11 Empowering Quotes By Women Scientists, Because It's Important To Celebrate The Pioneers
It's no secret that science and gender equality aren't on the best of terms; even in the modern day, women are still heavily underrepresented in fields pertaining to science and technology. For centuries, women have struggled for recognition of their academic achievements, and they rarely received it during their lifetime — but if the the following empowering quotes from women scientists are anything to go by, they weren't the type to give up easily.
This is due to a number of factors beginning in childhood, when our culture begins to discourage girls' interest in science, and going on to include prejudice from all sides later in life. Research has shown that science faculty are less likely to hire or mentor a student if they believe they are a woman, and even parents are more likely to rate their daughter's mathematical ability lower than a boy's with an identical score. It's enough to get even the most determinedly optimistic feminist down, but rather than focusing wholly on the negatives, let's focus on the positives as well. Women may still face enormous obstacles in pursuing science and technology, but we're much better off than we were a mere century ago — and it's all thanks to the female scientists who pioneered the way in the past. Let's celebrate with 11 of their most empowering quotes.
1. "Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers."
2. "It is shameful that there are so few women in science...There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men."
10. "With men you're expected to do well and get the support, but for females, you have to sacrifice something in a different way from men... I think it's very important for other woman to see that I have had success."
— May-Britt Moser, neurologist and winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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11. "Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty."
Dropping out of school and making a million or two has nearly become something trivial for young entrepreneurs. You will be amazed about the number of millionaires, who dropped out of college and got rich. Many of them even made billions from their businesses. Below you can read about 10 of the most famous, super successful college dropouts, who became billionaires. But first, let me share some thoughts on the matter. I am not telling you to quit your education. I think it’s really important and in fact the millionaires, who earned a degree are more than those, who did not. Quitting college was not the thing that made these people rich. Hard work, dedication and passion were the factors that helped for that. What I am actually saying is just that you don’t need to go to college to become rich. Also, in many universities you are taught to be a successful employee, rather than an entrepreneur. In these cases this could spoil your bigger plans for your future. Whatever, here are the successful dropouts:
1)Steve Jobs – he attended Reed College for a short period of time (one semester), but soon he dropped out to work for the video game company called Atary. He was amazed about the idea of the personal computer and decided to dedicate his time to it entirely. He started visiting some lectures at Hewlet-Packard where he actually met Steve Wozniak. The rest is history.
2)Bill Gates – after graduating form high school, gates was accepted at one of the most desired university – Harvard. He spent most of his time messing with the computers there. In 1975, the computer MITS Altair 8800 was released and soon Bill quit his education to start his own company making software for that machine. In college he met Steve Blamer, who would later become the CEO of Microsoft. His net worth in 2015 is $79.3 billion.
3)Mark Zuckerberg – he attended Harvard university and there he created Facesmash – an online application, where the students could vote for the best looking photo. The site became so popular, that it was shut down by the university, because of causing problems with their servers. Mark dropped out during the second year to entirely dedicate his time to the project that would later become known under the name Facebook. He had $36.8 billion of net assets in 2015.
4)Michael Dell – he was studying biology, because his parents wanted for him to become a doctor. During the first year he began assembling computers for friends and this turned out to be a really lucrative occupation. Soon, he realized that medicine was not his vocation and he quit college, because he needed time to manage his more lucrative computer business. 2015 net worth – $18.8 billion.
5)Richard Branson – he didn’t drop out of college, but he dropped out from high school. He had dyslexia and couldn’t cope well with lessons. Instead of studying, he started his own business. Ironically his first successful business venture was issuing a magazine called “Student”.
6)Ty Warner – the famous American toy manufacturer (the father of Beanie Babies, Beanie Baby) and currently a billionaire was accepted at Kalamazoo College, but dropped out during the first year to do business. Today his net worth is around $2.5 billion.
Sir Richard Branson
7) Mark Rich– one of the most famous international trader of commodities. Although he is a questionable personality because some legal issues, since he has quit college, he has made $2.5 billion.
8) Ted Turner– the founder of the CNN empire didn’t earn a degree, too. This was not an obstacle for him to create one of the most popular news networks in the world and make $2 billion of net worth.
9) Lawrence Ellison – The founder and currently the manager of the software giant Oracle attended the University of Illinois, but dropped out at the end of his second year. He couldn’t pass his exams, because of the death of his adoptive mother during that time.
10) Kirk Kerkorian– he has never even been close to college. He dropped out high school at 8th grade. Back in 1962, he bought 80 acres of land in Las Vegas for $1 million and sold it 6 years later, earning $9 million in 1968. This was actually his start. The manager of Tracinda Corporation doesn’t like publicity and he gives interviews really rarely. Although he has made millions in donation, he never allowed something to be named in his honor. His net worth is around $3.3 billion dollars today.
