Venus, Veneera Nine and the Bhagavat

[Guest guest]

The following is an interesting piece from Venus, Veneera Nine and the Puranas:

http://www.skyboom.com/hollowearthpuranas/index4.html

 

Do check out the " update " link at the bottom of the page where we discuss all

aspects of the Hollow Earth Theory, Vedic and otherwise.

 

Here is the piece:

 

 

" In the ninth canto, 18th chapter, a narration describes the activities of

Devayani, the daughter of Shukra- the predominating deity of the Venus.

According to the Puranic descriptions, the predominating deity of a planet is

the soul personified of the planet. There, a palace garden is described full of

lotuses, and trees of flowers and fruits, inhabited by sweetly singing birds and

bumble bees. It is described that lotus-eyed girls took a walk along the bank of

a reservoir. At one point in the narration, Shukra-Acharya, Devayani’s

father, made a comment about grains in the field. According to this

description, Venus seems to harbor life as on Earth.In fact, according to the

Puranic descriptions, there is life and activity on all the planets. For

example, in the Bhagavat Purana, Canto 4, Chapter 20, Text 35 - 36, a reference

is made to the way in which Maharaj Prithu, a king of the Earth, paid his

respects to visitors from various celestial planets, and then a reference is

made to the inhabitants of the earthly planets. Now first of all, the reader

will note that the text refers to earthly planets, in the plural. Typically, in

the Puranic literature two words are translated as “ Earth “:

Prithivi and Bhu Mandala. Prithivi certainly refers to this Earth globe, while

Bhu Mandala ( circle around the Sun? ) seems to refer to the planets along the

plane of the solar system, as pointed out by Dr. Richard L. Thompson in his

book “ Vedic Cosmography.” This in itself is interesting because we

don’t see inhabitants on any of the other planets in the the solar

system.In fact, the Apollo astronauts have supposedly gone to the Moon and

found no life there. Through their telescopes and space probes, astronomers

tell us that there is no life on the other planets such as Mercury, Venus and

Mars either. A C Bhaktivedanta Swami never agreed with such conclusions. In his

purport to Text 26, Chapter 18, Canto 4 of the Bhagavat Purana, Bhaktivedanta

Swami states that “ According to the Vedic literature, it is not true

that the Moon does not produce food or that no living entity is living

there.” In the purport to Canto 4, Chapter 22, Text 54, he writes:

“ The Vedic literature, however, repeatedly informs us that the Moon is

full of highly elevated inhabitants who are counted amongst the demigods. We

are therefore always in doubt about what kind of moon adventure the modern

scientists of this Earth have undertaken.” It is important for followers

of the Puranic version to understand these statements so that their faith in

the entire Vedic belief system may not be shaken. We shall consider the

difference of opinion between these Puranic statements and modern scientific

allegations, that the planets are uninhabited and lifeless, by considering

whether the Apollo astronauts ( astro-nots? ) really went to the Moon, whether

or not there might actually be artificial artifacts on the surface of the Moon,

and whether or not the key to understanding the nature of the Puranic statements

might not lie in the fact that the planets are hollow."

 

Posted by Dharmapada