The connection of Giordano Bruno with India
Introduction :
Many have heard about the philosophical ideas and cosmological (Space) theories of Giordano Bruno but only some knows about the link between Giordano Bruno and India.
Giordano Bruno (1548 – 1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and cosmological theorist. He proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets, and he raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own, a cosmological position known as cosmic pluralism.
Connections with India's ancient texts :
He also believed in reincarnation (a core Hindu belief) and also in Metempsychosis or the transmigration of the soul. He was the one who propagated the universe was a manifestation of God as Indian Vedanta says. Due do his theories which were against the teachings of bible, he was burned by the Catholic church of Rome then, at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori in 1600. After his death, he gained considerable fame, being particularly celebrated by 19th- and early 20th-century commentators who regarded him as a martyr for science.
As,said before his ideas were like the Indian thought of Vedanta; but also were influenced by early philosophers of Greece, Egypt etc. who were influenced by Indians itself.
In his many works like "De umbris idearum (The Shadows of Ideas)" he openly declares that 'builders' of 'temple of wisdom and science' are Indians. He writes (Giordano Bruno and his works by J. Lewis McIntyre; published by Macmillan and Co. London; p.57):
"The seven columns of the temple of wisdom are the seven Arts—Grammar, Rhetoric (with poetry), Logic, Mathematics Physics, Ethics, and Metaphysics, and this temple is built by Indians, Egyptians and Assyrians, then among the Persians, with the Magi and Zoroaster."
He also say that the Plato was influenced or impressed by India and the Brahmins (p.128):
"The teaching of Plato are his interpretation of influential ideas of Indian, and Persian sages in the light of, (also) the mythical sayings of Egyptian, and
Chaldean..."
Also, in his work Ars reminiscendi (The Art of Memory) he records the incident of Apollonius visiting India where he conversed with Brahmin (Volume 3 of the Fraces Yates Selected Works; p.42):
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"During his travels, Apollonius who studied the text of Indians visited India where he conversed with a Brahmin who said to him: 'I perceive that you have an excellent memory, Apollonius, and that is the goddess whom we most adore.' Apollonius's studies with the Brahmin were very abstruse, and particularly directed towards astrology and divination. He was influenced by Indian though..."
That's make the point of influence of indian thought on Italian and ancient Greek philosophers and theorists that they studied our sacred and ancient texts. Further, Giordano Bruno also remarks that Indians are 'real' magicians, the one who know absolute truth.
In his book known as Centum et viginti articuli de natura et mundo adversus peripateticos (One Hundred and Twenty Articles on Nature and the World Against the Peripatetics) he credits all his arguments to Indian and Brahmanical texts.
Conclusion
This is what link between great Giordano Bruno and India! We should be thus proud of our culture and history.
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Priyansh Jain (Reality of Indian history) _ Giordano Bruno and India
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