Artificial Amnesia

Hello reader

How are you today? Last week has been exciting because I travelled, it was a pilgrimage. But for me, it was something different I had been to one of the oldest temples in South India that is Rameshwaram and Trichy.

I visited some stone temples which were built centuries ago by our ancient men whom we think as old, but the fact is they were more advanced than even the most brilliant scientist to date.

Do you think I am underestimating the current generation of brainchildren and progenies like Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, CV Raman, Madame Curie the list is almost endless I am not even close to them, but I can be sure our ancient people were equally brilliant!

All of us would have visited ancient buildings built by the high kings when India was at the peak of its prosperity; there was a time where diamonds were sold on the roads just like vegetables and fruits and funds were released abundantly to build temples.

So why do you think the king of the day felt that building temples were more critical and gave importance to as he expanded his kingdom, I am not exaggerating this because we have evidence. If we travel to both North and South India where we can visit places like the Madurai Meenakshi Temple, the Sundareswaran temple, the Srirangam temple, the Sun temple of Orissa, the darasuram temple the famous Ellora caves Kailash Temple and of course the Vijayanagara and Hampi Heritage temples.

The musicial pillars of Vijaya Vittala temple at Hampi, Karnataka,India

Do you think that we have not decoded the actual messages that our ancient people wanted the future generations or the present generations to understand when they are we visit these temples?

Before I answer there is one fact which we need to understand which the present historians or the archaeologists have missed out; there is a general misconception that ancient people had lesser IQ and builders used simple tools like chisels and rock hammers to build these complex megastructures. I think that is not at all logical because if we look at the accuracy and precision which is shown by the artist in the stone carvings, we will be pretty sure they used something very modern may be more advanced than the present power tools.

How could they have created such high polished and smooth pillars
by just using simple tools?

When I was travelling last week, I searched the history of Rameshwaram temple on the internet, and I came across this YouTube channel called phenomenal travel videos which are presented by Praveen Mohan an archaeologist and a researcher of all ancient structures around the world.

He has given numerous analysis on many temples which just stunned me, and it is so unfortunate that no mainstream historian or an archaeologist is trying to do some in-depth research regarding this.

We Indians have a habit of not acknowledging that our tradition and culture is unique and it is invaluable. We have still not realised that this one weakness helped the British Empire to conquer India and rule for 89 years, we all feel sorry about the way Indians were exploited and also executed by foreigners who didn't mean anything to us.

But we have to blame ourselves because we never valued our tradition and culture and maintained Unity. We fell prey to easy westernisation and industrialisation. There is still a mind-boggling question which always haunts to date, what would India be without the British invasion? I have yet not got the answer for that maybe you can help me with some inputs in the comment box.

The reason I had to mention British Empire is that they were smart people who saw Indian culture and Indian temples and have implemented many of the ancient technologies which are used in our temples. The easiest and famous example which I can quote is the musical pillars of Hampi; there is evidence that one of the British Architects was so impressed with these pillars of Hampi that he removed one of the cornerstones and tried to find out how it works but was unsuccessful.

As this is my first travel blog; I will keep it brief and end it here by leaving the thinking to you.

Next time when you visit a historical place try to observe the sculptors and decode in your language so that we can unearth the real history and try to create an awareness of the pseudo-history which we have learnt all these years and try to tell the world the real prosperity of India which was lost to the guns and arrogance of the British invaders and the naive and sheepish attitude of the politicians who fabricated history the way they wanted.

We have all been made to forget Indian culture and tradition through the vernacular education and orthodontic systems which we follow which is the reason for this artificial amnesia.

I will write a sequel to his blog after I do some research and can present you with some examples to understand better about what we discussed today.

Thanks for your time have a great week ahead.

What is history, but a fable which is agreed upon?

-Napoleon Bonaparte

Helios