Varuna's Umbrella

Prince Meghaváhana could “Walk on Water” 

Under Varuna’s Umbrella

 7th Lecture in the “Tolerant God” Series

(As Researched and Experienced by Dr. Bob Holt, MD)

       Matthew 12:22 “Then was brought unto him [Jesus, Meghaváhana, Yuzu Asaph, Saint Issa] one possessed with a devil [a believer in Jehovah, perhaps a Pharisee, perhaps Matthew himself, a Sadducee], blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.”

      In our last lecture we demonstrated that such a statement could have other meanings besides the obvious meaning of a literal miracle.   Religious blindness, and inability to speak the truth can also qualify as the correct meaning.

       Matthew 12:23 “And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?”   Here on the first level of meaning, this can be paraphrased, “Is not this just an ordinary man of the lineage of King David?” [How then can he perform such miracles?]

On the second level, that of “Gospel Pesher”, the meaning is that Jesus is the Essene Messiah, eligible to be king because he was of the proven lineage of David.   And Matthew in chapter one of his gospel gives his version of this proof, beginning with verse one.

        Matthew 1:1 “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.”

     On the third level of “Bible Codes”, which I have called “Beyond Gospel Pesher”, which demonstrates that Jesus lived at Taxila, in Pakistan, the relationship of Jesus to David, and that he was of Jewish descent, is still very important.   Even more important because Jesus was never declared to be a “god” in India, Pakistan, and Kashmir as he was in the Western Word in the time of Constantine the Great [4th century AD].    Indeed it is the most important fact about him in the book Kings of Kashmira.   As Prince Meghaváhana, he was related to a former Kashmir ruler named Yudhishthira [Jewish, Judah] who we can determine was indeed of the line of King David [through David’s son Nathan].  

      Luke 3:23 “And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being, (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, ---- 31 Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David---

       By going back to read the Old Testament story of King David, and all his wives, it is possible to determine that David had more than one surviving child with Bathsheba, his last and possibly favorite wife.   He began his relationship with Bathsheba after watching her take a bath in her back yard, and knowing her to be married to Uriah the Hittite, one of his soldiers, he committed adultery with her.  When she told David she was pregnant, David tried to get her husband to sleep with her, so Uriah could claim the child.   When this plan failed, David arranged for Uriah to die in battle, then married the pregnant Bathsheba.   That first child died as an infant, but Bathsheba went on to bear David more children, of which two were Solomon, who succeeded David and King, and Nathan.  As the result of my discovery of Jesus’ Kashmir historic beginnings, I am proposing that Yudisthira, a former king of Kashmir, was a descendent of King David’s son Nathan, and that this is the reason that Luke is able to give us the genealogy resented in Luke chapter 3.   Jewish genealogies were kept in the temple in Jerusalem.  Many were destroyed during the repeated attacks on Jerusalem by foreign invaders, so it was a great advantage to the family of Joseph, the father of Jesus, that his genealogy was preserved all the way back to Nathan and King David in Kashmir.   A land that was not subject to the repeated attacks that Israel and Jerusalem had been subject to.

          Kings of Kashmira,” page 33.”Godpaditya, the king of Gandhara, in the hope of conquering Kashmira, had given shelter to the great grand-son of Yudhishthira.  This exiled prince had a son named Meghaváhana, whom his father sent to the country of East Yotisha to be present at the Sayamvara marriage of the daughter of its king who was a Vishnuvite; and he had the fortune of being selected as the husband of the princess.

       He was also presented with an UMBRELLA, which was got from VARUNA by king Naraka and which CAST ITS SHADE ON NONE BUT A PARAMOUNT KING.

      This connection gave him some importance in the eyes of the people who believed that he would one day rise to power.   And after his return with his wife to his father, the ministers of Kashmira invited him to accept the septre of their country, he being the descendent of their ancient king. ---“

     Page 36 “After the resignation and retirement of the late king (Sandhimati), the ministers who presided over the council of the people, went to Gandhara, and brought with them the renowned Meghaváhana, whom they crowned king; and who afterwards proved to be a good and kind-hearted sovereign; and the expectations that were entertained of him were fully realized.

      His tenderness for animal life was even greater than that of a Buddhist high priest.  He FORBADE THE SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS in his kingdom, and as compensation to the hunters who lived by killing animals, he paid them money.---

     “This prince led an expedition to compel other kings to DESIST FROM KILLING ANIMALS; and carried his arms to the sea, and even to Ceylon, making the subdued kings promise not to KILL ANIMALS.”

   “We are ashamed to relate the history of this GOOD KING to vulgar men--- The king died after a reign of thirty four years.’

 

Meghaváhana, who “Walked on Water”

 “Kings of Kashmira”  APPENDIX D  Page vi

    “The stories that are related of King Meghaváhana, are as follows: -- One day when he was walking, he heard a cry near him of “thief thief,” and he also heard the voice of weeping.  “Who is there, kill the thief,” said the king in anger; after which the crying ceased, but he saw not the thief.    Two or three days after when he went out to ride, some two or three beautiful women came to him for help.   The kind-hearted king stopped his horse, and heard what they had to say.   They made their obeisance and said; “O merciful king!  Since thou hast begun to reign, who shall fear the oppression of other men?   Once, when the sky was covered with clouds, and the peasants were afraid of a hail storm and anxious to protect their fields of ripened corn, they got angry with the Nagas who were our husbands and raised the cry of ‘thief’.   You heard it and ordered that they should be killed, and they were bound with ropes.   Now have mercy on us and on them.”   The king smiled and ordered them to be released.  The Nagas, thus freed, bowed to the king and went away with their wives.”

