#15 THE 'A' TEAM
The Gatekeeper paused here for dramatic effect.
"Do I think, dear friend, I would get away with that explanation? Not for a minute. So here’s what really happened. The King’s troops thought a god had given Arjuna a magic javelin which, in fact, it was. What they witnessed was the first recorded use of electricity in warfare. It was the invention of an obscure engineer, known then only as a wise man, who had been experimenting with electricity. He had not succeeded in harnessing it, but he had succeeded in make a flash … a brilliant flash using magic earth … a powder he had taken from a particular cave … this powder was pure metallic magnesium which he ground in a mortar with a pestle … it would flare with a blinding white light. He fixed a container of magnesium onto the end of a fire arrow with two rods in it to create the electric spark. Arjuna fired it into the ground in front of the Ape King’s warriors … the magic bolt of lightning would temporarily blind some men, others would be terrified, and some would actually die of the shock. When Arjuna’s arrow hit the earth the outer ceramic container broke and the inner ceramic held, it even set some troops alight. While the magnesium flare was harmless in itself, it had a dramatic effect on people of limited understanding. Krishna’s troops had the advantage of being forewarned and they moved in the confusion to overwhelm the Ape King’s warriors. So it was with that clever ingenuity that Krishna won!”
“Arjuna sounds like a remarkable man! Which energy was he?”
“He was brave, forthright and independent. He was a devoted servant of Krishna and a brilliant archer. As a military engineer, Arjuna made many refinements to crude chariots. One thing I want to make clear when the time comes to reveal the law or fulfil it – God sends his ‘A’ Team. Those assembled for this battle were not accidents of history; their lives and roles had been carefully planned for thousands of your years. So which energy was he? The archer … the lover of theology … the devotee of duty.”
“That’s Mary! Even if they were the ‘A’ Team did Arjuna really discuss metaphysics and philosophy prior to the battle?”
“Arjuna was not at all interested in philosophy initially. Krishna’s attempt the night before, as they discussed their battle tactics, to interest him in the speculative science and obtuse thought did not succeed. Arjuna was a pragmatist, a rationalist ‘a keep to the facts’ man! During childhood he was Pretty-Boy-Krishna’s protector against bullies, he drove them off. He was Aryan too, of the artisan class, a farmer and a warrior. Get used to Mary in battle; she’s good, very good. I’m getting a warning hand from Mary and she wants instead to draw your attention to the reality that Arjuna described himself as a farmer not a warrior. He kept Krishna grounded and had a peasant theology and drew examples of the hard life on the land.”
“Was that Arjuna’s purpose: to keep Krishna grounded?”
“His purpose was to be a physical and spiritual bodyguard to Krishna. To be the straight man for Krishna’s philosophising. In that way he made important contributions to the philosophical aspect of Hinduism. He contributes an irony in that the philosopher is not the king, he is the warrior. His spiritual purpose was similar, to help the intellectualising of Hinduism.”
“Then he’d have to be very smart!”
“Arjuna had Mary’s high intelligence, her interest in theology, her gentleness – he was very gentle for a warrior, never a bully, never forceful. For him the last resort was violence. He was expert in an early form of Kung Fu learned from Chinese monks. He was very agile with a well-developed sense of humour. His archery was poetry in motion and his strong fingers and vice-like grip delivered a superb javelin throw and an instantaneous slice of a curved sword. I am watching him now thrusting himself in front of Krishna – he’s quite short – five foot six inches – broad-shouldered, thickset, muscled forearms, quite light skinned and a very neatly clipped black beard.”
“Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita shows Arjuna the supreme form of God before they go into battle. Did they have a transcendent experience together?”
“Yes, they did. Krishna took him up to a mountaintop where he revealed himself in all his glory. Krishna gave Arjuna akashic sight so that he was able to see his soul’s aura, see the shapes of its leaping flames. Arjuna was able to see Krishna speaking to God who was in the figure of Vishnu whom you would know as Lord Sananda and Christians would call Jesus. Vishnu is the Hindu saviour of the world with a bluish-green throat. Arjuna was in awe, because what he saw would seem miraculous to him and to us.”
“Did Krishna actually write any of the Bhagavad-Gita?”
“Krishna wrote very little… he pronounced… he was a teacher and his words were written down by his scribes.”
“But was he the actual source of this sacred text?”
“Yes largely, but there were bits stuck on later and fragments of earlier writing blended into it as well, although the majority of it is Krishna. Remember though, there are embroideries and fanciful additions.”
“Then why do we have Krishna’s major battle as a battle between two families who are relatives and not the battle with the Ape King of Sri Lanka?”
“Because my Brahmin friends tell me the Brahmins rewrote parts of it and inserted new parts in it which accounts for the Mahabrahata’s conspicuous lack of cohesiveness!”
“But why?”
“It suited their political convenience. The Brahman class, the educated, religious elite were concerned with continuing as the ruling religious class and with the continued dominance of their god, Brahma. In order to promote divineness among the Dravidians still smarting from their conquest by a Northerner, they decided to cloak the real story. About 1800-1600BC over a couple of centuries they succeeded in making Krishna subordinate.”
“But why?”
“Because they were concerned Krishna would become the principal deity of Hinduism thereby cutting their business and importance.”
“Do any of the unaltered texts still exist?”
“As we will hear often St Germain speaks from his graves. Those texts are buried very deeply, hidden securely and there exists a possibility they will be discovered.”
“As a man who conquers India, Sri Lanka and Southern China, I see some similarities between Krishna and Alexander the Great, an aspect of Hilarion. Do you see any?”
“Krishna was more intelligent, but he shared with Alexander his restless adventuring and conquering. While he was not as good as Alexander at the mechanics of sovereignty, he was very good at territorial acquisition. Krishna saw the world as a vast pleasure garden constructed for him. His world was full of women, battles, pleasure and music. Krishna had also a unique gift, so different from Alexander; he wrote the foundation melodies and songs for sacred music. All Indian music traces its ancestry back to Krishna. Like in Israel where all Judeo-Christian songs can be traced back to David’s psalms. Krishna invented sacred music. It was written down in his presence… and not that well… when his musician scribes recorded it.”
“Talking of conquering, back to China. How did he conquer it?”
“He went into Canton [Guangzhou] and spearheaded the conversion of much of Southern China to Hinduism which would be destroyed later by the Buddhist conversion. If you examine ruined Buddhist temples in Fujian and Canton, you can see they were Hindu originally from the existing pieces of carving. Wherever Krishna went, many Hindu Brahmins followed him to convert the population”.
“Is Krishna in the Chinese records?”
“Much is obscure as I look for an answer… and much is destroyed. There are some tablets and scrolls not yet deciphered.”
“Well, let’s approach it another way. What do the Chinese call Krishna?”
“They call him Xi Heng [pron. Chi heng]. In old Fukinese, and Hunanese it means ‘the breath of the Immortal One’ referring to his use of a breath or chi as a flute player. This name is not associated with Krishna by scholars because they assumed it was the name of a paramount Chieftain and they had no reason to assume he was not Chinese.”
“Where was Krishna’s Indian base or his kingdom?”
“He had no real home. He was a wanderer, a traveller, moving with a small force so he could continually add further territory to the Indian empire.”
