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When we read the Puranas or the Upanishads, we find descriptions of great scientific advancements; stories of people with paranormal abilities and direct interactions with Gods. When we consider monuments left behind by the ancients, we see amazing engineering feats and advanced architectural knowledge. Most modern day discoveries already exist in our ancient texts. Ancient Indians were proficient in geometry, grammar, physics, medicine and spiritual quest. Panini introduced grammar to the world for the first time in a complete manner. Literary masterpieces like Kalidasa’s Shakuntala and Kena Upanishad inspired legendary works such as Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s Faust. Religious studies scholar Huston Smith, while asserting the supremacy of Vedic sciences over modern astronomy, says: “While the West was still thinking, perhaps of 6,000 years old Universe, India was already envisioning ages and eons, and galaxies as numerous as the sands of the Ganges.” The German philosoph...

The creation is a complete whole, the sum total of positive and negative, black and white, darkness and light, sound and silence. What is light without darkness? What is sound without silence? It is the existence of opposites that gives meaning to the whole. Having unveiled the deepest secrets of creation, the vedic seer gave the world the concept of purna or a complete whole, more popularly known as shunya and taken to mean ‘nothing’. This shunya forms the basis of modern arithmetic, geometry and the number system. It is well known that the number system we now know as ‘Arabic numerals’ in fact travelled from this side of Indus to the Arab world from where the Europeans learnt it and exported it back to us.  Pythagoras travelled from Samos to the banks of Ganges to learn Geometry; the universally accepted and applied Pythagoras theorem made its first appearance in the Sulbasutras, some 1,000 years before Pythagoras. What is it that made the vedic gyaan cradle of all modern sc...