Pastimes of Bhagavat vol 2 – King Prithu’s rise from wicked Vena’s demise

Chapter 1/6 of an ancient legend – The priests invoke the gods but find themselves at odds

Many strange and mythic fantasy tales are told in the ancient legends of the east, dear reader, and this is just one of those mysterious pastimes that I wish to narrate to you now. It comes from that ancient Sanskrit text called Bhagavat Purana, allegedly written down 5000 years ago at the junction of the Great Ages, when the universe slipped from its last vestiges of civility into the final degraded age in which we live today.

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Our tale goes back far further than just 5000 years though, for in those ancient texts we find the even more ancient histories of the world. This tale which I reveal to you now takes us back to a time nearer the dawn of creation. It could have occurred hundreds of thousands of years ago for all I know. How does a small mind like mine comprehend such vast swathes of time? Therefore let’s just say this tale occurred further back than we can imagine, in a time when kings ruled the entire earth planet as their dominion.

One such king named Anga, as the Bhagavat Purana reveals, was a virtuous and pious king, who was assisted and advised by learned priests and powerful mystics, or what we might call magicians today. We cannot even imagine the power that such residents of the earth planet were able to tap into back then. Cosmic forces exist around us all the time and always have. We are simply too limited in our capacity to harness them in this day and age. Extra-terrestrial beings also inhabit numerous planets beyond ours and the kings and priests of those days were in contact with them, or so the ancient Sanskrit tales reveal.

One day King Anga arranged with his priests to perform a great ceremony, a ritual that would bring good fortune upon the kingdom. It was called the great “Ashwamedha Yajna”. “Ashwa” is the Sanskrit word for “horse” and in this ceremony or sacrifice, if you will, an old horse was taken and offered in sacrifice into the fire, while the priests chanted the appropriate mantras and incantations. But instead of the horse being killed, it would actually be rejuvenated and emerge from the sacrificial flames young and revitalized.

Such was the power of the learned mystic priests and magicians of those days. There was no need for the blood sacrifices that we hear of today because far finer skills and levels of consciousness allowed for great power to be harnessed and displayed. Of course such a ceremony called for vast amounts of wealth so only the greatest of kings could afford to perform them. As time advanced and the priestly skills degraded, we have ended up with paltry little magicians today who have to actually spill blood to appeal to lesser ghosts or astral entities to invoke some kind of power. Such feeble sacrifices are condemned as low class and leading only to degraded consciousness and powers that may come but with many strings attached.

Back in ancient times our priests were able to do far more than attract some disembodied soul from the lower astral planes and could actually invoke the presence of the residents of the higher planets, known today perhaps as angels or more specifically demigods. These residents of the more advanced planetary systems, who live vastly longer lives than ours, would sometimes make contact with our earth planet and provide blessings for the pious kings who offered them gifts and pleasing prayers. What a strange and magical time it must have been on this very earth back then in our earliest civilizations. We can only imagine it now, thanks to the ancient legends written down in the oldest language known to humanity today – Sanskrit, the root of Latin, Russian, English and most other languages that we know of.

King Anga’s priests proceeded to perform the great horse sacrifice, which included inviting the demigods to attend or manifest themselves but on this day, for some reason, those denizens of the heavenly planets failed to appear. The priests were most perplexed, explaining to King Anga that the offerings and invitations made to the extra-terrestrial beings are not being accepted, even though they are not polluted or contaminated and all the mantras were chanted properly, with the correct execution of the ceremony.

Such tales are indeed beyond my ability to comprehend dear reader, so take them as you will. Perhaps they are merely some fantasy that I concoct, or someone else once concocted and wrote down a long time ago in the Sanskrit text known as Bhagavat Purana. Nevertheless, I do not expect you to believe any of this narration, even though I gain nothing from creating such a fantasy tale from my fertile imagination. I simply repeat what I have read in the ancient texts. In the next chapter I will continue the tale, so stay tuned as the mystery unfolds and the legends of our ancient history are revealed.

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