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--- In [email protected], Michael Dean Goodman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear Fairfield Lifers,
>
> Here's another eye-opening essay - some wild assertions and
mind-boggling
> possibilities about how different the past may have been than the
history
> that we've been taught - possibilities about flying machines, space
travel,
> nuclear weapons (and beyond)... Food for thought. Might help with let-
> ting go of the paradigm of history that we've imbibed and our whole
culture
> is immersed in.
>
> Enjoy
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> Ancient Flying Machines - Vimanas
> Contributed by John Burrows
> Slightly edited by Michael Dean Goodman
>
> The vedic tradition of India tell us that we are now in the fourth
age [yuga]
> of mankind - part of a never-ending cycle of flavors of time lasting
about 4.3
> million years per cycle. The vedas call these four ages: "The Golden
Age" [sat
> yuga - lasting 1.7 million years, where the average length of life
is 100,000
> years], "The Silver Age" [treta yuga - lasting 1.3 million years,
where the
> average length of life is 10,000 years], "The Bronze Age" [dvapara
yuga -
> lasting 864,000 years, where the average length of life is 1000
years], and
> "The Iron Age" [kali yuga - lasting 432,000 years, where the average
length of
> life is roughly 100 years].
>
> The Vimanas
>
> The Ramayana, part of the Itihasas of the vedic tradition, describes
a vimana
> as a double-deck, circular (cylindrical) aircraft with portholes and
a dome.
> It flew with the speed of the wind and gave forth a melodious sound
(a humming
> noise?). Ancient Indian texts on vimanas are so numerous it would
take several
> books to relate what they have to say. The ancient Indians
themselves wrote
> entire flight manuals on the control of various types of vimanas, of
which
> there were basically four: the shakuna vimana, the sundara vimana,
the rukma
> vimana and the tripura vimana.
>
> * The secret of constructing aeroplanes, which will not break, which
cannot be
> cut, will not catch fire, and cannot be destroyed.
> * The secret of making planes motionless.
> * The secret of making planes invisible.
> * The secret of hearing conversations and other sounds in enemy planes.
> * The secret of receiving photographs of the interior of enemy planes.
> * The secret of ascertaining the direction of enemy planes approach.
> * The secret of making persons in enemy planes lose consciousness.
> * The secret of destroying enemy planes.
>
> Sanskrit texts are filled with references to gods who fought battles
in the
> sky using vimanas equipped with weapons as deadly as any we can
deploy in
> these more enlightened times. For example, there is a passage in the
Ramayana
> which reads: The puspaka car that resembles the Sun and belongs to
my brother
> was brought by the powerful Ravana; that aerial and excellent car going
> everywhere at will.... that car resembling a bright cloud in the sky.
>
> ".. and the King [Rama] got in, and the excellent car at the command
of the
> Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere.
>
> In the Mahabharata, another aspect of the Itihasas, an ancient vedic
text of
> enormous length, we learn that an individual named Asura Maya had a
vimana
> measuring twelve cubits in circumference, with four strong wheels.
The text is
> a veritable gold mine of information relating to conflicts between
gods who
> settled their differences apparently using weapons as lethal as the
ones
> [nuclear] that we are capable of deploying.
>
> Apart from 'blazing missiles', the text records the use of other deadly
> weapons. 'Indra's Dart' operated via a circular 'reflector'. When
switched on,
> it produced a 'shaft of light' which, when focused on any target,
immediately
> 'consumed it with its power'.
>
> In one particular exchange, the hero, Krishna, is pursuing his
enemy, Salva,
> in the sky, when Salva's vimana, the Saubha, is made invisible in
some way.
> Undeterred, Krishna immediately fires off a special weapon: "I
quickly laid on
> an arrow, which killed by seeking out sound".
>
> Many other terrible weapons are described, quite matter of factly,
in the
> Mahabharata, but the most fearsome of all is the one used against
the Vrishis.
>
> The Narrative Records
>
> "Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful vimana hurled against the
three
> cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with
all the
> power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as
brilliant
> as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown
weapon,
> the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to
ashes the
> entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas."
>
> It is important to note, that these kinds of records are not
isolated. They
> can be cross-correlated with similar reports in other ancient
civilizations.
> The after-effects of this Iron Thunderbolt have an ominously
recognizable
> ring. Apparently, those killed by it were so burnt that their
corpses were
> unidentifiable. The survivors fared little better, as it caused
their hair and
> nails to fall out.
