Guest guest Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 why is it that it is said that sri rama was in the treta yuga and krishna was living at the end of the dwapara yuga and beginning of the kali yuga. this would make the difference somewhere around a couple hundred thousand years, right? but it was scientifically proven recently that sri rama's birthdate was january 8, 5114 BC. and Krishna's life is believed to be sometime in the 3rd melinium BC. that would only be 2000 years difference right? can anyone explain the difference? or maybe the ancient scriptures use a different way of measuring time and mean something else when they say hundred thousand years?? anyone?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 very simple... the "science" is wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 How do you know it's wrong? Just because the texts say so? I'm a Hindu and I'd like to believe in the texts, but I don't think everything's supposed to be taken literally in the texts, and they could be prone to error, just like any other religious texts such as the Bible, Quran, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 How do you know science is right. Provide references and show me how through science the date of Ramayana was found ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 HareKrishna! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!I offer my obeisances unto Him! How do you know it's wrong? Just because the texts say so? Well, becasue scriptures were written by realized souls and modern science is by ordinary human beings. So the scripture are considered perfect than modern science. So we say modern science is wrong. Haribol! anand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 I agree with you. The prediction is based on the changing positions of the stars about 5K BC. But the same cyclic(??) positions can appear in treta yuga. So its utterly foolish to give any judgement. Cheap publicity thats all...software..huh...how accurately tells about the expanding universe they never claim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 why couldnt it be that we are to blame and we are misreading the texts? couldnt it have been that perhaps at the beginning of hinduism some 10000 or so years ago, people used a different time table and that same time table has been passed down from gheneration to generation as truth until now. but as the concept of time appeared differently to us now, that concept when applied to the scriptures never changed because of the "exactness" of the scriptures. the scriptures are only as exact aas the people who interpret them. hinduism is a religion full of symbolism. expressing time in terms of hundreds of thousands of years could be symbolism itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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