The Indian Genius
India unlike other civilizations, is the world’s most
ancient and the only surviving ancient civilization. Much that has been
destroyed in the records and even the records were destroyed by the barbaric
foreign rulers under whose legs we were stamped for about 800 years. But even
in what survives, we have continuity going back at least ten thousand years.
Sequences, lineages of knowledge, of leadership, of Kings and so on, still
surviving. This is the only civilization which has dared to explore every single
field of human endeavor without exception. For any civilisation to flourish
language is the base and our base language is Sanskrit. This language consists
of a whole science of linguistics, a science of language in which we go down to
the very root sounds and those root sounds are not arbitrary conventions as all
the modern languages today are including our favorite English . Every word in
these languages is only a convention and we have to refer to the dictionary for
the meaning there of. The most noteworthy
character of Sanskrit is if you have something to say, you can express it, even
create a new vocabulary to express it. On the other hand if you hear something
which you do not know, you can go back into the root sounds and recover the
essential meaning that is being communicated. The researchers at NASA,
explained that Sanskrit is the best language for artificial intelligence though
it was created as a natural expression to articulate what is true and
permanent. What was expressed and articulated 10,000 years ago can be decoded,
it takes effort though. We can say that it is the only natural language. Certain
things that are recorded in code languages like 'Katapayadi' and Bhuta Sankhya'
or in some other code it may take time, at times may not be possible also for
the reason that the things mentioned there in might have extinguished or our
intellect may not be sufficient to decode it as in the case of 'Vimana Sastra'.
In fact, if you
look back at the history of Europe and philosophy in Europe, you find
philosophy got a boost in Europe when they began to study the Upanishads. It was link point to India which was the
cause of the renaissance in Europe, and with that philosophical awakening,
began a series of other explorations including mathematics, medicine, physics,
chemistry and so on, linking back to India for inspiration which became the
basis for the renaissance and subsequent what we call Western modern civilization. In case of
mathematics when The experts recommended our system of numbers, that being very
simple, the Church resisted for a long time with the fear that they would lose
controls over people’s minds.
Look at this
ancient culture. An interesting display
in the British Museum of Indian Jewelry along with a note there said, 'It was about 300 years
ago, the jewelry displayed from India in Paris in that period’ and it astounded
Europe as they couldn’t imagine that such complex intricate and beautiful work
could be done by human hands! These founded the base for their renaissance.
India was the only civilization which sustained
economic development without taking from others but giving more than it took as
against the European countries who conquered for their own selfishness by usurping
their sources of raw material.
India was so rich and self-contented since thousands of
years back. Just notice this small sentence in Shakespeare's 'Merchant of
Venice' that Antonio becomes rich suddenly at the end of story because the
three ships arrived from India. Venice was their famous port where from they
were trading more with India overseas. It was the kind of thinking that existed
in Europe, because India was the focal point for wealth. It is a falsehood to
say that India, because she was spiritual, was not strong or rich.
We had the world’s largest ship building industry
producing ships which could go across the ocean for six months carrying all the
food supplies and people in it; for 6 months without stopping at a port! And
this involves very advanced navigation skills. When, Vasco da Gama was heading
for India, he was hugging the coast, he was afraid to go into the ocean and at
some point on the African coast, he bumped into a ship which was 3 times the
size of his ship. It was a trader from Gujarat and Vasco do Gama said, ‘I want
to go to India, I don’t know how to go and I am scared’. The trader said,
‘follow me’. He followed the rest of the journey behind these big ships from
the Indian traders. That’s how he came
to India.
You will be surprised to know perhaps that Shivaji had
a massive battle out there in the sea with the Portuguese, because he was
protecting the sea coast line with 200 ships. And there was massive gun battle
across ships in the waters, in which Shivaji won. This is recorded and is in fact displayed by
the Indian Navy as one of the early traditions of warfare in the sea. The
misery is that we never find these facts in History as it was concocted by invaders,
especially by Europeans. To get their roots penetrated, they have realised to
conquer our minds more than the land as they can rule us forever even though
they handover the country to us.
