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Hinduism and Quantum Mechanics

Hinduism is often confused with that Vedic system and often criticized for its caste system. I was writing this paper on Indian spirituality and its relation with quantum mechanics. So, came across some much concealed aspects of Hinduism from literature study. There are three basic ideas of Hinduism or its teaching. First comes, the idea of the One Existence of the Eternal, the Infinite to whom sages give different names Permanent of the Buddhists, the Absolute of the Illusionists, the supreme God or Purusha of the Theists. For its second basic idea is the manifold way of man's approach to the Eternal and Infinite. The third idea is of the inner spiritual life. In fact during Vedic time, sages knew that common people are ignorant and cannot be directly taught these things. So, they gave physical symbols and name to this Infinite which in fact is composed of many infinites. They made ideal figure everywhere, for sun, plants, animals etc. Sages during Vedic time created Vedas, subli