The Hindu Multiverse
INTRODUCTION
Multiverse is a concept
which tell you that there are not only one universe but there are millions of
universes in this book you will get a deep knowledge of what is outside of
universe? How our universe made ? what is the shape of universe ? is there
another life out side earth ? where are aliens?
is ancient India is more advanced than us ?and many more ……
So let start
Table of content
1. COSMOLOGY
A MATTER
B TIME
C LIFE
D WHAT IS SHAPE OF UNIVERSE ?
2. WHERE ARE ALIENS?
A CYCLE OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION
B LOKAS
3. MULTIPLE UNIVERSE ( MULTIVERSE )
A WHAT SCIENCE SAY ABOUT MULTIVERSE
B A WONDERFUL STORY ABOUT MULTIVERSE
COSMOLOGY
According
to hindu that there are 14 lokas, or
worlds that make up a multiverse. They believe that there are inhabitants in
each of these planetary systems.
In their
most simple form, the lokas are divided into the seven upper worlds, known as
vyarthis, and the seven lower worlds, known as patalas
Hindu
cosmology is the description of the universe and its states of matter, cycles
within time, physical structure, and effects on living entities
Matter
All matter
is based on three inert gunas (qualities or tendencies)
sattva
(goodness)
rajas
(passion)
tamas
(darkness)
There are
three states of the gunas that make up all matter in the universe
pradhana
(root matter): gunas in an unmixed and unmanifested state (equilibrium).
prakriti
(primal matter): gunas in a mixed and unmanifested state (agitated).
mahat-tattva
(matter or universal womb): gunas in a mixed and manifested state.
Pradhana,
which has no consciousness or will to act on its own, is initially agitated by
a primal desire to create. The different schools of thought differ in
understanding about the ultimate source of that desire and what the gunas are mixed
with (eternal elements, time, jiva-atmas).
The
manifest material elements (matter) range from the most subtle to the most
physical (gross). These material elements cover the individual, spiritual
jiva-atmas (embodied souls), allowing them to interact with the material sense
objects, such as their temporary material bodies, other conscious bodies, and
unconscious objects.
Manifested
subtle elements:
ahamkara
(ego)
buddhi
(intelligence)
citta
(mind)
Manifested
physical (gross) elements (a.k.a. pancha bhoota or 5 great elements) and their
associated senses and sense organs that manifest:
space/ether
> sound > ear
air >
smell > nose
fire >
sight/form > eye
water >
taste > tongue
earth >
touch > skin
TIME
Time is
infinite with a cyclic universe, where the current universe was preceded and
will be followed by an infinite number of universes. The different states of
matter are guided by eternal kala (time), which repeats general events ranging
from a moment to the lifespan of the universe, which is cyclically created and
destroyed.
The
earliest mentions of cosmic cycles in Sanskrit literature are found in the Yuga
Purana (c. 1st century BCE), the Mahabharata (c. 3rd century BCE – 4th century
CE), and the Manusmriti (c. 2nd – 3rd centuries CE). In the Mahabharata, there
are inconsistent names applied to the cycle of creation and destruction, a name
theorized as still being formulated, where yuga (generally, an age of time) and
kalpa (a day of Brahma) are used, or a day of the Brahman or of Brahma, the
creator god, or simply referred to as the process of creation and destruction,
with kalpa and day of Brahma becoming more prominent in later writings.
Prakriti
(primal matter) remains mixed for a maha-kalpa (life of Brahma) of 311.04
trillion years, and is followed by a maha-pralaya (great dissolution) of equal
length.
The
universe (matter) remains manifested for a kalpa (day of Brahma) of 4.32
billion years, where the universe is created at the start and destroyed at the
end, only to be recreated at the start of the next kalpa. A kalpa is followed
by a pralaya (partial dissolution, a.k.a. night of Brahma) of equal length,
when Brahma and the universe are in an unmanifested state. Each kalpa has 15
manvantara-sandhyas (junctures of great flooding) and 14 manvantaras (age of
Manu, progenitor of mankind), with each manvantara lasting for 306.72 million
years.
Each kalpa has 1,000 and each manvantara has
71 chatur-yugas (epoch, a.k.a. maha-yuga), with each chatur-yuga lasting for
4.32 million years and divided into four yugas (dharmic ages): Satya Yuga
(1,728,000 years), Treta Yuga (1,296,000 years), Dvapara Yuga (864,000 years),
and Kali Yuga (432,000 years), of which we are currently in Kali Yuga.
LIFE
The
individual, spiritual jiva-atma (embodied soul) is the life force or
consciousness within a living entity. The jivas are not created, and are
distinctly different from the created unconscious matter. The gunas in their
manifest state of matter, cover the jivas in various ways based on each jiva's
karma and impressions. This material covering of matter allows the jivas to
interact with the material sense objects that make up the material universe,
such as their temporary material bodies, other conscious bodies, and
unconscious objects.