>
> Perhaps the most disturbing and challenging information about these
allegedly
> mythical vimanas in the ancient records is that there are some
matter-of-fact
> records, describing how to build one. In their way, the instructions
are quite
> precise.
>
> In the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara, it is written: "Strong and
durable
> must the body of the Vihmana be made, like a great flying bird of light
> material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating
> apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury
which sets
> the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a
great
> distance in the sky. The movements of the vimana are such that it can
> vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and
backwards.
> With the help of the machines human beings can fly in the air and
heavenly
> beings can come down to earth."
>
> The Hakatha (Laws of the Babylonians) states quite unambiguously: "The
> privilege of operating a flying machine is great. The knowledge of
flight is
> among the most ancient of our inheritances. A gift from 'those from
upon
> high'. We received it from them as a means of saving many lives."
>
> More fantastic still is the information given in the ancient
Chaldean work,
> The Sifrala, which contains over one hundred pages of technical
details on
> building a flying machine. It contains words which translate as
graphite rod,
> copper coils, crystal indicator, vibrating spheres, stable angles, etc.
>
> 'Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology', from The Anti-Gravity
Handbook, by D.
> Hatcher Childress
>
> Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very
important fact.
> While it assumed that most flying saucers are of alien, or perhaps
> Governmental Military origin, another possible origin of UFOs is
ancient India
> and Atlantis. What we know about ancient Indian flying vehicles
comes from
> ancient Indian sources; written texts that have come down to us
through the
> centuries. There is no doubt that most of these texts are authentic;
many are
> the well known ancient Indian epics themselves, and there are literally
> hundreds of them. Most of them have not even been translated into
English yet
> from the old Sanskrit.
>
> The Indian Emperor, Ashoka, started a "Secret Society of the Nine
Unknown
> Men": great Indian scientists who were supposed to catalogue the many
> sciences. Ashoka kept their work secret because he was afraid that the
> advanced science catalogued by these men, culled from ancient Indian
sources,
> would be used for the evil purpose of war, which Ashoka was strongly
against,
> having been converted to Buddhism after defeating a rival army in a
bloody
> battle. The "Nine Unknown Men" wrote a total of nine books,
presumably one
> each. Book number one was The Secrets of Gravitation! This book,
known to
> historians, but not actually seen by them, dealt chiefly with "gravity
> control." It is presumably still around somewhere, kept in a secret
library in
> India, Tibet, or elsewhere (perhaps even in North America
somewhere). One can
> certainly understand Ashoka's reasoning for wanting to keep such
knowledge a
> secret, assuming it exists.
>
> Ashoka was also aware of devastating wars using such advanced
vehicles and
> other "futuristic weapons" that had destroyed the ancient Indian
"Rama Empire"
> several thousand years before. Only a decade ago, the Chinese
discovered some
> Sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet, and sent them to the University of
> Chandrigarh to be translated. Dr. Ruth Reyna of the University said
recently
> that the documents contain directions for building interstellar
spaceships!
> Their method of propulsion, she said, was "anti-gravitational" and
was based
> upon a system analogous to that of "laghima," a siddhi or power
existing in
> man's physiological makeup, "a centrifugal force strong enough to
counteract
> all gravitational pull." According to vedic yogis, it is this
"laghima" which
> enables a person to levitate.
>
> Dr. Reyna said that on board these machines, which were called
"astras" by the
> text, the ancient Indians could have sent a detachment of men onto
any planet,
> according to the document, which is thought to be thousands of years
old. The
> manuscripts were also said to reveal the secret of "anima"; "the cap of
> invisibility" and "garima"; "how to become as heavy as a mountain of
lead."
> Naturally, Indian scientists did not take the texts very seriously,
but then
> became more positive about the value of them when the Chinese
announced that
> they were including certain parts of the data for study in their space
> program! This was one of the first instances of a government
admitting to be
> researching anti-gravity.
>
> The manuscripts did not say definitely that interplanetary travel
was ever
> made but did mention, of all things, a planned trip to the Moon,
though it is
> not clear whether this trip was actually carried out. However, one
of the
> great Indian epics, the Ramayana, does have a highly detailed story
in it of a
> trip to the moon in a bimana (or "astra"), and in fact details a
battle on the
> moon with an "Asvin" (or Atlantean) airship. This is but a small bit
of recent
> evidence of anti-gravity and aerospace technology used by Indians.
