In 1969, however, Dr. Ross met two astronomers who
were having regular UFO encounters. Both also
happened to be involved in occult activity.
Upon investigation, Dr. Ross consistently found a
connection between occult involvement and residual
UFO encounters. For example, he said, countries with
a high degree of occult activity such as Russia
during the Soviet era, France, and certain parts of
Brazil also had high percentages of UFO encounters.
During Russia�s Soviet period when every expression
of religion except occult activity had been
outlawed, he said, “Russians were seeing UFOs at
five to eight times the rate Americans were.”
In supplying information about the
advancements of Vedic science, the subject of Vedic
airplanes, Vimana, is almost in a classification of
its own. Some of this information is so amazing that
for some people it may border science fiction.
Nonetheless, as we uncover and explain it, it
provides serious food for thought.
First of all we need to understand that the Vedic
conception of universal time is divided into
different periods. For example, a period called one
day of Brahma is equivalent to 4,320,000,000 of our
years on earth. Brahma's night is equally as long
and there are 360 of such days and nights in one
year of Brahma. Each day of Brahma is divided into
one thousand cycles of four yugas, namely Satya-yuga,
Treta-yuga, Dvapara-yuga, and finally the Kali-yuga,
which is the yuga we are presently experiencing.
Satya-yuga lasts 1,728,000 years, and is an age of
purity when all residents live very long lives and
can be fully developed in spiritual understanding
and mystical abilities and remarkable powers. Some
of these abilities, or mystic siddhis, include
changing one's shape, becoming very large or
microscopically small, becoming very heavy or even
weightless, securing any desirable thing, becoming
free of all desires, or even flying through the sky
to wherever one wanted to go on one's own volition.
So at that time, the need for mechanical flying
machines was not necessary.
As the yugas continued, the purity of the people,
along with their mystical abilities, decreased by
25% in each age. The age of Treta-yuga lasts
1,296,000 years. During that age, the minds of
humanity became more dense, and the ability for
understanding the higher spiritual principles of the
Vedic path was also more difficult. Naturally, the
ability to fly through the sky by one's own power
was lost. After Treta-yuga, Dvapara-yuga lasts
864,000 years, and Kali-yuga lasts 432,000 years, of
which 5,000 have now already passed. At the end of
Kali-yuga, the age of Satya-yuga starts again and
the yugas continue through another cycle. One
thousand such cycles is one day of Brahma. Now that
we are in Kali-yuga, almost all spiritual
understanding disappears, and whatever mystical
abilities that remain are almost insignificant.
It is explained that it was not until the beginning
of Treta-yuga that the development of vimanas took
place. In fact, Lord Brahma, the chief demigod and
engineer of the universe, is said to have developed
several vimanas for some of the other demigods.
These were in various natural shapes that
incorporated the use of wings, such as peacocks,
eagles, swans, etc. Other vimanas were developed for
the wiser human beings by great seers of Vedic
knowledge.
In the course of time, there were three basic types
of vimanas. In Treta-yuga, men were adept in mantras
or potent hymns. Thus, the vimanas of that age were
powered by means of knowledge of mantras. In
Dvapara-yuga, men had developed considerable
knowledge of tantra, or ritual. Thus, the vimanas of
Dvapara-yuga were powered by the use of tantric
knowledge. In Kali-yuga, knowledge of both mantra
and tantra are deficient. Thus, the vimanas of this
age are known as kritaka, artificial or mechanical.
In this way, there are three main types of vimanas,
Vedic airplanes, according to the characteristics of
each yuga.
Of these three types, there is listed 25 variations
of the mantrika vimanas, 56 variations of the
tantrica vimanas, and 25 varieties of the kritakaah
vimanas as we find today in Kali-yuga. However, in
regard to the shape and construction, there is no
difference between any of these vimanas, but only in
how they were powered or propelled, which would be
by mantras, tantras, or mechanical engines.
The controversial text known as Vimaanika Shastra,
said to be by Maharshi Bharadwaja, also describes in
detail the construction of what is called the
mercury vortex engine. This is no doubt of the same
nature as the Vedic Ion engine that is propelled by
the use of mercury. Such an engine was built by Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, based on descriptions in the
Rig-veda, which he demonstrated in Mumbai (Bombay),
India in 1895. I more fully explained this in
Chapter Three of this volume. Additional information
on the mercury engines used in the vimanas can be
found in the ancient Vedic text called the
Samarangana Sutradhara. This text also devotes 230
verses to the use of these machines in peace and
war. We will not provide the whole description of
the mercury vortex engine here, but we will include
a short part of William Clendenon's translation of
the Samarangana Sutradhara from his 1990 book,
Mercury, UFO Messenger of the Gods:
"Inside the circular air frame, place the
mercury-engine with its electric/ultrasonic mercury
boiler at the bottom center. 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 in a most marvelous
manner. Four strong mercury containers must be built
into the interior structure. When those have been
heated by controlled fire from iron containers, the
vimana develops thunder-power through the mercury.
At once it becomes like a pearl in the sky."
This provides a most simplistic idea of the
potential of the mercury engines. This is one kind
of a propulsion mechanism that the vimanas of Kali-yuga
may use. Other variations are also described. Not
only do these texts contain directions on how to
make such engines, but they also have been found to
contain flight manuals, aerial routes, procedures
for normal and forced landings, instructions
regarding the condition of the pilots, clothes to
wear while flying, the food to bring and eat, spare
parts to have, metals of which the craft needs to be
made, power supplies, and so on. Other texts also
provide instructions on avoiding enemy craft, how to
see and hear what occupants are saying in enemy
craft, how to become invisible, and even what
tactics to use in case of collisions with birds.
Some of these vimanas not only fly in the sky, but
can also maneuver on land and fly into the sea and
travel under water.
There are many ancient Vedic texts that describe or
contain references to these vimanas, including the
Ramayana, Mahabharata, Rig-veda, Yajur-veda,
Atharva-veda, the Yuktilkalpataru of Bhoja (12th
century A.D.), the Mayamatam (attributed to the
architect Maya), plus other classic Vedic texts like
the Satapathya Brahmana, Markandeya Purana, Vishnu
Purana, Bhagavata Purana, the Harivamsa, the
Uttararamcarita, the Harsacarita, the Tamil text
Jivakacintamani, and others. From the various
descriptions in these writings, we find vimanas in
many different shapes, including that of long
cigars, blimp-like, saucer-shapes, triangular, and
even double-decked with portholes and a dome on top
of a circular craft. Some are silent, some belch
fire and make noise, some have a humming noise, and
some disappear completely.
These various descriptions are not unlike the
reports of UFOs that are seen today. In fact, David
Childress, in his book Vimana Aircraft of Ancient
India & Atlantis, provides many reports, both recent
and from the last few hundred years, that describe
eye witness accounts of encounters with UFOs that
are no different in size and shape than those
described in these ancient Vedic texts. Plus, when
the pilots are seen close up, either fixing their
craft or stepping outside to look around, they are
human-like, sometimes with a Oriental appearance, in
clothes that are relatively modern in style. In
other reports, we have read where the craft may have
alien type beings on board along with ordinary
humans navigating the craft.
Does this mean that these are ancient vimanas that
still exist today? Are they stored in some
underground caverns somewhere? Or are they simply
modern-built, using the ancient designs as described
in the Vedic texts? The UFOs that have been seen
around the world may not be from some distant
galaxy, but may be from a secret human society, or
even military installation. However, many of the
Vedic texts do describe interplanetary travel. So
even if these space machines are from some other
planet, they may be using the same principles of
propulsion that have already been described in the
universal Vedic literature. The answer awaits us. |