The idea behind writing this book was keeping two types of people in mind. First of all those who are curious to know and wish to understand some basics of the Hindu philosophy, but cannot find some simple writings under the modern perspective so as to let them understand and try to believe, observe and follow some of its philosophical teachings. Secondly those who under the influence and achievements of modern science do not believe in the teachings of philosophy and consider the subjects like philosophy of no use in practical life. Here in this book some of philosophical teachings applicable in one's daily living is explained giving an analogy of modern science, so that those who can understand science can understand the philosophy under the scientific perspective. Science does not and cannot explain many things that are far beyond the sense perception and are not observable by scientific instrumentation. Philosophy picks up the unknown where the science stops.
Er. Ram Nath Sahni was born in village Lote in Lahoul Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh (Formerly part of Punjab). After going through his primary and middle schooling in his native village, he did his matriculation from Government High School Kullu and F.Sc. (faculty of science) from D.A.V. College Jalandhar Punjab. After receiving his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh India he went to Cornell University Ithaca New York U.S.A. where he earned his Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering.
As we go on digging the Hindu philosophy, one can always find something new and worth studying. I had always been curious as to why Shiva's Tandav Nritya was called the creative energy or creative process of Shiva. What did this symbolic presentation of Shiva dancing in frantic gyration represented? Why did they attach the notion of creation, preservation, and destruction theory to this dance of Shiva, when in another theory the creation is attributed to Brahma, the preservation to Vishnu and death or destruction to Shiva, It was hard for me to accept this Tandav Nritya simply as the deity of dance and dancers. As I studied science more and more and the discoveries in science regarding the evolution theory of the universe and its birth, things started to dawn on me what after all this symbol was created for. When the Big-Bang theory came up and the scientific explanation provided for the birth of universe and also when the theory describing what the sun is and how the whole solar system was formed, Shiva's Tandav Nritya started unfolding on me. I felt that this is what the philosophers tried to show in this symbolic form and as such I felt like adding this as another chapter to my already published book since I cannot make a full book out of this alone. Here in this added chapter I have tried to explore and explain what after all this symbol meant to be. For lack of detailed descriptive writing, how else this theory could be presented in the symbolic form? I can feel a lot of objections raised from various quarters, as it may be difficult for many people to accept this theory which is unheard of before, Yet I feel I must present what I can see and feel in this symbolism. A picture of this Tandav Nritya is also presented at the end of the chapter so that the readers could themselves try to explore the meaning in it.
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