>
> To really understand the technology, we must go much further back in
time. The
> so-called "Rama Empire" of Northern India and Pakistan developed at
least
> fifteen thousand years ago on the Indian subcontinent and was a
nation of many
> large, sophisticated cities, many of which are still to be found in the
> deserts of Pakistan, northern, and western India. Rama existed,
apparently,
> parallel to the Atlantean civilization in the mid-Atlantic Ocean,
and was
> ruled by "enlightened Priest-Kings" who governed the cities.
>
> The seven greatest capital cities of Rama were known in classical
vedic texts
> as The Seven Rishi Cities. According to these ancient Indian texts,
the
> people had flying machines which were called "vimanas." The ancient
Indian
> epic describes a vimana as a doubledeck, circular aircraft, with
portholes and
> a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer today. It flew with
the
> "speed of the wind" and gave forth a "melodious sound." There were
at least
> four different types of vimanas; some saucer shaped, others like long
> cylinders ("cigar shaped airships"). The ancient Indian texts on
vimanas are
> so numerous, it would take volumes to relate what they had to say.
The ancient
> Indians, who manufactured these ships themselves, wrote entire
flight manuals
> on the control of the various types of vimanas; many of these
manuals are
> still in existence, and some have even been translated into English.
>
> The Samara Sutradhara is a scientific treatise dealing with every
possible
> angle of air travel in a vimana. There are 230 stanzas dealing with the
> construction, take-off, cruising for thousand of miles, normal and
forced
> landings, and even possible collisions with birds. In 1875, the
Vaimanika
> Shastra, a fourth century B.C. text written by [Rishi] Bharadvaja
the Wise,
> using even older texts as his source, was rediscovered in a temple
in India.
>
> It dealt with the operation of vimanas and included information on the
> steering, precautions for long flights, protection of the airships
from storms
> and lightning, and how to switch the drive to "solar energy" from a
free
> energy source which sounds like "anti-gravity." The Vaimanika
(Vymanika)
> Shastra has eight chapters with diagrams, describing three types of
aircraft,
> including apparatuses that could neither catch on fire nor break. It
also
> mentions 31 essential parts of these vehicles and 16 materials from
which they
> are constructed, which absorb light and heat; for which reason they
were
> considered suitable for the construction of vimanas.
>
> This document has been translated into English and is available by
writing the
> publisher:
> Vymaanidashaastra Aeronautics, by Maharishi Bharadvaja, translated into
> English, published by Mr. G. R. Josyer, Mysore, India, 1979. Mr.
Josyer is the
> director of the International Academy of Sanskrit Investigation,
located in
> Mysore. There seems to be no doubt that vimanas were powered by some
form of
> "anti-gravity." Vimanas took off vertically, and were capable of
hovering in
> the sky, like a modern helicopter or dirigible. Bharadvaja refers to
no less
> than seventy authorities and 10 experts of air travel in antiquity.
>
> [Michael's note: When I was on the Vedic Science Course in Delhi in
the 1980s,
> I slipped out one day and spent the afternoon perusing the shelves
of Motilal
> Banarsidas, a great book store that shipped all over the world and
was used by
> many Movement students of vedic knowledge - the Mecca of vedic
booksellers. I
> found so many great books that I had to begin discriminating -
putting some
> back - or I'd never be able to carry them home on the plane. I saw
this very
> book by Rishi Bharadvaja that the author is describing above; it was
> exceptionally unusual in that it had been translated into English!,
unlike
> many obscure, esoteric vedic texts. It gave explicit instructions
on how to
> make the drive engine for the flying ships, what alloys to make the
various
> parts out of, etc. - very technical and engineering oriented.
Foolishly, it
> was one of the books I rejected that day, and I came to regret it.
Over the
> years, when I sent friends who were traveling in India back to buy
it for me,
> they couldn't find a trace of it! No one seemed to know anything
about it.
> It was like a tease, a little taste of technology from another age,
that came
> to open my mind and then vanished into obscurity again. So finding
the source
> of it, in this essay, is the fulfillment of a decades-old desire.]
>
> These sources are now lost. Vimanas were kept in a vimana griha, a
kind of
> hanger, and were sometimes said to be propelled by a yellowish-white
liquid,
> and sometimes by some sort of mercury compound, though writers seem
confused
> in this matter. It is most likely that the later writers on vimanas
wrote as
> observers and from earlier texts, and were understandably confused
on the
> principle of their propulsion. The "yellowish-white liquid" sounds
> suspiciously like gasoline, or it could be something else entirely, and
> perhaps vimanas had a number of different propulsion sources, including
> combustion engines and even "pulse-jet" engines.
