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by V. Susan Ferguson
2013
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Part I
Planet Earth is a Sacred Cosmic Life
Laboratory for the creation of a wondrous variety of beings.
Repeating cycles of Ice Ages and warm
periods on earth are fertile ground for the evolutionary seeding,
nurturing and tempering of races. These cycles create an environment
conducive to the spiritual, mental, and emotional development and
perfection of beings.
Ultimately what is created here becomes
available to other planets, and the living beings that inhabit or
will inhabit those planets throughout the universe.
The idea that we live in an amazing and voluntary seed-bank is my
conclusion based on my own spiritual experiences, along with 40
years of research, including the visions of the colonization of
planet Earth that resulted in the book
Inanna Returns, and more
recently my obsession with and love of Sanskrit and the Sanskrit
texts.
I believe that the Rig Veda will one day soon be understood as our
most accurate window into the previous cycles of time. I doubt that
there are many students of Sanskrit who have also seen 30+ UFOs and
for a six month period had visions of the colonization of planet
Earth. In fact there may be none. Nevertheless, here I am with my
feet and mind firmly planted in both these realms.
What you read here does not diminish or disregard the value of
spiritual knowledge in the sacred Sanskrit texts, or the importance
of seeking Enlightenment.
In fact this 'off-world' perspective
embraces and rejoices in the magnificence of the Creator, the
Oneness that supports the temporal holographic universe with its
wondrous spectrum of dimensional realms. Nor does this conclusion
demean humanity in any way, for it also celebrates the greatness of
every courageous soul who has chosen to come here to participate in
the grand ongoing process of seeding the universe.
Beneath the stunning dazzling spectacle of around 300 billion
galaxies lies the Oneness - only ONE SOUL.
We are all portions of
the One that is the ultimate Source of this universe and all Life.
Therefore as parts and portions of the infinite immutable
immeasurable One, for the sake of our adventure into consciousness,
we are pretending to be separate - and we Veil our great Oneness in
individuality and the temporal illusion of separation via the
signals transmitted as differentiated perception through the five
senses.
But we are the ONE! There is no other.
I have always loved India.
My first real understanding of the life
saving, for me, wisdom in the Sanskrit texts took place in the late
1960s in the form of 'The Adventure of Consciousness' (Aurobindo
o La Aventura de La Consciencia) an inspiring
book by Satprem, the disciple of Sri Aurobindo.
Thereafter like so
many, I embarked on a path of meditation, searching for truth and
enlightenment.
In the late 1980s as I read
Zecharia Sitchin, I experienced visions
of the colonization and 'seeding' of planet Earth by the family of Anu. These visions resulted in my self-publishing
'Inanna Returns'
in 1995, now out of print. The visions through Inanna included
information on the Indus Valley civilization.
Inanna said that she had been given the Indus territory to placate
her ambition to rule Egypt.
The Indus had already been partially
settled and was ripe for further development. Inanna complained that
the men in her family were changing, that the respect they once had
for women, which was natural and accepted in the Pleiades, was being
eroded. She felt this change had something to do with Earth's
frequencies.
She was a bit angry and determined to set up a
civilization in the Indus that respected women. Inanna said that she
built temples to the goddess energies and trained her priestesses in
the wisdom-knowledge of tantric practices, which had the power to
alter consciousness and DNA codes.
Sitchin at one point also proposed a connection between the family
of Anu, the Indus Valley, and the great Mahabharata War, a war that
used many various radiation weapons. But Sitchin was not a Sanskrit
scholar and he gave up the idea.
I don't blame him, as he had
already mastered his share of ancient languages and Sanskrit
requires years of study.
For many reasons by the late 1990s I had become very disillusioned
with the 'new age' movement, and I tried to put my experience of the
colonization visions and the book aside.
You can imagine that this
was not so easy and reminders kept emerging. I began to research
everything, history, economics, quantum physics, any and all threads
that might lead me to an understanding of what I had seen in the
'Eye of my Mind' as I chose to call it.
Naturally, I continued to search for evidence of what Inanna said
about her influence in the Indus Valley. In 2000, I had moved back
to New York City, my off-and-on home for 20 years. During this
period I would walk through the Metropolitan Museum of Art three or
four times a week. I would go to the rooms with the Sumerian and
Mesopotamian exhibits, where there was also a photograph of the
famous 'public baths' in Harappa.
Each time I stood there, Inanna
would tell me that these were not 'public baths' at all - they were
pools that stored something like our radioactive isotopes for
nuclear power.
It is well known that the ruins at the sights of
Mohenjo-Daro and
Harappa were found to be extremely radioactive:
"Practically nothing
is known of their histories, except that both were destroyed
suddenly. In Mohenjo- Daro, in an epicenter 150 feet wide,
everything was crystallized, fused or melted; 180 feet from the
center the bricks are melted on one side, indicating a blast.
"Excavations down to the street level revealed 44 scattered
skeletons, as if doom had come so suddenly they could not get to
their houses. All the skeletons were flattened to the ground. A
father, mother and child were found flattened in the street, face
down and still holding hands.
"It has been claimed that the skeletons, after thousands of years,
are still among the most radioactive that have ever been found, on a
par with those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
Inanna had explained to me that Enki's son Marduk, who hated her,
had destroyed everything she had built there with his radiation
weapons.
I did understand clearly that the powers that were running the show
on planet Earth, whoever or whatever they might be, were far more
powerful than I was. It seemed to me that the only real refuge was
in a 'higher power' and thus my own personal search for
Enlightenment.
Being alone works for me and as I had done so often throughout my
life,
I isolated myself in the countryside. In solitude I immersed my
consciousness in the Sanskrit texts, especially the Bhagavad Gita,
the book I had tried to understand all my life.
In 2005 slowly I
began to have some real breakthrough experiences and finally after
so many years I began to understand, to Know, to feel that we are
only One - and I fell in love with Sanskrit.
I began teaching myself Sanskrit because I saw how diverse the
various translations of the Sanskrit texts are and I wanted to see
their meaning for myself. Each translation in fact reflects the
consciousness, understanding, and school of metaphysical thought
that the translator is conditioned by.
This is obvious even in the
later texts like the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita; but when you
approach the oldest text, the Rig Veda, the differences in
translation are staggering, bizarre and sometimes perplexing to the
extent of being a bit comical - no disrespect intended.
Scholars disagree about the meaning of the Sanskrit words in the Rig
Veda. The Sanskrit of this ancient text is very different than other
later texts such as the Upanishads, the epic Mahabharata, or the
even later Puranas.
Here are a few quotes from scholars that may
give you an idea of how complex and confused this area of Vedic
scholarship is:
"To this day there is no internally consistent and coherent
interpretation of the Vedas."
From: 'The Celestial Key to the Vedas' by B.G Sidharth, Indian
physicist and director general of B. M. Birla Science Centre.
Sidharth has written extensively on physics and his books are
available on Amazon.
He proposed the "dark energy" model at the
seventh Marcel Grossman Conference in Jerusalem in June 1997, and at
another conference on quantum physics in Singapore a year later.
His
research paper titled "The Universe of Fluctuations" was published
in International Journal of Modern Physics in 1998.
A Sacred Quiz
"The language of the Rig Veda is archaic
and contains such grammatical devices and linguistic forms which are
beyond the reach of the common mind...
Among the devices are mystic
illusions, configurations of similar sounds and words, metaphors,
incongruous grammatical formations, un- sequential syntactical
relations and Word-Economy; and these create a sort of sacred quiz,
which taxes the ingenuity of even the most learned one...
There is
considerable disagreement among the interpreters of the Rig Veda,
particularly in the interpretation of individual words."
"By the time of the Brahmanas people started being skeptical about
the authenticity of the meaning (of the Rig Veda) as well as the
utility of the Veda."
Yaska, a 6th century BC Sanskrit grammarian said in the Nirukta:
"Seers had direct intuitive insight... by oral instruction, [they]
handed down hymns to later generations who were destitute of direct
intuitive knowledge."
From: The Rigveda, Mandala III, Shukla
and Shukla
[I take this to mean that by the 6th century BC, Sanskrit scholars
realized that the original meanings would be lost to most.]
A Secret
Meaning
The history of the Rig Veda in terms of it being understood even in
India is quite amazing. In the introduction to the Rig Veda Samhita
Mandala - 1, (Part One), translation by R.L. Kashyap, we are given
some very useful insight by Prof. S.K. Ramachandra Rao.
We are told
that the Rig Veda "has a secret meaning" which employs a
double-language method and was deliberately intended.
Sayana (who died 1387) was an important commentator on the Vedas and
it was his writings that served as the primary influence on the
English scholars like Max Muller who translated the Rig Veda into
English.
Prof. S.K. Ramachandra Rao further explains:
"It is unfortunate that the decadent culture in the country [India]
during the middle ages [preferred ritualism]... As a result, the
Veda was looked upon as source book for ritualism. [Sayana was] an
uncompromising votary of Mimamska ritualism...
It is remarkable
that he (Sayana) chose at all to write a commentary on Rig Veda
Samhita.
The words were all that was important for them [the Mimamskas]... because the mantras had
to be recited as part of the rituals. The meaning of the mantra was
of no interest or importance to them."
You can understand why the first English translations were so
muddled, often absurd, and did no justice at all to these brilliant
encoded verses. There are now new better, good translations and once
again the differences in translations reflect the conditioning of
the translators.
Through the lens of the spiritual and metaphysical there are
wonderful translations from R.L. Kashup, David Frawley, and Shayam
Ghosh.
Other translators emphasize science (B.G. Sidharth) and history (Malati
J. Shendge).
I do not recommend the H.H. Wilson translation or Wendy Doniger's sad Penguin edition. These sacred encoded verses are not
about a primitive culture that worships deities.
Trying to make sense of diverse historical timelines of Indian
pre-history, eventually you find yourself in the mire of some rather
unpleasant heated nationalism. Indians are said to love an argument!
I found Shrikant G. Talageri's 'The Rigveda, A Historical Analysis'
worth reading and it is online.
Of course, considering the origins
and source of our civilizations as being off-planet might mute and
dull some of these more vicious arguments. It is clear that we are
not meant to know, and that off-world interactions are intentionally
kept from us.
Perhaps the most intriguing and bold scholar is Malati J. Shendge
(born 1934). Her unorthodox and unusual views have most likely
offended everyone. She translates the Rig Veda as pure history and
has managed to get nine books published. The Ford Foundation funded
her research twice. I'm not at all sure what to make of that.
Malati J. Shendge interprets the Rig Veda verses as the actual
history of the real people in the Indus Valley civilization. She
reconstructs the process of "mythopoeisation" - meaning that these
verses have been mistakenly turned in to myth:
"Originally the Rigveda hymns, in the limited context of the
conflict of the devas and asuras [who according the Malati J.
Shendge are not at all gods and demons, but rather simply two
different opposing groups of historical people], were meant to be
taken in the (realistic) literal sense without any symbolism.
They
describe the heroic deeds of their leader Indra [again not a deity,
but a historical person] and those who aided him in the conflict.
After the conflict was over, when the Aryans sought to make a
religion out of the events of the conflict, the process of
mythopoeisation set in."
Malati J. Shendge is here describing quite accurately the birth of
any ritual, yours and mine.
"When the events became symbolic and
were ascribed magical powers to attain certain aims, the process of mythopoeisation was complete. History was forgotten and dead ritual
became the end in itself."
I will write a separate article on Malati J. Shendge, who has made a
definite scholarly connection between the Indus Valley civilization
and Sumer.
She has even written a book connecting Sanskrit with
Mesopotamian Akkadian: 'The Language of the Harappans: From Akkadian
to Sanskrit.' You may imagine that caught my attention! Her
translations of the Rig Veda are somewhat 'literal' and quite
different from others. Whatever one thinks of the lady Malati J.
Shendge, you have to admit that she has an iron will and the courage
of the goddess Durga.
None of these scholars would appreciate my ideas, I know. I'm sure
the last thing Malati wants is to find her self connected to an old
non-Indian white woman who has had visions of the colonization of
planet Earth!
In respect for her, I apologize; but I cannot help my
own life experiences and when I read or resolve to translate these
verses in the Rig Veda I see remnants of the 'ancient astronauts'
who brought their technology, culture, and civilization to one small
blue-green planet in a universe that contains 300 billion galaxies!
I do not accept the idea that we are alone in the universe, nor can
I believe that the earth plane is the sole location where
enlightenment can take place. There must be many planetary
dimensional realms where beings may return into Union with their
Source, the Oneness, or Brahman as the Sanskrit texts say.
For example, in my perception the Gandharvas, for whom "the heavens
are their station" are the astronaut 'rocket men' - the ones who
remained primarily in the orbiting space stations. They did
contribute to the seeding of this planet.
The Apsaras are what
Sitchin called 'the birth goddesses' - meaning the women scientists
and nurses who also remained primarily in the orbiting space station
and who initially volunteered their wombs to incubate the new races.
The oldest families of Rishis, the Seers are the Angirasas. I cannot
read this word without envisioning these Rig Vedic Seers as
inter-stellar and inter-dimensional 'engineers', the elite
astrophysicists, the men and women who were masters of their space
technology and simultaneously adepts of highly advanced metaphysics,
and who were the advisors to Anu. The Angirasas are the World
Guardians.
In the Rig Veda, Agni is sometimes referred to as Angiras. AN, the
supreme deity of the Sumerian pantheon and the patriarch of the
family, being the first two letters and GIR as it might relate to
the Akkadian fire- god, fire as in rocket propulsion. DinGIR in
Sumerian cuneiform sign meant sky or heaven, and also a god or
goddess. The masters of the sky were perceived as deities.
The Angirasas were the companions of Manu, the Sanskrit Noah (David
Frawley). They were said to have accompanied Manu in his 'boat' or
ship. Of course! They were there to guide him to a safe destination,
to provide him with the means to survive, and they saved whatever
DNA codes in the form they deemed useful - perhaps as holograms of
the spirit body in the astral for all we know.
According to Inanna,
the Akkadian Noah, Utnapishtim, was one the 'offspring' of Enki, the
brother of Enlil who was Inanna's grandfather.
Noah/Manu was fleeing the massive flooding [around 11,00 BC] that
takes place after an Ice Age. Thus the Sanskrit Noah brings up the
fact of recurring Ice Ages and periodic Dissolutions that are
inherent on our planet Earth. And which make it an ideal "seed"
bank.
These are a few of the ideas that have given me reason to believe
that the ancient Sanskrit text, the Rig Veda is the best and most
accurate glimpse into the previous cycles of time.
David Frawley
states that the Rig Veda was conceived in the second cycle of time,
the Treta Yuga. We are now
in the fourth, the Kali Yuga.
There is evidence in the verses that the people who wrote the Rig
Veda originally came from the Arctic Circle, which was then a mild
climate. They like so many others were forced to migrate to escape
the ice and brought their knowledge as memory with them (see 'The
Arctic Home in The Vedas' by Lokmanya Bâl Gangâdhar Tilak.)
In my view, the Rig Veda has yet to be properly translated and
certainly has never been translated from the perspective of it
containing glimpses of a greater and more technically advanced
civilization.
With my humble and admittedly totally inadequate four
years of teaching myself Sanskrit,
I have translated verses in the Rig Veda that describe rocket fuel,
ritual breeding and/or artificial insemination, and Ionospheric
heating weather modification
similar to HAARP.
The connection and correlation between the Sanskrit texts and
quantum physics, Erwin Schrodinger's cat, is well known. I have read
six books by Indian scientists who are finding physics, string
theory, quantum physics, and astronomy in the Sanskrit texts. These
ideas are very subtle and could only have come from a more advanced
civilization.
I believe that the Rig Veda will one day soon be understood as our
most accurate window into ancient times. These Seers, the Rishis
were not only enlightened adepts and genius poets - they were also
masters of highly advanced sciences, which included space, aerial
ships, the heliosphere, radiation weaponry, and climate
modification.
The Sanskrit words in the Rig Veda contain multiple
and layered meanings. The verses can be understood and translated
from the perspective of history, science, philosophy, physics, and
metaphysics. In my opinion, the Rig Veda reflects the knowledge and
wisdom of civilizations far superior to ours and gives us authentic
glimpses into the previous cycles of time.
"To this day there is no internally consistent and coherent
interpretation of the Vedas."
- B.G. Sidharth
References
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The Celestial Key to the Vedas by B.G. Sidharth; Inner Traditions,
1999.
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The RGVEDA, Mandala III, A Critical Study of the Sayana Bhasya and
Other Interpretations of the Rgveda (3.1.1 to 3.7.3), by Dr. Siddh
Nath Shukla; Sharada Publishing House, Delhi, 2001.
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RIG VEDA SAMHITA: Mandala - 1 (Part One), Suktas 1-50, (Text in
Devanagari, Translation and Notes), by R.L. Kashyap; Saksi,
Published in collaboration with ASR, Melkote; Sri Aurobindo Kapali
Sastry Institute of Vedic Culture, Bangalore, India, 2009.
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The Rig Veda and the History of India, by David Frawley; Aditya
Prakashan, New Delhi, 2001, 2002.
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The Civilized Demons: The Harappans in Rig Veda, Malati J. Shendge;
Abhinav Publications, New Delhi, 1977.
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Schrodinger's Wave Equation
http://www.metaphysicalmusing.com/articles/schrodinger.htm
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Bibliography / Rig Veda related book list:
http://www.metaphysicalmusing.com/articles/rigveda2012/rigveda-books.htm
Part II
'Canopus in Argos'
by Doris Lessing
Earth's current science has now seen over 300 billion galaxies in
the universe.
Can there be anyone who still believes in the absurd
fantasy that we are alone in the universe? Millions of people,
myself included, have seen a multitude of flying objects in the
skies day and night that move in observable ways far beyond our own
technology. The only reason our governments are hiding this is their
fear of losing control over us.
Confusion is control!
The fact that there are countless other life forms in the universe
does not imply that there is no God. If anything the stunning depth
of multiplicity and beauty 'out there' should affirm our believe in
a Creator. The Oneness is!
Metaphysical wisdom from many
sources reveals an eternal immutable inter-connecting force "beneath
the curtain of each atom" [Mahmud Shabistari] and this invisible
'substance' for which there are no words is what we all are.
The Nobel Prize winning author Doris Lessing wrote a series of
novels that are illuminating insights into the understanding that we
here on planet Earth are but one of hundreds of planetary colonies.
By the 1970s Lessing was influenced by Sufism and these sci-fi
novels reflect her considerable and highly intelligent spiritual
wisdom.
Lessing's 'Canopus in Argos' series are captivating tales
that can open our modern minds to a profound understanding of the
deeper meaning of life.
In 'The
Making of the Representative for Planet 8' we are given
some idea of the ephemeral nature of our material bodies:
"Now when we looked back to that huddle of [frozen dead] bodies...we
saw them as webs and veils of light, saw the frail lattice of the
atomic structure, saw the vast space that had been what in fact we
mostly were - though we had not the eyes to comprehend that, even if
our minds knew the truth."
Our consciousness is all that survives the death of the material
body.
Consciousness is what we are, in truth what everything is.
"...the little dazzle or dance [of the decaying flesh] we looked at,
the fabric of the atomic structure, dissolved as we watched: yes, we
saw how those old bodies of ours... were losing their associations
with each other, and melding with the substance of the mountain [the
earth on which they rested]. Yes, what we were seeing now with our
new eyes was that all the planet had become a fine frail web or
lattice..."
In the earlier 1971 novel 'Briefing For a Descent into Hell' the
lady Lessing illumines her readers with an amazing and revealing
insightful conversation that takes place before the birth of those
who have made the decision to incarnate in flesh and blood bodies and
the dense miasma of consciousness that now covers our planet.
The volunteers are warned:
"...it is not at all a question of your arriving on Planet Earth
[with the consciousness you have] as you leave here. You will lose
nearly all your memory of your past existence. You will each of you
come to yourselves, perhaps alone, perhaps in the company of each
other, but with only a vague feeling of recognition, and probably
disassociated, disoriented, ill, discouraged, and unable to believe,
when you are told what your task really is...
