Answer By OSHO:-  Creation itself is enough unto itself; it doesn’t require any outside energy to create it.

The moment you accept an outside agency to create it you fall into a vicious circle because the reasoning is that how someone or something could be there without being created.

If you think God created the universe then who created God? if god doesn’t require any creator then what is the problem? Existence can be there without being created.

I will write answer to this question in 2 way, 1) As per Science and, 2) As per Ancient Texts

Theists cling to the law of causality and say that there has to be God who created everything

1) Answer As Per Science:- All laws of general physics came to existence after 10^-43 seconds of the big bang. Law of causality, also. Temprature at that time was so immense that all known laws of physics ceased to function.

Even the Time and Laws of general physics did not exist before the big bang. So taking the law of causality as evidence of the existence of god is an idiotic notion.

Shortly before the death of Stephen Hawkings, He spoke about the big band in an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Bottom Line:- So as per NO-BOUNDRY CONDITION, asking what was there before the big bang is like asking where is the south direction while standing on the center of the south pole.

There are many HYPOTHESES on “What was there before the big bang” which are thousands of times more logical and rational than most of the Hindu and Christian scriptures for those who don’t believe in the intelligence of the greatest scientists humanity ever had.

All HYPOTHESES like big bounce, Multiverse models have so much contradiction with known laws of physics.

So, It is evident, logical, and reasonable that there was nothing before the big bang .

There will be always possibility of something to be possible in the impossibility of that – PEOPLE CALL IT LUCK

For an instance, Earth will be hit by an asteroid by tomorrow. This means the possibility is 0 for this particular assumed event.

Actually, we take it as 0 but it isn’t 0. There will always be 10^-10000 possibility for “Earth will get hit by an asteroid by tomorrow”

SAME AS THAT, THERE CAN BE ANYTHING LIKE GOD, EVIL, DEMONS, REAL-LIFE PEGASUS, HULK, THOR, BLACK WIDOW, THANOS. BUT CHANCES ARE 10^-10000 WHICH IS ALMOST 0.

The complexity of the universe is something that scientists continue to explore, and we may never have all the answers as universe is so big. But there’s nothing wrong with that. Not knowing the answer to a question is not a valid excuse for making up a fairytale to explain it.

So saying there is god is like taking theories, knowledge, and explanations of the greatest scientists and greatest philosophers humanity ever had such as Epicurus, Einstein, Stephen Hawkings, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Karl Marx as a grain of salt.

2) Answer As Per Ancient Text:- 

Before the creation nothing was absolutely zero, but it was, whatever it was, it was not appear able, neither there was space, nor the time (kaal and time are different).

There was no cover-able material then how there can be a cover, so there was no cover. Then for whom there was happiness (Sukh and happiness are different).

There was no present for the consumable matter nor the consumer, not even the atoms were there. there was nothing to say about , but there was, something which cannot be known. |1|

Before the creation there was no death, because nothing was able to dead, then how can be death? As there was no death there was no immortality.

Neither there was morning nor night as they happen in the creation. But there was something as living Brahm, having own rules and nothing more than that. |2|.

It we consider creation as existence of living things then we can say that pointed out as Brahm was nothing but universe with no life.

Before the creation the unknown material was covered by andhkaar (it is absence of even black color), there was the Aabhu tatva everywhere like water which was basic material cause/ by which other material formed.

It had the avyakta prakrati (devoid nature, it is completely different from nature word in English) named “Aabhu” from this Aabhu the creation/other material came into existence. The first thing made by this Aabhu was Mahatatva. |3|

Bheeshm said to Yudhisthir when telling about the conversation of Shiv and his wife Uma. In this conversation Mahadev tells Uma about “Aabhu” matter which created universe, its properties are —

1. Nitya — This matter is eternal, it was neither created nor destroyed.
2. Ek — This matter is one, it is same everywhere neither less at a point neither far away.
3. Anu — This is most “Suksham” meaning infinite small, even small then stings even smaller than space and time itself. (Yes space and time has structures)
4. Vyapi — It is omnipresent, no vacuum space.
5. Kriyahinam — This has no action in it neither force.
6. Ahetuk — It has no cause neither god is its cause .
7. Agrahya — It cannot be detected by Indris (in english you may call sense organ) nor by means of any technology.
8. Avyakta — Noone can define this completely.
9. Mool — It is root of all matter in universe may it be quarks, photon etc.
10. Pradhan — All the Jada (non-concious) matter’s properties are in existence because of it.

As per this hymn:- “Aabhu”, is the matter by which other material/creation formed/happened and GOD is not a cause of existence of “Aabhu” matter.

Which simply means GOD is not a creator of Aabhu neither creator of this infinite matter (Universe)

Believing:- I believe we are humans, I believe Washington DC is city, I believe Mumbai is city.

Definition of Faith:- It is devoid of logic, rational, reason, evidence, witness and intellect

Definition of Stupidity:- It is devoid of logic, rational, reason, evidence, witness and intellect

There is no difference between faith without evidence and stupidity.

