[world-vedic] Little people - Vedic?

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Little people - Vedic?

 

I was driving through a town called Fayetteville, and it reminded me of the

Fay, which means fairies, or the "little people." And thinking about it,

there’s lots of interesting things about the fay, even in our books.

 

For instance, here is this info about the "Sidhe." -

"I looked at the survival of belief among the Celtic peoples of an

invisible realm inhabited by Otherworldly beings known collectively as the

Sidhe, or the Good People. This belief was once common throughout all the

Celtic countries, in localised forms. The Sidhe are considered to be a

distinct race, quite separate from human beings yet who have had much contact

with mortals over the centuries, and there are many documented testimonies to

this. Belief in this race of beings who have powers beyond those of men to

move quickly through the air and change their shape at will once played a

huge part in the lives of people living in rural Ireland and Scotland."

 

Sidhe, huh? It certainly rings a bell, doesn’t it? Sounds like siddha, or the

siddhas in Siddhaloka, doesn’t it? That probably because the word Sidhe does

come from the Sanskrit "siddha." And by reading the above discription, we see

that these "little people" had siddhic powers, to move quickly in air and

change their shape at will, etc. We can see some connection between cultures,

or how the sidhe originates from the vedic view of the world.

 

We also have reason to believe that perhaps the "Sidhe" or fairies, are

"gandharvas" in vedic terms. There is one purport in Srila Prabhupada’s

Bhagavad gita, where Srila Prabhupada says "gandharvas" and then (fairies) in

parenthesis. Some devotees may think that this was a transcribing error in

the Gita. But I tend to think not. Gandharvas are dipicted to have wings. And

as we know, fairies have wings too, so do the Christain angels. We might

think that Gandharvas and angels and fairies are maybe the same thing, or

else very related to each other. And we know that some entities from the

upper planets have mystic powers to reduce their size, say, to the small size

of fairies, and they can fly around at will. And so many of us have

experience of flying around in our dreams. I do it constantly. And we’ve

heard from Srila Prabhupada that dreams are collections of past experiences.

Perhaps we did some of these things in past lives, who knows?

 

ys Visoka dasa