Dhamek Stupa Near Varanasi, India
Sarnath is a Buddhist pilgrimage holy site located 13 Kilometers North East of Varanasi, India. It's the place where Gautama Buddha first thought the Darma after receiving illumination, it is also the first place where the Sangha was born.
Sarnath is mentioned in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, the oldest living record of Buddha's earliest teachings, where he mentioned the four truths:
1.- Suffering
2.-The Cause of Suffering
3.-The End of Suffering
4.-The Path.
So let's take a deep look into the journey of how to reach this holy site and uncovered some of the riddles of this discovery.
1.- Suffering
2.-The Cause of Suffering
3.-The End of Suffering
4.-The Path.
So let's take a deep look into the journey of how to reach this holy site and uncovered some of the riddles of this discovery.
The story says that when Buddha was born "Devas" came down from the Sky to let 500 "Rishis" ( Saints ) know of it's arrival on this Planet, according to the legend, the Rishis all rised to the Sky and floated while their relics fell into the ground, the text mentions in obscurity how "Isipatana" another holy site near Sarnath became the landing ground for this Rishis or Saints that were flying from Himalayas.
WHO ARE THE DEVAS
So let's find out first who is the Deva's (देव Sanskrit and Pāli ) that are mentioned in the earliest scrolls of the Buddhas life. according to oral and tradition, the Devas were a type of non-human being who appeared to be semi or angelic beings, powerful, young, and lived for thousands of years.
"Deva's Ancient E.T Races or survivors of an Ancient Lost Civilization?"
Before we jump the wagon let's look into the structure and abilities portrayed in the Ancient scriptures, According to legend Devas are invisible to the spectrum of the Human Eye, and can only be seeing by those who have opened up their Third Divine Eye known as "Divyacakṣus" once this power is activated in Humans either by active meditation or by cosmic occurrence the sighting of a Deva will allow you to see between planes of existence, according to Legend the Devas have the power to construct illusory forms of
perception which they can use to communicate with terrestrial physical beings.
perception which they can use to communicate with terrestrial physical beings.
"Deva's visiting Lord Buddha"
So if we take this understanding literary we discovered that this angelic beings have the power to alter physical matter, like a programmable atomic physical matter in which they can alter the equation of any solid atomic structure. This godlike technology or spiritual power as it was known in ancient times and as we have seen in numerous examples trough ancient culture and history, could be lost ancient technologies that were either present in Earth's remote past or were brought by an unknown race of off world explorers and or colonizers seeders of civilization as we know it today.
"Depicting carvings of Devas"
According to Legend 50 human years equals one night and a day to a Deva, their life span is somewhere near 500 years in their time which equals to 9 million Human Earth years, in details is mentioned in the Sacred "Anguttara Nikaya" one of the earliest sacred Buddhist scrolls depicting in detail the age of this Devas, if equaling the amount of Earth years based on their entire life span according to the ancient texts that would be approximately 9.2 billion years old.
If this beings were somehow physical present on Earth during the Earth's most important historical time of the birth of religious spiritual movement then this beings had the means and the technology to survive the unforgiving law of time, perhaps they were tele-holograms in which they were presenting themselves from their own planets and because light takes millions of years to reach Earth those inhabitants of those worlds were most likely disappear by the time the transmission arrived.
If this beings were somehow physical present on Earth during the Earth's most important historical time of the birth of religious spiritual movement then this beings had the means and the technology to survive the unforgiving law of time, perhaps they were tele-holograms in which they were presenting themselves from their own planets and because light takes millions of years to reach Earth those inhabitants of those worlds were most likely disappear by the time the transmission arrived.
"Vimana Flying Charriot"
But anyways lets stay in track and in the subject and we can go back to review the Deva's mystery which i think plays a massive role in understand the ancient mysteries of the Buddhist traditions.
"Rikshaw Driver on my way to Sarnath"
Along the road you start to encounter the beautiful people that make this country magical, smiling along the way, waving and curious as they usually are.
The road towards Sarnath took about an hour due to traffic and trains passing, if you care about air quality and riding an open air rikshaw, bring an air mask if you have one, i forgot to bring mine from the hotel which i totally regretted it.
Along the road you can see the remote vastness of Varanasi villagers and various cast systems, compacted in various religious groups, i was expecting to see more buddhist but it seem that the entire region, town city village is dominated by Hindus, strangely for a site as important as this historically.
To reach the destination you should take an auto rikshaw it costs me around 400-500 INR roundtrip with a 2 hour wait for me to conduct my investigations and visit the local museum for anomalous antiquities, the hassling was a a bit the typical style but once you on, the flow changes and the driver becomes a sweet charm to the experience.
"Rikshaw Driver on my way to Sarnath"
Along the road you start to encounter the beautiful people that make this country magical, smiling along the way, waving and curious as they usually are.
"Villagers on my way to Sarnath"
The road towards Sarnath took about an hour due to traffic and trains passing, if you care about air quality and riding an open air rikshaw, bring an air mask if you have one, i forgot to bring mine from the hotel which i totally regretted it.
