Hinduism and the Cosmos

Hinduism thought considers everything as God. According to Hinduism the world is created in God and by God. There is nothing that is not God according to this. Everything in this cosmos- good and bad both are made of God element. God is supreme and the only reality. He has no gender. He is beyond life and death. He exists from infinity and will continue to exist till eternity. The world that we see as changing with time is his play. He creates the world for his joy and destroys it after his game finishes. This cycle goes on.

When we think of cosmos, we normally do not think in numbers. Rather most of us think of some stars in the sky, the moon, the sun, the Milky Way. But these are nothing in the cosmos. If you look at the sky and think of the star that is farthest from you, you will never get the answer. The farthest star may be so far that its light may still have to reach the earth. Moreover the cosmos is expanding since it is said to be born. Hinduism does not subscribe to Big bang but says that God created the whole universe.

That is why Hinduism talks of God as somebody unimaginable by humans. Who can imagine the size of God's body that is supposed to be many more times than that of cosmos? Who can answer the question about how God created the universe? From where did all this mass and energy appear? Hinduism answers all these questions in the Text- Srimad Bhagavatam. It is described in detail about how all the animals, trees, planets, stars, were created. How death was created. How diseases were created. And at the end Hinduism answers the question about what is the objective of our life and how to get that. Cosmos teaches us that God is so unimaginably powerful that it is impossible but to wonder at him.

What does it say about the Big Bang theory?

Big Bang tries to explain the origin of the universe. At present there seems to be a general consensus that universe began with a big bang What does Hinduism say about this? Before we discuss that let us discuss the main theory about it.

Big Bang idea came into play after it was found that the universe is expanding constantly. It has been found that the heavenly bodies are running away from us. The speed is proportional to their distance from us. Those that are farthest are traveling at the maximum speed. There was no explanation for this other than saying that all heavenly bodies emerged from a point and after explosion started traveling outward.

The theory stipulates that at the beginning the entire universe was concentrated at one point. Whether it was mass or energy all was inside one point At that point about 14.7 Billion years ago a big explosion took place and the galaxies started forming and started running away from the center. Big Bang says that no body knows about the time before the event. Nothing is known about the character of the universe or how so much mass and energy got fitted in a point and why an explosion took place at the at time which may be considered zero time. No scientist knows about what was there before the Big Bang What does Hinduism say about origin?

According to Hinduism God created the universe. There is no mention of Big Bang in Hindu scriptures. Lord Vishnu directed Lord Bramha to create the universe. Lord Bramha created all the animals, plants, death, diseases, human beings and everything else. According to Hinduism Lord Bramha is the creator. There is no support to Big Bang in Hinduism. Even for a scientist it becomes difficult to say that we are sure about what happened after the explosion but nothing before that is known to us. Does that sound credible?