In Search Of Cosmic Water

 

Every now and then someone questions the validity of our ithihasas, puranas and the Vedas on the grounds of scientific reasoning. People incredulously believe that science is the ultimate truth when in reality it is still in its infancy and will never catch up with Vedic studies. Recently I was shocked when I came upon a question regarding the validity of the existence of cosmic water in a discourse. The person raised doubts on the existence of pralaya samudram in the Universe. People are already on the fence between theism and atheism and when such people listen to these doubts, it corrupts their minds and confuses them further. Under the cover of providing truthful explanations, the person is corrupting young minds by seeming to provide intelligent explanations. It is very clear that whoever initiated this doubt about cosmic water neither has a clear understanding of science and nor has faith in the Vedic verses. Cosmic is a synonym for outer space, it means extra-terrestrial. Water present in the Universe, that is extra-terrestrial water is cosmic water. Cosmic water is quite real. In our own solar system, the moons Europa, Enceladus, Titan and Ganymede all have oceans. 

Water has been discovered in star-forming clouds as early as the 1960s. cosmos Herschel is a space observatory dedicated to uncovering the trail of cosmic water. This observatory identified water molecules in the star-forming clouds and has identified water as the seed of stars and planets.

A pre-stellar core refers to the early phase in the formation of stars. The existence of water vapour in the Universe has been known for a very long time, but the Herschel Observatory discovered water molecules in the pre-stellar core called Lynds 1544. Based on data obtained from Herschel, it is estimated that the amount of water in Lynds 1544 is equivalent to over 2000 times the water present in Earth’s ocean. Water is created from hydrogen and oxygen both of which are abundant in the Universe. The Orion nebula for instance creates enough water every day to fill Earth’s oceans 60 times over.

Recent studies also show that our own planet was completely underwater around 3 to 4 billion years ago. Hence, cosmic-water, deluge-water (Pralaya Samudram) are quite real. The Keplar Space Telescope has recently identified many exo-planets that may be completely submerged in water. Such planets are known as “water worlds”. Some of these planets possibly have oceans that are thousands of miles deep while Earth’s ocean is only 6.8 miles deep. 

We must have 100% faith in the Vedas and our ithihasas/puranas and take science with a grain of salt!

This is my humble request to everyone.