught as the factual history of India till this day in textbooks around the world.

Marco Polo has written of India as, the richest and noblest country in the world. A significant number of famous writers and high thinkers, such as Emerson, Thoreau, Schopenhauer, and Sagan, have praised the Vedas and Vedic culture as the inspiration for many of the higher philosophical and scientific concepts the world has known. The knowledge of the Vedic literatures profoundly influenced the writings of the 19th Century authors Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau so much so that they became known as The American Transcendentalists. Even the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, a central figure in modern philosophy, suggested that, mankind together with all science must have originated on the roof of the world (the Himalayas).

Voltaire, the famous French writer and philosopher, stated that,

Pythagoras went to the Ganges to learn geometry, and professor emeritus Abraham Seidenberg, acclaimed historian of mathematics, credits the early Shulba Sutras as inspiring all mathematics of the ancient world from Babylonia to Egypt to Greece. Indeed India is credited with a great many significant additions to science, such as the Pythagorean Theorem, the decimal numbering system, the

introduction of zero and the concept of infinity, to name a few of them.

The binary number system, essential for computers, was originally used in Vedic verse metres a millennia ago. Also, in South Indian musicology we find a simple hashing technique, a precursor to modern search algorithms, such as that developed by Google.

Noted scientist and writer Carl Sagan stated, Vedic Cosmology is the only one in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. However, not all academics are so quick to praise Indias significant contributions. When the British indologist Sir William Jones discovered the common roots of Sanskrit and the European languages, his Eurocentric world view and religious bias would not allow him to admit that Indo-European languages originate from Sanskrit.

It is of no surprise that early indologists and historians credited European culture to be the origin of Vedic civilisation. Yet history refuses to be kind to these scholars, as archaeological, scientific, genetic, cultural and numerous evidence from other disciplines continues to mount against their erroneous Aryan Invasion Theory.