Vedas and Puranas, which were revealed nth time 10,000 years ago, mentioned facts only recently re-discovered and somehow proven to an extent by scientists. Though Sanskrit originated from Bharat (India), it only has 15,000 Sanskrit communicators today, while over 100,000 people from rest of the world speak and communicate in Sanskrit to understand ancient Hindu texts. That is also one of the reasons, that americans and germans established several schools to learn Sanskrit to decipher the hidden treasures of Vedic wisdom. Sanskrit is ignored by India under the veil of shallow secularism which is ruining India to the core, degrading its moral and ethical values.
Let us discuss what Hindu scriptures revealed about space science.
Vedic Hindu Rishis Are Scientists and Advance Cosmologists
Spherical Earth in Vedas
The existence of rather advanced concepts like the sphericity of Earth and the cause of seasons is clearly explained in Vedic literature.
The verses from the Aitareya Brahmana (3.44) clearly states: The Sun does never set nor rise. When people think the Sun is setting it is not so. For after having arrived at the end of the day it makes itself produce two opposite effects, making night to what is below and day to what is on the other side. Having reached the end of the night, it makes itself produce two opposite effects, making day to what is below and night to what is on the other side. In fact, the Sun never sets.
Shape of Earth is like an Oblate Spheroid (Rig Veda XXX. IV.V)
Earth is flattened at the poles (Markandeya Purana 54.12)
“Sixty-four centuries before Isaac Newton, the Hindu Rig-Veda asserted that gravitation held the universe together. The Sanskrit speaking Aryans subscribed to the idea of a spherical earth in an era when the Greeks believed in a flat one. The Indians of the fifth century A.D. calculated the age of the earth as 4.3 billion years; scientists in 19th century England were convinced it was 100 million years.” official statement made by scientists community of England.
Geography in Sanskrit is also called as Bho-gol. It literally means that earth is round. Ancient Hindus knew the truth as they were masters of Sanskrit and Vedic texts.
Polar Days and Nights in Hindu Text Vedas
For the period when the sun is in north it is visible for six months at the north pole and invisible at the south, and vice versa. – (Ibid Sutra)
Taking cue from Vedic texts, lets see what modern scientists said about this:
June 21, 1999: Later today, at 19:49 UT (3:49 p.m. EDT), Earth’s north pole points more directly at the Sun than at any other time during the year. For polar bears and other denizens of the Arctic it will be noon-time, the middle of a 6-month long day, as the Sun climbs to 23 1/2 degrees above the horizon.
June 21st marks the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of winter in the Southern Hemisphere. In the North it’s the longest day of the year. At mid-latitudes there is sunlight for over 16 hours. Above the Arctic Circle the sun doesn’t set at all!
“He made this Earth fixed by different devices like hills and mountains in shape of pegs but it still rotates . Sun never sets; all parts of earth are not in Darkness.” (Rig Veda)
The Hindu scriptures give well-informed knowledge about the movement of earth and its rotation.
“Earth rotates in two ways by the will of Brahma, first it rotates on its axis secondly it revolves around sun. Days and Nights are distinguished when moves on its axis. Season change when it revolves around Sun.” (Vishnu Puran)
Rig Veda on Days and Nights
“There are suns in all directions, the night sky being full of them.” (Rig Veda)
It took more than 2000 years for western science to realize the truth, that too when british invaded India, they came to know about Vedic science and they revealed it to the world taking undue credits of its knowledge. Remember, that the earth is round was already known to common Hindus, as can be seen in their home made rangolis, structures, palaces, temples, paintings and Yantras.
In the 1920s astronomers got knowledge that our island universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, is not alone in space. Outside it are other galaxies, each containing thousands of millions of suns. One of these other galaxies is visible to the naked eye, as a faint fuzzy blob in the constellation of Andromeda. The Andromeda galaxy is similar in size and shape to the Milky Way and is our galaxy’s nearest neighbour, 2 million light years (20000000000000000000000 km) away. Further away are other galaxies, too faint for the eye to see. With powerful telescopes, millions have been photographed. Remarkably, all the galaxies are fleeing from one another: the whole Universe is expanding. This is one of the key pieces of evidence that about 15000 million years ago, there was a beginning to the Universe, an immense explosion that they wrongly called the Big Bang. The debris from the explosion is still flying apart. Earth is one of the cinders.
A distant cluster of galaxies can be seen with powerful cosmic equipments. Each galaxy contains about a 100000 million suns. Because each galaxy contains about 100000 million suns, galaxies can be seen to enormous distances, and they light up the distant universe for us. This truth was already revealed in Rig Veda.