>
> It is interesting to note, that the Nazis developed the first practical
> pulse-jet engines for their V-8 rocket "buzz bombs." Hitler and the
Nazi staff
> were exceptionally interested in ancient India and Tibet and sent
expeditions
> to both these places yearly, starting in the 1930s, in order to gather
> esoteric evidence; and perhaps it was from these people that the
Nazis gained
> some of their scientific information?
>
> According to the Dronaparva, part of the Mahabharata, and the
Ramayana, one
> vimana described was shaped like a sphere and born along at great
speed on a
> mighty wind generated by mercury. It moved like a UFO, going up, down,
> backwards, and forwards as the pilot desired. In another Indian
source, the
> Samar, vimanas were "iron machines, well-knit and smooth, with a
charge of
> mercury that shot out of the back in the form of a roaring flame."
Another
> work called the Samaranganasutradhara describes how the vehicles were
> constructed. It is possible that mercury did have something to do
with the
> propulsion, or more possibly, with the guidance system. Curiously,
Soviet
> scientists have discovered what they call "age-old instruments used in
> navigating cosmic vehicles" in caves in Turkestan and the Gobi
Desert. The
> "devices" are hemispherical objects of glass or porcelain, ending in
a cone
> with a drop of mercury inside.
>
> It is evident that ancient Indians flew around in these vehicles,
all over
> Asia, to Atlantis presumably; and even, apparently, to South
America. Writing
> found at Mohenjodaro in Pakistan (presumed to be one of the "Seven
Rishi
> Cities of the Rama Empire") and still undeciphered, has also been
found in one
> other place in the world: Easter Island! Writing that appears on Easter
> Island, called Rongo-Rongo writing, is also undeciphered, and is
uncannily
> similar to the Mohenjodaro script.
>
> Was Easter Island an air base for the Rama Empire's vimana route?
(Fantasy: At
> the Mohenjodaro Vimana-Drome, as the passenger walks down the
concourse, he
> hears the sweet, melodic sound of the announcer over the
loudspeaker, "Rama
> Airways flight number seven for Bali, Easter Island, Nazca, and
Atlantis is
> now ready for boarding. Passengers please proceed to gate number...")
>
> And in Tibet, no small distance, they speak of the "fiery chariot"
thus:
> "Bhima flew along in his car, resplendent as the sun and loud as
thunder...
> The flying chariot shone like a flame in the night sky of summer...
it swept
> by like a comet... It was as if two suns were shining. Then the
chariot rose
> up and all the heaven brightened."
>
> In the Mahavira of Bhavabhuti, a Jain text of the eighth century
culled from
> older texts and traditions, we read: "An aerial chariot, the
pushpaka, conveys
> many people to the capital of Ayodhya. The sky is full of stupendous
flying
> machines, dark as night, but picked out by lights with a yellowish
glare." The
> vedas, thought to be the oldest and most foundational of all human
texts,
> describe vimanas of various shapes and sizes: the "ahnihotravimana"
with two
> engines, the "elephant-vimana" with more engines, and other types
named after
> the kingfisher, ibis, and other animals.
>
> Unfortunately, vimanas, like most scientific discoveries, were
ultimately used
> for war. Atlanteans used their flying machines, "vailixi," a similar
type of
> aircraft, to literally try and subjugate the world, it would seem,
if Indian
> texts are to be believed. The Atlanteans, known as "Asvins" in the
Indian
> writings, were apparently even more advanced technologically than
the Indians,
> and certainly of a more war-like temperament. Although no ancient
texts on
> Atlantean vailixi are known to exist, some information has come down
through
> esoteric, "occult" sources which describe their flying machines.
>
> Similar, if not identical to vimanas, vailixi were generally "cigar
shaped"
> and had the capability of maneuvering underwater as well as in the
atmosphere
> or even outer space. Other vehicles, like vimanas, were saucer
shaped, and
> could apparently also be submerged.
>
> According to Eklal Kueshana, author of The Ultimate Frontier, in an
article he
> wrote in 1966:
>
> Vailixi were first developed in Atlantis 20,000 years ago, and the
most common
> ones are "saucer shaped of generally trapezoidal cross-section with
three
> hemispherical engine pods on the underside. They use a mechanical
antigravity
> device driven by engines developing approximately 80,000 horse power.