"Some of you will choose not to wake, for the waking will be so
painful, and the knowledge of your condition and Earth's condition
so agonizing, you will be like drug addicts: you may prefer to
continue to breath in oblivion... ..
"And, when you have become aroused to your real condition, and have
recovered from the shame or embarrassment of seeing to what depths
you have sunk, you will then begin the task of arousing others, and
you will find that you are in a position of rescuer of a drowning
person, or a doctor in a city that has an epidemic of madness."
The purpose of incarnating into human bodies is:
"...it will be our
task to wake up those of us who have forgotten what they went for;
as well as to recruit suitable inhabitants of Earth...who have kept
a potential for evolving into rational beings..."
Lessing then explains to the volunteers that there would be no point
in giving them a 'Briefing' and that every word they are hearing
will be forgotten once they have descended into a human body.
But
they are assured that they have all been given "brain-prints" and
these will be there for them when they are ready. In my words, the
eternal Wisdom- Knowledge does reside within each and every one of
us.
In the moments before birth, the dangers of volunteering are made
clear:
"As everyone here knows, has had drummed into him or her from the
moment he or she volunteered - it is not at all a question of
descending into that Poisonous Hell [the earth plane] and remaining
unaffected. Everyone takes his life in his hands."
Planet Earth is a dangerous place and there are no guarantees.
There
will be no one to save us, no rescues! We are on our own here and
apparently when we did volunteer, we were fully capable of
independent thinking and sovereignty. We were not fearful needy
victims wallowing in self-pity and confusion waiting to be rescued.
More warnings:
"For these creatures [the lost ones who have forgotten who they are]
are for the most part malevolent and murderous by nature, able to
tolerate others only insofar as they resemble themselves, capable of
slaughtering each other because of a slight difference in skin color
or appearance. Also they cannot tolerate those who do not think as
they do."
Lessing grew up in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and was involved
in politics for many years. She brings her wisdom, experience, and
knowledge of these matters to the larger perspective of an off-world
colony given here.
Another warning:
"This means that unless we can perfect our own adaptation to them,
they will attack us...This we must expect."
How many great ones have been tormented, persecuted, and murdered by
the ignorance of mob consciousness?
Even those who are volunteers
cannot always be trusted. The "poisonous brew they call air"
[meaning the consciousness of the planet] will have infected
previous volunteers and that they may,
"devote all their energies to
elaborate systems whose function was once to keep them sane, but
which now have become their own justification."
The birth process itself is described by Lessing's inimitable genius
and insight:
"Each held his or her mind steady in the thought: Don't
forget, keep the memory of this moment, keep it steady... but the
golden spin of
the moment swept the whole space they occupied into a vortex of
ringing Light in which they were spinning atoms.
The pressure
increased. The Sound became higher... The light was like an
explosion... pulsed and beat ..."
Thus the vast majority of us are born as human babies remembering
nothing, and in that moment our struggle to Remember and become
useful begins.
We have forgotten that we volunteered to come here
freely in order to create life, civilizations, and forms containing
increasingly higher states of consciousness. Through us the Oneness
is eternally seeking and enjoying It's own beauty and perfection.
We
come here to contribute, to create and manifest over vast expanses
of time an infinite spectrum of various forms - and in the cyclical
processes of our creative adventure, we sink into a miasma of
amnesia.
In her novel 'The Making of the Representative for Planet 8' Lessing
gives us an enlightening conversation between one of the volunteers,
Representative Doeg, and Johor, a highly evolved being who has come
from the home planet Canopus to counsel and observe. This particular
colony has been engulfed in an Ice Age caused by the misalignment of
some distant star, "a cosmic accident".
The colony is dying, the
people helpless, freezing to death.
Representative Doeg: I was thinking of our poor peoples; the pain of
their fate invaded me, the waste of it, the waste ...
Johor from Canopus: This is a lavish and generous universe.
Doeg: You mean you can afford the deaths of a few million people?
...You cannot be saying to me that it does not matter if the
populations of a whole planet have to die - a species?
Johor: I have not said it did not matter. Nor that we, Canopus, do
not feel pain at what is happening. Nor, Doeg, that we have not done
everything to prevent this happening.
Doeg: But indignation made me cut him [Johor] short. But you are not
able to space-lift off this planet its doomed millions? You do not
have some unwanted planet somewhere that could be given to us ...?
Johor: No, we are not able... We do not have the resources.
Doeg: We have always thought of you as all powerful, able to do what
you like. Limited by what Johor? ... You are the creation and
creatures of something, some Being, to whom you stand in the same
relation as we stand to you? ... Yes, that must be so.
Johor then explains that indeed there was another planet that had
been prepared for such an emergency, but in spite of the best
efforts of the volunteer Representatives from Canopus, this planet
had gone wrong and was no longer a viable alternative.
Johor: There is nowhere to take you. Our economy [the evolved
advance benevolent Canopus civilization] is a very finely tuned one.
Our empire isn't random, or made by the decisions of self-seeking
rulers or by the unplanned developments of our technologies. No, we
have a very long time ago grown out of that barbarism Our growth,
our existence, what we are is a unit, a unity, a whole - in a way
that, as far as we know, does not exist anywhere in our galaxy.
Over the past 30 years, I have taken part in similar conversations
many many times.
Sometimes I am Johor and sometimes I am Doeg!
If you are still reading this, then perhaps it is because Lessing's
brilliant lines of wisdom have struck a chord in the very heart of
your being - as they did mine so long ago. It may be that you have
always known or at least suspected throughout your life and these
words have delivered you a kind of respite, a nurturing healing
reassurance to what may have become a lonely effort.
For making of a
great and noble effort is what we came here for.
Earth is only one of hundreds of colonies. Now is the time for this
self- evident truth to be made known. Beyond all the fear mongering,
we are indeed the One.
So it has always been, now and shall ever be.
References
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'Canopus in Argos' by Doris Lessing; Alfred A. Knopf; more recent
paperbacks published by Flamingo, Harper Collins Publishers, London:
Shikasta (1979)
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The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980)
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The Sirian Experiments (1980)
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The Making of Representative for Planet 8 (1982)
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The Sentimental Agents of the Volyen Empire (1983)
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'Briefing for Descent into Hell' by Doris Lessing; Alfred A. Knopf,
Vintage Books, 1971; Vintage International 2009.
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Mahmud Shabistari: The Secret Garden Translated by Johnson Pasha
Octagon Press; 1969, London
Part III
Universal Metaphysics
In the year 2000, I put the visions of Inanna's family colonizing
planet Earth aside and focused solely on my quest for enlightenment,
meditation, and my study of the Sanskrit metaphysics.
I could
accept, understand and digest the wisdom I found in the Sanskrit
texts, especially the Bhagavad Gita, based on my own experiences -
but I could never quite harmonize it all with the off-world
interactions I had seen in my visions.
However, resonances of my
visions would obliquely surface and return to haunt me.
When I was writing Inanna Returns, Inanna had explained to me that
when she went to the Indus Valley to further develop the already
established civilization there, she took her great-aunt Ninhursag
with her.
Ninhursag is a brilliant genetic scientist who along with
her brother Enki was deeply involved in the creation of new races
for planet Earth. But unlike Enki and their brother Enlil, Ninhursag
was different in that her Mother was not of the Pleiades.
According
to Inanna, Ninhursag's mother came from Altair, in the constellation
of Aquila (which means the Eagle).
Inanna explained to me that the beings that reside around the star
Altair were far more evolved than those in the Pleiades. A group of
select individuals in the Altairian systems were Keeper Guardians of
the primordial metaphysics that underlies and structures the entire
universe.
Knowledge and awareness of the metaphysical principles
that allow and provide us with Life is essential to all
civilizations. In her temples, Inanna implemented the teachings of
Wisdom-Knowledge from Altair in the Indus Valley Civilization.
During various phases of the Cycles of Time, this metaphysical
Wisdom-Knowledge gets lost. In the Bhagavad Gita (IV.1-5), Krishna
tells Arjuna that he taught "this imperishable yoga" in previous
cycles of time and that it was lost.
Arjuna asks Krishna how it can
be that Krishna taught men, such as Manu and Ikshvaku, who were born
before Krishna's birth. Krishna replies that he incarnates again and
again to teach the Wisdom- Knowledge and that he, Krishna remembers
all these lives.
Dharma is the eternal Wisdom-Knowledge and primordial metaphysics is
the underlying support that permeates the entire universe in various
forms. Throughout the Cycles of Time this Wisdom-Knowledge is fully
expressing its power and influence, and at other times is weakened,
even disappearing.
Fluctuations in the pervasiveness of this wisdom
are the nature and character of
the four Cycles of Time.
The
Sanskrit texts say that Dharma stands on,
We have been living in the Kali
Yuga since 3012 before the Christian era.
Therefore we understand
that for all of our written history, we have been living in a cycle
of time that is inundated with conflict and confusion, unending wars
and the obfuscation of Truth through lies and propaganda.
Doris Lessing's first novel in the Canopus in Argo series, 'Re:
Colonized Planet 5 - Shikasta' offers her readers crucial insights
into our existence here on planet Earth, which is but one of
hundreds of the planetary colonies guided by Canopus.
Johor is the
emissary who writes his reports back to Canopus to be used as
instruction for first-year students of Canopean Colonial Rule.
Johor: "I have known more than once what it is to accept the
failure, final and irreversible, of an effort or experiment to do
with creatures who have within themselves the potential of
development dreamed of, planned for ... and then - Finis! The end!"
We understand that mistakes are made, that there is a certain
element of randomness in the universe, which brings about sudden and
very destructive catastrophes, or perhaps a blast of radiation from
an unknown unexpected source will somehow allow amazing creative
changes that enhance a racial genome.
This is a polarity universe -
there are many others - and in such a polarity based structural
environment there must be negative forces that of necessity
interplay with the positive in order to generate movement and the
evolution of forms.
Johor: "This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to
sudden reversal, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never
anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new
forms and shapes."
When I read this,
"... with joy never anything but the song of
substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes," I think
of Swami Lashmanjoo, the great and wonderful Kashmiri saint and
sage.
I believe he would smile and say,
"Ah, yes. This is ParaBhairava. This is God's Play!" The Divine Lila is surely
described by "with joy never anything but the song of substance
under pressure forced into new forms and shapes."
Lessing is our Muse, Sibyl, our Prophetess.
She is not only giving
glimpses into our future, she is revealing the very nature of the
temporal illusory holographic universe. The Sanskrit texts divide
primordial metaphysical principles into three: Creation (Brahma),
Sustainer and Preserver (Vishnu/Krishna), and Destruction (Shiva).
These are the essential division of the Oneness into Three.
They are
principles which became personified into deities, and transformed
into myth for the purpose of holding the wisdom in an accessible
form that could be transmitted as the dense frequencies of
Forgetting, ignorance (moha) and the bondage (bandha) that
inevitably follows, increased down into the Kali Yuga.
Johor: "I am a small member of the Workforce, and as such do as I
must. That is not to say I do not have the right, as we all have, to
say, Enough! Invisible, unwritten rules forbid. What these rules
amount to, I would say, is Love."
Even the best of emissaries become worn down by the tasks they face,
but what keeps them and us going, never giving up, is simply Love.
For Love is what holds the universe together. Love is the one force,
the substance that generates all Life in this universe. Love is the
essence, the creative and all pervasive permeating power of the
Oneness, manifested and unmanifested.
Love is what lies beneath the
"curtain of each atom" as the Sufi poet Mahmud Shabistari
says.
I was happy to turn away from my
unresolved experience of an off-world colonization. Over the years
there had been more and more conflicting information, compromised
sources, mysterious deaths, and of course
increased sightings.
I was happily immersed in the Sanskrit texts
and especially the Bhagavad Gita, which I will always be grateful to
and believe in as an authentic source for liberating Truth.
In 2008 I began to teach myself Sanskrit, which was not easy for me
especially at my age! I am now 67.
But the prospect of knowing
Sanskrit delighted me and I pursued my studies as an offering, a
kind of meditation. I had always wanted to know the meaning of the
Rig Veda, which is said to be the source of all the other texts.
The
Upanishads were written to explain, illuminate and elucidate the Rig
Veda. It never occurred to me nor was it in any way my intention to
find evidence of a highly technologically advanced civilization in
the Rig Veda.
It was never my intention, but nevertheless as I tediously
laboriously searched for meanings of the ancient encoded words in
multiple Sanskrit dictionaries, I found that the translators had
ignored many, if not most, of the definitions. It was as if they
were going to force the meaning, to make the verse say what the
translators had traditionally been inculcated and taught.
I began to read books on the Rig Veda written by Indian scholars.
All of the scholars agreed that there was little agreement on the
meaning of the words in the Rig Veda, but some were more accepting
of the conventional interpretation.
While the frank insights of
others set me free to expand my ideas about the actual source of
these amazing verses.
"To this day there is no internally consistent and coherent
interpretation of the Vedas. Meaning, however, has been forced out
of the hymns..."
[B.G. Sidharth]
Yes, I could see for myself that
meaning had been forced out of the hymns.
Sanskrit words have
multiple meanings that have evolved and changed over the millennia.
Definitions that might be seen through a lens aware of a technology
from a far more advanced civilization were ignored.
The spiritual wisdom was also there in the Rig Veda, the primordial
metaphysical principles are written within and right along side of
superb poetic verses containing descriptions of rocket fuel and
Ionospheric Heating, meaning weather control. Surya can easily be
interpreted as the Heliosphere.
As we today learn more about the
universe we live in, I believe that some brave Sanskrit scholar, far
brighter and more skilled than I am, will show that these verses
contain many of the same observations our astrophysicists are now
making. Surely plasma physics will be found in the Rig Veda, just as
the Vedas were the source of quantum physics.
Doris Lessing's last novel in the 'Canopus in Argos' series,
'Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire'
begins with a letter from another emissary to Joran on Canopus:
"I requested leave from service on Shikasta [planet Earth]; I find
myself on a planet whose dominant feature is the same as Shikasta's.
Very well! I will stick it out for this term of duty.
But I hereby
give notice, formally, that I am applying to be sent, when I'm
finished here, to a planet as backward as you like, as challenging
as you like, but not one whose populations seem permanently
afflicted by self-destructive dementia."
So it appears according to our here honored Noble Prize winning
Muse, the Lady Lessing that we are not the only planet in the galaxy
suffering under a miasma of amnesia.
The darkside forces must be
reckoned with, understood, and mastered. That is our process, our
'application'. That is what we have come here to do, to learn and it
is painful, beautiful and horrible.
Not easy, but remember we volunteered! When we Knew that we are
eternally the Oneness, we fearlessly volunteered, chose to come
here. We knew of the dangers, the risk of forgetting and becoming
lost. The God- within me once many years ago in the 1970s told me
that I came to planet Earth for a 'vacation'!
Of course, I laughed
my socks off - between tears.
References
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'Canopus in Argos' by Doris Lessing; Alfred A. Knopf; more recent
paperbacks published by Flamingo, Harper Collins Publishers, London:
Shikasta (1979)
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The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980)
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The Sirian Experiments (1980)
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The Making of Representative for Planet 8 (1982)
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The Sentimental Agents of the Volyen Empire (1983)
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'Briefing for Descent into Hell' by Doris Lessing; Alfred A. Knopf,
Vintage Books, 1971; Vintage International 2009.
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Mahmud Shabistari: The Secret Garden Translated by Johnson Pasha
Octagon Press; 1969, London
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The Celestial Key to the Vedas by B.G. Sidharth; Inner Traditions,
1999.
Part IV
As I have previously explained, I had no intention of returning to
the visions that had shown me planet Earth as a colony.
My focus has
been the devoted study of the Sanskrit texts and teaching myself
Sanskrit. However when I attempted to translate the verses of the
Rig Veda there were words, which had seemingly been ignored by other
translators that I could not ignore.
Did others not see...?
Perhaps
the frequencies of Kali Yuga are cloaking even the Rig Veda in an
impenetrable miasma.
The Cycles of Time are basic to all metaphysics and we are now
living in the Age of Conflict and Confusion,
the Kali Yuga.
We are
struggling to Remember who we are within the paralyzing and
suffocating frequencies of Kali Yuga density.
Just how powerfully,
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Entraining, entrapping, and binding these frequencies of density are
can be seen in our mind-numbing entertainment that offers us no
deeper meaning, no wisdom
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The television that systematically
programs us into passive viewers
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Now the moronic content,
intentionally 'produced' manufactured for consumption, stream of
lies and constant obfuscation on the Internet. I don't have to tell
you
You know...
Benevolent
Canopus versus Evil Shammat
Doris Lessing is our Seer and Prophetess in her 1978 novel 'Re:
Colonized Planet 5, Shikasta.'
The planet Shikasta is our planet
Earth, and Lessing ever so accurately and brilliantly weaves our
plight into her fictional tale. This is a polarity universe and thus
there are dark tyrannical forces that find ways to infest even the
most flourishing of planetary colonies.
Shammat is the darkside rogue outpost that was rumored to have been
"colonized by criminals fleeing" yet another empire. Shammat can
"succeed only where there is disequilibrium, harm dismay."
Shammat
had placed a transmitter that changed the 'air' [vibrational
frequencies of consciousness] of Shikasta. These transmissions were
working only because of "an unexpected mal-alignment among the stars
that sustained Canopus" [the overseeing empire, benevolent and
highly evolved].
Lessing here reveals the essence of the sphinx-like mysteries of our
world and how Life in this universe is perceived on multiple levels
and layers of consciousness:
"We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us,
we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and
not ever may consider ourselves separate."
When,
"Gods [higher states of being] explode, or err, or dissolve"
they possess a consciousness that allows them the perspective of an
overview which can permit in Lessing's perception "sometimes... always with respect - the mildest grimace of irony."
However such
subtle irony from a very high place and the perspective of
non-attachment is not available to the countless unconscious
'victims' of the approaching catastrophe and who as the inhabitants
of the colony "would not even know enough to be able to nod their
heads" in resignation.
The Lords of the Galaxy, as Lessing calls them, are "moving on their
star-waves, on star-time."
They and their protégés may respond to
the catastrophic evolutions of the universe with,
"But we did not
foresee that burst of radiation, that planetary collision!"
Mistakes are made in a universe that enjoys, delights in, and indeed
relies on a certain amount of chaos and chance to reach unending
perfections.
We are led to understand that there is a hierarchy of
awareness in consciousness and beings whose existence is within
levels beneath the impervious Lords of the Galaxy may say,
"But we
are, compared with the Majesties above us, of whom we are a part as
you are of us, only small beings who have to submit, just as you do
."
The Rig Veda (X.129) expresses a similar hierarchy of unending
layered nests of comprehending the mysteries and power of the
Creator, asking if It can ever be known. [My translation.]
6. Who here can grasp the colossal
boundless far-reaching entirety?
This universe is only a fraction, a single portion of the infinite
forever Oneness measureless.
Who can speak further of far away creation?
On this side of it the One that moved integrating became the senses
for perceiving, thus sliding away afar.
7. As we are ever in motion
opening unfolding the God-within,
so the axis of the universe is
undulating, two serpents embracing,
all pervading within the highest creation,
even far away space ever expanding,
stretched out and spreading in all directions.
We know not if it can be held, the continuum - indeed if it can be
known at all.
Will the Creator ever be known by Its partial Beings? And perhaps we
enjoy the eternal mystery.
***
The inimitable sage and Seer Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa is the author
of the Bhagavad Gita, within which Krishna, as the Avatar of Vishnu,
says something quite similar in Chapter VII, Verse 3:
"Of the thousands of men,
Scarcely anyone strives for perfection;
Even among the striving and the perfected,
Scarcely anyone knows Me [the One] in truth, in reality."
We cannot even imagine the states of consciousness of the authors,
the Seers and poets who first spontaneously spoke these stunning and
beautiful Rig Veda verses.
Their brain patterns must have been so
completely different to ours. They would have been telepathic and
they would have not thought in any linear manner. Words would have
been spheres of multiple meanings. The sounds would have contained
and transmitted many layers of ideas into the listeners as states of
consciousness, not merely as linear sentences the way we think
today.
