Did ancient Vedas decode the multiverse and time travel before modern science?

In a fascinating episode from the Mahabharata, King Kakudmi travels to the divine realm of Brahma-loka with his daughter Revati to consult Lord Brahma about finding her a suitable groom. As they await their audience, Brahma is enjoying a celestial musical performance. When the meeting ends and they return to Earth, they are shocked, thousands of years have passed, and all of Revati’s potential suitors are long gone.

This story eerily mirrors Einstein’s theory of time dilation, the idea that time flows differently depending on your frame of reference. For Kakudmi, it was minutes. On Earth, millennia. A classic time travel paradox, but narrated in an ancient text.

2. Multiverse Clues in the Yoga Vashistha

The Yoga Vashistha, a philosophical text attributed to Sage Valmiki, contains jaw-dropping descriptions of multiple, co-existing universes. It speaks of countless creations, each with its own laws of nature, timelines, and realities.

Sage Vashistha tells Lord Rama that some universes contain beings entirely different from ours, while in others, time flows backward, or gods differ, or worlds collapse and re-form like dreams.

This aligns remarkably well with today’s multiverse theory, which suggests that there are infinite universes existing simultaneously, each with a unique configuration of reality.

3. The Bhagavata Purana’s Cosmic Egg Theory

In the Bhagavata Purana, the universe is described as a Brahmanda, a cosmic egg, floating in an infinite cosmic ocean called Kshira Sagara. But here’s the twist: there are countless Brahmandas, each containing a different universe.

Lord Vishnu rests in this cosmic ocean, and from his navel springs a lotus bearing Brahma, the creator of that particular universe.

This idea parallels the bubble universe theory in cosmology, which suggests that each universe is a "bubble" within a larger multiverse.

4. The Vishnu Purana and Cycles of Creation

According to the Vishnu Purana, the creation and destruction of the universe happen in repeating cycles called Kalpas. Each Kalpa spans billions of years and includes a repeating pattern of creation, preservation, and dissolution.

This idea is astonishingly similar to modern theories proposing a cyclic universe, where the cosmos expands and contracts through countless Big Bangs and Big Crunches.

Far from being linear, time in Hindu cosmology is circular and infinite, mirroring theories in quantum gravity and string cosmology.

5. Lord Krishna’s Vishvarupa - A Glimpse Into Infinite Realms

In the Bhagavad Gita, when Lord Krishna reveals his Vishvarupa (cosmic form) to Arjuna, it’s a staggering vision - countless faces, eyes, and universes all existing within him simultaneously. Arjuna sees birth, death, and time itself playing out in Krishna’s form.

It’s a vivid spiritual metaphor but also resonates with the idea that reality is layered, with parallel timelines and cosmic structures beyond what human senses can grasp.

So, did our ancestors know about the multiverse and time travel?

These are not just myths, they are philosophical insights, cosmic metaphors, and perhaps, even lost science cloaked in symbolism. Whether viewed spiritually, allegorically, or scientifically, the parallels between ancient Vedic cosmology and modern physics are striking.

Maybe we are not just discovering the secrets of the universe, we are rediscovering what the Rishis already knew thousands of years ago.