Sambodhi 2009 Vol 32

Author(s): J B Shah, K M patel
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Vol. XXXII, 2009
Major progress linking modern science and...
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For example, Vedic Mathematics is a number system that is based on unmanifest wholeness, the Absolute Number, expressed in the concept of the symbol 'zero' or nothing-ness, of which all the written numbers are a modification (25). It emphasizes both inclusive and exclusive approaches to logic and mathematical principles; that is, and rather than just or, such as plus and minus together rather than just plus or minus. Focusing on holism and simultaneity, it is said to have the potential to resolve paradoxes faced by modern science and modern mathematics arising due to binary or two-valued logic, in terms of discrete versus continuous or digital versus analogue. Binary relation, binary logic, binary algorithm, plus-minus, zero-one, on-off are such expressions that symbolize duality. Vedic mathematics accommodates this, yet transcends it to the non-dual realm.
As another example, in Vedic science the systematic methodologies of Yajna are said to form the link between the 'three worlds (bhu, bhuvah, svah).' Yajna is known as a ceremonial procedure that includes such ingredients as sacred fire, oblation with ghee or honey, and recitation of specific Vedic sounds. But this is only its local, objective, surface, ritualistic behavioral aspect. Yajna reflects an especially integrated understanding of deterministic relationships between transcendent, subtle, and gross levels of nature associated with the holistic consciousness-mind-matter ontology. In a similar way that information to shape all aspects of a tree is contained in the DNA code, the total information in the laws of nature is contained in the Veda and can be accessed to produce specific effects on the level of objective behavior. As an analogy, it can be compared to a laboratory experiment in which certain chemicals are carefully put together to produce compounds with specific properties based on the laws of chemistry. However, the process of Yajna applies much subtler non-local dynamics that just now beginning to be considered in the quantum mechanics of non-locality beyond the limitations of the speed of light, as well as in unified field theories. It involves wave mechanics of specific material objects and impulses of Vedic sounds, in terms of both physical locality and non-physical non-locality. The procedures are precisely detailed in the Veda, and are carefully implemented by Vedic scientists or pundits extensively trained in how to utilize non-local connections at the unified level of nature's functioning (1).
Both modern science and ancient Vedic science analyze the phenomenal