How can irrationality masquerade itself as religion and, if so, how can such religion be the source of divine wisdom? How long must man remain in this hypnotic spell of myths and miracles, messiahs and messengers who hold no clue to scientific understanding of reality nor can testify to any substantive truth about life and nature? The Sanatana Dharma or Hinduism holds the key. The Vedas are the authentic body of divine revelations which do not contradict reason and yet transcend it which is what spiritual truth ought to do, never in collision with empirical evidence yet going beyond the sensory world to the subtle and the causal worlds. Interestingly and quite astonishingly, the Hindu sages had intuitively accurately estimated the age of the universe at 15.6 billion years which, in the words of physicist Carl Sagan, is the scientifically estimated age as well. This, in contrast to the Judeo-Christian tradition of the estimate being a few thousand years, makes for amusing reading as much as it makes us stand in awe of the great Hindu rishis of yore.
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