Vimanas: flying ships in ancient times


The Vimanas were flying machines that had the shape of a sphere and sailed through the air due to the effect of mercury caused by a large propeller wind. The men lodged in the Vimanas can travel great distances in a wonderfully short time.

It is not a text by Julio Verne, nor by Leonardo Da Vinci. It is a text that can be found in the Mahabarata, one of the written texts of Hinduism.

Under the name of Vimanas, strange flying ships used by the gods, capable of harboring a powerful destructive capacity, are known in ancient Hindu texts. There are many works where these flying artifacts appear: the Drona Parva, the Ramayana, the Yajurveda, the Bhagavata Purana, the Srimad-Bhagavatam …

In these flying vehicles, extraordinarily described, the people who mounted them could fly to the heavens and go to the stars and distant worlds, then return to Earth. According to these texts, the propulsion was carried out using mercury, together with vibratory techniques of certain sounds capable of triggering powerful energies and, as described in the Vymaanica-Shaastra, the pilots were prepared to fly, to obtain images in flight to the "Flying cars" enemies, listen to their conversations and techniques capable of making their pilots lose consciousness.

In the same way, all the texts seem to indicate that the ancient crew of the vimanas were knowledgeable of the mechanisms necessary to be able to take advantage of the energies of the nature of certain “chakras” or neuralgic points of the planet, such as rivers, valleys and mountains. The events that the ancient Sanskrit texts tell us have as their main protagonist the territory of India and neighboring areas, although sometimes the struggles and journeys of the gods of Hindu mythology escape even from our own planet.

RAMAYANA

In the pages of RAMAYANA, the great Hindu epic poem attributed to the poet VALMIKI, there are allusions to amazing flying cars and strange jet elements that would have been used in the course of the wars between the kings of high Asian antiquity. In these flying vehicles the people who rode in them could fly to the heavens and go to the stars and distant worlds, then return to Earth. Textual quotation from the version of F. Robles Villafranca, 1970:

* While these things were going on, Rama, the KAKUTSTHIDA, told VIBHISHANA: take care to get me a quick return to my city. The road to AYODHYÁ is very difficult to travel.
* To which VIBHISHANA replied: Son of monarch of the Earth, I will take care that they lead you to your city. There is a car called PUSHPAKA, an incomparable car, shining like the sun and marching by itself. Mounted on that car, you will be driven by him, without concern, to AYODHYA.
* After these words VIBHISHANA urgently called the car similar to the Sun accompanied by his brother and by illustrious VVIDEHANA, flushed, the RAGHUIDA, already assembled, said to SUGRIVA: Hurry up in the car with your generals, SUGRIVA. Also go up with your ministers, VIBHISHANA, monarch of the RAKSHSAS.
* Instantly, SUGRIVE with the kings of the apes, and VIBHISHANA with their ministers, full of joy, rode in the great PUSHPAKA car.
* When all were embarked, Rama ordered the vehicle to leave and the incomparable car of Kurevase rose to the same bosom of the heavens. The car was flying like a big cloud pushed by the winds. From there, looking around, the descendant warrior of RAGHÚ, told Sita the MITHILIANA, the one with the beautiful face like the star of the night: Look, I see my mother's palace ... AYODHYÁ! Bow down before her, Sita, my VIDEHANA, here you are back!
* As soon as the crowd, hurried, saw them arrive as a second sun and with such rapid march, the air was torn with powerful shouts of joy, launched by elders, women and children. Everyone was shouting: Here is Rama!
* BHARATA, moving from sadness to joy, approached, hands clasped and honored Rama: Be welcome, he said, with respect that his brother deserved. But he hurried to lift it, pressed it against his chest and held it in his arms with joy ...

SAMARANGANA SUBTRAHARA

This writing, dedicates nothing more and nothing less than 250 verses to tell us about these strange ships:

* The secret of the manufacture of the VIMANAS cannot be revealed, and this is not due to ignorance, but because the details of the construction must be kept in the greatest secret to prevent someone from making a VIMANA for perverse purposes.
* The body of VIMANA must be strong and durable but made of lightweight material like a flying bird.
* By means of the graduated power of the mercury, the driving whirlwind of the air car is set in motion.
* A single man can travel in a wonderful way and ascend very high in the heavens.
* A VIMANA can be built as large as the Temple of Divinity: for this, four mercury deposits must be used at the bottom, once these have been heated, it can be developed by means of controlled fire, a power equivalent to lightning.
* Very soon the VIMANA ascends becoming a pearl in the sky.
* Through the VIMANAS men can ascend to heaven and beings from heaven can descend to Earth.

MAHABARATA

In the MAHABARATA the fight between two peoples is counted; the KAURAVA and the PAUDAVA:

* The VIMANAS were flying machines that had the shape of a sphere and sailed through the air due to the effect of mercury that caused a great propellant wind.
* Men staying in the VIMANAS can travel great distances in a wonderfully short time.
* DANAVA was the destructive disk that possessed terrible weapons by throwing frightening lightning bolts and capable of destroying cities.
* CUKRA, on board its VIMANA of great power launched on the city a single projectile loaded with the power of the entire Universe.
* An incandescent smoke, similar to ten thousand suns, rose in all its splendor. A terrible wind rose, nature went wild and the Sun turned on itself.
* The enemies fell like blades of grass destroyed by the flames, the waters of the rivers boiled and those who threw themselves in search of salvation died without remedy.
* The forests burned. Horses and elephants ran desperately in the fire.
* When the wind dissipated the smoke of the great fires, thousands of bodies burned by the terrible lightning were seen.
* This terrible ray appears as the BRANCH of BRAHMA.

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