Researchers are finding that use of the computer is actually
changing our brain waves and synaptic patterns.
These Seers were
carrying the consciousness of the Satya Yuga, and the Treta Yuga.
Remember that writing was not even invented until our Kali Yuga era
and is considered a degenerate symptom of our current era. The world
must have looked quite different in those days.
The understanding that from yuga to yuga the world and perhaps even
our Heliosphere itself changes, allowed me to have an open mind
regarding the ideas of Dave Talbott in his 1996 documentary
"Remembering the End of the World."
Talbott reveals and illustrates, according to the collective memory
encoded in ancient myths, that during the Golden Era [the Satya Yuga
in Sanskrit] the sky above us did not look anything like our current
era sky.
In fact the planets stood in line, a line that the
Babylonian astronomer Berossos called 'The Great Conjunction of the
Golden Age.'
Talbott says:
"A single line ran through the hearts of the gathered
bodies... the planets were seen along a single polar axis and stay
in polar alignment - an alignment of gathered bodies: Earth, Mars,
Venus,
Saturn and Jupiter. The animating eye heart and soul of the primeval
Sun was the planet Saturn... the ancient terms Helios, Sol, Shamash,
Surya are all names for Saturn."
The ancients knew that as long as they looked up and saw this
alignment in the sky above, their Satya Yuga was safe.
But as time
moved on and the alignment of the Great Conjunction of the Golden
Age became disturbed and disrupted, various inharmonious and
destructive vibrations were produced, and began to increase.
According to Talbott, Mars moved back and forth between the Earth
and the planet Venus. As Mars did this, enormous magnetic
disturbances were generated and these disturbances gave rise to
plasma fields of highly charged dust-fluff particles like the tails
of comets.
In the Sanskrit text The Mahabharata - a very long epic, which
occurs in the cycle of time the DVAPARA YUGA - the Monkey King
Hanuman appears as a vision.
Hanuman describes all four yugas and
emphasizes the variations in the experience of time from one yuga to
another. Hanuman explains that he cannot manifest the form he took
during the previous TRETA YUGA because no one in the DVAPARA has the
capacity to perceive it.
No one could see his previous form, when he
was with Rama, because Time is different in each of the yugas.
Everyone, it seems, even the gods and great seers, must 'adjust to
time from eon to eon' and so Hanuman's original form no longer
exists.
Worlds such as Avalon do disappear.
Lessing's profound genius conveys the barriers in consciousness
between the emissaries and the evolving colonists. The emissary
Johor is attempting to explain to the [benevolent] 'Giants' who have
served as an intermediary caretaker race to assist in the evolution
of Shikasta's civilization and the human race living and evolving
there.
But even as Johor speaks, the terrible mind-numbing effects
of Shammat's sinister and malevolent transmitter are taking over
their consciousness.
Johor: "I saw then that it had begun. The Giants were affected, too... and I [Johor the emissary] understood that in fact I had been
changed without knowing it. I could see that soon I would be the
only individual on Shikasta with the power of judgement, of reasoned
action."
Johor endeavors to explain to the Giants what will happen and that
the ship from Canopus are coming to take them off the planet.
"And
yet the Giants did not know their state... there had been a real
and drastic change... more restlessness, and moments too, when it
seemed as if everyone there had lost themselves: their eyes would
glaze and wander, and they spoke at random."
Shammat is feeding off Shikasta. These are the same ideas that we
have now all heard and read over the last 30 years.
Lessing foresaw
and wrote it all out brilliantly in 1978.
Johor: "... the more the Natives [the human race apart from and
under the benevolent guidance of the Giants who are about to leave
the planet] degenerate, the more they will weaken and lose substance
[rather like a connecting force, shakti or chi], the better that
will be for Shammat ... Shammat cannot feed on the high, the pure,
the fine. It is poison to them."
This is a primary Law of Magnetism in spiritual practice and
occultism. Like attracts like.
If our consciousness is pure, the
dark forces cannot attach to us. As long as we are in anger, fear
and even apprehension of impending catastrophes, these demonic
forces can weaken us, interfere with our intentions, and literally
eat our energies.
This is the reason why I have stopped reading Fear Inc. on the
Internet. It is one thing to be informed, and quite another to be
addicted to a daily dose of 'threat matrix' fear and states of
sustained apprehensions. Sooner or later most come to the
realization that we are reading is fabricated, made up, and padded
by writers who are spinning sensational lies to get readers and
advertisers.
Fear Inc. is a business, but it is far worse than mere
commerce.
Johor: "The level of the Lock [which connects Canopus to Shikasta
and sends strength and harmony to Shikasta via the planet's Ley
lines] in the past has been far above the grasp of Shammat.
They are
lying in wait, for the precise moment when their nature, the Shammat
nature can fasten its nasty force onto the substance of the Lock!
They are already withdrawing strength, they are feeding themselves..."
The darkside tyrants are lying in wait, lying in wait for human
consciousness to degenerate and sink to a frequency that will
finally completely align with theirs.
They are lying in wait for the
EDC chemicals in our food, air, water, and
the 'big pharma' drugs to
destroy our immune system; and the endless confusion of mendacity
intentionally designed to control us and render us so passive that
we are merely helpless beggars, victims whining to be cared for.
Perhaps Lessing is only speaking metaphorically, which would be
powerful enough. Shammat can easily be interpreted as the
corporatist fascists who appear to be taking over our Mother planet
Earth and simultaneously destroying her. Or perhaps the lady Lessing
too had visions.
I cannot speak for her, I can only point out the
amazing accuracy of her writings and especially in regard to the
sheer number who came to experience and finally understand what
Lessing said over 30 years ago!
Johor explains that within the Canopus empire the very essence of
The Degenerative Disease is to,
"identify ourselves as individuals"
and that "every one of us in the Canopean Empire is taught to value
ourselves only insofar as we are in harmony with the plan, the
phases of our evolution."
I realize that this kind of language gets into political
machinations that can easily be misconstrued, and used to manipulate
and control.
But I believe that what Lessing is talking about here
is not some off-world form of communism. She abandoned that sort of
tyrannical control-based propaganda many years ago. Doris Lessing is
a Sufi, a mystic at heart. What she is evoking here is the Oneness,
the fact that beneath all our differences in form, we are the
Oneness.
Awakening to the reality of our inter-connectivity is the Key to
Enlightenment and our graduation into the higher more evolved realms
in the universe. We are the Oneness - and this Divine Lila is quite
a 'Play' that we ourselves have created to play in!
References
Part V
Earth's Magnetic Field
Earth's magnetic field is truly a miracle. If we humans need to
worship something, maybe we should be worshipping our precious
magnetic field!
What little our current science knows about our
Earth's magnetic field is changing rapidly. I have been reading many
scientific papers and watching 'her' behavior - yes, she does feel
like the feminine as part of Prakriti's Matrix, the womb, the Shakti
power that manifests the universe for the Oneness.
The online web
pages [see links below] that offer graphic information are
wonderful. I acknowledge this as a gift and am expressing my
gratitude to the scientists who provide it for us so we can share in
what they are learning.
Have you ever wondered just how our little green jewel of a planet
has exactly the right stuff to allow Life? Without her magnetic
field our momma Earth would look like Venus or Mars. What invisible
'hand' formed these delicately balanced forces so perfectly that we
might live here.
Doesn't it seem totally miraculous - and yet there
are 300+ billion galaxies out there! Surely there are more
earth-like planets, or perhaps planets that precisely provide the
needs of a vast multiplicity of beings residing here, there, and
everywhere.
Gradually over many years I have experienced the Oneness within me,
within my Heart and Being.
I know from my own experience that this
Oneness pervades and permeates All. There is a sacred
interconnectivity at play in the universe. No one could ever
convince me otherwise, nor can I imagine this magnificent creation
without a guiding hand.
In my view the Earth is a place, a school if you like, where parts
and portions of the eternal immutable Oneness come to experience
limitation as we Forget that we are the One. Here we dive into
Earth's Veils, her holographic boundaries of Time and Space, knowing
that we will Forget and yet bravely relishing the opportunity to
re-emerge, reborn, and return to our memory of Knowing. We are
enjoying the experience of Remembering who we are.
Among those who courageously venture to incarnate here, many may not
believe how arduous it will be.
William Blake's poem, 'The Book of Thel' is often interpreted as an unborn soul who refuses to live in
the mortal world.
As volunteers we possess a purity of
consciousness, and none can imagine the foolish and cruel states we
will sink into - but sink into them we do. Even the darkside Darth
Vader types are the Oneness, and they too will find their way Home
eventually.
Swami Lakshmanjoo has said that these people "will sink
down and take a good beating" that will wake them up. We all have
plenty of time to play as this is a 'world without end' and there
are endless countless cycles of time to play in.
Most of us now in our time have completely Forgotten who we are and
why we came here. The really lost ones are running around desperate
for power, gold, polluting the planet for profit and fracking oil -
and then there are the wars, the killing, all for greed. But you
already know the symptoms.
The 'why' is what is interesting. There is solid geologic evidence
that our planet Earth has periodic cycles of Ice Ages and floods on
a cataclysmic scale that devastate and wipe out entire civilizations
and races. The magnetic field protecting us in fact seems to allow
in catastrophic and disastrous energies that shift and destroy
earth's equilibrium. The memory of these cataclysmic events is
embedded in our spirit bodies and DNA.
We all remember an "End" of time because we experience such cyclical
endings again and again.
Consider the wisdom of placing a 'school' that cultivates and allows
the evolutionary development of certain qualities, strengths and
weaknesses in racial genomes, on a planet that has these cataclysmic
intervals.
If things have gone wrong, if the consciousness of any
particular group has descended to the point of destroying itself
and/or the environment that provides it sustenance and nourishment -
then surely it is time for an appropriate cosmic correction.
On our
own smaller scale, we send individuals to places in the hope of
correcting their behavior; however, sometimes their actions have
rendered them hopeless and a danger to the larger culture, our
society, our civilization.
Why is life here on planet Earth such a struggle, so hard and often
violent especially in the later cycles of time? We humans appear to
respond best when we are under pressure. Studies have shown for
example that second generation 'rich kids' tend to become failures.
It is rare that the children of those who are highly successful
follow in their parent's footsteps, and more often than not they
waste the family fortune and their lives.
We excel and thrive under
pressure.
The magnetic field herself exerts a form of pressure. She protects
us as she presses against the constant stream of energies and a
plethora of particles coming from space and the Sun in an
interaction between Earth's magnetic field and the interplanetary
magnetic field. She is our shield, our ultimate and final Guardian.
Without Earth's magnetic field we would not exist at all.
I am
searching for her Sanskrit name in the Rig Veda, as I am certain
these sages and Seers knew of her existence.
Our off-world colonizers would have known how to navigate Earth's
magnetic field and her cycles. I am tempted to wonder if planetary
magnetic fields can be created, generated, manipulated or enhanced
by very advanced civilizations.
I have used the term the Etherians
to point to such beings, who I perceive as very high consciousness
entities serving as passive observers and overseers of thousands of
colonies throughout the billions of galaxies. Doris Lessing calls
her creator civilization the Empire of Canopus, and perhaps she
chose the word Canopus to suggest a canopy, something that covers
and protects.
The fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field assist us in our journey
Home.
"This whole universe has come into existence just to carry you
to God- Consciousness!"
So said the Kashmiri sage and saint Swami Lakshmanjoo, who was revered by Sanskrit scholars from the west and
India, who never sought out the disciples who came to learn from
him, and who never took money from any of them.
We are the Oneness, we have never been anything but the Oneness -
and we came here voluntarily. This adventure is not easy, not for
the weak or faint of heart. Pulling the Veil over God Consciousness
is as arduous or easy as removing it!
From the Paramarthasara of Abhinavagupta:
"...playing the gracious game of self-revelation, makes a person
realize his own nature [the Oneness] and to recognize himself as
none other than God. Such recognitive self-realization liquidates
delusion... he sees the whole phenomena as his own self.
The whole
universe appears in him, just as objects like a pitcher etc. appear
in a clear mirror; 'everything flows out from me'. all phenomena
[are] the wonderful reflections of his own divine powers."
In her insightful sci-fi novel Shikasta, Doris Lessing shows us the
power of the Veil as we experience forgetting in the density of the
Kali Yuga.
Johor the emissary from Canopus is speaking with one of
the humans sinking into Forgetting, which in Sanskrit is termed MOHA
meaning delusion, the ignorance of our true state.
His partial memory is not completely
lost, and yet,
"To say that he understood what went on was true. To say that he did
not understand - was true. I would sit and explain over and over
again. He listened, his eyes fixed on my face, his lips moving as he
repeated to himself what I was saying.
He would nod: yes, he had
grasped it!
But a few minutes later when I might be saying something
of the same kind, he was uncomfortable, threatened... as if I had
never taught him anything at all... as if part of him knew and
remembered all I told him, but other parts had not heard a word... as
if someone stood there bound and gagged while an inferior
impersonator spoke for him."
Lessing the Sufi is ever brilliant in communicating the fluctuating
degrees of our Veiled states of consciousness. There are wonderful
DVD recordings of Swami Lakshmanjoo speaking to small groups in his
ashram in Srinagar Kashmir.
At one point, Laskhman says to them
something like.
"Do you know why I repeat these teachings to you so
often? [He is smiling gently, tenderly.] I must repeat them because
you forget the moment you leave here."
So we do, and we forget and forget until the time comes that we
really truly want to Remember. Until we want to Remember more than
we want a new adventure in time/space, or a new toy, more than we
want anything.
We want to come Home. Then we Remember. We awaken!
References
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The Book of Thel by William Blake
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172907
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'Canopus in Argos' by Doris Lessing; Alfred A. Knopf; more recent
paperbacks published by Flamingo, Harper Collins Publishers, London:
Shikasta (1979)
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The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980)
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The Sirian Experiments (1980)
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The Making of Representative for Planet 8 (1982)
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The Sentimental Agents of the Volyen Empire (1983)
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Essence of the Exact Reality or PARAMARTHASARA of Abhinavagupta,
with English Translation and notes by B.N. Pandit; Munshiram
Manoharal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1991
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Integrated Space Weather Analysis System (iSWA)
http://iswa.ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080/IswaSystemW ebApp/
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/spaceweather/
http://www. swpc.noaa.gov/
http://www. swpc.noaa.gov/drap/index.html
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
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Solar Activity - Past, Present, Future / Essay/paper by Dr. Leif
Svalgaard
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/11/11/solar-activity-past-present-
future/#more-74152
Part VI
The Labyrinth of Time
The Creator's expansive magnificence is indeed humbling when
considered from the perspective of 300+ billion galaxies in this
universe.
My intention here is not to discard spirituality and
metaphysics, but rather to enlarge and extend our understanding of
both into the greater universe.
I have cultivated a life long reverence and respect for the Sanskrit
texts. As my heart's final refuge, I believe that 'The Bhagavad Gita'
is the ultimate user's manual for the human condition.
The hymns in
the Rig Veda are verses of superb sublime poetic beauty and
elevating empowering spiritual wisdom - even though in my view not
yet properly, fully, and accurately translated. In no way am I
demeaning these ancient traditional sources, in fact I am joyfully
increasing the sphere of their sacred relevance.
Can we as humans living on planet Earth expand our awareness out
into space without losing our balance? Surely even the most
materialistic of disciplined intellects can see that imagining we
are the only form of life in a universe with 300+ billion galaxies
is stunted madness!
The idea that we have been seeded here is not
terrible - and does not deny the existence of a Creator God.
I assert that in fact we actually know very little about the intent
of various extraterrestrial groups. What we do know comes from
researchers like
Sitchin and
John Mack, psychics and channels, a
handful of self-serving entertainers, and whatever our paranoid
governments choose to reveal to us for their own confusing purposes.
Many of the psychics and channels have been revealed as frauds, or
simply as otherwise unemployed people who have their own agendas and
ambitions. The reader might include me in this batch - after all I
wrote a book based on my visions of Inanna, the Sumerian goddess who
has been accused ofjust about everything under the Sun.
However, I
would suggest that the sheer number of reports on a multitude of
off-world beings is clear evidence of our collective racial memory.
During the late 1990s many were publishing descriptions of various
diverse civilizations
with astounding variety. Surely the science fiction genre itself can
be viewed as a form of memory.
Sitchin's translations have been questioned by cuneiform scholars,
and even proven to be wrong for example in the case of the word
Nibiru, which he saw as a planet in his own dream. Other researchers
are relying on their own interpretations of artifacts, bits of
rubble, and ancient languages.
Based on my excursions into Sanskrit,
I seriously doubt that these languages have been accurately
translated. How can we know the real meaning of these bits of
evidence with our modern minds that are totally at the mercy of
five-sense perception, when the ancient's awareness level far
exceeded our own.
John Mack may have come the closest to any
balanced authentic research. Mack found that many of the ETs were
teaching something close to Buddhism to their abductees. Mack died
somewhat mysteriously, as did other researchers.
Which brings us to the tsunami of specious spurious accounts and
reports that in the early days were difficult to come by, but now
flood the Internet with titillating fear-mongering rubbish.
We know
that the information concerning the ET presence has been
categorically denied, then manipulated, and twisted by clever
writers and tale spinning liars in an effort that can only remind us
of Shakespeare's line,
"Me thinks the lady doth protest too much!"
Why was it necessary to spend so much time, effort, and taxpayer
money to throw us off track and actually make us deny what we had in
fact seen with our own eyes? Were the western military powers afraid
to admit that they had no power over these beings?
Or were they even
more afraid that they would lose control over Earth's populations if
they admitted that technologically we are still in the Stone Age and
helpless.
There are obviously many
different types of aerial ships and thus
multiple races observing us.
I'm not suggesting that all of the
beings in the extraterrestrial presence are highly evolved. Clearly
some are not. But like attracts like, and perhaps those humans who
have experienced fearful and painful episodes with ugly cruel
creatures simply attracted them.
One famous researcher wrote horror
novels before his malevolent encounters. It may be that the quality
of ET encounters reveals more about the psyche and sub-conscious of
an experiencer than the nature of ETs in general.
I have come to be sceptical about conspiracy professionals. One of
them recently admitted, probably under stress, that he was forced to
make things up to keep up with the demands of posting in cyber space
and keep his job.
Certainly
John Lear would not be high on my
credibility list, but in his 2003 interview with Art Bell, Lear said
something that stuck in my mind. He said that the ETs were
interested in our souls.
I doubt that Lear knew anything about metaphysics and the word most
natural to him would be soul, but I believe that what he thought the
ETs meant by the word 'soul' was in fact the subtle body, spirit
body or SHARIRA in Sanskrit. The spirit body is the repository of
all our experiences, every act, and thought in all of our lives.
If
the ETs had contributed to the human experiment, they would not only
be interested in us - they would have a vested interest. Perhaps
they have the rights to specific DNA held in the holographic spirit
bodies of particular groups.
After all, these bodies are their
'offspring' in the sense that they contributed.
At this moment in time, we have no idea of the real intent of the
off-world presence. We as humans either deify, turn into gods, or
destroy what we don't understand.
Faced with bewildering and
unknowable advanced life forms obviously far ahead of us and who we
are powerless against, we have fabricated an absurdly complete and encyclopaedic mythology around them - which most likely horrifies
them and assures them that we are a dangerous species ruled by
irrational fears and not to be trusted.
The list of opinionated contributors to this mythology is long and
varied, but what can we really know?
These beings cannot all be bad
as some would have us believe or surely they would have, indeed
could have blown us off the face of planet Earth long ago. No, our
demise is clearly not their intention.
If they are here on our
planet, in fact have always been here as coordinators and
contributors to the 'seed bank' Earth, we might ask what happened to
make them leave or remain out of sight to most earthlings.
The Labyrinth
of Time
I believe there was and still is an ongoing 'seed bank' here on
planet Earth.
Our small blue-green world is one of many planets
where forms of bodies and gene pools are developed to seed other
planetary systems. Earth is an amazing Labyrinth of Time - and the
Cycles of Time are excellent incubators for forms to evolve through
layers of holographic experience as consciousness.
