UFO's - the Vedic Perspective

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Here are links to an interview with Indian sadhu Sri Atmatattva Das (http://www.indiadivine.org/atdas.htm), recorded on June 6, 1993 at the UFO Expo West in Mission Viejo, California. In this interview, he provides the Indian perspective on the UFO phenomenon. Each part is 1/2 hour long and in Windows Media format:

Part 1 (http://www.atmatattva.com/audio/ufo-1a.m3u)


Part 2 (http://www.atmatattva.com/audio/ufo-1b.m3u)


Part 3 (http://www.atmatattva.com/audio/ufo-2a.m3u)


Part 4 (http://www.atmatattva.com/audio/ufo-2b.m3u)


Part 5 (http://www.atmatattva.com/audio/ufo-3.m3u)


Website:
http://www.atmatattva.com/ufos.htm

Hare Krishna!

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[The following is a lecture delivered by Sri Atmatattva Das, June 12, 1993 at the UFO Expo West, Los Angeles Airport Hyatt, California.]

There are varieties of human life on this same earth, not accessible to us, sometimes on the same dimension, but mostly on higher dimensions. There are also human living beings on other planets, some in our dimension, many in higher.

The Vedas say, "manujah nivasah", humanity is the residence of the Supreme. But in this material existence there is always the idea of lording it over the resources of material nature, which creates a clash between different living beings. There is, however, the universal law that brings about order out of chaos and creates harmony.

In the vedic vision, man is an active part of the cosmic whole. Dynamic as he is, he does become a disturbing factor, but once guided towards perfection, he can play a vital role in the ultimate establishment of the supreme law in the manifested world.

The panorama of the world shows a conflict and a tension between polar opposite qualities, for which humans have always been the via medium. But there is also a movement in togetherness and a cooperation. There is a striving towards the light, towards unfolding the potential towards fuller life which is constitutional.

The divine law of the cosmos becomes, at the human level, particularized into specific regulations. Thus are developed those norms of social order which are meant to bring the best results for all concerned. Therefore is born civilization. The Vedas envision duty or "Dharma", and function, or "Karma". The cosmic order that brings about harmony is expressed in the aspect of qualities of duty such as mercy, austerity, truthfulness and cleanliness. There are reflected in the aspect of function as abstinence from meat-eating, intoxication, gambling and illicit sex.

By losing sight of that integration of human at peace with himself and the universe, gathering all faculties and powers in one central point from which to act in full, perfected consciousness, the self-centered humanity has only applied for dangerous disasters for our planet.

The activities of the physical world have their effect in their counterparts in the non-physical and especially subtle areas like the astral, ethereal, mental and vice versa.

Whimsical exploitation of the plant and animal kingdoms, and natural resources, over-indulgence in sense-gratification in all kinds of perverted ways — all these have led the humam today to the criminal stand: the whole cosmic order is getting disturbed by our foolish endeavors to be the lords of all we survey. As a result of our crimes, Nature imposes upon us incurable diseases and frequent wars among nations.

That's why our neighbors have started interfering with our lives. It is so that they can give us the message "Get back on track, man! Save the earth—Now!"

Some of these aliens have also taken it on themselves to establish proper law and order on our area of the planet. It is the history in the Vedas, that people of lower order cheaply endeavor to copy the higher, in spite of opposition and imperfections. This is part of the law governing their Psyche. They have gone do far that, in case we destroy the population on earth, they are making plans to repopulate the earth with good human beings. However, they themselves are a little bit overlording in this respect, because they are trying to accomplish this by harvesting samples of human sperm cells, ova and other vial fluids. This will further be discussed in our Workshop.

The subject of UFO, in many aspects, as far as the experience of many respectable common people, yogis and ascetics of India is concerned, is IFO. Identified, not unidentified. Even today, there are hundreds of ongoing visitations, channelled healings, various kinds of what the modern scientist will term "paranormal phenomena".

There is a great deal of information in the ancient Vedic texts on paranormal phenomena. Then 19th Century scholars, especially from colonial backgrounds, have always tried to explain every vedic conception as based on an observable natural phenomenon, or on a particular sensory object. Whatever did not conform to their understanding was rejected as "mythology", or "folklore".

Another widespread tendency is to read into the Vedas esoteric implications based upon later usage of definite terms; yet another tendency is to interpret the descriptions symbolically and try to discern some indirect significance by means of sheer speculation and philosophical gymnastics. If one could scientifically take information from the vedic literature, a lot of questions confronting us in the research of UFO/ET phenomenon can be answered.

An attempt in this direction is successfully accomplished by my friend Dr. Richard Thompson in his book "Alien Identities", copies of which will be available at our booth and Workshop.

Representing an age-old tradition of the east, on behalf of the great seers and saints of the Vedic culture, we hereby appeal to the leading nation of the perceivable world on this planet, viz, the USA, to cast aside all doubts, sentimentality and suppression of truth and to begin now to scientifically research and study this undismissible UFO/ET phenomenon and make progress in the field of higher dimensional science. May peace and prosperity be with you. Om Tat Sat.

http://www.indiadivine.org/hinduism/articles/23/1/UFOs---the-Vedic-Perspective/

[sunyatta60]

Have you read the book Devolution by Michael Cremo? It is the Vedic view of Creation :)

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Most of the hindu mythology has gods travelling in chariots in the air. been grown up watching the ramayana and mahabharata on the television, i always wondered there could be similarities between these gods flying in chariots and the UFO. These mythologies also have giants in them may be similar to Nephilim.

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Have you read the book Devolution by Michael Cremo? It is the Vedic view of Creation :)

I've heard of it but haven't gotten to it yet. There is also the above-mentioned book "Alien Identities" by Richard L. Thompson.