The Vedas and Puranas are the literally the words of Bhagwan, which He revealed to his chosen people, Hindus (Arya and Aryaputras) through sages and incarnations (these Arya and Aryaputras were later decimated into two parts as Aryans and Dravidians by wicked and cunning britishers – there is no race such as Aryan or Dravidian in any of the ancient Hindu scripts, they were simply Sanatan Dharmis or Arya). The Hindu texts were written down as Bhagwan spoke. From the day these scriptures were revealed, until this day, there has always been a huge number of Rishis (penancing in secluded places) who have memorized all of the Vedas and Puran, word to word. Not one letter of these scriptures had been changed over the centuries. Until Bharat was invaded by mlecchas (british and moguls), englishmen tried hard to grab and claim it their own but miserably failed to do so. While muslims tried unsuccessfully to completely destroy the texts but in turn got themselves decimated to filthiest bugs losing reign of India.
The Rishis foresaw the Kaliyug and that was the reason the passing of Vedic knowledge was done through telepathy to other deserving Rishis so that eternal knowledge is preserved for capable humans. Writing and revising knowledge is very primitive way of restoring knowledge as destruction/distortion can be caused to tangible form of creations.
Science Behind Blue Sky Known to West in 19th century
Blue Sky is Nothing but scattered sunlight (Markandeya Purana 78.8)
Again nth time taking cue from Hindu Puran modern science says: The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air. However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.
As you look closer to the horizon, the sky appears much paler in color. To reach you, the scattered blue light must pass through more air. Some of it gets scattered away again in other directions. Less blue light reaches your eyes. The color of the sky near the horizon appears paler or white.
Everything Moves in this Universe
The fact that planets and stars keeps moving in the Universe was already known to Indian Rishis.
Nothing in Brahmand is immovable (Sam Veda)
“Nothing is Static in this world neither living or non-living.” (Brahmand Puran)
“Earth is divided in many plates as much as 14 of them in present Manavatara.” (Brahmand Puran)
But the truth was recently known to modern scientists. In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble used the 100 inches telescope (2.5 meters) at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California to detect variable stars in nebulae. He discovered that the stars he observed had the same characteristic variations in their brightness as a class of stars called Cepheid Variables. Earlier, astronomer Henrietta Levitt had shown there was a precise correlation between the periodic change in brightness of a Cepheid Variable and its luminosity. Hubble was able use this correlation to show that the nebulae containing the variable stars he observed were not within our own Galaxy; they were external galaxies far beyond the edge of our Milky Way.
Bhukhand Science of Vedas Became Earth’s Major Plates
The current continental and oceanic plates include: the Eurasian plate, Australian-Indian plate, Philippine plate, Pacific plate, Juan de Fuca plate, Nazca plate, Cocos plate, North American plate, Caribbean plate, South American plate, African plate, Arabian plate, the Antarctic plate, and the Scotia plate. These plates consist of smaller sub-plates.
The description of tectonic plates known recently is based on Jambudvipa explanation of Vedas.
All the information that we have today is already mentioned in Vedas and Puranas suggesting they came from some one who is controlling the entire Universe.
Origin of Universe In Rigved Formed Basis of Big Bang of Today’s Science
Recently using the quantum-corrected Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri’s equation, Ali and Das derived quantum-corrected Friedmann equations, which describe the expansion and evolution of universe (including the Big Bang) within the context of general relativity. Saurya Das and Ali have shown in a paper published in Physics Letters B that the Big Bang singularity can be resolved by their new model in which the universe has no beginning and no end. Though again what they called new model is nothing but the Vedic truth, retold umpteen times in Vedas that the Universe and its creator Bhagwan has no beginning and no end. The original author of this quantum equation Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri relied on Vedic concepts to derive the equation.
Hindu concepts of Hiranyagarbha (golden womb) and Brahmanda (the first egg), are comparable to cosmic egg origin systems. The Srimad Bhagawat Purana, Brahmanda Purana, Vayu Purana among others contain references to the initial process of the origins of the universe as a cosmic egg.The twelve phase creation of the universe and the history of our Brahmanda is described in Srimad Bhagvatam.
The Hiranyagarbha Sukta announces: Hiranyagarbhah samavartatagre bhutasya jatah patireka asit, which means, Before creation existed the golden womb Hiranyagarbha, Bhagwan of everything born. (Rig Veda 10.121.1)
Rig Veda 10.121 Hiraṇyagarbha Suktam
The Hiraṇyagarbha Sūkta of the Ṛigveda informs that Bhagwan manifested Himself in the beginning as the Creator of the Universe, encompassing all things, including everything within Himself, the collective totality, as it were, of the whole of creation, animating it as the Supreme Intelligence. It the recreation after unmanifested stage of Bhagwan.
