கார்ல் சாகன் ஒரு மதத்தை தனதாக தேர்ந்தெடுத்திருந்தார் அது இந்துமதமாகத்தான் இருக்கும்

கார்ல் சாகன் ஒரு மதத்தை தனதாக தேர்ந்தெடுத்திருந்தார் என்றால் அது இந்துமதமாகத்தான் இருக்கும் என்று எழுதுகிறார் மாத்யூ.

இவர் தானாக படித்து இந்து மதத்தின் மீது ஆழ்ந்த விருப்பம் கொண்டு பல கற்று பிளாக் எழுதுபவர்.

வாழ்க வளமுடன்.

இவரது பதிவில் இருக்கும் ஒரு வீடியோவையும் கண்டு மகிழலாம்.

Carl Sagan on Hinduism
Posted by Matthew August 17, 2007

I’ve written before about how influential Carl Sagan was in my childhood. Not only his views of science and philosophy but also his views on religion. My interest in Hinduism goes far back into my elementary school years when I discovered that there was a religion that had such a enormous vision of cosmos. I had to find out more. Rather than the universe being only a few thousand years old (as I had learned in church), Hindus believed that the universe was billions and billions of years old - and that there were an infinite number of universes previous to this one! That was a view of the world that truly encompassed the scale of a divine creator; not a small god that had only been around for a few years, interested only in the affairs of a few, special people on one small planet. I had discovered that there was another way of thinking.

It was Carl Sagan that helped me first awaken that sense of complete awe at the scale of universe. Though Sagan was an atheist, I get the feeling if he were to have chosen a religion, Hinduism would have been it. Here is the clip from Cosmos that I saw when I was a kid. His sense of child-like wonder and fascination is as infectious today as it was then. Enjoy!