ATOMIC WARS IN INDIA

 The Mahabharata and the Ramayana, two hindu sacred books, speak of
 invaders who seem to have come from beyone the earth, since they are
 called 'sons of the moon and the sun.'

 With astonishing precision, the Hindu books describe an atomic war of
 the kind we dread today.

 These revelations, and those that can be found in other Sanskrit texts
 (Ramacharitra, Mahavria, Drona Parva, Rasernava), made little
 impression on anyone before 1940. But scientists now realize that
 the atomic war fought in ancient Asia was exactly like the one that
 threatens our own civilization, so far as we can imagine it.

 The Vedic writings are three thousand years old. Do they represent
 reports by honest but uninitiated witnesses? It seems more likely that
 they refer to an atomic war that took place ten to twenty thousand
 years earlier, a war between two unequal cultures. The losers used
 elephants, houses and wooden chariots; the victors-probably
 extraterrestrials, since they are described as 'gods' who came from the
 sky-used atomic bombs, radiation and flying machines.

 In the Ramayana and the Drona Parva we read that the flying machines,
 called _vimanas_, had a spherical shape. Their motive force was a
 strong propulsive wind produced by mercury. They enabled the men inside
 them to cover great distances in a marvelously short time.

 The _vimanas_ were under the complete control of thier pilots. They
 could move up or down, forward or backward, according to the direction
 in which their motors were turned.

 Here again we have an interesting coincidence. The _vimanas_ were
 propelled by murcury; in 1959, at the international space convention
 held in Paris, the engineer L. Gerardin advocated the use of
 mercury-ion engines for spacecraft.

 As for the atomic war, we read that the fire of the weapon used by the
 hero Rama destroyed whold cities, producing a light brighter than a
 hundred thousands suns. A high wind then arose, and the fire of the
 terrible weapon burned elephhants, soldiers, chariots and horses. Yet
 no one saw that fire: it was invisible. It made men's hair fall out,
 bleached the feathers of birds, colored their feet red and turned them
 into to tortoises. To escape the effects of the invisible fire, the
 soldiers leapt into rivers to wash themselves and all objects that they
 would have to touch.

 We can allow for a certain amount of imagination, but it is still
 clear that if a man living three hundred thousand years ago were
 speaking of events that happened in the remote past-but were
 undoubtedly reported by written records, since no inconsistencies have
 been detected in the accounts that have come down to us-these are the
 terms and images he would use if what he was actually describing was
 the explosion of atomic bombs that destroyed cities, burned everything
 and caused mutations and radiation sickness, one of whose symptoms is
 loss of hair. Is it reasonable to call this a coincidence?

 In the Mahavira, Rama uses weapons very similar to modern secret
 chemical weapons:

 "The Sage gave him weapons of the greatest power and explained all the
 secrets of their use to him. One of them produced a deep drowsiness,
 another a deep sleep, and there was a fire weapon capable of reducing
 the great army of Kumbhakarana to ashes."

 Thus the Sanskrit texts tell of a war in which technology as advanced
 as our own was used.

 Another example: an aerial chariot carried several people to the
 ancient capitol of Ayodhya. The sky was strewn with black flying
 machines that emitted a yellowish glow.

 These repeated descriptions of flying machines and atomic weapons
 cannot leave a twentieth-cnetury reader indifferent. According to their
 viewpoint, different people will see them as pure fantasy, a
 prefiguration, a clue, or undeniable proof of the existence of an
 advanced protohistoric civilization.

 In the Mahavira, Rama states that the nature of his weapons does not
 belong to our cycle:

 "These weapons that are launched and withdrawn by a magic secret can be
 wielded only by tradition. Having performed penances for the
 advancement of the sacred science for more than a thousand years, the
 ancient sages, Brahama and the others, saw by revelation these weapons
 and their glory, the fruit of their austerties.

 "Krisasva gave secret knowledge gave secret knowledge of the complete
  science of the mantras (formulas having a mysterious power, necessary
  for the use of the divine weapons and the instantaneous suspensions of
  their effects) to Visvamitra, who gave it to me."

 And so we are brought back to the Conspiracy  of Secrecy and a
 civilization of Superior Ancestors who had all the knowledge contained
 in our experimental science, and perhaps supranormal powers as well.
 Rama may be referring to such powers when he speaks of 'asuterities.'

 Before the birht of Chirst, the Yogasutra listed the feats that man was
 potentially capable of accomplishing:

 -Making the body larger or smaller at will.
 -Levitation and lightening the body
 -Reaching all things. (For example, touching the moon.)
 -Making the will irresistible. (For example, diving into the earth as
  though it were water.)
 -Mastering the production, dissappearance and transformation of things.
 -Entering into another person's mind or body.
 -Invisibility.

 This thaumaturgy seems alien to earthly genius. It may belong to the
 scientific eveloution of an extraterrestrial people who came to live
 amoung us.

from: One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown History
  by: Robert Charroux

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