यश्चिदापो महिना पर्यपश्यद दक्षं दधानाजनयन्तीर्यज्ञम ।
यो देवेष्वधि देव एक आसीत कस्मैदेवाय हविषा विधेम ॥
yaścidāpo mahinā paryapaśyada dakṣaṃ dadhānājanayantīryajñama |
yo deveṣvadhi deva eka āsīta kasmaidevāya haviṣā vidhema ||
मा नो हिंसीज्जनिता यः पर्थिव्या यो वा दिवंसत्यधर्मा जजान ।
यश्चापश्चन्द्रा बर्हतीर्जजानकस्मै देवाय हविषा विधेम ॥
mā no hiṃsījjanitā yaḥ parthivyā yo vā divaṃsatyadharmā jajāna |
yaścāpaścandrā barhatīrjajānakasmai devāya haviṣā vidhema ||
परजापते न तवदेतान्यन्यो विश्वा जातानि परि ताबभूव ।
यत्कामास्ते जुहुमस्तन नो अस्तु वयं सयाम पतयोरयीणाम ॥
parajāpate na tavadetānyanyo viśvā jātāni pari tābabhūva |
yatkāmāste juhumastana no astu vayaṃ sayāma patayorayīṇāma ||
ऋग्वेद: सूक्तं १०.१२१ Devanagri Hindi Translation
वो था हिरण्य गर्भ सृष्टि से पहले विद्यमान
वही तो सारे भूत जाति का स्वामी महान
जो है अस्तित्वमान धरती आसमान धारण कर
ऐसे किस देवता की उपासना करें हम हवि देकर
जिस के बल पर तेजोमय है अंबर
पृथ्वी हरी भरी स्थापित स्थिर
स्वर्ग और सूरज भी स्थिर
ऐसे किस देवता की उपासना करें हम हवि देकर
गर्भ में अपने अग्नि धारण कर पैदा कर
व्यापा था जल इधर उधर नीचे ऊपर
जगा चुके व एकमेव प्राण बनकर
ऐसे किस देवता की उपासना करें हम हवि देकर
ॐ ! सृष्टि निर्माता, स्वर्ग रचयिता पूर्वज रक्षा कर
सत्य धर्म पालक अतुल जल नियामक रक्षा कर
फैली हैं दिशायें बाहु जैसी उसकी सब में सब पर
ऐसे ही देवता की उपासना करें हम हवि देकर
ऐसे ही देवता की उपासना करें हम हवि देकर
Rig Veda 10.121 Hiraṇyagarbha Suktam English Translation
In the beginning was the Divinity in his splendour, manifested as the sole Lord of land, skies, water, space and that beneath and He upheld the earth and the heavens.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings?
It is that who bestows soul-force and vigor, whose guidance all men invoke, the Devas invoke whose shadow is immortal life and death.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings?
It is that who by His greatness became the One King of the breathing and the seeing, who is the Lord of man and bird and beast.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings?
It is that through whose glory the snow-clad mountains rose, and the ocean spread with the river, they say. His arms are the quarters of the sky.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings ?
It is that through whom the heaven is strong and the earth firm, who has steadied the light and the sky’s vault, and measured out the sphere of clouds in the mid-region.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offering?
It is that to whom heaven and earth, placed in the light by his grace, look up, radiant with the mind while over them the sun, rising, brightly shines.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings?
When the mighty waters came, carrying the universal germ, producing the flame of life, then dwelt there in harmony the One Spirit of the Devas.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings?
It is that who in its might surveyed the waters, conferring skill and creating worship – That, the God of gods, the One and only One.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings?
Mother of the world – may that not destroy us who with Truth as his Law made the heavens and produced waters, vast and beautiful.
Who is the deity we shall worship with our offerings?
Lord of creation! No one other than thee pervades all these that have come into being.
May that be ours, for which our prayers rise, may we be masters of many treasures!
The whole universe including sun, moon, planets, and galaxies was all inside the egg, and the egg was surrounded by ten qualities from outside. (Vayu Purana 4.74-75)
“Before creation, it was only the Brahma that was everywhere. There was no day, night or sky. First I created the waters. And in the waters I sowed the seeds of brahmanda. the great egg. From this seed there developed a egg which began to float on the waters. This egg is known as Brahamand (Universe)”
The above information given in thousands of years old Hindu Rig Veda, Shrimad Bhagawat Puran and Vayu Puran was lifted and repeated in several recent manmade cults and their mythologies; bible and koran.
