Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The Hinduism and Forgotten history

There is an ideology belief in Hinduism, i.e., the one who has forgotten his past will not succeed and he will lose everything in time. That sad thing about our Hinduism had happened already. We have forgotten our Virtue, Karma and Dharma. We have forgotten our Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas and the morality they taught us.
As I believe strongly that Hinduism is the superior of all religions and Hindu mythology is the oldest one among those. The religion’s such as Christianity and Islam has its original ancestors from Hinduism.  The ‘silence years  ‘ or ‘Unknown years ’ of Jesus Christ as stated in the ‘New testament’  doesn’t have any information about his 18 years of life. (I.e. From his age of 12 – 30 ).

As per the theories by Louis Jacolliot -1869,  Nicolas Notovich – 1887 , Levi H. Dowling – 1908, they stated that Jesus were in India before the ‘crucifixion’ and was inspired by the Hindu ideology. The Islam differs not more than Hinduism, the following days and moral clearly explains how it was inspired by the great old Hinduism.

The debate never ends whether the above stated religions are inspired or originated from Hinduism. The fact is that people don’t want to lose their faith on their religion and they won’t support this idea of analyzing which is origin of their religion. Anyway, let’s stop analysing this here and we are here only to witness the great in Hinduism and its values.


The Hindu mythology is driven by the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas and the morality they taught. The Ramayana and Mahabharata along with Srimad Bhagavad-Gita are the famous among them. I believe that our ancestors had all the technology we have now and the one that we didn’t even think beyond. I am trying to list down the technology that our ancestors had, this is purely my idea and perception as I came through many of our archaeological studies and articles.

Cloning: I believe that our people were aware of this technology before yugas.  For example, we will take the sayings of our Lord Krishna. He told that, ‘Whenever and wherever there is a problem and if something is threatening the mankind and its morality, I will be there’ ( Note Whenever ). Also he told that “I will be born here at so and so place “. The same person born in different places with same abilities and ideas. From this I conclude that this is none other than cloning.

The Srimad-Bhagavatam (4.14.43) relates, “After making a decision, the saintly persons and sages churned the thighs of dead body of King Vena with great force and according to a specific method. As a result of this churning, a dwarf-like person was born from King Vena’s body”. Here a viable human being was produced from a dead body that had been preserved from decay by a special process. Here again the soul entered its next body without the aid of seminal fertilization. The process seems similar to cloning or the production of a complete individual from a single somatic cell of the parent organism.

Test Tube Babies: We will consider the first case as the history of Gandhari, who gave birth to one hundred sons. Srila Prabhupada, describing how these sons were born, comments on a verse in the Bhagavatam’s First Canto (1.13.4): “[At first] she [Gandhari] gave birth to a lump of flesh only, but since she was a devotee of Vyasadeva, by the instruction of Vyasadeva the lump was divided into a hundred parts, and each part gradually developed to become a male child”. This is like growing many trees by planting branches taken from one tree. It goes without saying that the souls of the one hundred sons have to enter the one hundred pieces of flesh at some point. You should also note that since the one hundred embryos developed outside the womb, the Mahabharata (from which Srila Prabhupada draws the information about Gandhari) deserves priority for giving the earliest known report of test-tube babies.

Life Saving Medicine: This is one of my favourites. Everyone who knows Ramayana also knows the Herbal medicine that saved Laxman’s life. That herbal medicine not only saved his life, it is said that it brought back the life of Laxman. When Indrajit shot Laxman and kills with the Bhramastra , Rama and his forces hit with emotions.  Hanuman, after informed by Jambavan about the Sanjeevani Buti, went to Himalayas in search of the same. As he couldn’t narrow down the exact herb, he lifted the ‘Gandhamaadana Or DRONAGIRI PARVAT’,where the Herb is one among others. It saved Laxman as well as other wounded monkeys is a history. What I can conclude from the above is that we had known such powerful medicines / cure.

