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yajvan
11 October 2011, 02:10 PM
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté


If one looks to the 6th chapter¹ of Yogavasișțharāmāyaṇa, also known as the Yoga Vasișțha, vasișțha-ji describes the framework of the universe. He says I give you (rāmaḥ) the fruit of direct personal experience, not inferential guess work.

He talks of a universe with structure, with ~zones~ or spheres. Spheres of stars, of darkness, of empty space, etc. Yet one area he points out is beyond them ( these spheres, loka-s or regions) this whole universe is enveloped in water and is 10 fold in its extent ( or distance). He continues with some additional information that I will leave for later.

So, today as I am reading Astronomy ( November 2011 edition, page 18) it talks of a distant quasar hosting an enormous water store ( their words not mine). The article says, the universal solvent ( water) might be more universal then previously thought. The biggest and most distant concentration of water surrounding a quasar more then 12 billion light years away has been discovered. The reservoir, 140 trillion times that of our earth's oceans is distributed as water vapor for hundreds of light years around this quasar¹. Its at a temp of -63º Fahrenheit and is 300 trillion times less dense than our atmosphere because the vapor is so spread out.

'It's another demonstration that water is pervasive throughout the universe, even at the earliest times'
says Matt Bradford, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.

NASA sees the water by scientific methods, and vasișțha-ji sees it via intuition and his cognitive skills.


praṇām

words

6th chapter called nirvāṇa prakaraṇaṃ
nirvāṇa = 'nir' meaning out + 'vā' ( as in vāyu) is to blow.
What is one blowing out? The cycle of birth and death, ignorance. The extinction ( blowing out) of all impressions
quasar identification number APM 08279+5255

Jainarayan
11 October 2011, 03:48 PM
I am not surprised, considering that hydrogen, helium and oxygen are the three topmost abundant elements in the universe. Further consider that water is 2 atoms of hydrogen and 1 of oxygen.

By mass, oxygen is the third most abundant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements) element in the universe after hydrogen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen) and helium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium)[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen#cite_note-NBB297-1)

That was from the scientific perspective. I'm always blown away by the knowledge of Hindu cosmology and scriptures that science is now catching up with.

Mana
11 October 2011, 05:40 PM
Namasté yajvan

Wow, this is fantastic news!

Thank you for sharing.

praNAma

mana