The Upanishads~Unknown

 The universe has emanated from God, a positive entity, not from nothing. The second thing to be noted is that the universe is conceived as returning in the end to God, the source from which it sprang. Thus, even in the dim ages of the Upanishads, not only evolution, which is the watchword of modern science, but also involution, the retrograde march of the universe to its primal state, was whole-heartedly believed in. In this latter point, the Upanishads seem to have gone ahead of science. So not only have they no ground for quarrel with science, but on the contrary they welcome its contributions towards a better understanding of their ancient discoveries by the modern mind. The religion of the Upanishads is par excellence a scientific religion.