Time Travel: Here goes my another favourite ‘The Time travelling’. There are so many concepts about time travelling. There are lot of stories and movies on ‘Time machine’.’Time Machine’ is a device that can be used for time travel. Where everything is just being a story, our mythology holds strong stand that our ancestors did the time travel.  It also explains that the time traveller can face a change in time line where he lived or change in the time itself where he couldn’t recover. ‘In ancient Hindu mythology, the Mahabharatha, written around 700 B.C. mentions the story of the King Revaita, who travels to a different world to meet the creator Brahma. The King is shocked to learn that many ages have passed when he returns to Earth’. Though there are many time travelling paradox exist, this one is pretty clear about time travel without any such paradox.

Planets and Stars identification : No wonders who have identified the planets and the stars first. In Indian mythology, planets and Sun ( star ) has been noted as in the form of gods.(Ex. Sun – Suryan , Saturn – Sani(kali) , Mercury – Bhuthan etc ). Also there were several stars and their locations were noted ( Ex. Revathi,Poosam,Rohini etc ) .Indian astrology is based on this. They predict the future based on the birth time and the planet , star locaton. They also give the brief description about the influence of the planet and stars on humans. I believe the wavelength of such elements really influence us. In short – Yes, our ancestors knows that all the stars and planets are beyond, they even predicted the future. 

Weapons : The weapons stated in idhikasha (Puranas ) describes the power that almost simulates the current missile system powers. Each and every description of the unique weapons used by the Mythological Heroes are of powerful and specific in nature. This is just my idea that they would have had this technology earlier.


Air Bourne vehicles: The idea of flying vehicles ( Vimana – In Tamil / Airplane – English ) came in the late 18th Century. But as per the Puranas, our ancestors have used this in their life time. The predecessors of the flying Vimanas of Sanskrit epics are the flying chariots which were employed by various gods in the Vedas. For e.g., the Sun (see Sun chariot) and Indra and several other Vedic deities are transported by flying wheeled chariots. 
The Rigveda does not mention Vimanas, but verses RV 1.164.47-48 have been taken as evidence for the idea of "mechanical birds"
In Swami Dayananda Saraswati's "translation", :
"jumping into space speedily with a craft using fire and water ... containing twelve stamghas (pillars), one wheel, three machines, 300 pivots, and 60 instruments." 
In Ramayana it’s said that Ravana kidnaped sita using a flying vehicle. My Conclusion , Flying machine / Vimana is not new to us.




Science:  As we know, above all are just samples. We have extracted only a few through our Puranas. We have strong evidences even after that. The ‘Tholkapiyam’  which is written in the early 8000 B.C.E, states that the sand color of the moon is black, where we have taken a lot of pain and put rovers in it to prove the same. Isn’t it something for us? How much we have missed? I don’t know how to put this strongly. As I know we had everything even if someone took our things away from us or we lost those ourselves. And we are just no more than dumb.

And I am planning to write on the below in brief … May be a New post. 
·             Mythology
·             Parallel universe. 

Monday, April 22, 2013

The Train Travelers Guide To The Country....


If you haven't traveled in Sleeper Class, you haven't seen India!


I hate buses. I would rather spread a Times of India near the toilet and sit on it in a sleeper class compartment all night without reservation than travel overnight in a Volvo bus where they give complementary mineral water. I am like that!
Airplanes are buses that fly which makes the experience a lot worse. The whole excitement of embarking on a new journey usually dies a premature death on the way to the airport latest by Security Check.
Trains on the other hand are wonderful. The ride is consistently smooth. We can roam around or lie down comfortably or stand by the door. We get to see the beautiful country side, meet interesting fellow passengers or just sit by the window and read a book, share food and life stories with interesting strangers and a lot more! Okay, that was the best case scenario in a train journey. But, let’s face it. Not all train journeys are that magical. Here is how an average train journey is…

The Five Minutes of Hope

All Indian males aged 17 – 29 almost religiously practice this ritual. Five Minutes of Hope symbolizes one of the ultimate Indian fantasies – (No, not Savita Bhabi) Falling in love with a hot girl you meet in the train! It has happened in a couple of movies but other than that, no one has ever seen that happen.