We are
metaphorically 'clay in the potter's hands' and the potter
is Time.
We are not enslaved, not in a prison, and have come here as
volunteers to evolve within our planet's cosmic Labyrinth of Time.
At the close of the previous cycle of time, the Dvapara Yuga, there
was a war. This war took place within a family, and the Mahabharata
is the archetypal mythopoetic telling of that epic war. Radiation
weapons such as the Gandiva, the Brahma Astra, and others are
described in the Mahabharata.
The liberating wisdom of the Bhagavad
Gita is within and a part of this great and wonderful Sanskrit epic.
The great war described in the Mahabharata is in our planetary
racial memory; and it left such terrible devastation that the
'higher' more evolved off-world beings commanded the warring ETs to
leave the humans alone for a time, and this quarantined
non-interference time period is what we have been living in.
The war between the overseers of the 'seed bank' had become a menace
to the heliosphere and beyond as vast quantities of radiation
spilled out into space. The command to back off was given and
obeyed. I believe, as do many others, this quarantine period is
coming to an end and thus we see the number of increased sightings
of their ships all around the planet.
The period of non-intervention
is coming to a close because this cycle of time is coming to a close
- and another era of Ice is on its way to clean up the mess we have
made!
The Rig Veda contains precise descriptions of the sky that could
only be seen from the Arctic regions.
In his book 'The
Arctic Home in The Vedas' Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak states:
"The evidence, cited in the foregoing chapters, mainly consists of
direct passages from the Vedas and the Avesta (sacred texts of
Zoroastrianism), proving unmistakably that the poets of the Rig Veda
were acquainted with the climatic conditions which can be witnessed
only in the Arctic regions... the unusually long Arctic day and
night or a year of less that twelve months' sunshine, were all known
to Vedic bards, and have been described by them not mythologically
or metaphorically but directly in plain and simple words, which,
though misinterpreted for so long, can, in the light thrown upon the
question by recent scientific researches, be now rightly read and
understood."
Faravahar symbol of Zoroastrianism in ancient Iran
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was more than a scholar, and,
"is
remembered in his native India, where he occupies a place in history
comparable to one of the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution
in the United States."
Tilak was thrown into prison by the British
for using the Bhagavad Gita as justification for violence against
them.
In prison he researched and wrote his Arctic theories, which
are no longer accepted by the majority of professional scholars
today, no doubt in large measure due to the fact that it has become
closely associated with the Aryan Invasion Theory, which now carries
political baggage.
India does not want to see itself as a civilization that is,
"merely
the product of an earlier colonization carried out by similarly
enlightened conquerors from the North" - from the North Pole, the
Arctic Circle.
However, I am not arguing that the superbly brilliant
gems of wisdom and knowledge in the Sanskrit texts are from a
civilization in the North Pole.
I am saying that all wisdom and
knowledge in all the cultures and civilizations around this world
originated in space. Clearly Tilak's Arctic theories make no such
assumption or connection, nor do they mention any off world
civilization; the only colonizers Tilak was concerned with were the
British.
However, what India has done and perhaps more accurately,
brilliantly, and devotedly than any other culture, is to preserve
the knowledge and wisdom encoded and contained within the verses of
the Rig Veda in the sacred language of Sanskrit.
Tradition tells us
that these verses were spoken, handed down in memory from generation
to generation, until they were finally written down in Sanskrit. We
are indeed in debt to the power of their memory and sheer dedication
required to preserve 1028 hymns.
John Ackerman, author of Peleh: Hidden Knowledge, has used the Rig
Veda to substantiate many of his theories on the planetary chaos and
close encounters between Earth, Venus, Mars and Mercury.
Even though
I do feel that like many other scholars, he forces the verses to fit
his ideas, Ackerman makes a beautiful supposition I resonate with.
He suggests that over time the true meaning of the Rig Veda may have
been lost and obscured, but the dedicated sages kept the verses in
their original form in the hope that one day they would again be
made known in the fullness of their magnificent genius.
Ackerman
[website link below], who aligns himself with
Velikovsky, also feels
that sequences of cosmic events are deliberately designed by a
higher power.
The Oneness dwells in the Heart of us all, and simultaneously
permeates and pervades this entire universe. We are also a part and
portion of that
Oneness, the higher power that has no name, for as Lao Tzu has said,
'Existence is beyond the power of words to describe.'
We are all
that higher power at times veiled in Forgetting, so that we may
again be revealed in Remembrance.
Each one is precious to the
Creator. We bravely came here voluntarily to wander in this
Labyrinth of Time, a maze of weblike entanglements through unending
Cycles of Time and Dissolutions - until we are weary of it all,
until we Remember, and head Home.
All of this is in our memory buried some where beneath our
programming, cultural identities, multiple life times stored in our
subtle spirit body, and a miasma of amnesia. We are the Oneness
playing, making forms to express, experience, and relish the taste
of our eternal immutable imperishable Being in temporal limitation,
in Time and Space.
Perhaps one who truly understands is the great writer, Noble Prize
winner, and Sufi, Doris Lessing.
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Was Lessing privy to some secret
knowledge in her London days with Idries Shah, her good friend and
teacher for 30 years?
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Did Shah's "reintroduction of an ancient
teaching" impart an understanding of the cosmic plan that became her
five Canopus in Argos novels?
I doubt the lady Lessing, who is both
Sphinx and Seer, will ever tell!
References
-
'Canopus in Argos' by Doris Lessing; Alfred A. Knopf; more recent
paperbacks published by Flamingo, Harper Collins Publishers, London:
Shikasta (1979)
-
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980)
-
The Sirian Experiments (1980)
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The Making of Representative for Planet 8 (1982)
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The Sentimental Agents of the Volyen Empire (1983)
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The Arctic Home in the Vedas, by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak,
Arktos Media Ltd. , London, 2011.
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John Ackerman - Firmament and Chaos
Part VII
Advanced Technology in The Rig Veda
The Rig Veda can be regarded as the history of the peoples of the
Indus Valley Civilization.
Many Indian scholars have now accepted
the idea that the people of the Indus Valley,
Mohenjo Daro, Harappa,
etc., wrote the Rig Veda. Therefore the abundance of metaphysical
wisdom- knowledge and scientific references in the Rig Veda, along
with what I find as evidence of an advanced technology, may be
considered as the fabric and traditions of the Indus Valley
Civilization.
From my reading and research I have come to understand that the
meaning of the Sanskrit language in the Rig Veda has yet to be
translated fully and accurately.
I believe that the reason for
numerous flawed and confusing translations is the glaring fact that
our consciousness and our brain power, our ability to think in a
deeper and non-linear manner, has so greatly devolved over the
millennia through the Cycles of Time, that we have lost the all
encompassing powers of perception naturally possessed by the Rishis/Seers
who wrote the Rig Veda.
Scholars who translate the Rig Veda cannot agree on the meaning of
the words. Indian writers admit that their meaning is 'forced' to
adapt to preconceived beliefs. I feel that the Sanskrit of the Rig
Veda is not composed of linear sentences, but is expressed in
'spherical' words that have with layers within layers and
simultaneously provide multiple meanings, which serve to illuminate
and connect many fields such as history, science, and metaphysics.
Here in our present day Kali Yuga we are trapped in, limited to the
five senses, linear and compartmentalized thinking, and no longer
have the higher 'whole mind' consciousness capable of grasping words
as spheres containing layers of meaning.
In his book 'Vedic Physics, Scientific Origin of Hinduism' Dr. Raja
Ram Mohan Roy provides many examples of physics in the ancient
Sanskrit Vedic texts.
Dr. Roy explains that the,
"Vedic sages had the
capability of looking at such a subtle level, which is beyond the
reaches of modern science."
Dr. Roy defines the Sanskrit words 'Prithivi-Antariksha-Dyau' to
illustrate his opinion that a web pervades the universe, and this
web consists of these three intertwined webs.
Prithivi is the broad
and extended web, because the presence of Prithivi's expanse is
found throughout the universe. Dyau is the space in which light
propagates. Antariksha exists between the two. Dividing space into
three parts is a descriptive verbal convenience that does not deny
the all-pervading Oneness beneath.
The Vedic Seers were delineating
a division of the universe on very subtle levels - and not on the
gross material level of five sense perceptions.
Dr. Roy expresses his opinion that Dyau, the space that propagates
light, is "the hidden space" and the most important concept of Vedic
science.
He quotes a verse from a very important and famous hymn in the Rig
Veda, Mandala I.164 by the revered Rishi Dirghatamas.
Dirghatamas
was one of the Angirasa Rishis, the oldest of the Rishi families.
This hymn contains 52 verses and is thought to be a primary source
of all Sanskrit metaphysics.
To illustrate the hidden space, meaning
what is invisible to the five senses, Dr. Roy translates verse 39
as:
"Vedic mantras are in the never-decaying remotest sky, where all the
gods reside. One who does not know that, what will he do with Vedic
mantras? One who knows that, they (gods) will stay with him."
[Rig
Veda I.164.39]
The Sanskrit word 'deva' is traditionally translated as
gods, but
literally means light or the
bright shinning ones.
In his book 'The
Celestial Key to the Vedas' B.G. Sidharth states,
"the Rig Vedic
deities are really very definite and subtle scientific entities
[principles] and not tribal or semitribal gods."
B.G. Sidharth
scientific research focuses on Particle Physics and Cosmology, and
some feel that he should have received the Nobel Prize for his work
in 'dark energy'.
His view is that Rig Vedic,
"hymns are not
religious prayers, but astronomical and other scientific facts or
discoveries deliberately and cleverly camouflaged."
He also quotes
The Dirghatamas Hymn 164.39 with a variation in his translation:
"The Riks [hymns] are in the highest, undecaying heaven, wherein are
situated the shining ones. What can he do with the Riks, who does
not know that?"
[Rig Veda 1.164.39]
The ancient Seers were very aware that as we moved down through the
Cycles of Time, our perceptions would diminish until we reach the
point of being limited to the five senses.
The Rishis knew that as
'density' increased and human consciousness devolved into a miasma
of amnesia, we would not be able to comprehend words as 'spheres' of
layered and multiple meanings.
Therefore in order to preserve sacred
Truth throughout the ensuing degeneration of human consciousness in
Time, they encoded the eternal metaphysical principles that create,
sustain, and destroy the universe into personified deities to make
these abstract subtle concepts easier for our limited five-sense
perception to grasp.
Beneath temporal appearances of material density is the Oneness that
permeates and pervades All. Those who have 'the eye to see' can
perceive the One as pulsating vibrating light.
PRAKASHA is another
Sanskrit word that points to the idea that everything is "shining;
luminous; effulgence; illumination; Pure Consciousness."
The term SPANDA in Kashmir Shaivism suggests something similar: Spanda is
Divine Pulsation and Vibration;
"the principle of apparent movement
from the state of absolute unity to the plurality of the world."
[A
Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy, Sanskrit Terms Defined in
English, by John Grimes]
Many scholars have translated the Seer Dirghatamas' hymn 164 in the
Rig Veda, and the differences in translations are bewildering.
The
Ramakrishna Math Printing Press in Chennai India has published a
translation by Swami Amritananda of this hymn 164 that gives
word-by-word definitions and explanations. The book is well worth
studying even though the translation is quite naturally kept within
the ideas, beliefs, and philosophy of the Ramakrishna Vedanta
school.
Swami Amritananda considers the difficulties in translating the Rig
Veda and Hymn 164 of Dirghatmas in particular:
"...one with a yogic
insight alone could pierce the language and give us the true meaning
of the hymn. The problem is that the [enlightened] yogi can
understand, but when it comes to giving an expression to his
thought, a similar symbolic language only is adopted by him as it is
more expressive."
In other words, the experiential truths of the verses composed by
Dirghatamas can be experienced and understood by one who has reached
enlightenment, but communicating their 'spherical' layered multiple
meanings to others, who are still limited to five sense perception,
throws the yogi back into symbolic metaphor which again has as many
meanings as there are listeners.
Thus as Swami Amritananda says, the Dirghatamas Rig Veda Hymn 164,
"continues to puzzle the ordinary reader" and that the verses are
"couched in a symbolic language and secondly no two scholars concur
regarding the meaning."
This lack of agreement on meaning can
liberate a curious seeker - and thus has stirred me to work on a
translation of this 'puzzle' Hymn 164 which I understood to be a
primary source of all Sanskrit metaphysics.
Even though some scholars do use the later Puranic texts to
illuminate the Rig Veda, I am reluctant to do so. I intentionally
stay with the definitions, which are indicated to have been used in
the Rig Veda and not those found in the later Sanskrit texts.
B.G. Sidharth:
"The Rig Vedic hymns on which current theories have
been built are in fact not well understood and contemporary
interpretations remain obscure and inconsistent."
[Celestial Key to
the Vedas]
I am endeavoring to show that the Rig Veda itself is the product of
a civilization far more advanced than ours, not just spiritually,
metaphysically, but also technologically.
The fact that the Indus
Valley Civilization did not leave piles of toxic non-degradable
garbage for future generations does not imply that it was in any way
a primitive culture!
In the late 1980s I experienced a six-month period of seeing in the
'eye of my mind' the colonization of our beloved planet. Therefore
when I in all sincere humility and dedication, laboriously work to
translate these Rig Veda verses, I find not only brilliant inspiring
poetry that describes very subtle and deep metaphysical inquiries,
but also evidence of a highly advanced technological civilization.
These beings were what most of us
think of as 'ancient astronauts' and were the masters of space
travel, weather modification, genetic engineering, and radiation
weaponry.
It seems reasonable to me that in the first and second cycles of
time, the Satya and Treta Yugas, knowledge was not fragmented and
these ancient Seers would not have been compartmentalized into any
one field.
The Rishis Dirghatamas, Vashistha, Vishvamitra, Angirasa,
Bhrigu, and others would not only have been sages, seers, shamans if
you prefer, geniuses in metaphysical wisdom - they would also have
been astrophysicists, astronauts, men of science, art, poetry,
music, architecture.
These now diverse areas would not have been
considered as separate and the great ones would have excelled in
them all, much as we, rather weakly by comparison, consider a man
like Leonardo da Vinci a 'renaissance' man, meaning the master of
many fields.
The images and information on Earth's magnetic field that have been
freely offered by recent science are fascinating to me. As I said
with some glee previously, we should be worshipping our protective
magnetic field! I was certain that the Rig Vedic Rishis had
discussed Earth's magnetic field and hoped to find her in a verse.
However, I did not expect to find Earth's magnetic field in the Dirghatamas Hymn 164 - but I believe the God-within me lead me to an
aspect of my real Divine Mother, mAtA, as the sky of her protective
womb, Earth's magnetic field.
Here is my translation:
Rig Veda Mandala 1.164.9 / Earth's Magnetic Field
The Mother's sky (her magnetic field and the layers in the
atmosphere) was yoked (around the Earth), connecting with and
joined.
An enclosure on a spindle (Earth's magnetic field) stays, charged
with bearing 'the offspring of the sky' (Earth which) rested within
her womb, inside the enclosure, fortified, amongst the folds of the
atmosphere (layers).
The dear child (Earth) following alongside the herds of stars in the
skies remains beautifully formed, whole within (protected by her
magnetic field), in three paths, the courses of traversed distances.
(I suggest that the three paths ofplanets Earth's traversed
distances are moving though space, encircling the Sun, and rotating
on her axis.)
Sanskrit word definitions in Rig Veda 1.164.9 from various sources:
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Yukta - Yoked, by joining, connecting with. mAtA - Mother as the sky
(atmosphere around Earth)
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Asit - was
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Dhuri - load-bearing, charged with bearing
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DakshinAyAh - given, offered, placed on the right, in the south, the
southern quarter, southern hemisphere below to the equator.
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Atishtat - staying, remaining; rested; not standing, unstable.
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Garbho - the womb; offspring of the sky, foetus, embryo, child; the
inside, middle or interior of anything.
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Vrijanishu - an enclosure, fortified; sky, atmosphere; fold.
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Antah - in the middle or interior, within, between, amongst.
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amImet (mI) - NOT lessened, diminished, destroyed; not violated,
altered, perished.
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VatsA - dear child
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anu - following; after, along, alongside; here to, under, with,
subordinate to.
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gAm (go) - stars, the "herds of the sky" - [notice that the word
often translated as cows or cattle refers to the "herds of the sky"
meaning the stars; stars can be described poetically as herds as
they move across the night heavens - and not cows or cattle]
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apashyat - not seeing, not being in view of; not noticing.
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Vishva - universal, whole, entire; all, every, every one.
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Rupyam - beautiful, well shaped.
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Trishu - in three.
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Yojaneshu - the path, course, (distance traversed).
Part VIII
Science in The Vedas
"History is the one weak point of Sanskrit literature, being
practically non-existent. Not a single systematic chronological
record has survived.
And so complete is the lack of any data to
guide us in this matter that the dates of even the most famous of
Indian authors like Panini [the grammarian] and Kaidasa [Sanskrit
poet and dramatist] are still subject to controversy."
Quoted from the introduction by Lakshman Sarup to
'The Nighantu and
The Nirukta of Sri Yaskcarya, The Oldest Indian Treatise on
Etymology, Philology and Semantics.'
The above quotation is taken from a highly esteemed important book
said to be the cornerstone of any valid translations of Vedic
Sanskrit.
The Nighantus are the glossaries or lists of rare and
obscure words occurring in the Vedic hymns. In his book on 'Vedic
Physics' K.D. Verma states,
"Without recourse to Nirukta of Yaska no
claim to the study of Veda is sustainable."
Thus from respected Indian scholars we learn that the Sanskrit
literature itself does not provide "a single chronological record"
and therefore the dates are subject to controversy.
Even the end of
the Kali Yuga is disputed, although India does accept 3102 BCE as
the beginning of our current Cycle of Time. However, the dates of
the Mahabharata War vary from 6000 BCE to 500 BCE.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy in his book 'Vedic Physics, Scientific Origin of
Hinduism' connects the Mahabharata War with the Indus Valley
Civilization. He notes and compares the coding of knowledge found in
the (as yet untranslated) Indus Valley seals, to the coded 'hidden'
knowledge in the Rig Veda.
Roy's view is that,
"On the eve of the
'Mahabharata War' our ancestors believed that their knowledge was in
danger of being lost... writings could be destroyed. Therefore they
decided that they would organize the Vedic knowledge and instruct
pupils to memorize it, who will pass it on orally."
Krishna Dvaipayana who is described by Roy as "the chief Vedic scientist"
accomplished this organization of Vedic knowledge in,
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the Rig Veda
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the Samaveda
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the Yajurveda
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the Artharveda
The Sanskrit word
VEDA means knowledge wisdom.
According to Roy after the Mahabharata War,
"the knowledge contained
in the Vedas was gradually lost. As the knowledge contained in the
Vedas started to make no sense at all, it became difficult to
preserve the knowledge."
Thus the Sanskrit commentaries were
composed in order to preserve the meaning of the Vedas.
The Satapatha Brahmana is the most comprehensive of these commentaries,
but as Roy opines:
"Several centuries must have passed between the
Mahabharata War and the writing of the Satapatha Brahmana, because
the Satapatha Brahmana shows a significant loss of Vedic science."
Also there are several new ideas not found in the Vedas and "hardly
any legend of creation."
There are numerous descriptions of radiation weapons and aerial
ships in the epic Mahabharata.
From the perspective of seeing Earth
as one of many planetary colonies, and because there are no
verifiable dates to ascertain the time of the Mahabharata War, one
might conclude that great and terrible war brought about the end of
the Indus Valley civilization.
Other researchers have suggested that in ancient times a massive war
occurred that
used terrible nuclear weapons, which released and
spread radiation over and around the earth.
The radiation generated
by such a catastrophic conflict involving all the armies of the
ancient world may have spread far beyond the targeted areas, just as
the plumes from
the Fukushima disaster have and continue to spread
over the Pacific Ocean and the entire planet.
Such intense exposure
could have easily altered most, if not all of mankind and diminished
our perceptive capacities and intelligence levels considerably.
I suggest that the war was indeed waged between opposing sides of
one family, but a family whose origin was beyond our heliosphere.