We know the word Sastra. Sastra is that which gives the
ruling. We can develop anything on the basis of the rule. But the rule will not
change as in the case of modern science. Take the case of Vimana Sastra.
The shastra of aero plane, not only teaches how to construct an aero
plane, but the specific alloys necessary to make the aero plane, the kinds of dresses that the pilot should
wear to protect himself against different kinds of radiation. It categorizes
different kinds of radiations at different heights from the earth. It makes a
distinction between flight in the atmosphere, flight in outer space and flight
across in the solar system and different kinds of radiations and dangers at each
of these levels. It specifies the kinds of food that pilot should eat. It
specifies the kinds of machines, According to this shastra 32 machines make the
aircraft complete. Among the machines are things which we cannot even imagine,
things which we also have developed. We
take an example or two.
One is, “apasmāra dhūma prasārana yantra”
Apasmāra
– forgetfulness, dhūma
– smoke, prasārana
– spreading, yantra – machine – that is, machine that spreads the smoke of
forgetfulness. When the Vimana operates during war, it can spread the smoke
which knocks out people and makes them unconscious. This we hear in Mahabharata
where Arjuna uses in 'Uttara Gograhanam'.
Now imagine a description like this existing then. They
dealt with 'tamogarbha yantra' which means machine that produces darkness from
its womb. We cannot imagine this as so far we have no information of research
on this topic. Our physics is a description and not an explanation. We have
formulae which describe behaviors, but do not explain why they are, what they
are. There is an interesting description of glass and the whole process of
manufacturing it, in which you can see the other vimanas flying all around like
‘dots’, like stars in the sky, that is it works as a radar. Here one thing we
should realise. What are not seen now and we believe that they were by our
belief or research we endorse it otherwise we reject it. How can this be
correct? Let us take the present case. The shastra that was written was
systematically written. Confirming certain things that we know. Then how can we
ignore the other things to be false without inferring its correctness.
Please find a
reply for my above statement. Recently, Dr. C.S.R. Prabhu in Hyderabad
replicated 3 or 4 of them (he has decoded about 16 formulas so far). Among them
was a material which belongs to the ‘thamo garbha yantra’. He developed from that formula a ferrite
material which was absorbing something like 94% of light shown on it. He developed from those formulas a copper
alloy material which was harder than steel and which doesn’t corrode in the sea
water. And as evidence that these things
actually existed then he got a piece of copper alloy from Dwaraka which has
been sitting under water for the last 5000 years, it has not corroded. And it shows you that these things did exist.
The immediate question is 'Then why don't we try on
these lines. The answer depends on our analysis. 1. This is a culture of not
less than 10,000 years as per the proof till date. If we say it is since lakhs
of years the western scientists and their eastern followers will not accept it.
2. The Government does not evince any interest to promote such researches and
further researches. 3. The modern vocabulary is subjected to a sea change and
moreover all those documents are in Sanskrit about which we know little.
However we contributed and are also contributing our mite to make it dead.
Hence we cannot realise the correct meaning of the word used in the then
shastras. 4. While Kaliyuga was about to be started the then entire technology
was subjected to be submerged in the sea. Therefore we cannot get the
opportunity of making any research on the instruments. 5. Our ancient’s great
works were destroyed mercilessly by both Mohammedan and the British rulers. But
swamy Vivekananda exhorted so firmly “We do not belong to the past ‘dawn’s but
to the ‘noon’s of the future' – whatever was achieved then, however great was,
only a beginning and there is so much more to be done. India is destined to be
the Guru of the World”. See how authentic was he in his expression. Let us not
just wait for that day let us also contribute as much as we can by means of our
knowledge, intelligence, commitment, concern, devotion and dedication. This is
possible if we trust in Guru - shishya parampara and not Teacher - student
culture, as Teacher is not equivalent to guru, as Guru is far far superior to
him as he takes care of several aspects of his disciple other than teaching
which a teacher does.
Hebrew civilization, the ideal there is ethics and
morality, the Greece civilisation , the Ideal was elegance of thought, beauty
of form, Roman civilization , the Ideal of law, order and discipline and the
total European civilisation is the sum total of this.
Swasti.
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