>
> The Ramayana, Mahabharata, and other texts speak of the hideous war
that took
> place, some ten or twelve thousand years ago between Atlantis and
Rama using
> weapons of destruction that could not be imagined by readers until
the second
> half of the 20th Century, when nuclear weapons were developed.
>
> The ancient Mahabharata, one of the sources on vimanas, goes on to
tell the
> awesome destructiveness of the war: "...(the weapon was) a single
projectile
> charged with all the power of the universe. An incandescent column
of smoke
> and flame as bright as the thousand suns rose in all its splendor.
An iron
> thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes
the entire
> race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas. The corpses were so burned as
to be
> unrecognizable. The hair and nails fell out; pottery broke without
apparent
> cause, and the birds turned white... after a few hours all
foodstuffs were
> infected... to escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves
in streams
> to wash themselves and their equipment..."
>
> It would seem that the Mahabharata is describing an atomic war!
References
> like this one are not isolated; but battles, using a fantastic array of
> weapons and aerial vehicles, are common in all the epic Indian
books. One even
> describes a vimana-vailix battle on the Moon!
>
> The above section very accurately describes what an atomic explosion
would
> look like and the effects of the radioactivity on the population.
Jumping into
> water is the only respite.
>
> When the Rishi City of Mohenjodaro was excavated by archaeologists
in the last
> century, they found skeletons just lying in the streets, some of
them holding
> hands, as if some great doom had suddenly overtaken them. These
skeletons are
> among the most radioactive ever found, on a par with those found at
Hiroshima
> and Nagasaki. Ancient cities whose brick and stone walls have
literally been
> vitrified, that is: fused together, can be found in India, Ireland,
Scotland,
> France, Turkey and other places. There is no logical explanation for
the
> vitrification of stone forts and cities, except from an atomic blast.
>
> Furthermore, at Mohenjodaro, a well planned city laid on a grid, with a
> plumbing system superior to those used in Pakistan and India today, the
> streets were littered with "black lumps of glass." These globs of
glass were
> discovered to be clay pots that had melted under intense heat! With the
> cataclysmic sinking of Atlantis and the wiping out of Rama with atomic
> weapons, the world collapsed into a "stone age" of sorts, and modern
history
> picks up a few thousand years later.
>
> Yet, it would seem that not all the vimanas and vailixi of Rama and
Atlantis
> were gone. Built to last for thousands of years, many of them would
still be
> in use, as evidenced by Ashoka's "Nine Unknown Men" and the Lhasa
manuscript.
>
> That secret societies or "Brotherhoods" of exceptional,
"enlightened" human
> beings would have preserved these inventions and the knowledge of
science,
> history, etc., does not seem surprising. Many well known historical
personages
> including Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Krishna, Zoroaster,
Mahavira,
> Quetzalcoatl, Akhenaton, Moses, and more recent inventors and of
course many
> other people who will probably remain anonymous, were probably
members of such
> a secret organization.
>
> It is interesting to note that when Alexander the Great invaded
India more
> than two thousand years ago, his historians chronicled that at one
point they
> were attacked by "flying, fiery shields" that dove at his army and
frightened
> the cavalry. These "flying saucers" did not use any atomic bombs or
beam
> weapons on Alexander's army however, perhaps out of benevolence,
perhaps
> because they had forgotten how to use them, and Alexander went on to
conquer
> India. It has been suggested by many writers that these
"Brotherhoods" keep
> some of their vimanas and vailixi in secret caverns in Tibet or some
other
> place is Central Asia, and the Lop Nor Desert in western China is
known to be
> the center of a great UFO mystery. Perhaps it is here that many of the
> airships are still kept, in underground bases much as the Americans,
British,
> and Soviets have built around the world in the past few decades.
Still, not
> all UFO activity can be accounted for by old vimanas making trips to
the Moon
> for some reason.
>
> Unknown alloys have been revealed in the ancient palm leaf
manuscripts. The
> writer and Sanskrit scholar Subramanyam Iyer has spent many years of
his life
> deciphering old collections of palm leaves found in the villages of
his native
> Karnataka in southern India.
>
> One of the palm leaf manuscripts they intend to decipher is the Amsu
Bodhini,
> which, according to an anonymous text of 1931, contains information
about the
> planets; the different kinds of light, heat, color, and electromagnetic
> fields; the methods used to construct machines capable of attracting
solar
> rays and, in turn, of analyzing and separating their energy
components; the
> possibility of conversing with people in remote places and sending
messages by
> cable; and the manufacture of machines to transport people to other
planets!
>
>
>
> Namaste,
>
> Michael
>
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