This
Great War is described in detail in the Mahabharata and ushers
planet Earth into the Kali Yuga. The consequence of the devastating
clouds of radiation left human intelligence vastly diminished.
Most
humans were then relegated to and trapped in five-sense perception,
as we lost our previous abilities to access the myriad worlds and
dimensional realms now invisible to most.
Recent research by
Professor Gerald Crabtree, who heads a genetics laboratory at
Stanford University in California, suggests that human intelligence
peaked as early as 4,000 BCE.
Indian authors have published a number of books that compare Vedic
thought with modern science and quantum physics theories. Only a
highly and technologically advanced civilization could have evolved
the subtle ideas expressed in the Vedas.
In 'Vedic String Theory'
author M. Anant Bhakta says that in his work,
"a pioneer attempt is
made to present the String Theory of Everything (T.O.E.) discovered
by the Vedic sages, perhaps four to five millennia ago, and on which
the unique Vedanta philosophy rests... at the primordial level and
from a void-like infinite ocean of consciousness (the Brahman, the
Unborn), emerges the generator of 'strings or sutras of
consciousness' - called the Hiranyagarbha (Golden Egg, the
Firstborn), which is the precursor of the universes."
Thus we see that ideas found in today's
string theory are connected
Vedic thought.
More quotations from M. Anant Bhakta's Vedic String
Theory:
"Mind-space (Chidakasha) ... mind space is a
mirror-image of the
macrocosm... Imagery of Foam and Bubbles... often used in the
Vedic literature while describing the clusters of universes that are
being created and dissolved in the cosmos...
Quantum
electrodynamics holds the view that all-pervading vacuum
continuously spawns particles and waves that spontaneously pop into
and out of existence on an unimaginably short time scale. This flux
of particles is frequently referred to as 'quantum foam' which is
believed to extend throughout the universe."
"According to Gribben and Rees,
'Theorists are now being led to
consider the possibility that our universe is, indeed, just one
bubble among many in some greater meta-universe, Michio Kaku
writes...
These universes might be compared to a vast collection of soap
bubbles suspended in air."
The genius sage and saint of Kashmir, Abhinavagupta (950-1020 AD)
expressed a similar idea in his Paramarthasara, or Essence of the
Exact Reality:
"Maya tattva serves as the inanimate objective
substance out of which all other sentient elements evolve. It is
thus the substantive cause of numerous universes floating like
bubbles in an ocean."
M. Anant Bhakti:
"Hiranyagarbha is variously translated as the
Golden Egg, Golden Embryo... also called 'Sutratma,' the
string-shaped consciousness (Atman)... Sutras mean 'strings'...
accurate to regard sutras as strings with encoded program.
According
to Sanskrit scholars, sutra literally means 'that which generates
something'... Hiranyagarbha or the string field that, along
with consciousness, pervades the universe is also called VYOMA
(ether)."
M. Anant Bhakti emphasizes the importance of consciousness in
reaching any real understanding of the universe and quotes Eugene
Wigner, the Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and
mathematician who explored quantum mechanics:
"Science itself is
beginning to realize that it cannot evolve a T.O.E. without
elevating consciousness to the primordial (transcendental) level
which is beyond the reach of scientific methods.
Eugene Wigner
clearly states that it is not possible to formulate the laws of
quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to
consciousness."
The incompleteness of modern science as noted by
Roger Penrose is
quoted in the foreword to K.D. Verma's book on Vedic Physics:
"A
scientific world-view which does not profoundly come to terms with
the problem of conscious minds can have no serious pretentions to
completeness."
The sages who composed the Rig Veda would not have been fragmented
into compartmentalized thinking.
They would have been adepts, seers,
and masters of both metaphysics and physics. I feel that the Rig
Veda will one day be understood as evidence of a far more
technologically advanced civilization. India has already been
recognized as the guardian of universal metaphysics.
K.D. Verma writes that one of the greatest scholars of the Vedic
modern age was Maharshi Dayananda Sarasvati, who,
"declared that Veda
is the book of all true sciences. He emphatically maintained that in
ancient India there were aircrafts in use."
The word VIMANA
(aircraft, "a carrier built upon bird engineering") is found in many
Sanskrit texts and there are various descriptions of 'aerial' ships
in the Mahabharata.
The Sanskrit word VIMANA is sometimes translated
as temple, but more often as aerial ship - meaning a craft that
flies high in the sky. The ancient Sanskrit texts are full of
references to these
flying VIMANAS.
For example in the MAHABHARATA...
they again took to their city and
employing their... wizardry flew up to the sky, city and all... their celestial, divinely effulgent, airborne city, which could
move about at will. Now it would go underground, then hover high in
the sky, go diagonally with speed, or submerge in the ocean.
[3(35)170.20-25]
On this sun-like, divine, wonder-working chariot [Arjuna] flew
joyously upward, while becoming invisible to the mortals who walked
on earth, he saw wondrous airborne chariots by the thousands.
[3(32)43], translated by J.A.B. van Buitenen.
The Mahabharata remains my favorite book. I have taken considerable
liberty to offer you many amazing, fascinating and perplexing
quotations from two translations of the Mahabharata - M.N. Dutt and
J.A.B. van Buitenen.
I hope you read them with an open mind, or
better through the lens of science fiction. I believe these
descriptions are our 'memory' of previous cycles of time, before we
became imprisoned in five-sense perception - memory of a time when
we knew and experienced other dimensional realities, aerial ships,
orbiting mother ships which in the epic are called aerial cities,
radiation weaponry, invisibility cloaking, and even the use of
projecting holographic illusions on a battle field to confuse the
enemy.
I include this first quotation because it is so similar to many
others that speak of 'red rain' including the Fatima prophecies.
This phenomena of red rain appears to be embedded in our DNA racial
memory around the planet:
[before the great war] All direction of the earth, covered by
showers of dust appears greatly inauspicious. Fearful clouds,
foreboding evil, pour showers of blood in the night.
M.N. Dutt, Bhisma Parva, Ch.3.29
Weapons given to Arjuna in Indra’s
heaven:
He [Arjuna] received from the hands
of Shakra (Indra) his favourite Vajra (thunder) weapon of
irresistible force and also those lightning of tremendous roars,
flashes of which are bespoken (by the appearance) of clouds and (the
dancing) of peacocks.
M.N. Dutt, Vana Parva, Ch.44.4
Krisna speaks of his battle with an aerial city: [He imagines he has
been defeated] The conclusion dawned on my mind that it had been
wizardry and I woke up [and returned to do battle]... I [Krishna]
shot well-robed arrows, which looked like poisonous snakes,
high-flying and burning arrows. Then the Saubha [aerial city] became
invisible... concealed by wizardry... I quickly laid on an arrow,
which killed by seeking out sound... all... lay dead.
...a new noise arose... In all ten directions and sideways and upward
the Asuras screamed... Suddenly the Saubha, which could go anywhere,
reappeared blinding my eyes... I was bombarded on all sides by a rain
of mountains... until I was completely invisible... Then I took out
my favourite weapon which would cut through any rock, and raising my
thunderbolt, shattered all the mountains.
...then I [Krishna] took my favourite fire weapon... my honed-edged
stainless discus, the like of Time. I pronounced a spell on this .
Then furiously hurled it... in the sky. It approached the now lacklustre Saubha [aerial city] and aloft it cut it in two as a saw
cuts a log.
J.A.B.van Buitenen, 3. The Book of the Forest, The Razing of Saubha,
23.
In the Adi Parva is the story of two Rishis fighting over a
'cow'
named Nandini who has extraordinary powers.
The Sanskrit word for
cow has many meanings, one of which is 'star' perhaps originally a
poetic reference to stars as 'herds in the sky' moving across the
night sky.
The great Rishi Vishvamitra [who composed hymns of Mandala III in
the Rig Veda] covets the cow,
"Nandini as white as the swan or the
moon."
Vishvamitra is a Kshatriya warrior king and attempts to steal
Nandini by force.
"He dragged her hither and thither and afflicted
her."
The cow Nandini is said to have "six elevated limbs" and is loyal to
the Brahman Rishi Vasishtha, who states,
"this milk-giving cow is
kept by me for the purposes of the celestials."
The cow refuses to
be taken and,
"Blazing in anger, she soon became fearful to look as
the Sun at mid day. She began an incessant shower burning coals from
her tail."
She then brings forth armies from her tail, her udders,
her womb, her dung, her urine, from her sides, and the froth in her
mouth. The armies of the Kshatriya warrior king Visvamitra flee in
terror, and Visvamitra gives up his kingdom and sees "asceticism is
true strength."
M.N. Dutt, Adi Parva, Ch.175
In The Book of the Effort, there is a conversation between the great
seer Narada and Malati, who is the charioteer [astronaut pilot] for
Indra.
Matali is seeking a suitable marriage for his "unsurpassed in
beauty" daughter in the World of Snakes.
Together the two "enter
earth" to explore the World of the Snakes and "Narada gave the
charioteer a complete explanation of all the creatures that dwell
inside the earth."
Narada:
"Behold the solid gold palace of Varuni. Here live the
tribes of the Rakshasa and Bhutas, who wield celestial weapons but
were defeated by previous gods.
Here a brilliant fire lies awake in
the sea of Varuna, and also Vishnu's discus, which is permeated by
smokeless fire. Here is a bow... fashioned for the destruction of
the world. known as the bow Gandiva. Whenever the occasion arises,
it wields the power of a hundred thousand vital breaths, always and
assuredly."
"Here in the umbrella room stands the umbrella of the King of
Waters. The water that falls from this umbrella is pure as the moon,
but being obfuscated by darkness it cannot be seen."
"This grand city is renowned Hiranyapura of the Daityas and Danavas,
who roam around with a range of a hundred illusions... those golden
and silver mansions... shine as though made of... the stars
themselves. They appear sun-like, and resemble a blazing fire."
[Perhaps these are descriptions of self-luminous realms in various
dimensions.]
J.A.B. van Buitenen, 5. The Book of the Effort, Matali.
Arjuna:
The demons, concealed from view, began fighting by the help
of illusion. I also by the power of invisible weapons (i.e. weapons
operating on unseen objects) fought with them. And by means of
arrows duly shot from the Gandiva, I cut off their heads. thus
struck dead by me, all on a sudden, forsook their illusion and
entered into their own city.
M.N. Dutt, Vana Parva, Ch, 127
Arjuna:
Thereupon, Matali had me speedily conveyed by that
celestials car .towards Hiranyapura... with blazing arrows I cut off,
by hundreds, the heads. Thus smitten.taking refuge in that city,
again rose up in the sir with it, by the help of illusion peculiar
to the Danavas.
.I [Arjuna] obstructed their movement. (But) the sons of Diti, on
the strength of their boon, easily supported themselves on the
celestials and aerial city of sun-like splendor and moving at will.
At one time it plunged into the earth and then rose up in the air
again, now it took a curved direction and then again submerged under
water.
.I [Arjuna] assailed that city.by showers of arrows, shot from
celestial weapons. (And) that city fell to the ground.
Then, Matali, soaring to the heavens, as if taking a leap in front,
speedily came down to the earth on the chariot effulgent as the sun.
[The battle continues]:
But the thousands of weapons, discharged by
those car warriors
gradually repelled my celestials weapons; and I
beheld hundreds of thousands
sorely afflicted me [Arjuna]
thereupon
mustering up courage
sent that mighty weapon which is named RUDRA
I
beheld a person with three heads, nine eyes.hair as blazing as the
sun or fire
for his clothing he wore huge serpents issuing out their
tongues.
Then
beholding that terrible and eternal Rudra and shaking off my
fear,
I fixed it on the Gandiva.I discharged it...
No sooner had I hurled
it,
than it at once assumed a thousand shapes...
I killed all the Danavas
in a moment.
Matali praises Arjuna: This great aerial city, indestructible by the
gods and the Asuras, has been destroyed by you.
[Arjuna's father was
the god Indra and his mother the human female Kunti.]
M.N. Dutt, Vana Parva, Ch. 173
Why have these stories been dismissed as myth? Is it because their
implications threaten religion and the authority of world
governments?
In my view, 6000 years ago the peoples of India either were far more
advanced than NASA and then somehow mysteriously forgot - or the
Mahabharata is the history of and evidence for
an
off-world
civilization that did colonize this planet.
Where are they now?
Well, ask the millions who have seen them in our skies.
When will we find the courage to lift the Veils of delusion, break
out of the confines of what we have been indoctrinated to accept as
Earth's history, and come to the realization that it is absurd to
imagine we are alone in
a universe with 300+ billion galaxies.
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Part IX
The Buddha and Sufism
Although Gautama Buddha [550-483 BC] was born in a royal Hindu
family, he rejected Hinduism as it was practiced in his lifetime.
In
'The Nighantu and The Nirukta of Sri Yaskacarya' which is the oldest
Indian treatise on Sanskrit etymology, the 1920s translator Lakshman
Sarup says that there was indeed,
"early anti-Vedic scepticism" which
possibly influenced the Buddha and "may be responsible for his
vehement denunciation not only of Vedic rites and practices,
injunctions, and invocations, etc., but of Vedic lore."
Lakshman Sarup quotes from a dialogue found in the TEVIJJA Sutta in
the Digha Nikaya, which tells of two Brahmanas who are arguing and
go to Gautama Buddha to settle their dispute concerning the true
path.
The Buddha compares the Vedic Rishis [the Brahmanas] to,
"a
string of blind men" clinging to each other, "the talk of the of
the Brahmanas [Rishis] versed in the three Vedas [is] but blind
talk.the three Vedas turn out to be ridiculous, mere words, a vain
and empty thing."
The Buddha declares that reciting Vedic invocations is as useful as
asking the riverbank to move closer, so one may cross the waters.
"the Brahmanas. say thus: Indra
we call upon, Soma we call upon,
[etc]
that they, by reason of their invoking and praying and hoping
and praising, should after death
become united with Brahma [the
Oneness]
- verily such a condition of things can in no wise be."
Gautama Buddha held Vedic rituals up to ridicule and discarded them
as an obstacle to final emancipation.
"Therefore is it that the
threefold wisdom of the Brahmanas, wise in their three Vedas, is
called a waterless desert, their threefold wisdom is called a
pathless jungle, their threefold wisdom is called perdition."
As a
scholar of Hinduism, the translator Lakshman Sarup naturally argues
against the Buddha's vehement assessment of the Vedas,
"Nevertheless
the Buddha's denunciation of the
Vedas developed a strong contempt for them in his followers" and
probably "inspired other non-Vedic schools as well."
I am quoting these words of the Buddha not to diminish the value of
the Rig Veda, but to demonstrate that by Buddha's time the real
meaning of the verses was already lost - and lost to rites and
rituals, which perhaps served the priests more than the faithful.
Krishna says something very similar in the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter
II.46:
"Of no more use than a pool when the entire land is flooded are the
Vedas to the self-realized person."
[Translation by KK Nair/Krishna
Chaitanya]
In II.45, Krishna states that the Vedic rites are useful only in the
domain of the
three gunas and urges Arjuna to liberate himself from
the confinement of the plane of the GUNAS, the three modalities of
Nature, meaning Prakriti and her Matrix that manifests the temporal
illusory holographic universe.
In fact I often feel that Krishna is
also railing against the Brahman priests in the Bhagavad Gita, just
as the Buddha did many centuries later.
In The Bhagavad Gita Chapter II.52, Krishna tells Arjuna that he
will become 'disgusted' [nirvedam] with the Vedas once his
intelligence [buddhis] has crossed over delusion, which is described
as a thicket of confusion.
J.A.B. van Buitenen translates the verse:
"Then you will become disenchanted with what is supposed to be
revealed - and the revealed itself."
In other words, you will not
need or want to continue to read what others have written in books,
because the God-within you will emerge as an ever-expanding fountain
of wisdom-knowledge and reveal everything to you.
Swami Krishnananda says that at some point more reading and more
books will only get in the way. Swami Lakshmanjoo rather humorously
said to his disciples in Kashmir that when they really understood
what he was saying, they would not want to listen to him anymore!
As I have previously stated, it is my conclusion that radiation was
dispersed over planet Earth by the war that brought on the Kali
Yuga.
This radiation event altered human DNA and reduced our
consciousness, intelligence and perception down to such a level that
we could no longer comprehend the encoded meanings in the Sanskrit
words of the Rig Veda, words that I perceive as being 'spherical'
layers containing multilevels of meaning.
We just could not 'grok'
and embrace non-linear thinking - and thus we fell deeper and deeper
into material density, confusion and delusion.
No wonder the Buddha "ridiculed and discarded" Vedic rituals.
Perhaps even the teachings of Gautama Buddha have been subject to
confusion as our descent through the Kali Yuga progressed. It is my
understanding that nothing the Buddha said was written down until
several hundred years after his death.
The possibility for some
misinterpretation on the part of well-meaning and devoted disciples
is valid. We all have our own filters.
Krishna understood that each of us comes to God in our own way. In
the Bhagavad Gita Chapter VII.21, he says that no matter in whatever
form the Oneness is approached, revered and worshipped - if that
form is the expression of sincere belief, then we will receive
immovable faith [shraddha].
And it is this adamantine faith that
carries us Home, over the delusion thicket and beyond linear reason.
Bhagavad Gita XVII.3:
"Faith is in accordance with the Truth, [sattva] the essential
nature, of each, Arjuna. Man is made of faith. Whatever faith he
has, this he is."
[Translation by Winthrop Sargeant.]
Cooked by
Time!
As we humans continued to descend into this Cycle of Time, the Kali
Yuga, our understanding of the Oneness and our ways of worshipping
our own God-within went - as the old saying goes - six-ways from
Sunday!
Our consciousness became 'cooked' by Time.
The bold and controversial scholar, Malati J. Shendge has described
intelligently and accurately the birth of any ritual, yours and
mine:
"When the events became symbolic and were ascribed magical powers to
attain certain aims, the process of mythopoeisation was complete.
History was forgotten and dead ritual became the end in itself."
For the duration of this Kali Yuga, since 3102 BCE, and very
probably throughout the previous cycle of time, The Dvapara Yuga,
there has been no awareness that there are over 300+ billion
galaxies in this universe.
With the exception of gifted Seers who
'saw' in visions a myriad of other
worlds and described them as hierarchies in primordial metaphysics,
we simply were not aware of the possibility of such an immense
expanse of Life.
Millions of other galaxies could not have been
included in our sciences and religions, even as theories, when we
had no idea that the universe is so vast, larger than any of us had
previously thought or ever conceived of in written history.
Isn't it time to expand our vision of God's creation?
Stuck in 21st century Kali Yuga density, most of us have simply
forgotten that we volunteered.
We came to Earth freely to express
our God nature in Time and Space with the ideal of creating amazing
gems of data-collecting vehicles, a.k.a. the DNA of human bodies
that may find its way into other galactic realms.
Somewhat bizarrely
we are glued to the tube, indulging in compulsive consumption that
never fulfils, and vampirized by demonic frequencies we ourselves
created. In a miasma of amnesia our consciousness is tossed from one
useless amusement to another. Even the air we breathe and the food
we eat further diminishes and degrades our intelligence.
Like the spider who spins its own web, we live in a sort of
self-created gauntlet. However this crazed, boring, and increasingly
limited entrapment of ours is not a punishment, but rather a test of
our strength and resilience. A better comparison is the legendary
Labyrinth.
We are amazing supercomputers who have intentionally lost
the user's manual!
Sufism
The Sufi Hazrat Inayat Khan [1882-1927] has much to teach us.
Remember that Doris Lessing became a Sufi before she wrote the very
interesting Canopus in Argos series I wrote about at length in
previous sections. In his book 'The Heart of Sufism, Essential
Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan,' the chapter on Sufi Metaphysics is
highly illuminating.
The question is posed: What is the nature of
this manifestation?
And his answer is,
"It is an interesting dream."
Hazrat Inayat Khan teaches us that our human bodies are indeed very
remarkable.
He says that our body is "an offering from the whole
universe." Our body is an offering to the soul not only by our
parents, but also by the ancestors, the nation and race and is,
"the
outcome of something that the whole world has produced for ages: a
clay that has been kneaded" over and over by Time.
