The Hidden Hindu 2

by Akshat Gupta

Ashwatthama smiled. ‘Yes, you have been here before. As the guardian of Mrit Sanjeevani, you had wandered in the Himalayas for nearly nine years after your reawakening. This is very close to your first home, the residence of Dhanvantari and Sushruta, the place you were resurrected.’

‘परम रम्य गिरिवर कैलासू, सदा जहाँ शिव उमा निवासू।।’

joined his hands, looked up in awe and said, ‘Mount Kailash! The abode of Lord Shiva, the centre of the universe, the navel of the realm, the pillar of the world, the Swastika Mountain, the “Precious Jewel of Snow” in Tibetan; all these names belong to one of the most enigmatic and holy mountains in the world—Kailash Parbat.’

‘So far, no one has been successful in climbing the revered Mount Kailash and neither will they ever. Numerous expeditions have failed to reach its summit; the mountain mysteriously changes the direction of its tracks for those who want to climb it. It is believed to be the axis mundi, literally, the “axis” of the world, which provides a connection between earth, heaven and hell, between the physical and the spiritual worlds—’ Om

These fascinating ranges are also home to 500 souls, as some saints believe, and only when a resident soul wishes for moksha (salvation), can another soul dwell here.’ ‘Yes, and some of those sacred souls are standing with you right now,’ replied Ashwatthama, affirming what Om thought was just a myth.

‘Gyanganj is often revered as a legendary prehistoric Indian and Tibetan city, a kingdom of enigmatic eternal beings, well-concealed from the world. Despite

is often addressed with various names like Shangri-La and Siddhashram. This is the holy realm that drafts the destiny of all. No one can access Gyanganj unless they have a karmic connection with it,’ Ashwatthama added.

‘That’s Lake Mansarovar. It was first conceived in the mind of Brahma, after which it manifested here on earth,’ Ashwatthama explained as Om’s eyes took in the ethereal beauty; his face lit up with awe as sunlight bounced off the surface of the water, giving the lake a holy glow.

The wings appeared only around 15 cm long, rendering the bird flightless. It was another extinct species of bird, sighted last in 1852, called the great auk. Great auks were gifted swimmers, which made them impeccable hunters underwater.

The metal disc appeared to be melting when a gigantic creature, more than 40 feet long, that seemed to weigh tons, surfaced from the water. It was Steller’s sea cow, another extinct herbivorous mammal. The last recorded Steller’s sea cow had been sighted at the end of the seventeenth century!

he noticed that the sea cow was casually accompanied by a group of 20-feet-long baiji white dolphins, also known as the Chinese river dolphins, lapping towards the shore. As per Om’s knowledge, these creatures had been officially declared extinct in 2002.

‘Yes! That is why they are preserved here, every last one of them.’ Ashwatthama picked up a stray twig from the ground. ‘Our timeline starts from Satya yuga, here,’ he explained as he made a small inscription on a muddy patch. ‘Then comes Treta yuga,’ he drew a diagonal line from left to right, ‘which is followed by Dwapara yuga.’ He dragged the end of that diagonal upwards, drawing a straight line without lifting the twig. ‘And then Kali yuga.’ From there, he drew another diagonal from right to left. ‘Once this Kali yuga ends, all this flora and fauna will restart the next Satya yuga.’ He drew a final straight line, connecting it to the starting point. ‘And so the cycle continues repeating itself.’ As he said this, he ran the stick through the diagram repeatedly, making the strokes deeper. It was an infinity symbol.

