Introducion :
The intellect of the Human race is always thirsty and in persuit of “Knowledge of the Ultimate”. This quest for ‘knowledge of the Ultimate’ has two distinct paths. One is the Philosophical and the other is Science. In other words, what I am going to discuss is the philosophy of Vedas and the Philosophy of Modern Science, which claims to have discovered the “GOD PARTICLE”.
According to the Historians the Vedas date back to 1600. BCE. But according to the Hindu calender it predates 3000.BCE. and it is about more than 5100 years old. (According to Kali Yuga Sahaaptha calender, this is the 5113th year - as on date 16-11-2012 of the common era). The present day modern science dates back to 300.BCE and is about 2,300 years old; where it all started from the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt.
First of all we have to know what is “that Ultimate knowledge”, which both the Science and the Vedas are reffering to. Vedas call it as the ‘Para Brahman’. The modern day science has named it as the ‘God particle’ or the ‘Higgs Boson’. The objective of this article is to discuss both, in detail, as follows:
1. A detailed explanation of the path in knowing the ‘Para Brahman’ through the Vedas.
2. A step by step study of Science, which will lead us to the understanding of ‘What is Higgs Boson’. And an enquiry of whether it is proper to call it as the ‘God particle’.
3. A comparison of both the studies.
4. And finally the conclusion of what both has to offer.
The pleasure in writing on a subject that covers two distinctly different and extensive subjects is, that it may run into several pages and finally into a voluminous book.
Before starting this article I conducted a survey to know the awareness of the people who are interested in this subject.
My first survey was at the Madras Sanskrit College, where was attending classes as a student for three years. Many of whom I spoke to, did not know much beyond the basic sciences.
My next survay was with Science & Engineering students. Most of the people with whom I spoke to, did not know much about the Vedas at all. And the worst thing is that they did not either know much about the ‘Higgs Boson’ or had some very vague ideas about what it is.
Considering all these, I have decided to write, starting from the basics of both Science and the Vedas. I have taken extensive references from Science books and Science films, to explain the Science part of this article. Books of ‘Carl Sagan’ and ‘Stephen Hawkins’ were the real inspiration to start writing this article. This article is intended for people who are interested in Philosophy as well as Science and so I have avoided using any mathematical formulas.
I have also taken extensive references from the original Sanskrit texts of the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavat Gita, etc.,
I dedicate this to my father late Shri.Kondda.V.Rajaramji, who was an administrative officer in the Maharishi Institute of Creative intellegence. He was also a teacher of Yoga and Meditation.
