WHAT MODI SAID LAST YEAR

HITLER LOVED THE VEDAS

PAST-FORWARD MISSILE TECH?

BRAHMASTRA

BRAHMANDASTRA

India’s premier defence research agency’s missile tech unit signs an MoU with the Tirumala temple to conduct scientific research on Vedas. We bet the next Science Congress would be even more bizarreThose were the times. The force – pardon the liberal borrowing from Star Wars -- was with India, or whatever of the present nation-state existed, in Vedic era. Flying machines, IVF, plastic surgery have all been part of Hindu mythology, proof that we had invented it much before the West had even heard of it. Now, the Narendra Modi government is taking it all to the logical end.India’s premier defence research agency the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) has gone right ahead to sign a memorandum of understanding with the cash-rich Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) to conduct scientific research on the Vedas to scout for possible secrets pertaining to missile technologies hidden in the ancient scriptures.The MoU with TTD was signed by the Hyderabad-based Research Centre Imarat (RCI)-DRDO to conduct scientific research on the Vedas. The RCI primarily tests and evaluates missile components, modules, sub-assemblies, major sub-assemblies, and completely integrated missiles to weed out design, fabrication, and integration deficiencies. It has an inertial instrumentation laboratory, full-scale environmental and electronic warfare test facilities, a composites production center, a high enthalpy facility, and a state-of-the-art missile integration and checkout centre.What possibly could such a highly-equipped centre expect to find by conducting scientific research on the Vedas? DRDO scientists are not giving out details.It has been often narrated that ancient Indian mythological wars witnessed weapons of mass destruction being used (as in the Mahabharat) as well as sophisticated aviation technologies (as in ‘Pushpaka Vimana’ in the Ramayana) to suggest that such technologies were developed and %prevailed in those times (estimated to be around 2,000 BC). But nothing has been conclusively proved so far.In fact, a 1974 study titled “A critical study of the work Vymanika Shastra” (Science of aeronautics),conducted by researchers of the Indian Institute of Science into ‘ancient scriptures’ pertaining to aviation technologies claimed to have been handed down by Sage Bharadwaj, were actually found to be a modern works, somewhere between 1918 and 1923.The study, which was then published in the journal Scientific Opinion on four ‘planes’ described in Vymanika Shastra – Shakuna Vimana, Sundara Vimana, Rukma Vimana and Tripura Vimana – and claimed to have been given by the ancient sage, were at best “poor concoctions rather than expressions of something real”. “None of the planes has properties or capabilities of being flown; the geometries are unimaginably horrendous from the point of view of flying; and the principles of propulsion make them resist rather than assist (in) flying,” the researchers said in their study’s conclusions.They also concluded that the texts and the drawings did not correlate with each other “even thematically”, suggesting that such claims were only figments of imagination by the author.Similarly, none of the mythological claims to high-end technologies in the ancient Indian past have found scientific basis despite various studies being conducted on the issue.The TTD has established the Centre for Veda Science Research (CVSR) for promoting research in the field and has recognised seven patasalas as ‘centres of excellence’ in Vedic studies to give a fillip to oral tradition of dissemination of Vedas.Eminent scientists will guide the project, but no further details were available on who they might be.The President inaugurated a new Veda Pathasala (school) set up by the TTD at I Bheemavaram village in Akiveedu Mandal of West Godavari district.The TTD has constructed I Bheemavaram Vedic School at a cost of Rs 4.7 crore. Currently, the TTD, which is the owner of Sri Venkateswara Vedic University, has its Vedic schools at Tirumala, Vizianagaram and Kotappakonda in Andhra Pradesh and in Hyderabad and Nalgonda in Telangana. It directly supports 100 Vedic schools across India.“We worship Lord Ganesha. There must have been some plastic surgeon at that time who got an elephant’s head on the body of a human being and began the practice of plastic surgery.”“We all read about Karna in the Mahabharata. If we think a little more, we realise that the Mahabharata says Karna was not born from his mother’s womb. This means that genetic science was present at that time. That is why Karna could be born outside his mother’s womb.”“If we talk about space science, our ancestors had displayed great strengths in space science. What people like Aryabhata had said centuries ago is being recognised by science today. What I mean to say is that we are a country which had these capabilities. We need to regain these.”Speculative and debatable accounts indicate that some missiles developed by the Nazis – including the lethal V2 missile – were developed using technologies sourced from the Vedas. However, these claims could never be proved although Hitler’s and his close generals’ love for the ancient Indian texts was famously known over their Aryan origin.The Brahmastra is mentioned in the epics and Vedas as a weapon of last resort and was never to be used in combat. The Brahmastra, described in the Mahabharata, is a weapon which is said to be a single projectile charged with all the power of the universe. It is considered equivalent to the modern day nuclear weapons.This weapon is said to possess the power to destroy the entire universe (or Brahmand), the 14 realms according to Hindu cosmology. In the Mahabharata era, Parasurama, Bhishma, Drona, and Karna possessed the knowledge to invoke this weapon. As recorded in Hindu Puranas, when this weapon is invoked it causes “the oceans to boil and vaporize due to its heat and earth and mountains will float on the air and everything will burn without even leaving ashes”. This weapon is used for countering Brahmastra.