Ashwatthama started heading back to where Om had entered the habitation. While Om and the ape man followed him, Ashwatthama spoke to Om. ‘Om, this is Vrishkapi. He is the last of his clan, called Kimpurusha or Kapi.’ ‘Kapi!’ repeated Om. As if on cue, the huge monkey man roared, ‘जय हनुमान ज्ञान गुन सागर। जय कपीस तिहुं लोक उजागर।।’ The ape man spoke in a voice heavier than a man’s bass. He continued, ‘I am the last of the Kapi species mentioned in the first lines of the Hanuman Chalisa and—’

‘Mount Kailash is known as axis mundi, or the axis of the earth suspended between the celestial poles. The ecosystem naturally regulates itself to create a habitable environment for all living beings. Pilgrims and others who visit the area around the mountain have reported a rapid growth of hair and nails within a span of twelve hours, growth which would usually take two weeks under normal conditions. Even while in the mountain’s vicinity, time travels faster; something which is not witnessed anywhere else in the world. The mountain has air that causes accelerated ageing.’

‘Another profound mystery of Mount Kailash is its geographical position with respect to the earth’s poles and other ancient monuments. It cannot be a coincidence that the distance from Mount Kailash to the North Pole is 6666 km, and 13,332 km to the South Pole, which is exactly twice the distance to the North Pole, for some inexplicable reason. Mysteriously, the distance between the Egyptian pyramids and the North Pole is also 6666 km.’ Parimal

Kailash Parbat to North Pole: 6666 km Kailash Parbat to Stonehenge: 6666 km Stonehenge to Devils Tower: 6666 km Stonehenge to Bermuda Triangle: 6666 km Bermuda Triangle to Easter Island: 6666 km Easter Island to Tazumal: 6666

‘The highest peak of the world, Mount Everest, is 29,029 feet high and yet its summit has been scaled by more than 4000 people. Mount Kailash is almost 21,780 feet high, which is 7251 feet less than Mount Everest, yet numerous expeditions have failed at climbing the mountain.

There are legends about a Tibetan named Milarepa being the only human being who scaled the peak of Mount Kailash over 900 years ago.’

The submarine progressed towards 21.42°N 87.30°E, coordinates for Digha beach in West Bengal,

His austerity—dressing in a white cotton robe, irrespective of how harsh or gentle the weather would be—earned him the name Milarepa, which means “Mila the cotton-clad”.’

‘According to the legend, this is what he had said, “In my youth, I committed black deeds. In maturity, I practised innocence. Now, released from both good and evil, I have destroyed the root of karmic action and shall have no reason for action in the future. To say more than this would only cause weeping and laughter. What good would it do to tell? I am an old man. I want to be in peace.”’

Milarepa, the man who had died in 1135, according to historians, was actually hale and hearty in the land of the extinct!

By the time Parimal joined them, Nagendra had started walking again. LSD crouched and opened the paper to see it better. The piece of paper was ripped out of the books of Mrit Sanjeevani, depicting a sea at its right end, mountains on its top and a red line drawn between them. It was hard to tell which part of the world it was. Parimal read the confusion on LSD’s face, picked up the glass shard of a broken liquor bottle near him and started to outline what could be around the torn part of this map. LSD decoded his strokes with a mystified look before Parimal stopped drawing altogether. It couldn’t be, Parimal thought. It was the map of India that the stray piece belonged to. That little piece was a depiction of the eastern coast of India at one end and the Himalayan range on the other. The red line, which ran from Digha beach to the foothills of the mysterious Mount Kailash, was the route they were to trek in the next nine days.

‘I bade him farewell and embarked on my odyssey through India. After wandering for a few years in the quest for Nanshaad, I arrived at a city named Saket, which means heaven in Sanskrit. It was known as the land of Lord Ram and is presently called Ayodhya. There, I finally learnt the whereabouts of Nanshaad. I was directed to a village he resided in, approximately 640 km from Ayodhya, which is modern-day Bisrakh. After an exhausting journey over several days, I finally reached Bisrakh, brimming with hope.

learnt that in Hindu rituals, the ceremony of establishing the deity’s idol in the temple is called sthaapana, which was going to take place the next day.

