Did ancient Indian sages really know more about the world and existence than today's scientists and philosophers? Has India already invented/discovered everything modern science has invented/discovered so far? Or is it just a lie?
Pradip Gangopadhyay · No, the ancient Hindu sages didn’t know all that has been discovered by modern scientists. It is pointless to look for science in Hindu scriptures. However, there are passages that suggest that there was some scientific understanding even at so early a date. Microscopic world Arjuna said, ‘ There are many creatures that are so minute that their existence can only be inferred. With the falling of the eyelids alone, they are destroyed.’ Mahabharata, Santi Parva, Section XV The changing human body Sulabha said, ‘From infancy youth is reached, and from youth, old age. As the creature advances from one stage into another, the form presented in the previous stage becomes changed. The constituent elements of the body, which serve diverse functions in the general economy, undergo change every moment in every creature. Those changes, however, are so minute that they cannot be noticed. The birth of particles, and their death, in each successive condition ca...