The Mahabharata is one of the two main Hindu epic poems, found in the smryti category and one of the main works of Indian literature.
Considering the Mahabharata in terms of the number of contacts between people and Gods and the number of descriptions of flying vehicles, earthly and air battles, one can assume that it is one of the largest sources of written contacts with extraterrestrials.
Unfortunately, the number is so large that I am forced to present the discussed events in pieces, randomly, in order to extract the individual essence from the ancient accounts.
One of the more interesting parts in the Mahabharata that caught my attention is “Arjuna’s Journey to Heaven”, also called “Journey to Indra’s Heaven”.
Arjuna (Sanskrit: अर्जुन, IAST: Arjuna) was an ancient prince of the Kuru Kingdom, located in the present-day India. He is one of the main protagonists of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata. He was the third of five Pandava brothers, from the lineage of the Kuru. In the Mahabharata War, Arjuna was a key warrior from the Pandava side in the battle of Kurukshetra. Before the beginning of the war, his mentor Krishna gave him the supreme knowledge of the Bhagavad Gita, guiding him through his moral dilemmas. Throughout the epic, Arjuna is the closest friend and companion of Krishna.
Mahabharata Book III. Vana Parva
“Arjuna desired that the celestial chariot of Indra should fall to him. Together with Matali, it suddenly arrived in the brilliance of the chariot, scaring away the darkness of the air and illuminating the clouds, filling the directions of the world with a roar equal to thunder… He soared joyfully in a magical creation, a chariot similar to the sun. When he approached the regions invisible to mortals, to those walking on earth, he saw thousands of wonderful celestial chariots. There the sun does not shine, there the fire does not burn, but in its own glow shines that which is visible below, on earth in a starry form. Whether it is like lamps in a great distance, or great creations…”
The celestial chariot filling the world with a roar and thunder, similar to the sun, flew into an area inaccessible to ordinary people – it can be assumed that Arjuna, together with his pilot Matali, flew beyond the area of the Earth, so into outer space.
The second interesting aspect of this message is the information about thousands of other similar space vehicles that they saw. In addition, Arjuna saw flying chariots, some that “fell down and were unable to fly,” others that “stood on the ground,” and still others that “flaying in the air.”
The second fragment of the Mahabharata is equally emphatic.
“And when Arjuna, after bidding farewell to the holy mountain, entered the divine chariot that was waiting for him and rose on it into space, he saw thousands of chariots invisible to mortal eyes, which shone with the light of their own merits, undimmed by the sun, moon, or fire that did not reach there. Their light was powerful, although like the light of stars it seemed small because of the great distance. With this own light shone the heroic kings riding on their chariots, who gave their lives during battles and, having conquered heaven through their mortifications, gathered in space already filled to the brim with thousands of gandharvas, prophets, and apsara nymphs glowing like the sun or fire.”
I believe that my interpretation of these two fragments is unnecessary, everyone can easily see the core of the message, which was written down in a veiled form by the authors of this book.
Both the Mahabharata and the Ramayana provide wonderful examples of the use of advanced technology, weapons, aircraft, etc. in ancient India, and it is only up to us whether we will read these “holy” books as myths and fairy tales, or whether we will find a hidden meaning in them, incomprehensible to the people of those times.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna
The photo of the Arjuna statue comes from Wikipedia; author: Ilussion; License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported.