Hazrat Inayat Khan answers the question, "Why do souls come on
earth" with one word satisfaction, for the satisfaction of God.
"Because God is the Only Being, and the nature of being is to become
conscious of being... in man this consciousness of being reaches its
culmination... through man God experiences life at its highest
perfection."
Everything we do or have ever done, we do for God
because that Oneness is who we are and have always been. There is no
other!
In Sanskrit this is called the Divine Lila, or God's Play. I often
think that it is more like a 'play' in the sense of a scripted drama
- however no one can deny God's playfulness. There is evidence
everywhere of a childlike love of endless play, along with an
intoxicating and often bewildering sense of humor that confronts us
when we occasionally get wise.
The Sanskrit texts say that a human
body is very difficult to get and the opportunity to reunite our
consciousness with the Oneness should be cherished and carefully
nurtured. This re-Union is the reason we came here.
The wonderful
Kashmir saint and sage, Swami Lakshmanjoo says,
"This whole universe
has come into existence just to carry you to God consciousness!"
In the late 1990s I briefly sat in on a lecture by a famous
'channel' author.
I sat in the back row because I knew I wouldn't be staying long. The
lady began her talk with,
"I always knew I was special!" I
suppressed a smile - and said to myself, "Oh yes, lady, you and
seven billion others here on planet earth are indeed very special."
There is only the One, one soul.
Here we all are in this temporal
illusory holographic universe, all perceiving ourselves isolated,
situated within different locations moving forward, moving back -
always, the Oneness playing.
Remember?
References
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The Nighantu and The Nirukta of Sri Yaskcarya, The Oldest Indian
Treatise on Etymology, Philology and Semantics, Lakshman Sarup;
published by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1920, 2009.
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The Heart of Sufism, Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan;
Shambala Publications, Inc. Boston, Mass, 1999.
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The Civilized Demons: The Harappans in Rig Veda, Malati J. Shendge;
Abhinav Publications, New Delhi, 1977.
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The Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata, A Bilingual Edition, Translated
and Edited by J.A.B. van Buitenen; The University of Chicago Press,
1981.
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The Bhagavad Gita, Translated by Winthrop Sargeant; State University
of New York Press, 1994.
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The Gita for the Modern Man, Krishna Chaitanya/KK Nair, Clarion
Books, Delhi. Out-of -print, ISBN 8185120277
Part X
The Myriad Worlds
Buddhist cosmology speaks of the existence of the Myriad Worlds.
A
fascinating translation of the work of a nineteenth-century Tibetan
scholar reveals an enlightening perspective on the vast number of
the Myriad Worlds.
"These worlds suffuse the ten directions; millions of worlds
interpenetrate one another, and each world contains billions of
others. Billions more are contained within each atom of each world."
[Quotes are from the Introduction by the translators, The Treasury
of Knowledge, Book One: Myriad Worlds, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye.]
Awareness of the sheer scope and number of the Myriad Worlds is said
to be suitable knowledge for those who have reached a certain
spiritual
maturity, and who are ready for the higher understanding of a larger
system of cosmology.
"As a result, the mind breaks out of the cage of fixed concepts of
definite space and existence and enters the open space of myriad
worlds without beginning or end."
Waiting for us
to evolve
Therefore this affirms for me that the other beings in our galaxy
are indeed waiting for us Earthlings to mature out of our fear of
anything and anyone 'different' - and expand our consciousness to
embrace a much larger view of the universe.
In Buddhism, the Bodhisattvas are those who are enlightened, who
have Remembered that they are the eternal One, and have taken the
vow to enlighten and liberate others.
According to one Tibetan
Buddhist school theory all beings contribute to the creation of
worlds, which are the result of,
"the collective force of the
evolutionary action of sentient beings."
The unenlightened cling to
the false idea of a separate self and thus project realms that
appear as prisons. While the enlightened Bodhisattvas contribute to
the creation of the worlds through energies known as 'winds'
[energy-winds] which have "special potencies that are capable of
shaping new worlds."
Another theory says that new planets, stars, etc. are formed when
"scattered particles of matter remaining in space after a previous
world- system has been destroyed" and are compared to 'galactic
seeds' coalescing.
In the Buddhist text 'The Holy teachings of Vimalakirti' (translated by Robert Thurman), "the Buddha states that
the buddha- fields in which the bodhisattvas practice are fields of
living beings. In Buddhist terminology, the ultimate realm in which
everything exists is called 'the sphere of reality' (dharmadhatu).
Buddhism and Kashmir Shaivism would agree that at the highest
ultimate reality nothing is ever created and nothing ever destroyed.
"Nevertheless .infinite world-systems arise as phantom appearances
based on interdependent connections."
The bodies we inhabit here on planet Earth are made of earth.
The
food we eat is grown in the earth's soil and without that food, we
would not grow. Our bodies would die. Beings who dwell on other
planets, in other
dimensional realms may not have earth-based bodies because they may
not have anything like earth soil. Their bodies may be composed of
something less dense.
So why do we assume or even imagine their
bodies would look like ours?
In fact even in our solar system there are planets that do not have
magnetic fields. It is highly unlikely that our earth-based physics
applies to planets that do not have a magnetic field.
There must be
many other contributing factors we are not aware of involved in a
multitude of civilizations in a universe of 300+ billion galaxies.
Yet we continue to define everything in terms of our experience, we
are earth-centric, egocentric, heliocentric, humanoid-centric!
Ridiculous!
Are there now enough of us who are sufficiently spiritually evolved
to expand our understanding and embrace the idea that the universe
contains Myriad Worlds.
In his introduction to 'Rigveda for the Layman' the very courageous
Vedic research scholar, Shyam Ghosh (1904-2000) speaks frankly about
the decline of understanding the Rig Veda in ancient India:
"The decline.took a further downward trend as succeeding generations of
Brahmana priests, claiming to be the only knowledgeable persons,
began creating a mystic and fanciful picture of the Rig thoughts in
order to keep the layman happy and ignorant."
This refreshingly honest observation could be applied to any
priesthood, as throughout time we have seen again and again the
tendency of priestcraft to ascribe to itself special powers and
knowledge.
The claim of elite, secret and privileged powers has
allowed priests east and west to dominate the innocent. Thus the
faithful are manipulated and kept in fear; and what little money
they have, flows into the pockets of the greedy priests.
Surely the
indulgences sold by
the Church in the west reflect a similar
tradition that can be most accurately described as a racket.
Ghosh continues:
"They [the priests] deviated more and more from the
sublime and abstract ideas as expressed by the Rishis [the Seers who
composed the Rig Veda hymns], and concentrated more and more on
rituals and idol worship.
Rituals, they emphasized, were the best
means of attaining ultimate bliss, and for performing these rituals
they, as the
only knowledgeable persons (Brahmanas) offered their own services -
of course, for a paltry gift from the devotees in the form of
offerings to the deity."
The mischief was unending as Ghosh explains:
"The Brahman allegories
led to further dilution of Rig thoughts when the priests - in fact,
succeeding generations of them - created and recreated a host of
deities to suit the prevailing mood of the ignorant laity.
Thus
misinterpreting many of the Rig hymns, they introduced the notion of
castes, animal sacrifices, widow burning, and a swarm of other evils
that bedevil the Hindu society today."
These misinterpretations are
what Gautama Buddha quite rightly railed against.
Ghosh also points out that such priestly perversion is a global
phenomenon. Many in the west have paid absurd sums to have an
audience with the Pope. I would sadly note that in America, my
country of birth, this worshipping of deities has taken the form of
consumption - and that people worship money and their 'stuff' more
than they think about God and even their children.
I hope to see
that change, for a part of me still longs for a world in which there
is a universal 'Bill of Rights' respected and honored for everyone.
Shyam Ghosh has assigned qualities to the names of Hindu deities,
and these qualities reflect the interactions between energies more
recently described in quantum physics. His translations of the Rig
Veda are deep, profoundly thoughtful, wonderful, and an inspiration.
His does not agree with other translations, but none of them concur
anyway - and Ghosh is a treasure of original interpretation.
For
example, the Maruts are defined as,
"silent inaudible particles of
primal sound, the real cause of consciousness in an inert body."
Surya is traditionally translated as the Sun, but Ghosh sees Surya
as radiation - that which pours forth. Rudra is the,
"time signal
that announced the birth of the cosmos, and the beginning of
temporal Time."
When I examine the bewildering obfuscation of the colonization of
Earth, I think of the amusing and charming South African film, 'The
Gods Must Be Crazy.'
In this 1980 comedy, a coke bottle drops down
in the Kalahari Desert and a tribal band with no knowledge of the
world beyond, finds it and begins to worship it. Inevitably the
desire to possess the bottle brings
out the worst in them - jealousy, anger, envy, hatred, and violence.
Finally a wise man in the tribe decides that the gods must be crazy
and tosses the bottle over a cliff.
In her 'Canopus in Argos' series, the Sufi Doris Lessing writes
brilliantly on the transformation of the most practical matters into
useless ritual.
Once the colonizing emissaries have left a planet,
there is a subsequent loss of understanding and all that remains is
some mimicry, a going through the motion of an act that was in fact
very practical - perhaps simple hygiene or construction.
Again I quote Malati J. Shendge's insightful definition of how
history is turned into myth and ritual is born:
"When the events
became symbolic and were ascribed magical powers to attain certain
aims, the process of mythopoeisation was complete. History was
forgotten and dead ritual became the end in itself."
Our universe
is Love
The worst of all priestcraft is the fear of death and punishment in
hells.
The subtle webs of acts (karma) we ourselves weave, serve to
create our bodies in subsequent incarnations and are quite
sufficient to teach us what we need to learn to evolve. Perhaps if
we believe strongly enough in some horrid hell we have been spoon
fed, then we can produce it as a sort of virtual reality, an
unpleasant temporal hologram.
We are what we believe.
In the late 1980s I spent weeks totally alone, isolated and in
meditation. During this period I remembered around 30 of my past
lives. I learned to listen to the God-within me and weeping
silently, I wrote down much of what I heard.
Some of these writings
found their way into the book I wrote in 1995,
Inanna Returns.
Here
is a small bit of that transmission from the God-within me, so that
you may know how deeply we are loved:
I have many names from a multitude of experiences and states of
being,
but in truth, I am a frequency of light not a name - I am
that which cannot be named.
If you seek to name me - say I am Altair from Alcyone.
Star from Star.
I am that which you have always been.
I love you.
I NEVER judged you.
I rejoiced at your accomplishments, at your courage.
I wept when you wept.
I sought wisdom in your beauty.
I held you in your darkest hours.
I was never separated from you.
I allowed you to move in the ways you chose in order to bring me
experience.
Would any being do less for its child, its creation?
In the sweetness of our coming together, I open myself to you.
I hasten to fill myself in you and of you.
You are my creation and I have longed for your Return.
Not demanding, you turn to me,
Gently, as the flowers following the Sun.
Your being creates a space for me to fill.
Oh, My Beloved! United we are!
From all the pathways and trails,
Through the long and lonely corridors of Time,
As the streams of the Earth,
As the blood flowing in your veins,
We meet in the Heart.
References
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The Treasury of Knowledge, Book One: Myriad Worlds, Jamgon Kongtrul
Lodro Taye, Kalu Rinpoche Translation Group; Snow Lion Publications,
Ithaca NY, Boulder CO, 1995, 2003.
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RGVEDA for the Layman, A Critical Survey of One Hundred Hymns of the
Rigveda, with Samhita-patha, Pada-patha and word meaning and English
translation, by Shyam Ghosh; Munishiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt.
Ltd., New Delhi, 2002, Nandi, Indira.
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The Civilized Demons: The Harappans in Rig Veda, Malati J. Shendge;
Abhinav Publications, New Delhi, 1977.
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'Canopus in Argos' by Doris Lessing; Alfred A. Knopf; more recent
paperbacks published by Flamingo, Harper Collins Publishers, London:
Shikasta (1979)
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The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980)
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The Sirian Experiments (1980)
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The Making of Representative for Planet 8 (1982)
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The Sentimental Agents of the Volyen Empire (1983)
Part XI
A School for Creator 'gods'
What I have written here will not serve to move you towards
Enlightenment.
For that you must dedicate time to your practice in
whatever form you have chosen. However it may motivate you, for
understanding why we come here is surely a part of our Liberation.
Reading further into the collection of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures
on the Myriad Worlds by Jamgon Kontrul (see below), we find
descriptions of our universe that correlate with similar passages in
the Sanskrit Puranas. I am going to reflect on both these viewpoints
not only from the spiritual and metaphysical, but also through the
lens of ancient astronaut theory and the idea that colony Earth is
only one of many inhabited planets in this and 300+ billion or more
galaxies.
I have taken the off-world position of reading the Tibetan and
Sanskrit verses through the eyes of an ancient astronaut, and
interpret them through the filter of the more current science and
astrophysics. While simultaneously and conversely, from my
understanding of the cosmology and metaphysical wisdom found in the
ancient texts, I make a heartfelt effort to weave them into one.
I
stand in both worlds.
In the Tibetan Buddhist view, our part of the universe is known as
'Endurance' because here all sentient beings endure emotions and
sufferings.
Here we learn to patiently,
"endure hardship with
exceptional courage and excel in bravery."
Endurance is contained
within one of the spaces of the twenty-five tiered arrangement of
world systems and is a third-order thousand worlds system.
"This
third order thousand world-system of Endurance alone is encircled by buddha realms equal in number to the particles of this thirteenth
world system."
The Land of Jambu is also the name given to our earth plane in the
Tibetan Buddhist system.
We are told that we must not feel that our
human life is inferior to the others.
"The Land of Jambu is a place
for new evolutionary actions."
This is the place where entities come
to evolve; and the Tibetan texts says that there are humans on
"three other continents" [meaning other realms of existence], but
they,
"experience (only) the results of their past (actions), they
have no possibility of performing new evolutionary actions.
Therefore these places are inferior to Jambu."
The Bhagavata Purana contains the Uddhava Gita, which is similar to
the Bhavagad Gita but is more explicit, more detailed and perhaps
more accessible to some.
The Bhagavata Purana was composed much
later, perhaps around 900 CE in the Indian Middle Ages. In Chapter
XI.10.21- 26 we learn that the heavens are temporal and still
contain hierarchies.
"Even great gods like Brahma do not enjoy
unmixed happiness, as they are aware of the tenure of their office.
But fools entertain futile egotism about it."
Bhagavata Purana XI.10.21:
"The heavenly happiness promised by the
Vedas is also vitiated with envy, jealousy, termination and decay,
as in the case of pleasure experienced on the earth."
Those who have earned heavenly realms through
'meritorious acts'
enjoy heavenly pleasures like a god.
"In a lustrous celestial car
(provided with all luxuries) earned by his meritorious acts, he,
wearing a rich, attractive dress, sports with the celestial damsels
while being glorified by Gandharvas [celestial musicians] in song."
So absorbed in celestial pleasures, he is not aware of his impending
fall.
"But when the balance of merits is exhausted, he is pushed
down by Time and he falls reluctantly."
The beings dwelling in the higher heavenly worlds cannot evolve
there.
They go to the specific world, a Loka, which they have earned
by their merit and remain there as long as that earned merit holds.
At the end of their merit, they are bumped back into Samsara, the
endless wheel of birth and death. My understanding is the 'gods'
have no feelings, meaning they cannot feel our ordinary human love
or sadness as we mortals do.
Without feeling, there can be no
spiritual progress, no evolution, and no experience of
re-connecting. To show why our realm is superior, the Tibetan
Buddhist says,
"Moreover, people [residing in the earth plane] feel
sad when hearing accounts of impermanence, etc., and so are easily
guided (onto the spiritual path)."
The text 'Great Mindfulness
Scripture' says,
"All four places of humans depend on this one... Here, there is the indestructible seat of enlightenment."
This clearly makes the point that we come here to seek
Enlightenment, to make progress in this evolutionary school
'Endurance' and that humans living in other realms, but which
apparently do not have this "indestructible seat of enlightenment"
are somehow dependent on those of us who are here.
The Heaven of
Clear Light
"The genesis of humans on this continent occurred when a god in (the
heaven of) Clear Light died and took miraculous birth here."
A
similar idea is in the pivotal moment in the Mahabharata when Indra
invites the gods to take form on earth with the other hosts of gods,
who are able to assume any shape.
Therefore they all,
"take pleasure
in descending to earth with varying portions of themselves" to make
the mission of the
gods successful.
The idea that the beings dwelling in other realms
or Lokas have the ability and choice to incarnate here in human form
is found in the Mahabharata, which often called the Fifth Veda.
The Tibetan text also says that the gods of the heaven of Clear
Light followed the first god, and one after another their numbers
increased until there were many.
"All could travel through space,
had radiant bodies, and were sustained by the nourishment of
meditative concentration."
The understanding that we are nourished
by meditation in the first cycle of time is found in many of the Puranas. The Linga Purana [Chapter 39.7] says that meditation is the
greatest activity during the first cycle of time, the Satya or Krita
Yuga,.
I will not labour to make exact connections between the Tibetan and
the Indian cosmologies. I am only showing ideas that I found close
enough to be thought provoking. I suggest that the Seers in Tibet
and India had similar visions, however it is possible that they did
read each other's written visions. As I have stated previously,
dates in India are an enigma.
The Sanskrit Puranas were written in the middle ages. All of them
contain many descriptions of the four cycles of time, and I have
always found those in the VAYU Purana most intriguing.
Chapter Eight: [At the end of the last Kalpa, after everything is
burned by the SAMVARTAKA fire]
23. Those who could not reach Tapa-Loka [the sphere-world of the
seven Rishis], had resorted to Janaloka [realm of the Siddhas,
saints and pious men]. They began to function as seeds for the future
creation.
24. Abiding there, in the form of seeds for the subsequent creation,
they on being let loose (scattered) serve the purpose of progeny.
26... As the mental sons of Brahma (the creator god), they work as
accomplished souls.
33. Whatever names and forms (these beings have) in the past Kalpa,
they mostly receive the same in the future Kalpas.
The verses go on to describe life in the first cycle of time, saying
that everything is created mentally, through contemplation in the
mind. The people "moved about wherever they pleased. They had
acquired mental Siddhis." 47.
48. In that Krita age [Satya Yuga], there was neither virtue nor
evil. The human beings were non-differentiated. They had equal
longevity, happiness and beauty (form).
49. In the beginning of the Kalpa, in the Krita age, neither virtue
(Dharma) nor evil (Adharma) existed. The people were born with their
respective authority and rights.
[So, there was no Bill of Rights necessary!]
51. Even when thousands of human being spread they had no
obstruction, no clash, no order.
55. Time was always pleasant when peoples' desires were fulfilled.
There were no extremes in heat or cold. Whatever object they desired
in their minds was available everywhere and at all times.
According to this description in the Vayu Purana, there were no
differences even in the way humans looked.
Actions were spontaneous
and voluntary, without the intercession of intellect [59]. There was
no such thing as gain or loss, likes or dislikes, friends or foes.
We were devoid of desire, and thus did not want to possess anything,
nor did we favor one over another.
From this we may imagine our consciousness in the first cycle of
time, before we had lost our connection to the God-within. We may
begin to feel an affinity, a Remembrance of our real nature in the
various teachings designed to help us return to our original state
of Being.
Such resonant memories can serve to lead us back Home -
for the description above sounds very much like the enlightened
state of consciousness Krishna recommends to Arjuna in the Bhagavad
Gita, Chapter XII:
13: He who hates no being, friendly and compassionate; free from
"mine" and free from "I" - meaning free from attachment to
possessions and egotism; indifferent to pain and pleasure [sama-duhkha-sukhah],
and patient.
14. Contented always, the yogi [united with the One], the
self-controlled with firm resolve; the mind [manas], the
understanding and intelligence [buddhis] are fixed on and devoted to
[the Oneness].
15. He is indifferent, disinterested, pure, capable, and free from
anxiety.
My intention in this series of articles on Colony Earth is to weave
traditional spiritual wisdom into and throughout cosmology, for in
my view the two cannot be separated.