For more clarification on this question, watch video below.

The earliest function of religion was to explain natural phenomena that primitive man could not otherwise understand.

Thunder storms, volcanoes, lack of rain, natural forces that were once attributed to deities, now scientific progress has made it clear how and why many of these things occur.

Obviously there are things in the world that we don’t yet understand but, there’s no reason to come up and say God did it. That is not an answer but, it’s simply a way of saying, “I don’t know.”

Yet, the existence of deities raises more questions than it solves. Watch this video for Further idea,

Some Hindus say that LHC (Large Hadron Collider), Switzerland has Indian God Shiva’s Nataraja statue, are those scientists are idiots and believe in god and you are more knowledgeable than those scientist?

Answer:- Answer is very simple. The statue is just a showcase-type item, CERN has that statue because that just represents the death and birth of the universe as per MYTHOLOGY.

IT IS JUST A GIFT FROM INDIA TO LHC TO CELEBRATE ITS ASSOCIATION WITH CERN, NOTHING MORE THAN THAT. (source)

The presence of that statue doesn’t make any difference, there are toilets also. so will you relate toilets with the physics?

There are a tremendous amount of contradictions of religious texts with common sense, science, and with each other and own self.

EVERYTHING IS STABLE/IMMOVABLE/FIXED:-

Atharva Veda 6.44.1:- “Just as the earth with planets-constellations is stable. This earth is the basis of all beings, The trees which sleeps even they remain standing are stable or not moving. Just like all of these let this bleeding from wound stop”

Atharva Veda 6.77.1:- “Heaven and earth and between these two the whole universe is stable in its place and limits, the mountains are also stablein their respective places, In the same way, we stabilize our sense-powers with the help of self-power in the limit.”

Atharva Veda 6.88.1:- “Just as the sky, the earth and the entire mountain and the whole world are motionless, in the same way the lord of the people, the king, should also remain stable.”

As per common scientific knowledge, we all know that nothing in this universe is stable, even universe itself is not stable.

The surface of the earth at the equator moves at a speed of 460 meters per second–or roughly 1,000 miles per hour.

The sun and the solar system is moving at 200 kilometers per second, or at an average speed of 448,000 mph (720,000 km/h).

NOW, HERE AT THIS POINT, “MIRACLES OF REINTERPRETATIONS” HAPPENS BY FANATIC HINDU CONSERVATIVES.

FANATIC HINDU CONSERVATIVES “Reinterpretes” the hindi word “स्थिर (Stable/immovable)” and tries to allocate what is the best suitable meaning in a such way that it doesn’t contradicts known physics.

Just like this conserver,

Okay, let we accept your miracle of reinterpretaion. BUT I DON’T KNOW IN WHICH ERA THIS GUY IS LIVING, CAUSE HE SAYING THAT “EARTH, SKY, UNIVERSE, MOUNTAINS DOESN’T DEVIATE!!!!!!!!!”

In reality, earth is deviating (Landscape changes as per season, tactonic plates are moving, Even the peak of Mt Everest rises in height by approximately 2 cm each year, rotating on own axis, revolving around sun, revolving around the black hole (Sagittarius A* (Center of milky way)), moving towards andromeda at speed of 402,000 kilometers per hour).

This is why temperature in the inner core of earth is about 5,200° Celsius (9,392° Fahrenheit) not 0° Celsius.

And there is nothing that is less deviating than the sky/universe.

Universe is in itself so much deviating that using the word deviation to describe the deviating nature of the universe is nonsensical.

On one side Hindus say that the soul cannot be created nor destroyed, whereas this guy is also claiming/creating or exposing contradiction with his ability to do miracles of reinterpretation that “Prajapati developed the Aatma/Atmatattva”.

Atharva Veda 6.77.1 also states that universe is stable in “ITS LIMITS”, as we know that the universe is keep expanding and it doesn’t have a limit as it is not finite.

SO, AS PER ATHARVA VEDA THE SKY/UNIVERSE IS STABLE AND EARTH IS IMMOVABLE!!!

FIRST MAN BORN 12 CRORE YEARS AGO–

According to Matsya Purana, After the deluge, Manu’s family and the seven sages repopulated the earth.

According to that Purana, Manu’s story occur before 28 chaturyuga in the present Manvantara which is the 7th Manvantara. This amounts to 120 million years ago.

~ Source

THIS IS HOW WE CAME INTO EXISTENCE,

EVEN THE MONKEYS WEREN’T ON THIS PLANET 12 CRORE YEARS AGO. We all should be of same race if our great….. great… grandfather is “MANU”.

Dinosaurs went extinct 6.6 crore years ago. If “MANU” the sage is first human (12 crore years ago). This means he must be lived with the DINOSAURS.

As we know that 6.6 crore years ago mass extinction occurred. So saying MANU was the first human is ridiculous.

On the basis of the literary evidences given above it can be inferred that Ram, Ravan, Hanuman, Vishwamitra etc lived in the 24th Treta Yuga.

