Piyush Ranjan Dash
I am a medical student with a deep interest in science, philosophy, religion, and the questions that lie at the boundaries between them.
Although my academic training is in medicine, yet I have always been curious about questions that extend beyond the conventional boundaries of science: What is time? How did ancient traditions understand the universe? What does it mean for something to be eternal? And can two very different ways of understanding reality be compared without forcing one into the framework of the other?
These questions led me to explore Hindu scriptures and traditional cosmology more closely.
BEYOND TIME is an attempt to explore those ideas with curiosity rather than assumption. I do not approach Hinduism with the intention of proving that it predicted modern science, nor with the intention of dismissing it when its descriptions differ from modern scientific understanding.
My guiding principle throughout this book is simple:
Understand first. Interpret second. Compare third.
This book is the result of that exploration.