SOLILOQUY ! ( views protected under Seccond Amendment)
First,'they' said that 'the world is flat'(but we,Indians did not believe so -{"akhanda mandalakarang byaptang jenachara charang" -said our scripture, meaning the univrse that is indivisible and spherical and infinite}.
Then the Christian faith ruled the world and found that the universe (our world ) was created by the Lord only 4000 yrs. back. and the Catholic fathers burnt Bruno,the great scientist,for declaring his faith in a new way.Then they harrassed Copernicus and punished Galileo(but India allowed ,even, Carvak to say anythig he believed).
The church ruled the world of science that time. And that was when even the ordinary villagers in India knew about the Indivisible spherical Universe and Absolute monistic nature of God.
Time and centuries rolled past .Finally,science (like Samkhya Philosiphy) survived and won the battle . And a blessed time followed when Newton(s) and Einstein(s) of later centuries escaped the noose or whips of all Churches of every sects everywhere( both were true believers). And the Vedantic view about the absolute nature of the Lord and the 'endlessness and multiplicity of galactic universes' have now been accepted thru applied-science (of Vedantic view) like the Quantum-technology of post Planck-Einstein world.(contd)