For that the witness must be existing before birth and after death.
Any statement made by anybody other than such a witness should be taken with some amount of doubt.
So, the statements made by scientists regarding birth of universe is only inferential, subjet to available information.
Is there any witness to the birth of universe.
Only God alone exists before and after every created being.....(I am the beginning, the middle and also the end of beings - Bhagvad Gita 10.20).
Since He is before every other creation, he is not knowable by any created entity (like mind and intellect).
(Neither the gods nor the great sages know My birth; for I am the cause of the gods and the great sages in all respects - Bhagvad Gita 10.20).
Here, when He says 'My birth', God is referring to Himself as the saguna Brahman, where the Absolute Brahman manifests Himself as the Ishwar, the basis for all creation. Ishwar is Svayambhu, the self born. He is self caused and has no other cause for His birth. He is the cause for all that is born after that. It is in Him every thing exists and into him every thing dissolves.
So only by attaining the status of Ishwar, one can know about every other created thing like the universe. So how to know such an entity?
It is intuitively known in the intellect when the 'mind' ceases to be. That is called 'Ananya bhakti', where the mind does not wonder about anything else.
By undivided devotion, O Arjuna, can I in this form be known and realised in truth/
Only by attaining the Transcendental status of God one can visualise the birth, middle and the end of the Universe.
This is the purport of Gita Chapter 11, the universal form.
Arjuna was a great devotee. So God granted him that vision.
Tailpiece.
Got up at 6, the chores and was ready by 10.
A quiet Sunday. Today was also Santha kunjamma's 'sanchayanam'. Her daughter-in-law had given me the rundown.
Helped Lekha to water the plants.
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