Did the Universe have a beginning?

अनादित्वम् or 

The अनवस्था-दोष? 

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A few days ago came across this apparently erudite post in forbes.com .

In logic, it is called 'begging the question'.

In classical Sanskrit and wisdom of Veda,  another name for the the same is :

अनवस्था-दोष, 

Which means the question itself is shrouded in uncertainty and has no valid ground any. 

Simply,

A "beginning" implies a movement in "time".

"before" and "after" denote "time".

A "beginning" implies, it started at the end of a time.

If one may ask :

Was there "time" before this "beginning" took place?

The problem is two-fold, the most intelligent scientists or mathematicians fail to see that so far they couldn't grasp / define what do they mean by "time".

Whatever they say about "time", is in terms of comparison of 2 or more events and they call one of them as of a shorter duration and another as of a longer duration. They can't define what they call "time", independently of duration.

This is what is the "relative" time. 

We can "measure" the same but that is again relativity of convenience.

Really, "time" / "duration" don't have their existence independently, but appear to exist as notion or assumption only.

The "time" physicists speak of, has no material-existence, like the matter.

And again, as they claim, even this so-called 'matter' could also be neither created, nor destroyed.

What about the "Space"?

In a Vedika text, namely the

"Shiva-atharva SheerSha",

शिव-अथर्वशीर्ष,

It is pointed out that whether material or the non-material, "time" is the product of the essence imperishable.

अक्षरात्संजायते कालो कालाद् व्यापकः उच्यते... 

व्यापको हि भगवान् रुद्रो भोगायमानो ....

यदा संहरते चायं,  रुद्रो संहरति प्रजाः .... ।

This means :

From the "timeless" Rudra, comes into being the "time" of perception and imagination. 

And again, as this "time" is all-pervasive, this gives rise to, and evolves into the form of what we call "Space".

Is it not just a coincidence, that while trying to understand the nature / behavior of  the quantum particles, Eric Heisenberg was  struck by the idea of Uncertainty which he then gave shape and form of a "principle"?

"Uncertainty" is verily what is pointed out by the Sanskrit word :

अनवस्था-दोष .

We see, Veda very clearly do announce that what we think and assume as "time", is / was what evolved or rather 'inferred' from the essence of existence and then from only this very "time", evolved out into, or became the "manifest", the "Space".

The same "Space" is synonymous with the element "Akasha" आकाश. 

Akasha (आकाश) or this "Space" is the very foundation, upon which further evolved out  the grosser elements like agni (अग्नि, fire), vAyu (वायु,  air), Ap / jal (आप् / जल, water), and prithvi (पृथिवी, earth).

This may not be true in the strict sense, and the point is, -all this "phenomenon" is held into consciousness and 'inferential' only.

Consciousness is verily the "observer", while the phenomenal is the "observed".

Consciousness is therefore the threshold, where our search for the existential truth or the Reality attains finality / perfection.

But a 'mind' that asks this question, is again the intellect (बुद्धि), and is the ray of the light of the same Consciousness wherein are held  the gross elements.

The extrovert mind talks about the observed or the phenomenal, while the introvert mind seeks the very source from where arises the  intellect itself.

Then, let us check, if the question :

"Did the Universe have a beginning?"

Is really a legitimate one?

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