04-19-2007, 05:36 AM
Sri sengotuvel, here is a narrative for you
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Our sastras came into existence at a time when mortals mixed with the gods. We would be able to appreciate this fact if we tried to understand the samkalpa we make at the time of performing any religious function. The samkalpa traces the present from the time of creation itself. From Jyotisa we learn the position of the grahas at the commencement of the yuga: then they were all in a line.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Some calculations with regard to heavenly bodies today are different from those of the past. And, if the findings at present are not the same as seen in the sastras, it does not mean that the latter are all false. The sastras have existed from the time the grahas were in a line and the North pole was directly opposite the Pole star. Since then vast changes have taken place in nature. Valleys have become mountains, mountains have become oceans, oceans have become deserts and so on. Geologists speak about such cataclysmic changes, and astronomers tell us about the change in the courses of the heavenly bodies. <b>So what we see today of the earth and the heavenly bodies is different from what is mentioned in the sastras</b>.
http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part10/chap8.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Our sastras came into existence at a time when mortals mixed with the gods. We would be able to appreciate this fact if we tried to understand the samkalpa we make at the time of performing any religious function. The samkalpa traces the present from the time of creation itself. From Jyotisa we learn the position of the grahas at the commencement of the yuga: then they were all in a line.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Some calculations with regard to heavenly bodies today are different from those of the past. And, if the findings at present are not the same as seen in the sastras, it does not mean that the latter are all false. The sastras have existed from the time the grahas were in a line and the North pole was directly opposite the Pole star. Since then vast changes have taken place in nature. Valleys have become mountains, mountains have become oceans, oceans have become deserts and so on. Geologists speak about such cataclysmic changes, and astronomers tell us about the change in the courses of the heavenly bodies. <b>So what we see today of the earth and the heavenly bodies is different from what is mentioned in the sastras</b>.
http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part10/chap8.htm