'The Hymn of Creation' is a book on the cosmogony of the ancient Vedic thinkers and how that compares with the cosmogony of modern physics. Both have almost convergent views, if not identical views, on the structure of the universe as a finite yet boundless entity. In this sense, the concept of the universe as a finite yet boundless entity is not some unique product of Western science, as is often wrongly perceived.
Contrary to this misconception, the concept of the universe as a finite yet boundless entity has been around since the Vedic era in Hinduism. Summarily, it found place in the Hindu scriptures long before it emerged in Western science especially with the onset of the world-view of Relativity physics. The concept is familiar to even the novitiate Hindu as the 'brahmanda' - the cosmic egg, if we might loosely translate it as.
Folklore disguises this profound concept with 'Brahma', the creator in the Hindu trilogy, considered as conceiving this cosmic egg at the beginning of time. This parallelism in the final outcomes underscores the fact that, like physics, there is an implicit geometry behind the ancient Vedic concepts of the physical world. On delving a little deeper, it appears that the two are using similar reasoning and arriving at a similar end-result.
The major difference is between the top-down approach of Vedanta and the bottom-up approach of physics. The former works its way down from an ultimate reality it only defines as consciousness, while the latter works its way up by making measurements in the physical world. Of course, being a theological system, the ancient Vedic thinkers were primarily preoccupied with planes beyond the physical and the psychic levels.
Therefore, the brahmanda, especially the physical universe, was given only scant attention in the oral system that the Vedas actually were. While the narratives in the book are highly allegorical, a proper introduction explaining the genesis of some of those remains out of bound of an introduction that is circumscribed by character limits. To get a true idea of what this book might be about, it is suggested that you visit the blog that introduces the worldviews purely in geometrical terms before actually downloading or buying it here.
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'The Hymn of Creation' is a book on the cosmogony of the ancient Vedic thinkers and how that compares with the cosmogony of modern physics. Both have almost convergent views, if not identical views, on the structure of the universe as a finite yet boundless entity. In this sense, the concept of the universe as a finite yet boundless entity is not some unique product of Western science, as is often wrongly perceived.
Contrary to this misconception, the concept of the universe as a finite yet boundless entity has been around since the Vedic era in Hinduism. Summarily, it found place in the Hindu scriptures long before it emerged in Western science especially with the onset of the world-view of Relativity physics. The concept is familiar to even the novitiate Hindu as the 'brahmanda' - the cosmic egg, if we might loosely translate it as.
Folklore disguises this profound concept with 'Brahma', the creator in the Hindu trilogy, considered as conceiving this cosmic egg at the beginning of time. This parallelism in the final outcomes underscores the fact that, like physics, there is an implicit geometry behind the ancient Vedic concepts of the physical world. On delving a little deeper, it appears that the two are using similar reasoning and arriving at a similar end-result.
The major difference is between the top-down approach of Vedanta and the bottom-up approach of physics. The former works its way down from an ultimate reality it only defines as consciousness, while the latter works its way up by making measurements in the physical world. Of course, being a theological system, the ancient Vedic thinkers were primarily preoccupied with planes beyond the physical and the psychic levels.
Therefore, the brahmanda, especially the physical universe, was given only scant attention in the oral system that the Vedas actually were. While the narratives in the book are highly allegorical, a proper introduction explaining the genesis of some of those remains out of bound of an introduction that is circumscribed by character limits. To get a true idea of what this book might be about, it is suggested that you visit the blog that introduces the worldviews purely in geometrical terms before actually downloading or buying it here.
You can follow this blog at (or paste the link in your browser):https://hymn-of-creation.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-hymn-of-creation-parallels-between.html