Science in Vedas and Bhagavad Gita

Law of Conservation of energy - stated by Krishna

"The law of conservation of energy" which has been stated by Sri Krishna around 3100 B.C. (Archaelogical survey of India says that the Kurukshetra war took place around 3100 B.C.)


नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सतः ।
उभयोरपि दृष्टोऽन्तस्त्वनयोस्तत्त्वदर्शिभिः ॥२- १६॥
"Nasatho Vidyathe Bhavo Na bhavo vidyathe satha:
Ubhayorapi drashtonthasthvanayosthatwa darshibhi:"[Bhagavad Gita - 2.16]

TRANSLATION:Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the soul] there is no change. This they have concluded by studying the nature of both.

Implied meaning: Energy can never be created nor destroyed.In whichever way you think (theism or atheism) ,Whatever is already there cannot be destroyed.Whatever is not there cannot be created ".
Notes:(satha: = real=whatever is already there,asatha:=unreal=that which is not there)

वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि ।
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ॥२- २२॥
vâsâmsi jîrnâni yathâ vihâyanavâni grhnâti naro 'parâni
tathâ sarîrâni vihâya jîrnânyanyâni samyâti navâni dehî[Bhagavad Gita - 2.22]

TRANSLATION: "Like a man who puts on new garments after discarding his worn out clothes, the embodied Self, also, casts off tattered bodies and transmigrates into other bodies that are new.’’

Implied meaning: Matter only changes form.Solid may become a liquid or a gas or viceversa.

Don't you think these two verses are like "Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed.It can only be transformed from one form to the other without gain or loss.'?Yes.It is.According to Einstein's relation E=mc^2,mass and energy are equivalent.Energy exists as matter in this universe.So,these two verses are nothing but "The law of conservation of energy" which has been stated by Sri Krishna around 3100 B.C. (Archaelogical survey of India says that the Kurukshetra war took place around 3100 B.C.)