Along the road you can see the remote vastness of Varanasi villagers and various cast systems, compacted in various religious groups, i was expecting to see more buddhist but it seem that the entire region, town city village is dominated by Hindus, strangely for a site as important as this historically.
"Arriving to the Sacred Temple Center"
Entering the sacred complex of Sarnath you can't stop to imagine how it all once was, with Varanasi nearby being one of the holiest places on Earth and with it's mayor Hindu importance i am imagining it being like arriving to the Vatican and or an ancient Mayan massive pyramid complex, filled with prayer flags, markets, holy man, monks, nuns and sounds of birds all around.
"Original Bodhi Tree taken from Bodh Gaya"
As we enter the site the first monument was a statue of Lord Buddha, according to the legend the tree he is standing above is the original Bhodi tree he sat when he received illumination, part of the tree was brought here to germinate and therefore maintain it here as one of the holiest centers of Buddha.
"Attainment state of consciousness"
Next to Lord Buddha there are various bodhisattvas accompanying lord Buddha as he enters Nirvana.
There you can see the Lord Buddha in a meditation state, along the holy saints next to him, according to the earliest buddha writings, this holy man were the first person to receive the Dharma, the holy teachings of Buddha and therefore buddhism origins began at this specific location.
I remained for about an hour sitting next to the tree contemplating the serenity of the moment and trying to see if i could access some form of dormant collective memory encoded in the area, all i could feel and sense was just this great feeling of peace and devotion, trust and compassion.
I kept watching the tree imagining Lord Buddha sitting there without pain without hunger, being free from the sensory punishment we are bound to experience while in physical body, Lord Buddha was able to achieved such task..
As i was leaving the area i came towards the and I hugged him for few minutes, while i was there a leaf was falling and i was able to hold it, i ate it :)
"Gigantic Buddha Statue right at the entrance of Sarnath"
As you enter the main complex site, there are numerous gigantic structures such as this, located in the central garden with beautiful decorations and passages of Lord Buddha since he was born until he died.
As i continued the first temple was a Vietnamese /Thai style Buddhist temple, i think was built by the Thai Prince in commemoration of Lord Buddhas History origins, the temple structure inside is built in Gold and precious stones artifacts, i made a pause to pray over the statue and continued my journey.
"Gold Buddha Donated by Thailand Prince"
I walked around the monument looking for any clues and relevant codes from an ancient before history origins, but all seem the remain loyal to the already established Buddhist tales of origin and life of Buddha, my search needed to continue to find Pre History origins and clues before the actual buddhist structures were created, for that i continued my search towards the Archeological structures of the remains of the first temples erected during Buddhas real time alive.
ENTERING THE ANCIENT SITE
"Entering holy grounds where Buddha began teaching"
As i enter the oldest part of Sarnath you could feel this strong power of antiquity, ovbiously because of the remnants of centuries old temples but because of the collectivism that emerged and gave birth to one of the largest Human Religions on Earth.
Like most religious personalities such as Buddha, Christ, Mohamed, they all became popular and established their presence centuries after their death, its a bit difficult to find the pre history origins of this holy messengers to Earth, but doesn't mean is not possible..
"Religious prayer undertaking at the site"
As i enter the archeological site, they were numerous buddhist groups, praying to Lord Buddha shrines and listening to the ancient history by the Buddhist Monks, it was a beautiful sight to see and capture,
In order to get this shot without disturbing the ceremony i sneaked under the bushes and was able to get this in motion.
"Devotees praying to Lord Buddha"
"Inspecting one of the few remnant Ashoka Pillars"
Ashoka Pillars were created during the reign of King Ashoka during 3rd Century A.D, most erected trough-out buddhist pilgrimage sites only few remain left, some are yet to be excavated, the pillars posses a mayor breakthrough in ancient Hindu Art as they were able to create enormous pillars weighting over 50 tons and up to 15-20 meters high.
The National Symbol of india the Ashoka Pillar was found here in Sarnath and now is hold as the main emblem of India.
"Inspecting one of the few remnant Ashoka Pillars"
The first encounter i found was a pillar with according to modern research belongs to an extinct brahman language, what does it mean? The Brahmi inscriptions found in the Ashoka temple belong to one of the oldest languages on Earth, according to modern archeology this language was used and adapted since 1st Millennia A.D
Derived from the extinct Kharosthi Language that was used and was spread across South East Asia, is interesting how was this language completely erased from History?
What's very interesting is that linguistics pointed the origins of Kharoshti and Brahmi belongs to Proto- Aramaic Hebrew scripture, what we see here is a massive correlation and expansion of not just languages and ideas and concepts as well as architectural technologies across Asia and Africa but perhaps we see deeper correlations to numerous mysteries yet to be explained by modern archeology.
"Incense being burned by Lord Buddha's Devotees"
As i continued walking the site i came across numerous depictions of religious art, decorated in stone carving reliefs, battling trough time, as testament of the first depictions of sacred art and geometry.
