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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 planet renowned astronomer. He was the pinnacle 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 contain the response to the modern 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 are the results 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 being pulled back to a centre of creation, where do all of them 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 model of Shiva, 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 person. " Pointing to the fire in the other hand he added: This symbolizes destruction of what has been created. " He was wonderstruck on knowing the wonderful part of Hindu cosmology. Why he's opted for India for Cosmos: a Personal Voyage? That he explained it very clearly:

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

As much as i know, it is the only ancient religious tradition MODELS on the Earth which discusses the right time-scale. You want to get across the concept of the right time-scale, and to show that it is maybe not unnatural. In the West, people have the sense that what is natural is for the universe to be a few thousand years of age, and that billions is indwelling, no you can comprehend it. The Hindu concept is very clear. This is a great world culture which has always talked about huge amounts of years. Finally, the numerous 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 an infinite number of universes, each with its own gods. And this is really a very grand idea. "

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