According to the Mahabharata, Ram lived in the transition phase between Treta and Dwapar ages. It however does not mention the order of the Treta.

We are presently in the Kalyug of the 28th Chaturyugi and so far 5,108 years of Kalyug have lapsed.

If we accept that Ram indeed lived during the last phase of the 24th Treta Yuga then it can be calculated that he lived 1,81,49,108 years ago.

If he lived 1,81,49,108 years ago, then he was “Ramapithecus”.

Do you find it sensible to call the ape (Ramapithecus) shown above lord? Do you think that they were able to create 38 km long so called Ram Setu in ocen?

TO GIVE SOME SORT OF SOLACE TO HINDUS, LET WE TAKE OTHER LITERARY EVIDENCE FOR GRANTED.

But even if we ignore Vayu puran, Harivansh text, Bhramand Puran and just accept Mahabharata, then he lived in the Treta of the present 28th cycle of Chaturyugi, which means he lived 8,69,108 years ago.

If he lived 8,69,108 years ago, then he was “Homo Erectus [2M to 250,000 years ago]”.

Homo erectus had small brain size compared to us. Which is evidence that they were not literate and not capable of creating 38 km long so called Ram Setu in ocen? Source

After so many years it’s impossible for any buildings, dwellings, statues, seals, coins, cloths, bones or weapons to exist.

There also cannot be physical records or evidences of every person who walked this earth so long ago.

Even if someone has passed away five generations ago without leaving his progeny behind, we have no natural or physical evidence to prove his life.

Even if he had a house, without documentary evidence or word-of-mouth we cannot prove that it belonged to him.

The Valmiki Ramayana (Bal Kanda 18.8.9) mentions (the planetary positions vis-à-vis zodiac constellations) at the time of Lord Ram’s birth.

The same details were entered in the Planetarium Gold software to determine when was the planetary positions and zodiac constellations were same as when Ram was born.

January 10, 5114 BC was the time when the planetary positions and zodiac constellations were same as when Ram was born as per Planetarium Gold software.

Now some hindu get solace by thinking that Ram born on January 10, 5114 BC. However, The same planetary positions and zodiac constellations does occurs millions of times at interval of 26,000 years.

But it can not be considered that Ram indeed born on January 10, 5114 BC as there are Vayu puran, Harivansh text, Bhramand Puran which states that he indeed lived during the last phase of the 24th Treta Yuga

However, The Valmiki Ramayana also says that, Rama ruled for eleven thousand years.

So even if we accept that Rama was born on January 10, 5114 BC which is against religious texts (ignoring Vayu Puran, Harivansh text, Bhramand Puran).

THEN RAMA MUST BE RULING AYODHYA RIGHT NOW TILL THE YEAR 5886 AD. WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY NOT THE CASE.

As per MYTHOLOGY, Rama was son of Kausalya and had mortal body.

But it is not possible in any way as we know (As per scriptures), Rama lived millions of years ago.

Excavations in Aşıklıhöyük have reached the bottom layer, revealing information about the first settled life that began there 10,300 years ago.

More than 80 skeletons found in the area show the approximate average lifespan of the people living there (Just 10,300 years ago) was between 25 and 30 years. (Source).

So It is illogical to even think that millions of years ago an ape or any mortal had lifespan of 11,000 years.

At that time (Millions of years ago) lifespan must be somewhat years that can be counted on fingers!

According to Hindu mythology, Ram Setu was built by an army of monkeys for Lord Ram and his warriors to cross over to Lanka to rescue Sita.

Every couple of years, someone or the other claims that Ram Setu, or Adam’s Bridge, is in fact a man-made structure. Last time, it was claimed that NASA has released images of a 1.75 million year old man-made bridge.

This time, Discovery’s Science Channel is saying that the building of such a bridge would have been a super-human achievement, rocks are 7000 years old and sand is 4000 years old.

This is being said in a promo of an episode of their show “What On Earth?” based on the Ram Setu.

After the news of NASA imagery started doing the rounds,

NASA made a statement saying that they never said Ram Setu is man-made, or 1.75 million years old.

Delhi Science Forum wrote about how religious fundamentalists had fabricated these claims. This time, too.

The promo of T.V show alone is being used as propaganda by Hindu conservative groups to rejoice and ecstatically state that now science is backing up what they have always said.

The promo ignores the simple scientific theories which can easily explain the difference in age of the sand and rocks.

According to a scientific paper published by Indian geologist N. Ramanujan(HOD – Pondicherry University, Geology), Adam’s Bridge is a chain of shoals between Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar constructed by sedimentation.

Both the Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar were part of the same basin, but gradually separated due to thinning of the earth’s crust.

This led to the development of a ridge, which augmented the growth of corals in the area.

Then these corals then kept trapping sand. because of that the sand is younger than the corals, but that is because the corals trapped the sand after their formation.

The concept of bridge was another tactic of show “What on Earth?” to get attention from the gullible, and get higher TRPs.