Futurology
and Nuclear Winter
Vanaparvam of Mahabharata describes the end of the world. It
says how the world will end at the end of Kaliyuga. It says
that all the planets will be aligned in a single line. It also
describes the climatic changes at the time. One cant miss the
similarity between the nuclear winter (What will happen in the
aftermath of a nuclear explosion) and this changed climate.
Before reading about the nuclear winter I thought the epic describes
some natural catastrophe. Now it is very clear that they describe
only the nuclear winter.
Light and Sound in Tamil
We now know that the light and sound are different wave lengths
of the same electro magnetic spectrum. If you look at the words
for light and sound in Tamil it is oli and oli Is it a sheer
coincidence or our forefathers knew the connection between the
two.There is a proverb in Tamil ‘pulikku piranthathu poonaiyaguma?
(Will a cub born to a tiger be a cat? ).The modern zoological
classification says that both the animals belong to the same
cat family. Did Tamils group both the animals in the proverb
by sheer coincidence or did they know a scientific classification.
Even the oldest Tamil book Tolkappiyam classifies all the living
beings into six groups.
Brahmastra- a Nuclear Missile?
Whenever the use of Brahmastra is mentioned in our scriptures
,the devastation it caused was also described in detail. They
allowed it to use only once, that too only as a last resort.
When they gave reason for it, they said that it kills the good
and bad together and other living beings also. And we know that
it was the most powerful weapon of the epical period. What is
this weapon? Is it just a fire weapon or more than that? When
we compare this with other weapons of Mahabaharata period such
as the Shakti missile used by Karna, the Nagastra (Biological
weapon?), Pasupatastra etc it is very different from them. When
Aswaththama and Arjuna released their Brahmastras, Krishna foreseeing
the end of the world by such terrible weapons asked both to
recall their weapons. When Arjuna did so, Aswaththama was unable
to do it as he did not possess the requisite knowledge. At last
Krishna had to use his power to save the child (Parikshit) in
the womb of Uttara (from the radioactive fallout?) by using
his special powers.
Bhagiratha- a Great Engineer
The story of the descent of river Ganges to the ‘earth’ through
Bhagiratha’s several thousand-year penance is nothing but a
marvellous engineering feat. Three decades ago when engineers
wanted to build a dam across river Nile in Egypt, they removed
the massive Abu Simbel statues from the banks of the river and
then a bomb explosion diverted the river Nile. The story of
Bhagiratha bringing river Ganges to the earth clearly says that
several of his forefathers also tried and failed in the mission.
That is to say several kings tried to divert the Ganges, which
was running mostly on the Himalayan mountain but failed. Bhagiratha
with great ingenuity diverted the river by breaking certain
point in the Himalaya and the mighty river descended to the
present Gangetic plains of North India. We must remember several
thousand years ago there were no people on the Gangetic plains.
This is what we read as the ‘descent of the river from sky to
earth’. Population slowly spread eastward from the Indus plains.
So we may call Bhagiratha the greatest engineer of the ancient
world.
Who discovered Boomerang?
All of us knew that the Australian aboriginals had a weapon
called Boomerang which will come back to the person who shoots
it. But Krishna’s Sudarsana charka also did the same .Whenever
Lord Krishna used it, it came back to him. Was it the first
boomerang weapon? Did Krishna teach this art to the world?
