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In one of the articles already posted here we saw what is big and small in Hindu scriptures . When the world was talking about earth appearing around 4000 BCE, Hindus sang about God who is Sahsra Koti Yugadhaarine i.e.ten thousand million Yugas(multiplied by 4,32,000 years). We know the famous quotation,
In the Katha Upanishad (1.2.20) it is said:
anor aniyan mahato mahiyan
atmasya jantor nihitah guhayam
tam akratuh pasyati vita-soko
dhatuh prasadan mahimanam atmanah.
Aṇor aṇīyān mahato mahīyān: “The Lord is smaller than the smallest and greater than the greatest.
Tamil Saint Manikkavasagar also sang about million galaxies in his Tamil Hymn Tiruvasagam. He used the Upanishad style and said
God (Shiva) is
Older than the oldest and newer than the newest.
He lived 1500 years ago.
(About the age of Manikkavasagar, Kalidasa, Adi Sankara and Rig Veda, please read my research articles).
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Where is the Anu (atom) in Vishnu Sahasranama (VS)?
Anuh- Word or Naamaa No.835
One who is extremely subtle.
Mundaka Upanishad says,
Esonur aatmaa cetasaa veditavyah – this subtle Atmn is to be comprehended by the mind.
This shows the word ANU is used from Vedic days.
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suukshma- word number 457
One who is subtle because He is without any gross causes like sound etc. The causes of the grossness of the succeeding elements from Aakaasa downwords is sound and other objects.
Then again Adi Shankara quotes Mundakopanishad 1-1-6
Sarvagatam susuukhmam – He who is very subtle and has entered into everything.
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But the Big Question is whether the Hindus ever understood the meaning of ATOM as we understand it today?
Yes, they did understand and even sang about splitting of atom; they used it as a simile.
According to Hindu linguistics, a simile must be used only if it can be understood by the common man. No ancient Sanskrit or Tamil poet would have used biblical phrases David and Goliath or Doubting Thomas.
Anu is used by all Sanskrit and later Tamil poets.
Tirumular, who lived around 8th century CE used the word and sang about splitting it in his work Tirumanthiram,
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“The Lord is the Beginning of all,
He is the Atom-within-the-atom;
Divide an atom within the atom,
Into parts one thousand,
They who can thus divide
That atom within the atom
May well near the Lord,
He, indeed, is the Atom-within-the-atom”
Spiritual Meaning:
The inner core energy of the primordial atom exists within every individual atom. A yogi with true wisdom approaches the primordial atom through splitting the individual atom in to one thousand atoms. Thus a Kundalini Yogi merges his soul energy with the cosmic energy by realizing that universe is a conglomeration of individual atomic particles.
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There is an appendix to the Tamil Veda Tirukkural and it is called Tiruvalluva Maalai. There Tamil Poetess Avvaiyaar , while praising the greatness of Valluvar said,
He has put so much into this book as if one splits an atom and places seven oceans into it.
Another poet by name Idaikkadar replaced the word atom with mustard seed.
In short, splitting something and placing or creating a lot of energy is known to Hindus for thousands of years.
Tirumular in his hymns also speaks about splitting a cow’s hair into many thousand parts.
“Take one piece of cow’s hair and cut it into 100
Parts, then take one part of it and again cut it into
1000 parts, then take one part from that and again
cut it into another 10000 parts. The remaining 1 part
from those 10000 parts will resemble the size of the
Atom (Anu in Tamil)”.
This may not be exactly same in today’s Nuclear science book. But Tirumular did not write a science book or article. He wanted to explain something spiritual. But the simile he used shows what can be done with the smallest particle — ANU in Sanskrit, atom in English. Even the Greeks who gave us the word atom did not use the word with the meaning we use it today in science books.
Lord is Atom-Within-Atom
The Lord is the Beginning of all,
He is the Atom-within-the-atom;
Divide an atom within the atom,
Into parts one thousand,
They who can thus divide
That atom within the atom
May well near the Lord,
He, indeed, is the Atom-within-the-atom.– Tirumanthiram
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Aprameyah – word No.46
All the above examples such as mustard seeds, cow’s hair are only for laymen. The word Aprameyah is explained by Shankara as follows,
One who is not measurable or understandable by any of the accepted means of knowledge like sense perception, inference etc. even the scriptures cannot reveal Him directly.
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Tvastaa – word No.52
He who makes all beings shrunken at the time of cosmic dissolution. This explains the Big Crunch theory.
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Mahaadyudtih – word No.176
When we read books on astronomy, we see everything is explained as light or light emitting sources; in the pictures also, we see them as brilliant shining objects.
Shankara says in his commentary,
One who is intensely brilliant both within and without.
Brhad Aranyaka Upanishad says 4-3-9,
Svayam jyotih one who is self illumined
Jyotishaam jyotih- one who illumines the brilliance of all brilliant entities.
—- subham—-
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