This post deviates from the Sun Marathon slightly only to
complete talking about concepts underlying the Earth’s immediate planetary
system, i.e. the Sun-Earth-Moon system. In this post I will use Vedic concepts introduced
so far to explain the Sun-Earth-Moon system, i.e. the Sun at the center, the
Earth revolving around the Sun and the Moon’s axis tilt of the Earth. Then I
will explain some interesting concepts that connect the Sun and the Moon.
Now that you have a clear understanding of what the Sun
represents in Vedic terms, i.e. the Sun represents the Understanding/Modeling
aspect in beings and science. All we have to do now is to take this
understanding further. The word Understanding represents the Core/Center of
Knowledge that is used to analyze or design/create some entity of interest. It
is the common set of laws that scientists and mathematicians revolve around to
explain their theories. For theories to make sense, these laws must be rigid
and not be changing completely otherwise the Understanding is incomplete. With
that said, the Core can be imagined to be some immobile entity once developed.
Hence the Vedic authors concluded that the Sun is at the center of the Universe
and that every other celestial entity in the Universe is either moving away
from this point (the growth aspect of Agni I spoke about earlier when
explaining the Vedic perspective of the Creation of the Universe) or revolving
around it. Once the Sun being the center
was established, it only made sense that the Earth was not only rotating about
its axis to give it Day and Night but also revolving around the Sun to receive
the Sun’s Energy in all directions (i.e. utilizing all laws developed in the
Understanding).
Based on this understanding of the Sun, Vedic Science
extrapolates it to multiple entities. Examples can be that in every object there
exists a center which is the center of mass of that object or a soul in a being
that governs the being’s functionality. Hence according to Vedic understanding,
there exists a soul in every being that defines the being’s laws of behaviorism.
In Vedic terms, what you are is your soul and not your body.
Now let me introduce the Chandra concept of the Vedas.
CHANDRA:
Chandra is a Sanskrit word meaning the Moon. The Chandra
concept was developed based on what the Vedic authors (and everyone else)
noticed about the Moon. The Moon sheds varying proportions of light on the dark
sky in a periodic manner. It varies from full light to no light back-and-forth.
This gave the Vedic authors the idea of tuning, regulation, control and all the
likes. It’s much like a manufacturing process where certain amounts of heat or
gas are dispatched into the process at specific times to control/regulate how
the entity being manufactured is manufactured. Another example could be cooking
something where at specific times you use full heat or low heat, close the pot
or keep it open, put certain proportions of salt and other spices, and etc.
Based on this conceptual extrapolation, the Vedic authors figured out that the
Moon was in fact controlling/regulating stuff on the Earth. The fact a location
on Earth gets both Day and Night must be because of the Moon, i.e. the Moon is
the sole cause of the planet Earth rotating upon its axis. This is in complete
agreeance with modern space scientists (you may watch “The Moon” episode from The
Universe TV Show: http://www.hulu.com/watch/377142#s-p1-so-i0).
So the Chandra concept includes keywords such as regulation,
control, weighting, etc. This is similar to the Vedic concept Rudra. Both Rudra
and Chandra work hand-in-hand and the combination is what is known today as
Shiva (Shiva is Rudra with the Moon on his head, together giving out what is necessary
to sustain/control the system of interest, the Ganges or Soma. That’s why Soma
is associated with the Moon in plenty Vedic literature.).
Since the Chandra concept is about regulation and control,
the Vedic authors went ahead to associate the periodic appearance of the
seasons with the Moon. Then with the help of the Maruts concept, i.e. the
closer an object is to an entity of interest, the similar the characteristics are,
the Vedic authors realized that the Moon brings one half of the Earth (keeping
in mind The Ashwins concept of Symmetry) closer to the Sun while the other half
away in a periodic manner. That meant that the Moon in fact tilts the Earth’s
axis of rotation.
With simple Vedic concepts, we were able to construct how
the Sun-Earth-Moon planetary system looks like. Likewise with deeper and more
detailed Vedic concepts and understanding, I’m sure it is possible to construct
the entire Solar System, and that’s what the Indians, Egyptians and Mayans did without
using hi-tech telescopy.
Now let’s gets into concepts that connect the Sun and Moon
together.
THE SUN-MOON DUO:
The Sun and Moon have been the basis for many cultures and
tribes that have existed on planet Earth.
Though each culture or tribe would have different perspectives of the
Sun and Moon, I will throw light on the Vedic culture’s perspective on the Sun
and Moon.
From the first-hand Vedic knowledge we have developed so
far, we can perceive that Vedic culture was fundamentally about learning (Surya)
and actuation based on what was learned (Chandra). Hence education in multiple
disciplines (Surya) was a vital part of the Vedic culture. This was further
emphasized by creating a specific Goddess (for the multiplicity part) of
Education popularly known as Saraswati. Once something is learned, it reflects
onto your actions when performing a task (the Moon reflecting the Sun’s light
on the Earth).
The Sun and Moon also represented the two genders female and
male respectively (the association of the Sun with feminine and the Moon with
male should by now be clear to you). Hence during marriages the Sun and the
Moon are invoked. Here the interesting fact is that the Earth has only one Sun
and one Moon. In Vedic terms, an Agni-Prithvi (a planet with life) can only
have one Sun and one Moon to define a natural law that one man weds one wife.
Here’s where trying to work against this gets really interesting.
Let’s assume that the natural law defines that one man can
wed two wives and use the Vedic understanding we have developed so far to check
if this is conceptually stable (i.e. using the Indra concept of Closure). For
the assumed law to work within the realm of the Vedas, it means that the
underlying planetary system will have two Suns for one Earth and one Moon. Two
Suns existing in the planetary system implies that a single object will have
two centers-of-mass or each living being will have two souls. So how would the
creation sequence look like for this planetary system to exist? It will be Purusha
connected to two Prithvis via one Vayu, one Soma and two Agnis. This means we
are already talking about two Earths which violates the Two Suns, One Earth and
One Moon system that was initially sketched. So such a system is conceptually
unstable and cannot exist according to Vedic theories.
Let’s try this the other way round, i.e. one woman weds two
husbands. The underlying planetary system will consist of One Sun, One Earth
and Two Moons. This means that one system requires two controllers to actuate a
single input. Mathematically it violates the conservation of dimensionality.
This also assumes that the system will be at two different states at the same
time due to a single input such that two controllers are required. The creation
sequence required to create this system will be two Purushas connected to one
Prithvi via two Vayus, two Somas and one Agni. So in this system the Earth is
expected to receive energy from two Suns. This again violates the initial
sketch that was One Sun, One Earth and Two Moons. Such a system is also
conceptually unstable and hence cannot exist.
The above analytical technique is a product of the Sun-Moon
combination. The Sun models the laws of nature as some closed form
interconnection between multiple things (I’m using the word ‘things’ for lack
of a better word to describe it. I’m quite sure the English language does not
have a word to describe this profound connectivity). The Moon utilizes this
model of profound connectivity to conceptually construct how this Universe was
designed. This was in fact the basis of the Vedic culture.
With this I conclude the Chandra concept and will resume the
Sun Marathon in my next post.