Our goal of Enlightenment and
spiritual evolution may be perceived within the revelations
presented in
an acceptance of the Myriad Worlds. Yes, there are many other beings
residing in a vast multiplicity, races, planets, dimensions,
advanced technology, and so on.
This does not intrude on the fact
that our spiritual advancement and self-mastery is the sole purpose
and reason we come to this planet, our lovely small blue-green
Earth.
Honey Cups
The Tibetan text says that after a time our ability to sustain
ourselves on meditation deteriorated and,
"a white earth nectar that
tasted like honey appeared."
The Vayu Purana [8.86-89] states,
"trees manifested. Invigorating honey without bees, possessing
sweet taste, scent and colour, exuded in them in every leafcup. They
maintained themselves with that honey. They were free from
ailments."
"But as time elapsed, they [we] were overcome with greed. They
forcibly took possession of [the] trees and extracted from them the
nectar and honey... the wish-yielding trees perished.along with the
honey."
The Tibetan version is only slightly different:
"Eating copiously of
this [honey], they began to crave it. Consequently the nourishment
of meditative concentration and other qualities, including
miraculous powers [Siddhis] and even the nectar itself,
disappeared."
In the Tibetan story another kind of food is provided,
a kind of creamy orange earth- food, but craving again causes the
loss of this and,
"the radiance of their bodies gradually
deteriorated."
Many researchers have suggested that extraterrestrials live in other
dimensions, and therefore have very different subtler and perhaps
self- luminous bodies.
My understanding is that we did not have
solid material bodies in the first cycle of time, and that as time
has continued to 'cook' our consciousness, the density of our flesh
and blood human bodies - as perceived by the five-senses - has
increased, perhaps gradually.
I believe in the first cycle of time the earth plane was
self-luminous, meaning lit from within and not from reflected light.
The Tibetan text says,
"due to the force of collective evolutionary
actions and the natural laws of existence, the sun and moon began to
illuminate the world."
I had never read this idea before, but again
I think of David Talbot's radically different conception of our
solar system in his 1996 documentary 'Remembering the End of the
World' that he bases on ancient symbols in world mythology.
Our
ideas of the universe and physics are rapidly changing. We didn't
even know our planet had a magnetic field until very recently, and
we also had no idea that the entire heliosphere was travelling
through space.
Who gave us the technology to get beyond our solar
system, far out into space enough to learn these new and startling
discoveries?
The inhabitants of the Myriad Worlds are what we call the
extraterrestrials, a term that only means beyond earth.
As the
Tibetan texts have said,
"These worlds suffuse the ten directions;
millions of worlds interpenetrate one another, and each world
contains billions of others. Billions more are contained within each
atom of each world."
As the Tibetan translators have indicated, awareness of the sheer
scope and number of the Myriad Worlds is said to be suitable
knowledge for those who have reached a certain spiritual maturity,
and who are ready for the higher understanding of a vast system of
cosmology.
"As a result, the mind breaks out of the cage of fixed concepts of
definite space and existence and enters the open space of myriad
worlds without beginning or end."
It is my considered view that the Kali Yuga was brought on by a
terrible war and this war is the story depicted in the Sanskrit
epic,
The Mahabharata.
The epic poem may be actual history, but it
is also as an archetypal war intended to teach us as the author
Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa must have been an amazing genius, a
polymath, sage and Seer who had mastered all the Vedas and every
aspect of life.
I assert that during the battles radiation was released around the
planet and these invisible plumes of death greatly reduced human
intelligence, consciousness, and perception. We lost whatever
Siddhic powers we still possessed in the previous cycle of time, the
Dvapara Yuga, and became
trapped in five-sense perception.
After that we could no longer
'see' the Myriad Worlds.
The vast majority of us no longer had use
of the 'third eye' that in the previous cycles of time was normal.
In the Tibetan writings on the Myriad Worlds there is a section
entitled, The Origin of the Wheel-Monarchs. I understand that most
translators of Sanskrit will think of the word wheel as relating to
time or to the chakras. However, when I see the word chakra 'wheel'
I think of flying ships, or as the Sanskrit Vimana is most often
translated into English - aerial ship.
The Tibetan texts says,
"Wheel monarchs, who reign over the four
continents [inhabited by humans, one being our Jambu] (by virtue of
their possession of) a gold, silver copper or iron wheel, are said
to appear in this world whenever the lifespan rises above eighty
thousand years."
In the Kali Yuga the lifespan is usually no more
than 100, therefore we understand that these wheel-monarchs only
'appear' in previous cycles of time, meaning to me that they are
'seen' and interacted with in the cycles that precede this one.
The Tibetan text the Supreme Essence Commentary on Transcendent
Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines, mentions a queen who is named 'Born
from a Mountain.'
In the Sumerian Ninhursag means the 'Lady of the
Sacred Mountain'. The Sanskrit word for mountain is Parvati, Shiva's
consort. Parvati is known as the Daughter of the Mountain, her
father being Himanvan, lord of the mountains and the personification
of the Himalayas. Is this mountain a pyramid, or an orbiting ship
that has a pyramidal shape.
The idea of 'wheels within wheels' is found in speculative interest
in space ship technology.
Remember the machine in the film 'Contact'
that took Jodie Foster into wormholes had wheels within wheels. The
word 'wheel' appears very often in the Rig Veda. The Sanskrit word
is CHAKRA and has multiple meanings.
For example: The wheel (of a
carriage, of the Sun's chariot), [chariot often is the English word
used to translate aerial ship]; of Time; a discus or sharp circular
missile weapon; a potter's wheel; an astronomical circle; a mystical
circle; a circular flight; a particular constellation in the form of
a hexagram; a form of military array - to give you a few, straight
out of M. Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Chakra also
refers to the seven wheels of energy in the human body.
The Tibetan text the Great Mindfulness Scripture describes the
'wheel' thus:
"The precious wheel is made of gold, is five hundred
leagues (in diameter) and has one thousand spokes. Within a day it
can travel one thousand leagues. By power of the wheel, the king's
attendants, the elephant and so on, are able to travel anywhere
through space up to (the heaven of) the Thirty-three and can hear
what the king does not hear. The wheel eliminates rivals. It
appeared from space."
Five hundred leagues is around 2000 miles.
This precious golden
wheel flies very fast and can 'hear what the king does not' -
meaning it has some kind of radar detection or telecommunications
system. If you were reading this Buddhist scriptural text in the 8th
century in Tibet perhaps your associations would have been quite
different than one reading it in 21st century satellite connected to
cyberspace.
The text mentions "the precious elephant" that "in a single day can
circle the Land of Jambu three times" and defeats the king's
adversaries.
Perhaps the Pali or Sanskrit word for 'elephant' once
referred to a small but mighty and unstoppable fighter airship. One
other "precious" item described is a jewel that has eight facets and
equals the size of a man's thigh.
"It illuminates the night up to a
distance of one hundred leagues, and if the day is hot, it provides
cooling water of eight qualities. Within a radius of one hundred
leagues, the jewel eliminates all diseases and fulfils all wishes.
It was presented by Indra."
In the Sanskrit texts, Indra is said to
be a station, not an individual person. There have been many Indra's
in many Kalpas, and he is the titular head king of the world of the
gods.
Another insight from the Tibetan text is in the Features of Life
section:
"Beings in lower (realms) do not see those in the higher."
Higher beings, perhaps Bodhisattvas in Buddhist Thangka paintings
are depicted as floating on clouds while observing those less
fortunate and unenlightened trapped in the various rungs of
delusion.
They can see us, but we cannot see them - unless of course
by the intent of our spiritual practice or by birth, our 'third eye'
is developed and open to see.
As we evolve spiritually and are ready to embrace a larger Universe,
we will move out of the Kali Yuga, the Age of Confusion and
Conflict. We have voluntarily come here for a school of the cosmic
kind that allows us to Veil the God-within and experience
limitation.
Our true nature is that unlimited ubiquitous Being
pervading and permeating the entire universe - and this
pervading of the Oneness includes the Myriad Worlds, the "millions
of worlds interpenetrating one another" in a universe that we now
know contains 300+billion galaxies.
References
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The Treasury of Knowledge, Book One: Myriad Worlds, Jamgon Kongtrul
Lodro Taye, Kalu Rinpoche Translation Group; Snow Lion Publications,
Ithaca NY, Boulder CO, 1995, 2003.
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The LINGA PURANA, Part I, Translated by a Board of Svholars, Edited
by Prof. J.L. Shastri; Motilal Banarsidass Publishers; Delhi, 1973,
1997.
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The VAYU PURANA, Part I, Translated
and Annotated by Dr. G.V. Tagare;
Motilal Banarsidass Publishers; Delhi, 1987
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The Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata, A Bilingual Edition, Translated
and Edited by J.A.B. van Buitenen; The University of Chicago Press,
1981
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The Bhagavad Gita, Translated by Winthrop Sargeant; State University
of New York Press, 1994
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The BHAGAVATA PURANA, Translated and Annotated by Ganesh Vasudeo
Tagare, M.A., PhD, Part 5; Motilal Banarsidass Publishers,
1976/1992; Delhi, India.
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The Uddhava Gita, The Final Teaching of Krishna, Translated by Swami
Ambikananda Saraswati; Ulysses Press, 2002
Part XII
In the Labyrinth of Endurance
The Sufi Hazrat Inayat Khan teaches that the purpose of life is to
attain mastery.
In his words, the spirit of limitation is the
hindrance to realizing the spirit of mastery.
"The process of going
from limitation to perfection is called mysticism. Mysticism means
developing from limitation to perfection."
Kashmir Shaivism states that we are always the Oneness, but we have
chosen to Veil our consciousness in differentiated perception
through the limitation of the five senses.
We literally are
'tricking' ourselves into the illusion that we are separate from the
Oneness for the purpose of our 'play' in Time and Space. This
'trick' is often called the Veil, for it is an intentional Veil of
our forgetting who we are.
Worlds are created and destroyed - and
nothing has happened. We are, were, and never will be anything but
the One.
"No diversity
is the real Truth"
The Kashmiri sage and saint, Abhinavagupta writes in the
Paramarthasara that all,
"theories are merely some dialectical
speculations useful in discussions and debates. None among such
entities has a real existence, as all these are mere suppositions
and imaginary concepts of thinkers. No diversity is the real truth."
In other words there is only the Oneness, and all schools of
religion and metaphysics with their varying theories of descriptions
and explanations of manifested reality, are useful as guides up to
and until we have moved our consciousness beyond them - and the
temporal illusory hologram.
Abhinavagupta:
"The flow of momentary consciousness, the single self
working in all minds, the power of animation, the universal soul
shining as the whole phenomenon, the gross and subtle forms, the
generalities or species and lastly the individual being, all these
consist of mere dialectical conception and do not exist at all in
reality."
Why? Because as Abhinavagupta says,
"No diversity is the
real truth."
And when you come to realize this truth,
"No other aim
in life remains to be accomplished."
You are Home!
In the Tibetan Buddhist Jamgon Kongtrul's Myriad Worlds, we learn
that the process of self-mastery eliminates the idea of a personal
self and cultivates the understanding that,
"all the infinite worlds
and all the beings who inhabit them are empty of intrinsic
existence, nothing more than the magical play of relativity and
emptiness."
The Tibetan Buddhist cosmology enumerates these infinite
worlds in grand detail.
"To fathom the magnitude of infinite numbers
of world systems being born and destroyed every moment requires a
broader vision in one's spiritual view."
In the Tibetan Buddhist cosmology, the Bodhisattvas are beings that,
"actually contribute to the creation of new worlds in which they may fulfil their heroic vows to liberate all beings."
In the
translator's introduction we read,
"infinite world-systems arise as
phantom appearances based on interdependent connections, and these
worlds serve the purposes of enlightened beings, who act as
spiritual guides, realizing that these realms have no ultimate
reality."
These realms have no ultimate reality.
The Labyrinth
We are the Oneness, that which pervades and permeates everything.
As
this ubiquitous unlimited undefinable 'Thatness' we have created a
labyrinth in Time and Space for us to play in. The labyrinth is a
temporal illusion, a woven fabric of birth and death, wars and
peace, endless layers of temporal polarities for us to experience,
to test ourselves, to learn from.
And yet beneath the play, beneath
the curtain of each atom - we are That, we are the One Soul setting
all of it in motion, a multitude of realms that are only appearances
and have no ultimate reality.
The labyrinth appears and disappears, is created, sustained, and
dissolved, via three metaphysical principles. In the Indian Sanskrit
these three are personified as Brahma the Creator, Vishnu who
sustains the universe, and Shiva the Destroyer. The gods and the
bodhisattvas are temporal, time based, and no more real or unreal
than we are.
They are merely different states of consciousness,
'stations' in the play, which we by our own effort may become.
The myriad worlds are always there. They interact with us; they play
a role in our creation, our evolution, and our destruction. They are
a part of the Play. They also come and go according to their
allotted time.
At the end of the Kalpa, everything is dissolved and
the Oneness rests in what is called the Night of Brahma, the
polarity of the Day made of many Manvantaras and yugas, the names
given to the various phases of the endless Cycles of Time, world
without end.
The Rig Veda
It is my understanding that in the Satya Yuga, the first cycle of
time, we have not yet lost our connection to the God-within each of
us.
We knew all of this and therefore our relationship with other
dimensional beings was also known. As we moved down into the ensuing
cycles we lost the Knowledge of our true natures, meaning who we
really are. As the Kashmiri sage and saint Swami Lakshmanjoo says,
we play a trick on ourselves.
He says smiling in bliss,
"It is just
trick!"
As we lost the knowledge of our true Being, we set on a course of
externalizing everything, all our wisdom and power; and we began to
worship that which we are as personifications of our lost powers.
We
began to ritualize acts that had once been simple practical useful
means to everyday life, for example fire. We externalized our power
and imprisoned ourselves in the temporal illusory hologram. We did
this, meaning we allowed it to happen. Those of us who were more
fearful than others followed the path of mastering tyranny, and
became the means and instruments of our delusion.
But we agreed, on
some level we accepted the loss for the sake of play.
"Herds in the
Skies"
Reading the Rig Veda from this point of view and in a state of
consciousness that includes knowledge of the Myriad Worlds reveals a
completely different meaning.
For example the word 'go' in Sanskrit
has many different meanings. It is most often translated as 'cow',
but another meaning is 'star' - the poets who composed the verses
saw the stars as herds circling the skies above.
There are endless
examples of multiple meanings of Sanskrit words possible; and yet
all the definitions which could point to our earthly interactions
with a technologically advance civilization, one that might have
'seeded' us, are ignored because they don't fit into traditional
religion.
A few verses I have translated will give you quite another version.
Again I freely admit in sincere humility that I have studied
Sanskrit for only fours years now, and my knowledge of early Vedic
grammar is very limited, so I do not expect anyone to accept my
translations. However I do feel that based on the available choices
of possible definitions alone, there is considerable reason to read
these verses in light of a wider understanding of the universe we
live in.
These three are from a very well known and famous hymn by
the Rishi Dirghatamas.
Rig Veda I.164
Verse 16.
The wheel of burning stars, is perceived as a sacrifice offered.
Those light-strewers, like birds cry out to me, making a blind man
in darkwaters, conscious.
That intelligent son, the wise sage, here, now intent upon knowing,
observes those ancestors, the progenitors of mankind, enlightened
Seers who inhabit the Bhuvas, the regions of the Air, and orbit the
Moon, as Regents of the Nakshatras Magha and Mula.
The stars in the heavens are seen and described as a wheel turning.
Their light is compared to a sacrifice that the Creator has made and
offered to us so that we may be inspired and learn from their light.
Who has not been left in total awe in the magnificent presence of
these heavenly lights. The sage who is now intent upon knowing and
remembering, who wants to connect with the 'fathers' observes the
stars in the heavens.
The intelligent are aware of the ancestors
that inhabit the regions between heaven and earth, who are even said
to orbit the Moon and have guard over specific sectors of the Nakshatras, which are sections of our sky - and perhaps by
implication also sectors of the galaxies.
17.
what has become of the abode, the station,
remote in space far beyond, impelling leading driving,
perhaps it is like the stars, those herds of the sky,
inconstant, transient, impermanent,
coming and going far away,
bearing, carrying its future offspring,
indeed producing one part of two, suffering desire, giving,
by no means, not at all the boundary limit of the host multitude.
Here the sage is asking where is the orbiting satellite airship, the
space station that comes and goes up in the skies.
It carries
'future offspring' perhaps in laboratories of genetic banks, which
are by no means the limits, but rather only a small portion of the
multitude of beings, giving an expanded meaning to the idea of a
heavenly host.
18.
who, intelligence restrained regulated,
thus below here in this world,
before speaking to that shinning in the sky
above, beyond, from whom the mind is born
that which abiding abode now known
promoting the
favor of the ancestor [pitri],
the father of sky heaven, far distant remote in space.
The sage has restrained and regulated
his or her intelligence, meaning has gained self-mastery and is no
longer a prisoner to the compulsions that rule and dominate most of
us humans, and in Sanskrit are termed the gunas, sattva, tamas, and
rajas.
Such self-mastery allows the sage to communicate with the
beings that are orbiting our planet high in the skies above, our
ancestors from remote space, the 'father' and progenitors of our
race on earth.
The Sanskrit word PITRI is usually translated as 'father' or
'ancestor' and are the sons of heaven, existing between heaven and
earth. They have luminous bodies, are connected to the sun and rays.
The Moon is sometimes said to be their abode, their light. The Angirasas are a group of the Pitris. Both are thought to be the
original light-gods and the human fathers.
The Angirasas and the
Pitris are,
"the apotheosis [elevation to divine status] of the rays
of some light phenomena."
[Vedic Etymology- Prof. Fatah Singh]
Sanskrit scholars who have translated these three verses admit to
their obscure riddle-like mystery. The translation of H.H. Wilson
says that verse 16 is a "piece of grammatical mysticism" because a
ray of the sun is personified as a female.
H.H. Wilson:
16. They have called these, my virtuous females, males:
he who has eyes beholds; the blind man sees not: he who is a sage
son understands this, and he who discriminates is the father of the
father.
The translation of verse 17 is even more perplexing, bizarre, and
verging on comical.
In a comment Wilson himself admits,
"This is
rather obscure: according to the Scholiast, the cow is the burnt
offering and the calf is Agni, and the positions of the two indicate
the station of the offerer with respect to the sun: or the cow may
typify the solar rays collectively and the calf the worshipper."
What?
H.H. Wilson:
17. The cow, holding her calf underneath with her
fore-feet, and then above with her hind-feet, has risen up: whither
is she gone; to whom has she turned back when half-way; where does
she bear young: it is not amidst the herd.
R.L. Kashyap says that in his translation 'the Ray-cow has stood
up':
"the Ray-cow is the same as the heavenly mind (devam manah)...
[and] Looking at the limitations of our ordinary world, one wonders
where this heavenly mind has gone."
Yes indeed, one does wonder
where the heavenly mind has gone! Sweet Jesus! As one scholar puts
it,
"To this day there is no internally consistent and coherent
interpretation of the Vedas. Meaning, however, has been forced out
of the hymns..."
[B.G. Sidharth]
These translations have been forced, and in my view forced to fit
the prevailing religious ideas as accepted by an elite of priests
and scholars. To be fair, the translations of R.L. Kashyap and Shyam
Ghosh are the most accessible. Still their verses have little in
common.
It might be said that Shyam Ghosh has
created his own Rig Veda, which is rather wonderful, inspiring, and
at least makes some sense.
The Rig Veda has long been thought of as the source of all Indian
metaphysics and liberating spiritual wisdom. When I began my meagre
amateur translations of this sacred ancient text my only thought was
- at last I shall touch the source of the elevating subtle ideas
found in the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, which is a
compilation of the best and essence of the Upanishads.
I never
thought to find evidence of ancient astronauts and earth as a
colony. I came in complete reverence, but I could not deny the
definitions I found in the M. Monier-Williams Sanskrit to English
Dictionaries.
One of the Sanskrit words in verse 18 of Dirgatamas hymn 164 is YAMA.
