Ever wondered why the oldest civilization on earth that gave the world the concept of zero, defined time in terms of billions of years, showed the world the window to astronomy and medicine (ayurveda) practiced the oral way of tranmitting knowledge from one generation to another.
When the knowledge to document on leaves, brass metal sheets and stones were known, why would someone look to memorizing huge texts. In fact we observe that great care and discipline was followed between the guru and the students in passing information this way in a systematic manner.
So what am I trying to point to ?
Hmmm...currently we are storing everything in paper or digital format.
Imagine a global catastrophe or a nuclear war that destroys every form of stored information.
Where will we be - Stone age ?
Whom can we look upto ?
Thats when the power of human memory comes to our rescue.
There is ample evidence to suggest that some great act of nature such as floods or meteroite hit happened or even worse a nuclear holocaust happened millions of years ago. It wiped out civilizations and only a few managed to escape and survive.
It seems like the ancient Hindu cvilization could predict such a catastrophe and encouraged the oral tradtion before the human race could go down.
Is it time for us to take a relook to the oral tradtion ?
Will it be possible for us to convert the huge amount of knowledge that into we have into oral form.
We need to look into our ancient past to find answers to these before its too late.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Ancient Medical Miracles
Ancient Medical Wonders
The Chinese have been practicing Acupunture for thousands of years....it still remains a mystery how they were able to master our nervous systems functions in so details and manipulate it with needles.
Among the exponents of ancient martial arts of South India - Kalaripaytu could be found few experts who mastered "Marmayoga". They could cure ailments or kill/disable any humans by merely using their fingers on certain sensitive parts of our body. This kind of knowledge even puzzle the scientists of today.
How could the ancients do this ..did they have access to a far superior technology than us ... ?
Some of the herbs and medicines used in acient India such as turmeric, ginger - are they a form of plants genetically modified by our ancient civilization for medicinal purpose ?
The Chinese have been practicing Acupunture for thousands of years....it still remains a mystery how they were able to master our nervous systems functions in so details and manipulate it with needles.
Among the exponents of ancient martial arts of South India - Kalaripaytu could be found few experts who mastered "Marmayoga". They could cure ailments or kill/disable any humans by merely using their fingers on certain sensitive parts of our body. This kind of knowledge even puzzle the scientists of today.
How could the ancients do this ..did they have access to a far superior technology than us ... ?
Some of the herbs and medicines used in acient India such as turmeric, ginger - are they a form of plants genetically modified by our ancient civilization for medicinal purpose ?
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Ancient Technology/Civilizations
Introduction to my thoughts on Ancient Technology/Civilizations.
People are so used to believing that the current era that we are living in is the era of "cutting edge technology" and that such a benefit was not available to mankind before.
But is it true.....can we belive it to be true..when we look at monuments/technologies built by ancient civilizations such as Egyptians, Greeks, Chinese, Mayan, Indians etc..
Pyramid built thousands of years ago.....is still a puzzle for many scientists/archealogists - it looks like a tomb, it acts like an astronomical observatory, its perferct trianlge/tangent construction is a geometric wonder - what exactly is it ?
Decimal number system was known to Ancient Indians for thousands of years and infact it was the only civilization that utilised it. The concept/meaning of zero which is responsible for the digital technology today was defined ages ago in ancient India.
Mythological stories in ancient civilzations such as Egyptians, Greeks, Chinese, Mayan, Indians tell tales of Super humans and spectacular weapons and flying systems...are these merely myths or are they real.
Civilizations so powerful - where did they vanish - where they destroyed or did they leave our dying planet to other planets/galaxies.
Of the thousands of years of history of mankind..and its existence .....is it fair to belive that superior technology only happen to exist in the last 2000 years only ?
People are so used to believing that the current era that we are living in is the era of "cutting edge technology" and that such a benefit was not available to mankind before.
But is it true.....can we belive it to be true..when we look at monuments/technologies built by ancient civilizations such as Egyptians, Greeks, Chinese, Mayan, Indians etc..
Pyramid built thousands of years ago.....is still a puzzle for many scientists/archealogists - it looks like a tomb, it acts like an astronomical observatory, its perferct trianlge/tangent construction is a geometric wonder - what exactly is it ?
Decimal number system was known to Ancient Indians for thousands of years and infact it was the only civilization that utilised it. The concept/meaning of zero which is responsible for the digital technology today was defined ages ago in ancient India.
Mythological stories in ancient civilzations such as Egyptians, Greeks, Chinese, Mayan, Indians tell tales of Super humans and spectacular weapons and flying systems...are these merely myths or are they real.
Civilizations so powerful - where did they vanish - where they destroyed or did they leave our dying planet to other planets/galaxies.
Of the thousands of years of history of mankind..and its existence .....is it fair to belive that superior technology only happen to exist in the last 2000 years only ?
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