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first of all the origin of the universe itself how does Hinduism relate to the idea
of say The Big Bang Theory that's the first part and then I'll talk about life itself
you see surprisingly if you look at the theistic Hinduism it focuses on gods and goddesses as
creators we have the same issue that any abrahamic religion has how can you possibly explain this
creation by God pressing a button where does he live and you know who started him off anywhere
so it doesn't work philosophically it cracks down he breaks down the esoteric Hinduism which is not
personality oriented but principle-oriented it doesn't look for a God in the heaven
is much more comfortable with the theory of big bang because it says three things and four for
the creation to come into being now this is very close to the modern cosmology and this
comes from the last idea as well Swami Vivekananda he said three things unfold for creation to come
into being you say how did they know this thing thousands of years back or even 150 years back
he said space time and causation when they unfold creation comes into being daesh these are the
Sanskrit terms it's a very ancient idea through introspection somehow we realize these are they
feel like the the dimensions through which the universe becomes manifested so we are already
aware of how the creation comes into being and how well it sits with the idea of theory of big
bang it has no difficult in fact it goes a stage further than the Big Bang because Big Bang it
doesn't talk about causation we say space time and causation also so you can't say who caused
the Big Bang causation comes with a big bang he's a very esoteric idea now the second part
of this the question you know gaurav is awesome but interesting he says what about life itself
now this continues to be a mystery for modern biologists because every time you try and create
life in the laboratory you can create the same kind of circumstances that we are there early you
know three billion years ago North huge kind of volcanoes and very high temperatures and all these
kind of you know chemicals combining together they can produce amino acid but they can't produce life
so far maybe I'll be proved wrong later on but so far they cannot they can produce a building block
amino acid but they can't produce life DNA itself it doesn't come out so they're surprised they've
done all sorts of experiments to try and create life in the labor it doesn't work so we go back
to this ancient if you like the first form of life a single bacteria or single living thing
they started to replicate and begin to kind of create the variation that we see in front of our
eyes what is the Hindu take Hindu take is this it insists that life is not a byproduct of material
world there's something more than matter that begins to kind of wind up matter in this complex
manner as a complex molecule and produce something that we call living thing so even though we have
tremendous kind of agreement with science here we simply say if you're trying to explain life life
living thing in terms of material forces you're going to fail there is something else that is
winding up this material you know the the elements if you like the chemicals in a very complex manner
in very unusual manner which can only be described or defined as something which is non-material
spirituals we say it is actually when the spirit is trying to manifest self in the material world
it begins to kind of in a way start to kind of form the chemicals in a particular structure and
produce if you like what we call a living thing this is a very special feature about
Hinduism it says life is not a byproduct of the material forces of matter but it uses matter and
material forces to manifest itself but it is not something that comes out of matter foreign
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