I had read in Shyam Ghosh that in the early Vedic texts there is no
mention of hell worlds, which appear to be an invention of the
Middle Ages not only in European Catholicism, but also in India.
The
M. Monier-Williams dictionary defines the word YAMA thus:
"a rein,
curb, bridle; a driver, charioteer; the act of checking or curbing,
suppression, restraint; self-control, forbearance; [the definitions
continue with the very interesting] the name of the god who presides
over the PITRIS [the ancestors] and rules the spirits of the dead;
he is called 'the gatherer of men' and rules over the departed
fathers in heaven, the road to which is guarded by two broad-nosed,
four-eyed, spotted dogs.; [only later] in Post-Vedic mythology he is
appointed Judge and 'Restrainer' or 'Punisher' of the dead; in later
mythology, he is always represented as a terrible deity inflicting
tortures on departed spirits."
Therefore we may conclude that the stories of hells, and in fact
perhaps hells as temporal holograms, grew in abundance as lurid and
terrifying descriptions of their heinous punishments were utilized
by generations of tyrants, who saw how effective they were in
keeping human consciousness controlled in fear.
As I have said
before, our every act and thought accumulates as energies that form
as a consequence in our individual spirit body, and which we carry
from one life to the next.
Our own acts, our behavior and
misbehavior, are quite sufficient to eventually and inevitably bring
us to the wisdom of self-mastery.
I suppose if some want hells worlds, the universe is generously
prepared to offer such experiences to satisfy our every desire. The
Tibetan Buddhist texts and the Hindu Puranas are loaded with
descriptions of these places. In my view these terrifying hell
worlds are all the product of our descent through the Kali Yuga and
the rather muddled density of consciousness in the Middle Ages.
Much
of the more complicated and elaborate Buddhist cosmology also seems
to have developed later. Even the famous Mount Sumeru, which is at
the very center of the Buddhist universe, is said to have first
emerged in the Mahabharata, where it is called Meru [Akira Sadakata].
The exact dates of the Mahabharata are unknown, but the great epic
poem was composed much later than the Rig Veda.
We are the Oneness, Veiled, enjoying the 'trick' as Lakshmanjoo puts
it, and we are projecting creating our own temporal illusory
holograms in every lifetime. We are not slaves, not victims.
We make
it all - everything we experience.
"There is only ONE. There is not ever in any sense many, or even
two.
All perception of distinction and separation, of duality, and
therefore what is known as physical reality, is a mind-created
illusion, the nature of a dream. What you think you are, a separate
individual entity, is part of this illusion. You are not the doer of
any action or the thinker of any thought. Events happen, but there
is no doer. All there is, is Consciousness. That is what you truly
are."
[David Carse]
And as the Kashmiri Abhinavagupta and Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita
both say - after you have realized this, nothing remains to be done!
Bhagavad GitaXV.20: Thus this most secret doctrine has been
taught... having realized this knowledge a man becomes wise and
accomplishes everything that is to be accomplished.
References
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The Heart of Sufism, Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan;
Shambala Publications, Boston and London, 1999.
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PARAMARTHASARA of Abhinavagupta, with English translation
and notes by
Dr. B.N. Pandit, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers; 1991, New Delhi
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The Celestial Key to the Vedas, by B.G. Sidharth; Inner Traditions,
1999.
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The RGVEDA, Mandala III, A Critical Study of the Sayana Bhasya and
Other Interpretations of the Rgveda (3.1.1 to 3.7.3), by Dr. Siddh
Nath Shukla; Sharada Publishing House, Delhi, 2001.
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Devanagari, Translation and Notes), by R.L. Kashyap; Saksi,
Published in collaboration with ASR, Melkote; Sri Aurobindo Kapali
Sastry Institute of Vedic Culture, Bangalore, India, 2009.
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Notes According to the Translation of H.H. Wilson and Bhasya of
Sayanacarya; Edited and revised with an exhaustive introduction and
notes by Ravi Prakash Arya and K.L. Joshi; Indica Books, Parimal
Publications, Delhi, 2002.
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Publishing Co., Tokyo, 1997, 2009.
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Dirghatamas, Life and Vision of Vedic Seers, by Professor Satya
Prakash Singh; Standard Publishers, New Delhi, 2006.
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Rig Vedic Suktas, Asya Vamiya Suktam, translated by Swami
Amritananda; Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore, Chennai, India, 2003.
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The Origin of Buddhist Meditation, by Alexander Wynne; Routledge,
Taylor and Francis Group, London and New York, 2007.
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Perfect Brilliant Stillness, Beyond the Individual Self, by David
Carse; Paragate Publishing, Shelburne, VT, 2006.
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as found in Vedic Literature; by Prof. Fatah Singh, M.A., B.T.,
D.Litt.; Chaukhamba Surbharti Prakashan, Varanasi, 1952, 2008.
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Sanskrit-English Dictionary, M. Monier-Williams; Two volumes,
Recomposed and improved edition; Indica Books and Parimal
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GITARTHA SAMGRAHA, Translated from Sanskrit with Introduction and
Notes by Boris Marjanovic; Indica Books; 2004, Varanasi India
***
Condensed
Colony Earth and The
Rig Veda
Part I
Excerpts from 12
articles by V. Susan Ferguson
Earth is only one of hundreds of colonies in our galaxy, which is
home to 100 billion alien planets.
Now is the time for this
self-evident truth to be accepted! Planet Earth is a Sacred Cosmic
Life Laboratory for the creation of a wondrous variety of beings.
What is created here may be shared with other planets, and the
living beings that inhabit or will inhabit those planets throughout
the universe.
Repeating cycles of Ice Ages and warm periods on Earth
are fertile ground for the evolutionary seeding, nurturing and
tempering of races. These cycles create an environment conducive to
the spiritual, mental, and emotional development, and the perfection
of beings.
The Rig Veda is our most accurate window into ancient times. The
Seers, the Rishis who wrote these hymns were not only enlightened
adepts and genius poets - they were also masters of highly advanced
technology and sciences, which included space, the heliosphere,
aerial ships, radiation weaponry, and climate modification.
What you read here does not diminish or disregard the value of
spiritual knowledge in the sacred Sanskrit texts, or the importance
of seeking Enlightenment.
In fact this 'off-world' perspective
embraces and rejoices in the magnificence of the Creator, the
Oneness that supports the temporal holographic universe with Its
vast spectrum of dimensional realms. Nor does this conclusion demean
humanity in any way, for it also celebrates the greatness of every
courageous soul who has chosen to come here to participate in the
grand ongoing process of seeding the universe.
Beneath the stunning dazzling spectacle of around 300 billion
galaxies lies the Oneness - only ONE SOUL.
We are all portions of
the One that is the ultimate Source of this universe and all Life.
As portions of the infinite immutable immeasurable One and for the
sake of our adventure into consciousness, we are pretending to be
separate.
We Veil our great Oneness in individuality and the
temporal illusion of separation via signals transmitted as
differentiated perception through the five senses to the brain.
A Sacred Quiz
The source of all other Sanskrit texts, the Rig Veda is written in
early Vedic Sanskrit.
Each word often contains multiple and layered
meanings. The verses can be understood and translated from the
perspective of history, science, philosophy, physics, and
metaphysics. In my considered opinion, the Rig Veda reflects the
knowledge and wisdom of civilizations far superior to ours and thus
gives us authentic glimpses into the previous cycles of time.
Scholars disagree about the meaning of the Sanskrit words in the Rig
Veda. The Sanskrit of this ancient text is very different than other
later texts such as the Upanishads, the epic Mahabharata, or the
even later Puranas.
Rig Vedic scholarship is complex, conflicted and
confused as these quotes from scholars reveal:
"To this day there is no internally consistent and coherent
interpretation of the Vedas."
['The Celestial Key to the Vedas' by B.G Sidharth, Indian physicist and director general of B. M. Birla
Science Centre.]
The verses in the Rig Veda have a secret meaning, which employs a
double-language method that was deliberately intended.
"The language
of the Rig Veda is archaic and contains such grammatical devices and
linguistic forms which are beyond the reach of the common mind ,
these create a sort of sacred quiz, which taxes the ingenuity of
even the most learned one.
There is considerable disagreement among
the interpreters of the Rig Veda, particularly in the interpretation
of individual words."
['The Rigveda, Mandala III' by Shukla
and Shukla]
I have translated verses in the Rig Veda that describe rocket fuel,
ritual breeding and/or artificial insemination, and Ionospheric
heating weather modification similar to HAARP.
I admit that four
years of teaching myself Sanskrit is insufficient to the task.
However in my view, the Rig Veda has yet to be properly translated
and certainly has never been translated from the perspective of it
containing glimpses of a greater and more technically advanced
civilization.
Earth's current science has now seen over 300 billion galaxies in
the universe. Can there be anyone who still believes in the absurd
fantasy that we are alone in the universe? The fact that there are
countless other life forms in the universe does not imply that there
is no God.
If anything the stunning depth of multiplicity and beauty
'out there' should affirm our faith and trust in the Creator. The
Oneness is!
Metaphysical wisdom from many sources reveals an eternal
immutable inter-connecting force "beneath the curtain of each atom"
[Sufi Mahmud Shabistari] and this invisible 'substance' for which
there are no words is what we all are.
The Nobel Prize winning author Doris Lessing wrote a series of
unique novels that are illuminating insights into the understanding
that we here on planet Earth are but one of hundreds of planetary
colonies.
By the 1970s Lessing was influenced by Sufism and these
sci-fi novels reflect her considerable and highly intelligent
spiritual wisdom. Lessing's 'Canopus in Argos' series are powerful
enlightening tales that can open our modern minds to a profound
understanding of the deeper meaning of life.
There is evidence in the verses that the people who wrote the Rig
Veda originally came from the Arctic Circle, which was then a mild
climate. They, like so many others, were forced to migrate to escape
the ice and brought their knowledge as memory with them. ['The
Arctic Home in the Vedas' by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak; available
online.]
In our current era we cannot even imagine the states of
consciousness of these poet Seers who spontaneously spoke the
stunningly beautiful Rig Veda verses.
Their brain patterns would
have been so completely different to ours. Telepathic and
communicating through 'sound-words' comparable to spheres of
multiple meanings, they would not think in a linear manner. The
sounds would have contained and transmitted into the listeners many
layers of ideas as states of consciousness, not merely as linear
sentences - the way we think today.
I believe that the reason for numerous flawed and confusing
translations of the Rig Veda is the glaring fact that our
consciousness and our brain power, our ability to think in a deeper
and non-linear manner, has so greatly devolved over the millennia
through the Cycles of Time, that we have lost the all encompassing
powers of perception naturally possessed by the Rishis/Seers who
conceived the Rig Veda.
The Rig Veda Seers were carrying the consciousness of the previous
cycles of time, the Satya Yuga and the Treta Yuga. Remember that
writing was not invented until our current Kali Yuga era and is
considered a degenerate symptom of this final cycle of time. Even
the material world would have appeared quite differently in those
days.
Scholars who translate the Rig Veda cannot agree on the meaning of
the words and Indian writers admit that their meaning is 'forced' to
adapt to preconceived beliefs. It is my view that the Rig Veda is
not composed of linear sentences, but uses these 'spherical'
logographic words that have with layers within layers, and
simultaneously provide multiple meanings, which serve to illuminate
and connect many fields such as history, science, and metaphysics.
Here in our present day Kali Yuga we are trapped in, limited to the
five senses, linear and compartmentalized thinking, and no longer
have the higher 'whole mind' consciousness capable of grasping words
as spheres containing layers of meaning.
The Sanskrit word 'deva' is traditionally translated as gods, but
literally means light or the bright shining ones.
In his book 'The
Celestial Key to the Vedas' B.G. Sidharth states,
"the Rig Vedic
deities are really very definite and subtle scientific entities
[principles] and not tribal or semi- tribal gods."
B.G. Sidharth
scientific research focuses on Particle Physics and Cosmology, and
some feel that he should have received the Nobel Prize for his work
in 'dark energy'.
His view is that Rig Vedic "hymns are
not religious prayers, but astronomical and other scientific facts
or discoveries deliberately and cleverly camouflaged."
Indian authors have published a number of books that compare Vedic
thought with modern science and quantum physics theories. Only a
highly and technologically advanced civilization could have evolved
the subtle ideas expressed in the Vedas.
The connection and correlation between the Sanskrit texts and
quantum physics, Erwin Schrodinger's cat, is well known. I have read
six books by Indian scientists who are finding physics, string
theory, quantum physics, and astronomy in the Sanskrit texts.
These
ideas are very subtle and could only have come from a more advanced
civilization.
The ancient Seers were very aware that as we moved down through the
Cycles of Time, our perceptions would diminish until we reach the
point of being limited to the five senses. The Rishis knew that as
'density' increased and human consciousness devolved into a miasma
of amnesia, we would not be able to comprehend words as 'spheres' of
layered and multiple meanings.
Therefore in order to preserve sacred
Truth throughout the ensuing degeneration of human consciousness in
Time, they encoded the eternal metaphysical principles that create,
sustain, and destroy the universe into personified deities to make
these abstract subtle concepts easier for limited five-sense
perception to grasp.
Part II
Excerpts from 12
articles by V. Susan Ferguson
I have taken the off-world position of reading the Sanskrit texts
through the eyes of an ancient astronaut, and interpret them through
the filter of the more current science and astrophysics.
While
simultaneously and conversely, from my understanding of the
cosmology and metaphysical wisdom found in the ancient texts, I make
a heartfelt effort to weave them into one. I stand in both worlds.
The sages who composed the Rig Veda would not have been fragmented
into compartmentalized thinking. They would have been adepts, seers,
and masters of both metaphysics and physics. I feel that the Rig
Veda will one day be understood as evidence of a far more
technologically advanced civilization. India has already been
recognized as the guardian of universal metaphysics.
From respected Indian scholars we learn that the Sanskrit literature
itself does not provide "a single chronological record" and
therefore the dates are subject to controversy. Even the end of the
Kali Yuga is disputed, although India does accept 3102 BCE as the
beginning of our current Cycle of Time.
For the duration of this Kali Yuga, since 3102 BCE, and very
probably throughout the previous cycle of time, The Dvapara Yuga,
there has been no awareness that there are over 300+ billion
galaxies in this universe.
With the exception of gifted Seers who
'saw' in visions a myriad of other worlds and described them as
hierarchies in primordial metaphysics.
The Birth of Ritual
The controversial scholar, Malati J. Shendge has accurately
described the birth of any ritual, yours and mine:
"When the events
became symbolic
and were ascribed magical powers to attain certain aims, the process
of mythopoeisation was complete. History was forgotten and dead
ritual became the end in itself."
Like the spider who spins its own web, we live in a sort of
self-created gauntlet.
However this crazed, boring, and increasingly
limited entrapment of ours is not a punishment, but rather a test of
our strength and resilience. A better comparison is the legendary
Labyrinth. We are amazing supercomputers who have intentionally lost
the user's manual!
The Myriad Worlds
Buddhist cosmology speaks of
the existence of the vast number of Myriad Worlds.
"These worlds
suffuse the ten directions; millions of worlds interpenetrate one
another, and each world contains billions of others. Billions more
are contained within each atom of each world."
['The Treasury of Knowledge, Book One: Myriad Worlds', Jamgon
Kongtrul Lodro Taye, in the Introduction by the translators.]
Awareness of the sheer scope and number of the Myriad Worlds is said
to be suitable knowledge for those who have reached a certain
spiritual maturity, and who are ready for the higher understanding
of a larger system of cosmology.
"As a result, the mind breaks out of the cage of fixed concepts of
definite space and existence and enters the open space of myriad
worlds without beginning or end."
Waiting for us to evolve!
The other beings in our galaxy
are indeed waiting for us Earthlings to evolve and mature out of our
fear of anything and anyone 'different' - and expand our
consciousness to embrace a much larger view of the universe.
In our solar system there are planets that do not have magnetic
fields.
It is highly unlikely that our
earth-based physics applies to planets that do not
have a magnetic field. There must be many other contributing factors
we are not aware of involved in a multitude of civilizations in a
universe of 300+ billion galaxies.
Yet absurdly we continue to
define everything in terms of our experience, we are earth-centric,
egocentric, heliocentric, humanoid-centric!
Are there now enough of us who are sufficiently spiritually evolved
to expand our understanding and embrace the idea that the universe
contains Myriad Worlds.
My intention in this series of articles on Colony Earth is to weave
traditional spiritual wisdom into and throughout cosmology, for in
my view the two cannot be separated.
Our goal of Enlightenment and
spiritual evolution may be perceived within the revelations
presented in an acceptance of the Myriad Worlds. Yes, there are many
other beings residing in a vast multiplicity, races, planets,
dimensions, advanced technology, and so on.
This does not intrude on
the fact that our spiritual advancement and self-mastery is the sole
purpose and reason we come to this planet, our lovely small
blue-green Earth.
Endurance
In the Tibetan Buddhist view, our part of the universe is known as
'Endurance' because here all sentient beings endure emotions and
sufferings.
Here we learn to patiently,
"endure hardship with
exceptional courage and excel in bravery."
Endurance is contained
within one of the spaces of the twenty-five tiered arrangement of
world systems and is a third-order thousand worlds system.
"This
third order thousand world- system of Endurance alone is encircled
by buddha realms equal in number to the particles of this thirteenth
world system."
The inhabitants of the Myriad Worlds are what we call the
extraterrestrials, a term that only means beyond earth.
As the
Tibetan texts have said,
"These worlds suffuse the ten directions;
millions of worlds interpenetrate one another, and each world
contains billions of others. Billions more are contained within each
atom of each world."
As the Tibetan translators have indicated, awareness of the sheer
scope and number of the Myriad Worlds is said to be suitable
knowledge for those who have reached a certain spiritual maturity,
and who are ready for the higher understanding of a vast system of
cosmology.
"As a result, the mind breaks out of the cage of fixed concepts of
definite space and existence and enters the open space of myriad
worlds without beginning or end."
The incompleteness of modern science as noted by Roger Penrose is
quoted in the foreword to K.D. Verma's book on Vedic Physics:
"A
scientific world-view which does not profoundly come to terms with
the problem of conscious minds can have no serious pretentions to
completeness."
It is my considered view that the current Kali Yuga was brought on
by a terrible war and this war is the story depicted in the Sanskrit
epic, The Mahabharata.
The epic poem is actual history and
simultaneously an archetypal war intended to teach. The author,
Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa, must have been an amazing genius, a
polymath, sage and Seer who had mastered all the Vedas and every
aspect of life.
The dates of the Mahabharata War vary from 6000 BCE to 500 BCE.
There are numerous descriptions of radiation weapons and aerial
ships in the epic Mahabharata.
I assert that during the battles radiation was released around the
planet and these invisible plumes of death greatly reduced human
intelligence, consciousness, and perception. We lost whatever
Siddhic powers we still possessed in the previous cycle of time, the
Dvapara Yuga, and became trapped in five-sense perception and could
no longer 'see' the Myriad Worlds.
The vast majority of us no longer
have use of the 'third eye' that was normal in the previous cycles
of time.
Earth is only one of hundreds of colonies. Now is the time for this
self- evident truth to be made known, beyond all fear. We are indeed
the One. So it is and has always been, now and Forever.
We are the Oneness, Veiled, and we are projecting creating our own
temporal illusory holograms in every lifetime. We are not slaves,
not victims. We make it all - everything we experience.
Rig Veda Mandala 1.164.9
Earth's Magnetic Field
(my rendering)
The Mother's sky (her magnetic field and the layers in the
atmosphere) was yoked (around the Earth), connecting with and
joined.
An enclosure on a spindle (Earth's magnetic field) stays, charged
with bearing 'the offspring of the sky' (Earth which) rested within
her womb, inside the enclosure, fortified, amongst the folds of the
atmosphere (layers).
The dear child (Earth) following alongside the herds of stars in the
skies remains beautifully formed, whole within (protected by her
magnetic field), in three paths, the courses of traversed distances.
(I suggest that the three paths of planets Earth's traversed
distances are moving though space, encircling the Sun, and rotating
on her axis.)
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