"Depictions of Ancient Mystical Art"
"Interesting type of rock art, correlating to inca"
As i started looking for ancient symbolism, zoomorphic images of hybrid mutations, i came across an interesting carving located near the great stupa, this markings clearly have a strong similarity to those of Puma Punku a pre Incan Civilization. Lets examine it.
"Me At Puma Punku Archeological Site in Bolivia"
Are we seeing remnants of ancient civilizations exchanging knowledge, languages and information across seas? I can add to this post numerous examples of past temples i have visited across my expeditions to India many years ago where there is such a massive amount of evidence supporting multi cultural propagation of information across continents.
"Labyrinth Style Stone Carving at Puma Punku Bolivia"
Like explained before, numerous labyrinth style carvings are found predominantly across South America, India, Europe and Africa.
"Me at Myra near Memre Kale Antalya Turkey "
Again we clearly see the similar stone carving art that was shared by ancient cultures, this is from Myra a Greek Archaeological site located in Turkey where similarities in stone carvings are found.
What was taken from this structures during the earliest origins of Lord Buddha, what kind of teachings
did not survive the harshness of time and the jealousy and competition of other holy figures to dominate a powerful dominant religious sub continent such as india.
It makes me wonder how much precious technologies and information were lost trough history, can we somehow still access this lost methods of communication? ingenuity and physical exercises to open up streams and channels of information to alter our physical construct to reach this higher levels of consciousness?
DHARMARAJIKA STUPA
The Dharmarajika Stuppa supposedly built before the Ashokan Era its a testament of pre history advanced methods of ingenuity that defy all means of ancient construction history.
Supposedly created from one giant block stone slowly carved either from a mound, according to the research there is no inner structure, its one big piece of stone.
"One Massive Single Block Stupa "
I somehow found this quite hard to believe, a gigantic structure without an inner chamber really?
Are we been told the real truth of deeper archeological findings or the government hasn't put any real efforts to evaluate possible theories and invest in real technological applications to unravel the building's original origins and purpose.
Whatever it is, it baffles the mind a construction this massive, what that means is that they either had to carved out the entire mountain that was once there all around it such as in Ellora Caves, or they had to bring this massive stone monument which thats impossible since would be thousands if not millions of tons.
"Sacred Geometry Artwork carved into the Stupa "
"Ancient Sacred Geometrical Art encoded within the structure"
Analyzing the religious artwork clearly for me has strong similarities to transcontinental collectivism and information sharing technologies.
"Similarities in Ancient Art between Sarnath and Mitla Mexico"
Not everything is scientific, keeping an open mind when visiting this archeological sites, analyze and examine deeply, remember past archeological sites and compare with them, artwork, structural integrity, symbolism, meaning etc, all of this things come in handy when exploring ancient ruins to truly try to depict a new method of understanding perhaps left for us to decipher thousands of years into the future.
"Temple overseeing Sarnath"
Recapping and keeping story short, who were this ancient Deva's that came from the sky to witness Lord Buddhas birth, illumination and Death? Were this Vedas somehow angelic beings we have seen trough history in numerous other religious texts and history? Were they off world entities with the sole purpose to lead a religious revolution to alter human consciousness and access deeper technologies?
"Chaukhandi Stupa"
Chaukhandi Stupa once a burial mound, later to be converted into a stupa, is also one of the most important religious pilgrimage sites for Buddhists.
"Chaukhandi Stupa Gardens"
Perhaps this chapters in history will be forgotten by modern humans as science and the acceleration of technological singularity defines our true biological origins, yet for those that enjoy the romantic and charming mythological tales of our past and mysteries hopefully this riddles and history of our civilization isnt completely forgotten or at least is kept as a novelty for those future nostalgic future humans that enjoy a word or two..
"Chaukhandi Stupa Brick Facade"
Some of the ancient structures revealed the ancient or perhaps lost origins of the earliest records of Lost Buddha, what we actually see now are barely the foundations of a lost structure that once dominated the region, according to mainstream history, Sarnath was completely sacked an destroyed by the Turkish Muslims during the 12th Century, the original stones were destroyed and reused for other temples.
I don't have the answers most likely non of us do and or will, but it's important to question, read, compare and understand the true origins of our human civilization and the birth of religious, spiritual doctrine from an open mind perspective and see things from a scientific and border like pseudo alternate history, we have realized trough science that quantum physics and complex sciences aren't easy to understand and they are actually paradoxical, the moment we understand that our spiritual origins are as same as quantum science, that the complexity and surrealism of the true origins of history cannot make complete sense and are impossible to be defined and put down on a book as a guide to follow and digest by the masses, perhaps things will change and become easier to understand.
Thanks for reading my blog entry, its been numerous months since i havent updated a new entry even thought i continue as always to try to bring to light Earths remote lost origins and share with my friends and family my adventures across this incredible and mystical planet.
Regards,
Guillermo Alarcon
September 9th, 2017
New Delhi, India
@ All Pictures taken by Guillermo Alarcon, you are welcome to use them as long as you give credit to me.