Modern science Simply Copies Rig Veda Concepts
While trying to trace the Vedic sound vibrations that is responsible for the creation/destruction of Universe. The space roar was detected which was a radio signal from outer space. It was discovered by NASA’s Alan Kogut and his team. Alan Kogut earlier also confirmed. “This is the structure of the Universe created by scientists after a research of many years. If we take a look at the COBE results, we notice the uneven pattern in the radiation stemming from the decoupling of matter and radiation when the Universe was a mere 300,000 years old. The blue and magenta patterns represent areas that were slightly cooler and slightly warmer than average. These variations are at a level of about 1:100,000, but they must have been enough to seed the structures we see today. Finally we came to conclusion that Universe is shaped like an egg but this information was already present in Hindu Literature.”
Protective Layers (Ozone) Already Mentioned in Vedas
Protection of Earth from Ultraviolet rays: After the formation of the earth, Brahma created atmosphere in group of seven, from that formation oceans began to exist, and the first form of life appeared on the planet.
Atmosphere was created as protective skin of earth (Shrimad Bhagwatam)
“Amazing isn’t it Vedas and Puranas are divine source of knowledge” said Dr. Donald Mitchell of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. “It is hard to believe that these facts were already mentioned in Hindu books thousands of years back, in the time when we humans here did n’t knew much about Astronomy.”
Account of Tides in Vishnu Puran
The Vishnu Puran gives a quite an accurate description of tides:
“In all the oceans the water remains at all times the same in quantity and never increases or diminishes; but like the water in a cauldron, which in consequence of its combination with heat, expands, so the waters of the ocean swell with the increase of the Moon. The waters, although really neither more nor less, dilate or contract as the Moon increases or wanes in the light and dark fortnights”
The Concept of Collision Overstated by Scientists was Taken from Brahmand Puran
How Moon was Created: Moon was created due to collision with earth.
“In the initial stage of the creation of Universe, some creation material slipped from the hands of Brahma and collided with earth resulting in the formation of Moon.”(Brahmand Puran)
Scientists simple relied on Brahmand Puran concepts and reworded it as shown below:
At the time Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, other smaller planetary bodies were also growing. One of these hit earth late in Earth’s growth process, blowing out rocky debris. A fraction of that debris went into orbit and moon was formed.
Gravitational Pull Already Known to Hindu Rishis
The cosmic dance of Shiva accompanied by the beating of the damaru probably suggested the sudden energetic impulses that could have propelled the Big Bang. In his book The Wishing Tree, Subhash Kak points out that the Puranas which were written with Vedas as the basis mention the creation and destruction of the Universe in cycles of 8.64 billion years that is quite close to currently accepted value regarding the time of Big Bang. Contrary to the existing linear theory of time, the modern scientists have advanced a recent theory that confirms the alternative expansion and contraction of the Universe. This modern theory too is based on the Vedas where it is stated that the world is created and destroyed at periodical intervals of time through the concepts of Kalpas and Manvantaras.
Dick Teresi, in his book Lost Discoveries – the Ancient Roots of Modern Science reveals the fact that even several thousands of years before Aristotle, the Vedas had declared that the earth was round and it revolved around the Sun. The Vedic hymns also mention that the Sun is the centre of the Solar System and that the earth is held in Space by the Sun. Even 2000 years before Pythagorus, the Vedas had declared that the Solar system was held together by the gravitational pull. The knowledge about the gravitational pull found in the Vedas was twenty-four centuries before Newton discovered the laws of gravity.
About Gravitational forces, we can easily refer to Shukla Yajur Veda Chapter III, verse six, it plainly describes the fact that the earth rotates around the sun in the sky.
Ayam gauh pRshnirakkramId asadan mAtram purah pitaram cha prayantsvah
“It is evident how the spherical planet comprised of the elements of earth, water and fire (energy) dynamically rotates around the all-protecting sun whilst suspended in the universe through a force of attraction (gravity) giving rise to the multitude of time periods including day and night, phases of the moon, seasons, solstices and years.”
The fact that the earth revolves is obvious from the very name for the earth (gauh) from root √gam (since it rotates).
Furthermore, that the satellites (moon and other celestial bodies) are held in their orbits in the sky by their mutual gravitational force is mentioned in these richas from Rig-Veda:
‘Oh Indra (all sustaining Lord) through establishing the all illuminating and powerful sun you maintain control over all cosmic bodies through mutual forces.’ (Rig Mandal 8 Ch. 12 verse 30)
This demonstrates that all the constellations are maintained and controlled by mutual energy. Another semi-verse from the seventh mandal chapter ten of the same samhita, “vyastamnAdrodasi mitro” verifies this further and there are numerous other verses which clearly indicate the cosmic science knowledge of Vedas.