The ritual starts exactly five minutes before boarding the train when the Indian Male realizes that the probability of meeting a hot girl in the train and falling in love with her is non-zero. This non-zero probability, even if it is one in 10 billion, excites the Indian Male.
He floats in a dream sequence imagining how he could do the whole “How I met your mother” thing with his children. The ritual ends when the Indian Male looks at the reservation chart pasted near the entrance only to find some old people and other Indian Males like him in the vicinity of his seat.

Reservation

I am sure you must have noticed while you were traveling overnight in sleeper class that people around you have dinner as soon as it gets dark and by 7:30 in the evening the middle berths would be up, the lights would be off and most of your fellow passengers would be pre-snoring. (Proving that if you take the TV out of the equation, we’re all still cavemen)
One time, it was only 7 PM and a fellow traveler, M54 wanted the middle berth up! Mildly peeved at the prospect of having the middle berth hanging on my head all evening, I once asked him how he managed to sleep so much and so early.
He replied, “Look son, when I bought a sleeper class ticket, I reserved the whole berth. I want to utilize it fully”.

I tried to explain that his reservation has been fully “utilized” the moment the Oriya chap sitting in his seat graciously made place for him as soon as he entered the compartment with a reserved ticket!
I don’t want to waste my reservation”, he sternly replied.
It is very hard to argue against the Indian Paisa Vasool logic. The gentleman was hell bent on treating reservation like real estate that needs to be fenced and protected.India must be the only country where reservation can be “wasted”. By 7:40PM, everyone in the compartment was ready to sleep! May be that is the reason why the compartment is aptly named “Sleeper Class”.

The Kindly Adjust Family

The Kindly-Adjust family consists of the father M33, mother F29, two kids – M6, F3 and grandma F61. And the whole family put together has one confirmed berth! But they’re a family and this is India where family comes first. Social protocol dictates that you renounce your berth rights, go stand near the door and“kindly-adjust”!
M33 rushed in carrying a lot of luggage and ordered everyone to move their legs keenly scanning for space to put the luggage. He pulled out a huge suitcase from underneath the berth and asked, “Whose is this?
Mine!” I replied.
M33 gave me a brief condescending stink eye for using up almost half of the space under the seat. Yes, a how-can-someone-bring-so-much-luggage stink eye coming from a person who brought 12 pieces of luggage, 4 extra people and a huge bag of grain that is too big to fit under any seat!
F29 being the good Indian wife she is, obediently stood behind her husband carrying little F3 in her arms, occasionally criticizing M33’s sub-optimal utilization of limited luggage storage space. F61 agreed with F29’s opinion from which I inferred that F61 is F29’s mother and not mother-in-law as I previously assumed.
Meanwhile M6 being charming little fellow he is, has already started plotting an Occupy Window Seatcampaign. The window seat – after all is his legitimate right by virtue of being small and only six. With such nefarious designs in his little mind, he approached me with his most innocent face and asked in his most innocent tone what book I was reading trying to strike a conversation.
Five minutes later he was sitting on my lap looking out of the window and waving to strangers. Who knows, he has probably set his eyes upon his next conquest already – the chocolate bar in my bag!
The rest of the family sat on the opposite berth while other co-passengers did the needful and “kindly adjusted”.

