suddenly there has been a lot of hue and cry over BJP MP Ramesh Pokhriyal's statement that
3) The Script: The Brahmi lipi , has been developed keeping in mind the way human mouth works, ie how we speak , so there is no need for a separate phonetics. what you say is what you write, there is no ambiguity in spoken word ( No is not know , and Now you know )
"Power of stars in astrology can never be matched by science"
he has received the bashing from a wide section of media and politicians. while people at social media making sarcastic comments on his statement.
Another person whose statements (rather theory) was taken with much amazement was Albert Einstein.
we may take his theory of relativity and the Equation of 'E=mC2' with great respect and consider it as the greatest discovery of all time, but at one point of time the theory seemed far less believable rather it was so complex that many scientists were not even able to understand what it implied.
yet another person making similar insane remarks was Galileo, how dare he say that the 'Earth revolves around the Sun, and not the Sun revolves around the Earth'. consider yourself a member of the Divine Church during 17th century and think how outrageous that statement was.
I am not comparing Mr Ramesh Pokhriyal with these most respectable scientists of their time, I'm just stating that every good idea or thought is sometimes so difficult to understand or to digest that we simply reject it rather than truly giving it a thought.
Also, I'm not saying that what he said was true, as the statement was not backed by any proof or research.
but just wish to shade some light on one of our ancient science "The Astrology" which came into a bad light after the whole controversy.
lets forget about astrology for a moment and think about the other things the vedic civilization has given us.
1) The Decimal number system : the concept of Zero that has brought us so far in science was originated from the vedic civilization.
2) The Language: The Sanskrit is considered as the most scientific language (even by foreign scholars)
3) The Script: The Brahmi lipi , has been developed keeping in mind the way human mouth works, ie how we speak , so there is no need for a separate phonetics. what you say is what you write, there is no ambiguity in spoken word ( No is not know , and Now you know )
also in the so called "Universal Language" English, there is no word which has a sound of 'त' as in 'तलवार' it always roams around th ' द' or t 'ट'
seriously a whole sound is absent from a language, now that's pretty modern.
4) The Yoga: The western civilization is appreciating and adopting it. it is considered as among the best methods to keep diseases (mental and physical ) at bay.
so many good things from a civilization, and yet it is not respected from its own people sometimes.
that too when the more 'Elite' west (as considered mostly in India) is appreciating our knowledge in so many fields like yoga and ayurveda, probably even the astrology would not have guessed it.
so can't we for one in a million possibilities, consider that the science of astrology, as many of our ancient sciences might have a concrete base on which it might have developed and have some level of truth in it.
and may be our modern science is yet to see astrology and other ancient sciences in a new light and yet to fully understand them.
PS: I'm not regressive, just a bit more open minded