The
material creation is called maya ("that which is not") due to its
impermanent (non-eternal), temporary nature of sometimes being manifest and
sometimes not. It has been compared to a dream or virtual reality, where the
viewer (jiva) has real experiences with objects that will eventually become
unreal.
Through
these interactions, a jiva starts to identify the temporary material body as
the true self, and in this way becomes influenced and bound by maya perpetually
in a conscious state of nescience (ignorance, unawareness, forgetfulness). This
conscious state of nescience leads to samsara (cycle of reincarnation), only to
end for a jiva when moksha (liberation) is achieved through self-realization
(atman-jnana) or remembrance of one's true spiritual self/nature.
The
different schools of thought differ in understanding about the initial event
that led to the jivas entering the material creation and the ultimate state of
moksha.
WHAT IS
THE SHAPE OF UNIVERSE?
According
to Richard L. Thompson, the Bhagavata Purana presents a geocentric model of our
Brahmanda (cosmic egg or universe), where our Bhu-mandala disk, equal in
diameter to our Brahmanda, has a diameter of 500 million yojanas (trad. 8 miles
each), which equals around 4 billion miles or more, a size far too small for
the universe of stars and galaxies, but in the right range for our solar
system. In addition, the Bhagavata Purana and other Puranas speak of a
multiplicity of universes, or Brahmandas, each covered by seven-fold layers
with an aggregate thickness of over ten million times its diameter (5x1015
yojanas ≈ 6,804+ light-years in diameter).
The
Jyotisha Shastras, Surya Siddhanta, and Siddhānta Shiromani give the Brahmanda
an enlarged radius of about 5,000 light years. Finally, the Mahabharata refers
to stars as large, self-luminous objects that seem small because of their great
distance, and that our Sun and Moon cannot be seen if one travels to those
distant stars. Thompson notes that Bhu-mandala can be interpreted as a map of
the geocentric orbits of the sun and the five planets, Mercury through Saturn,
and this map becomes highly accurate if we adjust the length of the yojana to
about 8.5 miles.[71]
Brahma, the
first born and secondary creator, during the start of his kalpa, divides the
Brahmanda (cosmic egg or universe), first into three, later into fourteen lokas
(planes or realms)—sometimes grouped into heavenly, earthly and hellish
planes—and creates the first living entities to multiply and fill the universe.
Some Puranas describe innumerable universes existing simultaneously with
different sizes and Brahmas, each manifesting and unmanifesting at the same
time.
WHERE ARE
ALIENS?
I am not
saying them aliens but from meaning aliens means who live outside earth hence
they are not aliens but they live outside the earth in upper lokas
Cycles
of creation and destruction
Many Hindu
texts mention the cycle of creation and destruction.: 104 According to the
Upanishads, the universe and the Earth, along with humans and other creatures,
undergo repeated cycles of creation and destruction (pralaya). A variety of
myths exist regarding the specifics of the process, but in general the Hindu
view of the cosmos is as eternal and cyclic. The later puranic view also
asserts that the universe is created, destroyed, and re-created in an eternally
repetitive series of cycles. In Hindu cosmology, age of earth is about
4,320,000,000 years (one day of Brahma that is 1000 times of sum of 4 yugas in
years, the creator or kalpa) and is then destroyed by fire or water elements.
At this point, Brahma rests for one night, just as long as the day. This
process, called pralaya (cataclysm), repeats for 100 Brahma years (311
trillion, 40 billion human years) that represents Brahma's lifespan.
Lokas
Deborah
Soifer describes the development of the concept of lokas as follows:
The concept
of a loka or lokas develops in the Vedic literature. Influenced by the special
connotations that a word for space might have for a nomadic people, loka in the
Veda did not simply mean place or world, but had a positive valuation: it was a
place or position of religious or psychological interest with a special value
of function of its own. Hence, inherent in the 'loka' concept in the earliest
literature was a double aspect; that is, coexistent with spatiality was a
religious or soteriological meaning, which could exist independent of a spatial
notion, an 'immaterial' significance. The most common cosmological conception
of lokas in the Veda was that of the trailokya or triple world: three worlds
consisting of earth, atmosphere or sky, and heaven, making up the universe.