The Train Traveling Wife

Right opposite to my lower berth sat F27, a young mother traveling with her baby probably going back to her husband after a brief stay at her parents’. Traveling alone with the baby, the parents and the husband are naturally concerned about F27. The end result of this concern is an incoming phone call every 10 minutes from the husband who asks her which station has passed by and if the baby is still asleep.
I can’t say much about the stations but the baby would’ve been fast asleep (instead of going “wuah wuah *sniff* *sniff* wuah wuah” on an infinite loop) had the father refrained from obsessively calling to enquire about her well being or had the mother possessed enough common sense to put her mobile in silent mode. (Parenting Tip: Even babies hate listening to the same ring tone every ten minutes!)
Motherhood being such a demanding task probably left F27 too tired. She too, like the rest of the sleeper class people of the country, fell asleep by 7:30PM probably dreaming about her doting husband who would come to receive them next morning without brushing his teeth wearing a sleepy face, an unkempt beard, an old T-shirt and unwashed shorts swinging his bike/car keys impatiently with his index finger eager to carry luggage while nursing that hangover from his brief stint at bachelorhood after such a long time.

The Lonely Techie

M26 is found in the trains only on Friday nights and Sunday nights. All his journeys are short weekend trips to his hometown from Bangalore/Hyderabad where he is a software dude. No one knows when M26 got into the train. No one knows much about M26 because he rarely interacts with his fellow travelers.
But what we know is that as soon as he enters the train, he tiptoes his way onto his upper berth (the preferred berth of choice) with his laptop bag (which also contains weekend clothes stuffed into it) and sits there alone.
The moment the train leaves the station, M26 begins to feel bored and restless with the dull pace of life. M26 is a very private person with his own private Internet connection. He opens his laptop, connects to his office VPN and checks email once again. After the usual status updates on Facebook and Twitter, he moves on to checking out the girls from various matrimonial sites his father has shortlisted for him. This activity bores him too. After all this is what he has done in the office all day!
M26 is restless again. This time he takes out his earphones and continues to the watch that latest (pirated camera-print) movie he has left midway last night. This goes on for about an hour after which his laptop’s battery gives up. He curses the laptop, eats the pantry car made egg biryani and starts forwarding goodnight SMSesbefore falling asleep.
If it is a day journey, he gets down with his DSLR camera with extra large lens and heads to the door. He carefully chooses his spot and begins to click the cows, the trees, the fields and occasionally, some poor people who live in the slums along the tracks in black and white mode!
M26 doesn’t get the results he desired because the moment usually passes by the time he finds the button to set the f-number. After pondering for a while, he declares that sunlight is not appropriate for photography and retires to his upper berth and begins to take a few pictures of his own fingers in macro mode. Satisfied with the results this time, he packs his camera back carefully waiting to get back home and upload them on Facebook so that his friends can “Like” it.
M26 is one of the few people to have mastered the art of traveling in sleeper class without making eye contact with anyone!

The Sound of Music

Note: For best results, imagine David Attenborough reading this out for you.
Out there on the side-lower berth is The Dude. The Dude is no ordinary dude. He is the remarkable DesiDude. Unique to the heartland of this country, DesiDude usually spends most his travel time (literally) hanging out (at the door) with fellow DesiDudes feeling the fresh air, enjoying the scenery and occasionally passing comments on girls who use the toilet.
But this particular DesiDude was traveling alone.He realizes that there is little he could do at the door without his mates. Luckily DesiDude has his very desi-looking Chinese mobile phone with questionable battery life and extra loud speakers. And so the DesiDude volunteers to be the TJ (T for Train) for the evening.
Life as the TJ doesn’t come easy this time of the day. DediDude now faces the daunting task of livening up the evening for his fellow sleeper class citizens. DesiDude is fully aware of the calculated risk he has taken. One wrong song and he’ll have to face the deadly stares of his irritated co-passengers – a mistake that could cost him his (cell phone’s battery) life.
DesiDude starts off slow and careful belting out sad “melodies” from the eighties and early nineties sung by an exceptionally high pitched female voice and/or S Janaki. The cheap speakers resonate in the melody producing a dull buzz in the background which sort of makes it up for the complete lack of bass. As he gains confidence with each song, DesiDude carefully moves the playlist into his favorite genre – the latest Tamil Kuthu pattu!