Description of Sun Rays in Vedas
How the sun light travels: The explanation is derived from the Vedic concepts and represented in modern science papers.
While the Greeks spoke of a flat earth, the Vedas had long ago stated that the earth was spherical. The seven horses tied by the snakes which draw the chariot of Surya (Sun) mentioned in the Rig Veda represent the seven columns forming light and the movement of the Sun’s rays. Modern Physics tried to prove that the sunrays travel in a curved manner. The snakes with which the seven horses are tied to the chariot represent the curved movement of the rays of the Sun. Even before the time of Galileo and Copernicus, the sages of Vedic period pointed out that there is no real sunrise or sunset and that these are only to indicate the beginning and end of a day. Rig Veda has hymns about advanced concepts like eclipse cycles through its references to the zodiacal signs. Alexander Duff, a British historian pointed out, that many inventions and discoveries of modern Science that are considered to have emerged from Europe were actually made in India several centuries ago. In Vedic literature, there are references and descriptions of flying machines called Vimanas.
The Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda mention sailing in the ocean, and flying in the air in the vimanas. It is said that the art of navigation was born in India and the word ‘navigation’ probably has its root in the Sanskrit word ‘navgetih’. Several modern ideas relating to Geography, Geology, Medical Sciences including surgeries, Physical and Chemical Sciences, Arts and Fine Arts, Economic development, Psychology, Metaphysics, Spirituality can be traced back to the Vedas.
Atharva Samhita Elaborates that Moon Depends on Sun Light
Moon does not have its own light: The fact that the moon has no inherent light was unknown to early westerners and yet the Atharva Samhita (XIV. 1.1) revealed the truth thousands of years back as in:
“Divi soma adhi shrutih” i.e. The moon depends upon the rays from the sun (sunlight).
A release from the scientific community of Germany stated: Veda is an ocean and there within lies a vast resource of knowledge describing a myriad of physical, metaphysical and philosophical phenomena.
Not only is the creation of the universe intimated in great detail, it discusses the period even before the ‘Big-Bang’, which formed the basis of theories proposed by the likes of Professor Hawking and other scientists in the west.
Vedas were Hated by Leftist Historians/Academicians but Their Masters got Inspired by Hindu Texts Itself
Leftist historians who are bootlickers of western ideologists and prefer to bash legacy of India, in desperation to please their masters continues to demean Hindu texts and scriptures. The entire education system in India is based on flawed concepts of western curriculum. But most of the so called intellectuals of west and scientists relied on Vedic concepts to devise their theories and shamelessly claim it as their own, few of times recognizing contribution of Vedas.
Sample this: Sanskrit can convey the same message in less than 1/3rd the words, that any other language explains. Similarly, Vedic maths has theories which consume 1/2 the time it takes to solve the problems in Euro-western principles.
The hybrid education of children (Tradition of India + western school of thoughts) in India are making them confused personalities, they are apologetic about our great legacies however hesitatingly they do adopt cussed western culture. In this manner, there is huge deterioration of moral values among young children of India. Vedic rules of life teach us to respect elders, talk softly, be ethical, honest and lead peaceful nature-loving life. Instead to show off as a cool copycats of west, these children disrespect parents, talk loudly, drink, abuse and indulge in anti-Vedic activities leading to loss of pious lives and thereby humanity in India as a whole.
Since last 70 years India has seen two generations of confused people who blindly followed external education without seeking the truth within Vedas for which foreigners sniff the streets of holy cities of India.
Country’s future relies on the betterment of its youth and children. Parents should respect their elders and teach the same to their children or else suffer the same pain that they imparted to their mothers and fathers. It will take time to undo the fallacies of two generations but there is no substitute to hardwork and optimism so we all should do our bit to contribute for the cause of spreading truth of our Vedic knowledge among Indians and especially Hindus who are custodians of Vedic principles.
Let us see what western ideologists and scientists thought about Vedas for whom leftists are boot licking since several decades.
Hinduism is the only Dharma in which the time scales correspond, to those of modern scientific cosmology. The Hindu literature is work of a Genius. (Dr. Steinn Sigurdsson, Pennsylvania State University)
It looks like that the writers of Vedas and Puran came from the future to deliver knowledge. The works of the Ancient Arya Sages is mind blowing. There is no doubt that Purans and Vedas are word of Bhagwan (God). (Scott Sandford , Space Scientist, NASA)
How could Hindus (Aryas) have possibly known all this 6,000 years ago, when scientists have only recently discovered this using advanced equipment which did not exist at that time? Such concepts were found only recently. (Dr. Kevin Hurley of the University of California at Berkeley)
“When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how Bhagwan (God) created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.”