Before Milarepa could quote Nanshaad, Ashwatthama chimed in, ‘Ravana, the demon king of Lanka.’ Meeting Om’s eyes, he continued, ‘Bisrakh is situated in what is now Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh and is believed to be the birthplace of King Ravana. The land has ancient temples in abundance. The Swayambhu* Shiva linga, which was worshiped by Ravana and his father Vishravas, was unearthed there over a century ago. It is octagonal in shape. The linga protrudes 2.5 feet above the ground and allegedly extends 8 feet underneath. It is deified in a temple built near a large banyan tree and has a courtyard laid with marble where devotees worship daily.’

‘It is essential for you to know why and how I met Nanshaad and who he was, because that has everything to do with you and your question. So listen carefully. Ravana went by numerous names like Dasis Ravana, Dasis Sakvithi, Maha Ravana, Dashaanan, Lankeshwar, Lankeshwaran, Ravanasura, Ravanaeshwaran, Eela Vendhar and Ravula.’ ‘Yes, I know that. So?’ ‘So, write down “Nanshaad” and read it backwards.’ Om complied. Once written and read in reverse, ननशाद became दशानन (Dashaanan), which was one of Ravana’s popular names.

‘Dharagiri is a waterfall in the Ghatshila district of Jharkhand.

As Om’s wounds healed slowly on their own, Ashwatthama clasped the same arrow in his hand, walked towards Om and explained, ‘Because today can never win over yesterday, and neither can tomorrow. The foundation of all science is ancient science, which is now mostly trapped in books scattered around the world—many

Modern inventions are nothing but discoveries of science during the prehistoric ages, which the world calls mythology now.

We have been praying to the nine planets since before the Ramayana, not after the invention of the telescope in 1608. Do you really think that people who wrote and implemented intricate books like the Vimana Purana, which today’s scientists have now started finding relevance in, had never contemplated the presence of gurutvakarshan, which was later called gravitational force?

A Sanskrit verse from Brahmagupta’s book Brahmasphutasiddhanta says, “A body falls towards the earth as it is the nature of the earth to attract bodies, just as it is the nature of water to flow.” This statement indicates Brahmagupta’s grasp of the concept of gravity, which was later elaborated by another Indian astronomer, Bhaskara II, in his book Surya Siddhanta in 1150. All of this occurred way before Isaac Newton. Brahmagupta died in 668 CE and Bhaskara II wrote his book in 1150. Newton’s Principia, which describes gravity, was published in 1687, which was more than 500 years later.

‘Summoning an astra requires the use of a specific chant. Every astra has a chant that commands and controls it. Once the chant is recited, the concerned god endows the weapon with divine power, making it impossible to counter by regular means. There are specific conditions for the use of astras, the violation of which can be fatal.

‘That is not known. He comes only when needed and only I can summon him,’ Ashwatthama replied with a hint of pride. ‘The celestial astras are usually evoked using arrows, although they can potentially be evoked by any weapon or anything else. I invoked the Brahmashirsha astra using a blade of grass as my weapon. Indra’s son, Arjuna, was capable of shooting all his celestial weapons with the power of his mind alone. He didn’t need any physical vessel for the astra to manifest in.’

‘These are some of the astras that I possess,’ Ashwatthama said, picking up one in his hand. ‘This is Vayuastra. It brings about a hurricane capable of lifting entire armies off the ground. On the fourteenth day of the war in Kurukshetra, when the battle continued past sunset, I used this weapon to breach the illusions that Anjanaparvan, the grandson of Bhima and the son of Ghatotkacha, had created. Arjuna also used the Vayuastra against Karna in the final battle.’

‘This is Lake Mansarovar. Manas means “mind” and sarovar means “lake” in Sanskrit, which, compounded, form, “lake of the mind”. Hindu scriptures say that Brahma had conceived this lake in his mind and it received visible manifestation later, thus the name. Lake Mansarovar is a personification of purity, and one who drinks its water supposedly goes straight to the abode of Shiva after death. They are believed to be cleansed of all sins committed over even a hundred lifetimes. The existence of such a magnificent freshwater lake at such a height above sea level is indeed remarkable.’

