Roger Penrose

The Big-bang! 

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Saw an article originally published in :

conversation.com

and again in :

inverse.com

Though interesting, the article could / should be reviewed in the light of the wisdom of Veda.

What was there before the Planck Epoch?

There are two categorical answers in the Vedika texts such as one in :

Rigveda mandala 10 : 129 : 01 onwards,

Which begins quite before this above referred to  suktam, that is famous as "nasadiya suktam".

I think this could be available in my this very blog somewhere also. Presently, Let us cast a glance over the same :

10 : 129 : 01 --

नासदासीन्नो सदासीत्तदानीं नासीद्रजो नो व्योमा परो यत्। 

किमावरीवः कुह कस्य शर्मन्नम्भः किमासीद्गहनं गभीरम्।।

10 : 129 : 02 --

न मृत्युरासीदमृतं न तर्हि न रात्र्या अह्न आसीत्प्रकेत।

आनीदवातं स्वधया तदेकं तस्माद्धान्यन्न परः किं चनास।।

(किञ्चन आस / किं च न आस)

10 : 129 : 03 --

तम आसीत्तमसा गूळ्हमग्रेऽप्रकेतं सलिलं सर्वदा इदम्।

तुच्छ्येनाभ्वपिहितं यदासीत्तपसस्तन्महिनाजायतैकम् ।।

10 : 129 : 04 --

कामस्तदग्रे समवर्तताधि मनसः रेतः प्रथमं यदासीत् ।

सतोबन्धुमसति निरविन्दन्हृदि प्रतीष्या कवयो मनीषा।।

10 : 129 : 05 --

तिरश्चीनो विततो रश्मिरेषामधः स्विदासी३दुपरि स्विदासी३त्।

रेतोधा आसन्महिमान आसन्स्वधा अवस्तात्प्रयतिः परस्तात्।।

10 : 129 : 06 --

को अद्धा वेद क इह प्र वोचत्कुतः अजाति कुत इयं विसृष्टिः। 

अर्वाग्देवा अस्य विसर्जनेन को वेद यत आबभूव।।

10 : 129 :07 --

इयं विसृष्टिर्यत आबभूव यदि वा दधे यदि वा न। 

यो अस्याध्यक्षः परमे व्योमन्सो अङ्ग वेद यदि वा न वेद।। 

This suktam begins with 'किं' / what?, but in the end, concludes with 'को' / 'कः' / Who?. 

This hints at that, the very manifestation that took the form of 'creation' is supported by the consciousness-principle, and manifestation and dissolution of this world keeps going on in an cyclic repetitive order.

But the "One", the underlying Principle, Reality Supreme, that is again addressed in Veda in terms of Agni, Surya, Rudra, devI, ganapati, and Narayana is the Unique and the same

The same point had been elaborated in yet another text Shiva-Atharva SheerShaM :

अक्षरात्संजायते कालो कालाद् व्यापकः उच्यते व्यापको हि भगवान् रुद्रो भोगायमानो, यदा शेते रुद्रो संहरति प्रजाः।। 

This again points out that Rudra alone Himself manifests in terms of world and the soul that experiences a world in terms of time and space. Rudra alone takes back / withdraws this world within Himself.

Rudra is the very 'I-principle', and again as Devi He alone is the 'consciousness-principle'.

He alone, as ganapati, is again the Supreme Intelligence-principle, and as Narayana, the primal source and origin of the whole existence. Rudra alone is the Sun (Surya) Who as with the material-aspect, is the beginning and the end if all life.

The 5 cardinal aspects of the Supreme Reality that is verily the Brahman or the Atman, are thus mere indicative of that Supreme Being.

I have no least doubt what-so-ever, about the way these texts point out to the Reality, that is beyond the grip of the Physicist of the day.

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