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 Philosophy in modern era is considered to be the vision of the unseen and mostly unknown or undiscovered subject.It has very little concern with tangible things of relevance. But in ancient India, philosophy or Darshan was treated at par with science. Its study was supposed to give clear vision of life and nature as a whole, leading to a more logical or consistent theoretical knowledge and harmonious practical living. The eventual or conclusion of Indian philosophy is said to be Vedanta. Its sources are Brahma Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, and the voluminous book Yoga Vasishtha. Vedanta claims to have reached such a high state of unification of nature beyond which no further unification is possible.
"To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it."
It is, indeed, a remarkable circumstance that when Western civilization discovers Relativity it applies it to the manufacture of atom-bombs, whereas Oriental civilization applies it to the development of new states of consciousness."
(source: Spiritual Practices of India - By Frederic Spiegelberg Introduction by Alan Watts p. 8-9).
"Two thousand years before Pythagoras, philosophers in northern India had understood that gravitation held the solar system together, and that therefore the sun, the most massive object, had to be at its center. "
(source: Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science - By Dick Teresi p. 1 and 130).
The Indian ancient view classifies the visible world into five elements: space, light or fire, and three states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas) represented by earth, water, and air. They are related to five senses and their five subtle forms called Tanmatra through a process called Panchikaran. Everything, irrespective of size and shape, has besides its physical body, a subtle body which is a bundle of abstract qualities and exists conceptually in the non-physical space called Chittakash. The subtle body in the Chittakash behaves like mind, and is free from many limitations of the physical space.
Einstein thought about it and discovered,the essential structure of cosmos.The 19th century had pressed it's understanding of space and time to the very limit.Everyone believed in the ether,that mysterious background substance of the whole universe,through which light waves supposedly travelled,but where was the experimental evidence for it?.Nowhere,as Einstein realised.He found it more productive to think in terms of utterly abstract frames of reference,becuase these could move along with a moving observer,meanwhile,a few imiginative peoplewere already speaking of time in terms of fourth dimension.
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