Nagendra stopped her. ‘Light is celebrated only due to the fear of the dark. Without evil, goodness has no value.’

‘We have come here for the first word.’ It was another lake they were now standing close to, its shore covered with beautiful but poisonous Euphorbia flowers that grew amid the sand and gravel. Nagendra explained further, ‘This is Rakshastal, also called the Ravana Lake or the lake of demons. Rakshastal was created by Ravana for the express purpose of garnering superpowers through acts of devotion and meditation towards Lord Shiva, who resided on Mount Kailash. He would make a daily offering with one of his ten heads as a sacrifice to please Shiva. Finally, on the tenth night, when Ravana intended to offer his last head, Shiva was moved enough to grant Ravana his wish to harness superpowers. It was on a crescent moon night that his wish was fulfilled and so the lake acquired the shape of the crescent moon. Tonight, all the planets and the moon are aligned in their exact same positions as that night. Thousands of years ago, it was the same night, the same month with the same moon in the crescent shape when Ravana met Shiva here. Rakshastal is said to have a close resemblance to the moon. The desolation of the lake is often compared to the emptiness of the moon. Mansarovar remains tranquil and undisturbed forever, whereas the much smaller, crescent-shaped Rakshastal is always turbulent, irrespective of the weather. While Mansarovar exudes an inviting aura and bounteously gives away its water for bathing and drinking, no one even dares to come near the adjoining Rakshastal. T...

It was an implication that Nagendra had consumed the word ‘Avinasi’, which meant ‘indestructible’.

‘Butterflies can see a range of ultraviolet colours invisible to the human eye,’ said Nagendra as he placed his glowing hand on Parimal’s palm. As he did that, the hole started filling up and was partially healed. ‘LSD! Clean and cover the recovering wound, it will be fine in a few days,’ Nagendra instructed.

Right before entering his tent, Nagendra said, ‘LSD, as you’re ovulating tonight, it is the perfect time to fertilize your egg. I want Parimal’s child from you in the month of कार्तिक (Kartik); you have nine months. Tomorrow, we leave before sunrise. We have more words to hunt for before LSD’s child is born.’ Nagendra took a swig of water from his round metal bottle as he went in, leaving LSD and Parimal standing there stupefied. Now they knew why Nagendra had ordered them to set up only two tents.

She learnt that Roopkund was a high-altitude glacial lake, surrounded by rock-strewn glaciers and snow-clad mountains and was widely known for the hundreds of ancient human skeletons found at its edge, contributing to the lake being called Skeleton Lake in recent times. These carcasses are still visible in the clear water of the shallow lake but for only a month, when the ice melts. Along with the discovery of skeletons, wooden artifacts, iron spearheads, leather slippers and rings were also unearthed. Radiocarbon dating had determined that the remains were from a distant point down south. All relics of South Asian ancestry were dated back to the Satya yuga. The studies of the skeletons revealed a common cause of death: blunt force trauma to the back of the head. In a study published in August 2019, the examination of DNA extracted from thirty-eight skeletons deduced that populations experienced mortal incidents at the lake aeons back.

‘My full name is Parimal Nair and I am a Nagavanshi. Like Chandravanshis* are descendants of the moon, Suryavanshis* of the sun and Agnivanshis of Agni†, Nagavanshis belong to one of the many principal houses of the warrior–ruling class who descend from snakes. I am sorry that you don’t like snakes, but I am originally a snake inside this human body, LSD. Nagavanshis are known to be a snake-worshipping tribe of ancient India. The primary deity of the Nairs is Goddess Bhagavati, who is the patron goddess of war and fertility. The serpent is worshipped by Nair families as a guardian of the clan because we are believed to be a part of Kadru’s family tree and all snakes in the world are considered to be her children.

