Life on Mars from the Vedic Hindu perspective. In traditional Vedic astrology, Mars is a
masculine planet signifying strength and supremacy. The planet s name Mangala, the god of anger
and is sometimes linked to Kartikeya, known as the regent of Mars. I ll get more into
him later. Mangala is described as the son of Bhumi,
the Earth Goddess. He was born when she was raised from the depths of the Garbodaka ocean
by the Varaha avatar. (more than 1.5 billion years ago)
This presentation however is not about Mars as a graha, (a object with astrological meaning).
This is about life there. So lets turn to the 5th Canto of the Srimad
Bhagavatam. In many of my other presentations I showed how the geo-centric, earth-centred
orbits of the planets of the solar system match the concentric rings of bhu-mandala.
That remarkable match includes distances of millions of miles in space.
Now, the inner boundary of the geocentric orbit of Mars touches the outer edge of the
island of kraunca. And Mar s outer orbit is the same as the outer edge of bhu-mandala
s fresh water ocean . Now many scholars have associated the realms
of bhu-mandala as continents on earth. However, with descriptions of sophisticated
populations and plenty of fauna and exotic oceans on islands millions of miles away in
space, it seems the 5th canto is describing life of other planets - - but life that is
not detectable by our traditional 5 senses, or by machines sent out there by the likes
of NASA. Anyway, in chapter 20 of the 5th Canto we
read at the main mountain on Krauncadvip has become fearless because it is always bathed
on all sides by the Ocean of Milk and protected by Varu?adeva.
The ruler of this island was [a] son of the powerful Maharaja Priyavrata, who reigned
more than a billion years ago during the Uttama Manvantara. His name was Gh?ta-p???ha, and
he was a very learned person. He divided his island among his sons. Then he completely
retired from family life and took shelter of the Lord.
We then read something, intriguingly, in the present tense. That ..The inhabitants of Krau
cadvipa are divided into four varanas, castes. Using the waters of those sanctified rivers,
they worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead by offering a palmful of water at the lotus
feet of Varu?a, the demigod of water. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada purported that
Visvanatha Cakravarti ?hakura wrote, the inhabitants of the various sections of Krau cadvipa offer
the sanctified waters of the rivers to a deity made of stone or iron. This is interesting
because Mars is covered with iron. Now these demigod activities are either invisible
to us, or could be the other side of portals between places like Mars and a higher realm.
And does to travel to other dimensions also mean to travel in time?
Well, do consider that many main-stream scientists are open to the theory that Mars had oceans
and even plants on its surface millions of years ago.
It seems that whether such a higher realm exists via Mars or not, there is something
else for us to consider. Verse 18 of that chapter reads:
On Krauncadvipa there is a great mountain known as Krau ca, from which the island takes
its name the vegetables living on the slopes of Mount Krau ca were attacked and devastated
by the weapons of Karttikeya This is part of a longer story in ancient
Indian text, and is written in the past tense. There was once an extremely powerful asura,
demon, called Tarakasura. Lord Shiva sent his son Kartikeya with his
armies to destroy Tarakasura and his followers A great many died in that huge war.
The demon Bala fought hard, but afraid of Kartikeya he and his armies fell back to Kraunca,
where they sheltered under its mountain. Kartikeya shattered Kraunca with his spear
weapon, which shreaked like a kraunca, a crane. Hundreds of thousands of asuras were killed
and the place was devastated. In a couple of my former presentations I touched
on how the humanoid species across the Vedic universe have bodies made of different combinations
of the gross and subtle elements. The demons operate on a grosser elemental level then
the demigods and are therefore more likely to leave behind visible evidence.
That brings me onto the final section of this presentation. I will be leaving you with a
series of images taken on Mars which, in the eyes on some, MAY may be evidence of humanoid
life on the planet LONG ago, that was devastated during a huge war. Of course, many of the
images I am going to show may just well be simple rocks that human minds have built.
Or perhaps not. Yet, for example, consider what was left behind after Mount Vesuvius
showered volcanic debris over the Roman city of Pompai. Anyway ..you decide