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In order to understand the mysteries of Universe one has to turn to Nataraja, The King of dance says Carl Sagan, the world 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 an estimated ten million viewers in January 1982. He said that "The Hindu cosmology may possibly contain the reply to the present day day astronomers' conflicting views that the universe may possibly either be expanding or contracting. " "If the universe is expanding depending on the 'Big Bang' type of Fred Hoyle and Able Le Maitre, then what happens to the stars that expand, explode and died? Off, as another school of astronomy says, the universe is contracting and that the stars and galaxies are increasingly being pulled back to a centre of creation, where do they all go? " To discover the clear answer for this question that he traveled to India. He found the answer in Nataraja, the Hindu God worshipped by an incredible number of Hindus. Pointing to the statue of Nataraja, the ACTING model of Shiva, that he said, 'The answer is based on Hindu Cosmology. " Pointing to the conch held by Shiva, Carl Sagan said: " "This symbolizes creation of the universe, stars, galaxies and the human being. " Pointing to the fire in the other hand he added: This symbolizes destruction of what has been created. " He was wonderstruck on once you understand the wonderful aspect of Hindu cosmology. Why he's opted for India for Cosmos: a Personal Voyage? He explained it very clearly:

"The major reason that people oriented this episode of COSMOS towards India could be because of that wonderful facet 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 approximately 4. 6 billion years old, and the cosmos, or at the very least its present incarnation, is something such as 10 or 20 billion years old. The Hindu tradition features a day and night of Brahma in this range, somewhere around 8. 4 billion years.

In so far as i know, it is the only ancient religious tradition MODELS on the Earth which covers the right time-scale. We want to get across the concept of the right time-scale, and to show it is maybe not unnatural. In the West, folks have the sense that what is natural is for the universe to be a few thousand years old, and that billions is indwelling, and no it's possible to comprehend it. The Hindu concept is extremely clear. Here is a great world culture which has always discussed vast amounts of years. Finally, the many billion year time-scale of Hindu cosmology is not the whole history of the universe, but just the day and night of Brahma, and there is the idea of an infinite cycle of births and deaths and thousands of universes, each with its own gods. And this is really a very grand idea. "

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