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PROLOGUE
EPILOGUE
A DESCRIPTION OF THE FRONTISPIECE.........
DEDICATION
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MANIFESTATION
A NOTE ON GENDER
AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF THE COSMOS........
INTRODUCTION
1. CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE UNIVERSE
Four Views about the Origin of the Universe
Scientific Materialism
Divine Manifestation
Inscrutable Mystery
Three Modes of Consciousness
Motivations for the Study of Cosmology
Worldviews and Cosmology
Four Types of Cosmology
THE PSYCHIC FACE
II. MYTHICAL COSMOLOGY
Mythical Astronomy
Creation Myths and Modern Scientific Cosmology
Theories of Myth
Sri Aurobindo's Interpretation of the Veda
The Great Mother and Creation Myth
Types of Creation Myths
Divine Withdrawal
Emergence from Chaos
Cosmic Cycles
III . THE STANZAS OF DZYAN ................. 89
The Inner Source of Creation Myths
The Importance of Transitional States
The Stanzas on Cosmogenesis
The Night of the Universe
The Awakening of Cosmos
Conclusion of the Stanzas
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: A Brief Analysis ................................115
THE PHYSICAL FACE
IV. MODERN SCIENTIFIC COSMOLOGY
Laws of Nature
The Realm of the Galaxies
The General Theory of Relativity
Relativity and Geometry
Einstein's Equation
Cosmological Models
Relativistic Cosmology
Early Relativistic Models
Transition to the Standard Model............
The Standard Big Bang Model
The Oscillating Universe Model
The Steady State Model
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