“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.” (Albert Einstein, still known as the most gifted scientist)
As Sri Aurobindo had mentioned – “The Vedas and Vedanta have stood the test of time and have been the source of almost all profound philosophies and religions of India.” At the international level, he said – “The ideas of the Upanishads can be rediscovered in much of the thought of Pythagorus and Plato that form the most part of Neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism. Sufism only repeats them in another religious language.”
In short, likes of Pythagorus lifted Vedic theories and expressions and claimed it as their own.
Kurt Schildmann, a German linguist claims that his study of the ancient inscriptions discovered in the caves of Peru and the United States shows that they are similar to Indus Valley Sanskrit. It suggests that sea fares from India might have reached America thousands of years. Even the oldest preserved Iranian language Avestan is related to Vedic Sanskrit.
Some of the names of the Rig Vedic deities closely resemble the deities of other regions of the world. For example, Dyaus is cognate to Greek Zeus, Latin Jupiter, and Germanic Tyr., Mitra might be Persian Mithra, Usha might be the Greek Eros and Latin Aurora, and Agni corresponds to Latin Ignis. It is also believed by some that the Vedic religion itself is closely associated with the pre-Zoroastrian Persian religion.
Cunning Max Muller who imagined fake aryan invasion theory through paid historians of India, to create rift among North and South Indians, later felt sorry for his anti-Vedic deeds but it was too late, once in his lecture on ‘India – What Can it Teach Us’ he said – “If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered over the greatest problems of life and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal – again, I should point to India.”
About Upanishads, he remarked “The Upanishads are the sources of Vedanta philosophy, a system in which human speculation seems to me to have reached its very acme.”
Arthur Schopenhauer remarked “In the whole world, there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. They are the products of the highest wisdom.”
All these prove beyond doubt that Vedas are all comprehensive and that there is nothing on earth that is not found in the Vedas. The concepts of Viswaneedam, the global family, and Vasudhaiva kutumbakam, the whole world as one family, originated from the Vedas. These concepts reveal the universal outlook of the ancient seers of India.
Oppenheimer known as the father of the atomic bomb quoted from the Hindu scripture Srimad Bhagavad Geeta upon witnessing the mushroom cloud resulting from the detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb in New Mexico, U.S.A., on July 16, 1945. “Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.”
“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” verses of Srimad Bhagavad Geeta were quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer, American nuclear physicist, wherever he presented his theory of explosion.
“The Hindu dharma is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.”
“It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.” (Carl Sagan, Cosmos)
Quick Glance: Reference of few Vedic Quotes on Cosmic Science
Source of Light for the Moon
1.“The moving moon always receives a ray of light from sun” Rig Veda 1.84.15
2. “Moon decided to marry. Day and Night attended its wedding. And sun gifted his daughter “Sun ray” to Moon.” Rig Veda 10.85.9
Sun Eclipse
1. “O Sun! When you are blocked by the one whom you gifted your own light (moon), then earth gets scared by sudden darkness.” Rig Veda 5.40.5
Gravitational Force
1.“O Indra! by putting forth your mighty rays, which possess the qualities of gravitation and attraction-illumination and motion – keep up the entire universe in order through the Power of your attraction.” Rig Veda 8.12.28
2.“O God, You have created this Sun. You possess infinite power. You are upholding the sun and other spheres and render them steadfast by your power of attraction.” Rig Veda 1.6.5 and Rig Veda 8.12.30
3.“The sun moves in its own orbit in space taking along with itself the mortal bodies like earth through force of attraction.” Yajur Veda 33.43
4. “The sun moves in its own orbit but holding earth and other heavenly bodies in a manner that they do not collide with each other through force of attraction.” Rig Veda 1.35.9
5.“Sun moves in its orbit which itself is moving. Earth and other bodies move around sun due to force of attraction, because sun is heavier than them.” Rig Veda 1.164.13
6. “The sun has held the earth and other planets” Atharva Veda 4.11.1
Number of Universes
“Every universe is covered by seven layers — earth, water, fire, air, sky, the total energy and false ego — each ten times greater than the previous one. There are innumerable universes besides this one, and although they are unlimitedly large, they move about like atoms in You. Therefore You are called unlimited.” Bhagawat Purana 6.16.37
“After separating the different universes, the gigantic universal form of the Lord, which came out of the causal ocean, the place of appearance for the first puruṣa-avatāra, entered into each of the separate universes, desiring to lie on the created transcendental water.” Bhagawat Purana 2.10.10
Infinite Creations
Even though over a period of time I might count all the atoms of the universe, I could not count all of My opulences which I manifest within innumerable universes Bhagawat Purana 11.16.39
Analogies on Multiple Universes
What am I, a small creature measuring seven spans of my own hand? I am enclosed in a potlike universe composed of material nature, the total material energy, false ego, ether, air, water and earth. And what is Your glory? Unlimited universes pass through the pores of Your body just as particles of dust pass through the openings of a screened window Bhagavata Purana 10.14.11
Because You are unlimited, neither the deities of heaven nor even You Yourself can ever reach the end of Your glories. The countless universes, each enveloped in its shell, are compelled by the wheel of time to wander within You, like particles of dust blowing about in the sky. The śrutis, following their method of eliminating everything separate from the Supreme, become successful by revealing You as their final conclusion Bhagawat Puran 10.87.41
The layers or elements covering the universes are each ten times thicker than the one before, and all the universes clustered together appear like atoms in a huge combination Bhagawat Puran 3.11.41
Then even nothingness was not, nor existence, There was no air then, nor the heavens beyond it. What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping? Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed?