‘All of this started back in Satya yuga, when a seer named Kashyap married one of the granddaughters of Lord Brahma, named Kadru. For years, Kadru lived as the seer’s wife and tended to all his comforts. Happy with her devotion towards her duties, one day, Kashyap blessed her with a boon of her choice. Kadru asked for a thousand serpent children who would be courageous. Kashyap granted the wish and Kadru became pregnant. After a long time, Kadru gave birth to one thousand eggs. The eggs were carefully incubated in jars with hot water, which kept them warm. After five hundred years, Kadru’s eggs hatched and her sons came to life. The descendants of these sons are called Nagavanshis.

Story of kadru the Grand dughter of brahma

In Satya yuga, Aghasur, a demon, came across a seer named Ashtavakra, whose body was malformed in eight places, because of which he appeared extremely ugly and walked in a zigzag pattern. Aghasur made the mistake of laughing at the handicapped seer and ridiculed him for his looks and gait. Insulted, Ashtavakra cursed Aghasur to turn into one of the ugliest serpents, as they can only crawl in a zigzag pattern. Frightened by the curse, Aghasur fell at the seer’s feet and begged for forgiveness. Ashtavakra’s wrath subsided but he couldn’t revoke his curse, so he told Aghasur that at the end of Dwapara yuga, Lord Vishnu’s incarnation would liberate him of this bane by killing his serpent body and ridding him of all his sins. ‘Aghasur waited for thousands of years as a serpent for the reincarnation of Vishnu and in the meantime, became one of King Kansa’s trusted generals. Kansa, who wanted to kill Krishna, was the brother of Krishna’s mother, Devki. He made many attempts on Krishna’s life, beginning at Krishna’s birth, but failed. In those attempts, two of Aghasur’s siblings, Putana and Bakasur, lost their lives at the hands of the child. Kansa then ordered Aghasur to kill his nephew, who was also the reason for Putana and Bakasur’s deaths. Unaware of the fact that the boy he was sent to kill was the very incarnation of Vishnu, he took the form of an 8 mile-long serpent, camouflaging his open mouth with a mountain to swallow Krishna when he would step in. Instead of Krishna, a...

Next was the one that had several other weapons carved on its body. ‘This is Narayanastra. On the sixteenth day of the war of Kurukshetra, I was the one to propel it with the intent to kill the Pandavas, but Lord Krishna’s advice saved them from a definite death. This weapon belongs to Narayana (Vishnu). It is an inimitable celestial weapon because when fired, it simultaneously launches a thunderous outburst of millions of deadly weapons like chakra, mace and ultra-sharp arrows that wreak absolute destruction and overpower the target. Whoever

‘One of the oldest prophecies was declared in a verse that was intentionally hidden and over time, grew so old that we thought it was already lost forever from all Hindu scriptures, but Dhanvantari saved it. A verse that spelled, “In nine consecutive old moons, starting from the month of Magh, one shall succeed in extracting nine hidden words from nine mysterious locations, which would function as the key to a mysterious door.”’

‘We will be weak in comparison to him because together, we are not nine in number, but eight. The number nine holds great significance in our world. Starting from the life of a foetus in the mother’s womb before birth, to the death of the human being, after which the family must calm and pacify the Navagraha (nine planets), everything revolves around the number nine.

‘The sum of the digits of every yuga, for some obscure reason, is nine. When calculated in human years, Satya yuga lasts for 14,40,000 years. Treta yuga is 10,80,000 years, Dwapara yuga is 7,20,000 years and Kali yuga is 3,60,000 human years. The individual sum of all the digits in each year is nine.

Imp of no 9

‘Hindus have eighteen Puranas, 108 Mahapuranas (Upanishads), the Mahabharat has eighteen chapters, the battle lasted eighteen days, the Gita has eighteen chapters and the Bhagavata Purana, 18,000 verses. The sum of all these digits again equals nine.