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In order to understand the mysteries of Universe you have to turn to Nataraja, The King of dance says Carl Sagan, the planet renowned astronomer. 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 around ten million viewers in January 1982. That he said that "The Hindu cosmology may contain the response to the modern day astronomers' conflicting views that the universe might either be expanding or contracting. " "If the universe is expanding as per the 'Big Bang' model 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 now being pulled back again to a centre of creation, where do they all go? " To learn the solution for this question he traveled to India. He found the answer in Nataraja, the Hindu God worshipped by millions of Hindus. Pointing to the statue of Nataraja, the ACTING type of Shiva, that 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 part of Hindu cosmology. Why he's chosen India for Cosmos: a personal Voyage? He explained it very clearly:

"The main reason that individuals oriented this bout of COSMOS towards India is because of that wonderful aspect of Hindu cosmology which first of all provides time-scale for the Earth and the universe -- a time-scale that is consonant with that of modern scientific cosmology. We know that the Earth is about 4. 6 billion years old, and the cosmos, or at the very least its present incarnation, is something similar to 10 or 20 billion years old. The Hindu tradition features a day and night of Brahma in this range, somewhere in the region of 8. 4 billion years.

As far as i know, it is the only ancient religious tradition MODELS on the Earth which talks about the best time-scale. We should get over the notion of the best time-scale, and also to show it is perhaps not unnatural. In the West, folks have the sense that what is natural is for the universe to be a few thousand yrs. old, and that billions is indwelling, with no it's possible to comprehend it. The Hindu concept is quite clear. This is a great world culture that has always mentioned billions of years. Finally, the many billion year time-scale of Hindu cosmology is not the complete 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 enormous quantities of universes, each with its own gods. And this is just a very grand idea. "

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