न मृत्युरासीदमृतं न तर्हि न रात्र्या अह्न आसीत्प्रकेतः । आनीदवातं स्वधया तदेकं तस्माद्धान्यन्न परः किञ्चनास ॥२॥
Then there was neither death nor immortality nor was there then the torch of night and day. The One breathed windlessly and self-sustaining. There was that One then, and there was no other. Nasadiya Sukta Verses 1 and 2
The Looters and Thieves of Vedas are Known as Scientists !
The list is endless when it comes to reference of Vedas, Puranas and Upnishads; it is filled with knowledge gems of Creation, Pro-creation, Destruction and Expansion including Geography, Geology, Medical Sciences with surgeries, Physical and Chemical Sciences, Arts and Fine Arts, Economic development, Psychology, Metaphysics and Spirituality. The universal truth is that all the scientists across the globe rely on Vedic texts to further their science experiments, they consume several manhours to decipher the true meanings of Hindu texts. After some years, they try to develop a theory completely based on Vedic concepts and falsely present it as their own discovery. The loot is on the rampage since 18th century when english invaded India. These scientists least think about humanity, their sole purpose is to make name, fame and money. That is the reason that corruption is deeply rooted in medical and science departments in most of the countries; where the messengers of vested interests are awarded to highlight them as savior of human race only later to promote instruments developed by them and export them into other countries to earn money. The governments are involved in the mega loot.
Thanks to Swami Vivekanand ji that few scientists boldly came forward and admitted major contribution of Hindu texts and Vedas in modern science.
Being a Hindu, What is Our Contribution to the Spread of Vedas ?
We Hindus respect Vedas and our texts as we know the importance of them, we know they are words of Bhagwan but scientists being non-Vedics disrespected our texts demeaning them as mythologies while silently stealing our own Vedic theories. It is high time Indians and especially Hindus acknowledge this fact and start Vedicifying India thereby resurrecting the ancient wisdom for the benefit of their future and human race.
Vedas and Hindu texts should be compulsorily taught to everyone Because Hindu scriptures, the gift of Bhagwan is pious knowledge and it should not be abused by looters for money instead it should be open for the world to understand. All patents should be scrapped. We all should work for the benefit of mankind. Bhagwan gifted us this eternal knowledge not to get it looted by scavengers but for peace and upliftment of Humanity. The more people are aware of it, better it is. We will be doing service to Bhagwan in revealing secrets of Vedas to all Hindus.
The tools that we are using are very primitive with lots of side-effects (every equipment or device that we use are making us virtual, once new device is made we are told that old equipment had side-effects and health hazard, we are gulped with new stuffs and the business continues) compared to the Yantras used by Vedic Rishis thousands of years back because they respected Vedas and used the knowledge only for mankind.
The stuffs that we use and think of it as brilliance of science are nothing but inboxing us in a frame where we all are treated as CONSUMERS and not humans. We do not require it but following herd, we purchase it and make necessity out of these equipments. If you think calmly, you will realize that our usability and behavior is changed by these devices, we are more short-tempered and restless CONSUMERS and not humans anymore. Spare a thought and introspect, whatever modern device you use, is it really enhancing you as a human who is caring, honest, hardworking, fearless and nature loving. It depends on you how you want to use the device but mostly such devices are built to disparage your true nature, because they are made distorting the thoughts of Vedic principles by looters of Vedas. The enriching knowledge of Vedas will help all of us in breaking that jail. Let us all connect to the REAL SOURCE Bhagwan and his knowledge and not INBOX us in VIRTUALITY.
