I don’t claim all answers to God Shiva’s teaching. The world cycle is a revealed knowledge. It is not my theory.
The only thing we can do for exploration of its veracity is to be aware of the following constraints:
You can’t see accurately until you abandon your worldview.
We see what we believe. Rarely do we see the world as it is.
My exploration has been first accepting the revealed knowledge and see where the problems are. I did not try to extend my existing beliefs or knowledge to a new paradigm of beliefs.
I am certainly opening a pandora box of research questions. So one has to begin your research with an open mind without the clutter of the currently educated beliefs.
People quote about Harappan culture, Egyptian culture, etc. About the timings of those civilisations, we need to understand the technique employed in assigning the time for those civilisations. Our problem is there is no lack of continuous and conscious record of history.
One example, I can quote about is Vedic culture. The vedas were recorded in writing for the first time during the British time. Before that these had been transmitted orally from generation to generation. Our Indian claims is: 3000BC - 10000BC, depending on the scholar. Western claim: 1200BC. Max Mueller assigned the date by some guess work. Similarly all other dates that were assigned in the last 100-150 years were some guess work.
According to social anthropologist, Joseph Campbell, all religious or spiritual practices of the world go back to 800BC. This is what gave me the credence to the theory of the world cycle of God Shiva.
One does not have to trust Joseph Campbell fully. So you have to see his method of assigning the dates to religious practices.
The science has been preaching us uniformitarianism as though no major cataclysmic events took place ever since the earth formed. Velikowsky introduced the idea of catastrophism, a theory that the Earth has been affected in the past by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope. The entire establishment of science saw that this idea does not get into lime light.
If there are no calamities how do the fossils form. Fossils of animals in rocks. They teach you that, it gradually formed. Its common sense that dead body disintegrates into pieces in a month or two. It applies to both land and sea animals.
I mentioned about catastrophism because people also quote about tectonic plates moving at a speed of cms. This does not mean that these did not move very fast during cataclysmic events.
God Shiva’s teaching does not give the complete account of human migrations. As per His teaching, for the first half of the cycle, India was home of humanity. The exact date for the last destruction were also not known.
Western attempt to write comprehensive history of the world is very recent, and goes back to last 100-150 years.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
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