In the
Brahmanda Purana, as well as Bhagavata Purana (2.5),[75] fourteen lokas
(planes) are described, consist of seven higher (Vyahrtis) and seven lower
(Patalas) lokas.[76][77]
Satya-loka
(Brahma-loka)
Tapa-loka
Jana-loka
Mahar-loka
Svar-loka
(Svarga-loka or Indra-loka)
Bhuvar-loka
(Sun/Moon plane)
Bhu-loka
(Earth plane)
Atala-loka
Vitala-loka
Sutala-loka
Talatala-loka
Mahatala-loka
Rasatala-loka
Patala-loka
MULTIPLE UNIVERSE ( MULTIVERSE)
The Hindu
texts describe innumerable universes existing all at the same time moving
around like atoms, each with its own Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
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.
— Bhagavata
Purana 6.16.37
Because You
are unlimited, neither the lords 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.
— Bhagavata
Purana 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.
— Bhagavata
Purana 3.11.41
And who
will search through the wide infinities of space to count the universes side by
side, each containing its Brahma, its Vishnu, its Shiva? Who can count the
Indras in them all--those Indras side by side, who reign at once in all the
innumerable worlds; those others who passed away before them; or even the
Indras who succeed each other in any given line, ascending to godly kingship, one
by one, and, one by one, passing away.
— Brahma
Vaivarta Purana
Every thing
that is any where, is produced from and subsists in space. It is always all in
all things, which are contained as particles in it. Such is the pure vacuous
space of the Divine understanding, that like an ocean of light, contains these
innumerable worlds, which like the countless waves of the sea, are revolving
for ever in it.
— Yoga
Vasistha 3.30.16–17
There are
many other large worlds, rolling through the immense space of vacuum, as the
giddy goblins of Yakshas revel about in the dark and dismal deserts and
forests, unseen by others.
— Yoga
Vasistha 3.30.34
You know
one universe. Living entities are born in many universes, like mosquitoes in
many udumbara (cluster fig) fruits.
— Garga
Samhita 1.2.28
WHAT SCIENCE SAY ABOUT MULTIVERSE
The
multiverse is a hypothetical group of multiple universes.[a] Together, these
universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter,
energy, information, and the physical laws and constants that describe them.
The different universes within the multiverse are called "parallel
universes", "other universes", "alternate universes",
or "many worlds".
Multiple
universes have been hypothesized in cosmology, physics, astronomy, religion,
philosophy, transpersonal psychology, music, and all kinds of literature,
particularly in science fiction, comic books and fantasy. In these contexts,
parallel universes are also called "alternate universes",
"quantum universes", "interpenetrating dimensions",
"parallel universes", "parallel dimensions", "parallel
worlds", "parallel realities", "quantum realities",
"alternate realities", "alternate timelines",
"alternate dimensions" and "dimensional planes".
The physics
community has debated the various multiverse theories over time. Prominent
physicists are divided about whether any other universes exist outside of our
own.
Some
physicists say the multiverse is not a legitimate topic of scientific inquiry.
Concerns have been raised about whether attempts to exempt the multiverse from
experimental verification could erode public confidence in science and
ultimately damage the study of fundamental physics. Some have argued that the
multiverse is a philosophical notion rather than a scientific hypothesis
because it cannot be empirically falsified. The ability to disprove a theory by
means of scientific experiment is a critical criterion of the accepted
scientific method. Paul Steinhardt has famously argued that no experiment can
rule out a theory if the theory provides for all possible outcomes.
In 2007,
Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg suggested that if the multiverse existed,
"the hope of finding a rational explanation for the precise values of
quark masses and other constants of the standard model that we observe in our
Big Bang is doomed, for their values would be an accident of the particular
part of the multiverse in which we live.
A WONDERFUL STORY ABOUT MULTIVERSE
According
to Hindu mythology, the creator of this universe, Brahma had pleaded Lord
Vishnu to come down to Earth to control the despotic dominance of tyrants. That
is when Lord Vishnu incarnated as Krishna unbeknownst to all the Lords and
Gods.
Lord Krishna grew up in the village of
Vrindavan from where he amended the world into a happy place. Brahma, who had
no clue about Krishna’s true identity, was bewildered by Krishna’s triumph over
all the despots. That is when he decided to find who Krishna was. Assuming it
to be the mischief of an invincible wizard, he tried to coax him into an unkind
prank. One fine day, when Lord Krishna and his friends went to the woods for a
picnic, Brahma vanished all of his friends.
Krishna, who finds out that it was Brahma who
was behind this deed, replicates himself as his friends to avoid disturbing the
routine of his village. He kept the parents happy by taking the place of their
kids. After a year, when Brahma returned to Vrindavan to see how the villagers
were responding to his trickery, he was bewildered on seeing all the kids
playing around Vrindavan. Shocked, Brahma goes to Lord Krishna.
However, to
his astonishment, he sees thousands of Brahmas flying towards him on swans.
Lord Krishna then unfolds the truth of parallel universes by telling Brahma
that he is the creator of only this universe. He explains to him that there are
many powerful creators and many more enormous universes than his’.
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