     NOTE BY DR. ROBERT F. HOLT, MD:   Here one must understand who the “Nagas” were.   They were the “Nature Gods” that reigned over the primitive peoples of Kashmir before the Elohim took over.  The CLUES here are Numerology and Astrology.    The cry of ‘thief thief” stands for 2000 years, two millenniums.   The “Nagas” or “Nature Gods” were bound with ropes for 2000 years, an entire “Age”.   Specifically the “Age of Pisces”.   Jesus set them free again in the “Age of Aquarius”.

     Another CLUE that the “Age of Pisces” is indicated is the WEEPING OF THE WOMEN.   During the “Age of Pisces” women had no rights, even in the Christian Church.    Saint Paul began the suppression, and priests and popes have carried it on.   And in the Muslim world it has been even more severe.    But Jesus Christ in this first story heard the pleas of the women, freed them to live with their husbands (the Nature Gods) once more.    “New Age” freedom of religion.

         Appendix D Page vi. It is related that in an expedition which this king led against others, he meditated when his soldiers were sleeping at ease under the palm trees, how he could conquer the island before him.”

        NOTE BY DR. ROBERT F. HOLT, MD:  “Here the scene is reminiscent of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, sweating blood while his disciples slept.   What Jesus was about to “conquer” was the future.   To “save” mankind by his crucifixion.  Thus armed with this similarity, we can understand the issues in this Indian story.

        “While thus thinking, he heard a cry from the seaside forest exclaiming ‘Even in the reign of Meghaváhana this man is killed.’  Grieved to hear this the king went to the spot taking with him an umbrella; and there he saw a hunter chief killing a man before the temple of Chandi.” 

    NOTE BY DR. ROBERT F. HOLT, MD: “Taking with him an umbrella” signifies TIME/SPACE travel.   Into the past first.  What is described is the sacrifice by Abraham of Isaac (or Ishmael in the Muslim version of the story).    Chianti is here Jehovah or Allah.

    “‘Fie on your wicked act,’ said the king to the hunter,’ you do not know what may betide you.’” 

     NOTE BY DR. ROBERT F. HOLT, MD: Here Meghavahana, as Jesus Christ, is echoing the Essene aversion to killing animals as well as humans.  They refused to take part in the temple sacrifices at Herod’s temple in Jerusalem.   Not only this, but Jesus is forecasting  that this whole “Favoritism towards Isaac scene” will cost the Jews dearly later on.  Which it has!

     “The hunter became afraid, and replied that his child was lying at the point of death, and aheavenly voice had proclaimed that if he sacrificed the man before the shrine of Chandi his child would be saved.”

      NOTE: Here we have the long period of Temple Sacrifices up until Herod’s Temple was destroyed, The TIME/SPACE umbrella has carried Meghaváhana-Jesus far beyond his time to 70-73 AD. Supposedly Jesus died in 33 AD and Meghaváhana died in 59 AD.   The temple was not destroyed until 70 AD. 

      “For a long time he offered no sacrifice, and hence his child was dying, and his many friends also would die, for the child was the life for all.   ‘You protect the helpless, and why do you not protect the child whose death many will lament.’   When the king heard the words of the hunter and looked on the suppliant look of the man who was being sacrificed, he thus said ‘Hear O! hunter, I will protect both you and your child and its many friends, as also this friendless man.  Here I offer myself a sacrifice before the goddess, kill me without fear, and let them both live.”

        NOTE: The “long time” with “no sacrifice” is the 1850+ years that the temple was destroyed and the Jews were banned from Jerusalem.  Finally, in 1948 they again had a homeland in Israel.  Meanwhile, Christ’s ‘death” protected both the man that was supposed to be sacrificed and the child that would otherwise die.  The “child that was dying” is the age-old Jewish hope for a Messiah to save them.  Jesus did not save them, but “saved” the Gentiles.    The many others, the child’s friends, that will die if the child dies, are the Jews who died in the Jewish holocaust.  The “friendless man” is the Gentile world.

      “Astonished at this great self-sacrifice of the king, the hunter replied ‘ your mercy, O! king, has got the better of your reason; why should you disregard your valuable life which should be saved at the cost of the three worlds?   Kings should not care for pride or fame or virtue or wealth or friends or wives or sons when their own life is in danger. Therefore have no mercy on this man.   If you live, your subjects as well as my son will live.”

      NOTE: This betrays the real truth of the situation.   Obviously Jesus did not die in 33 AD, or was resuscitated, or he could not have ruled as King Meghaváhana of Kashmir until 59 AD, 26 years after his supposed death in Judea in the spring of 33 AD!

     “To this the king who was willing to offer himself a sacrifice thus replied; ‘What do you know of justice, you who dwell in the forests; the inhabitants of the deserts know not the pleasure of bathing in the Ganges.”

      NOTE: “You who dwell in the forests” signifies Europeans (France, Germany, Great Britain), and the later “New World” of the Americas.   The “inhabitants of the deserts” are the Essenes in the Wilderness of Judea.  Those who know the pleasure of bathing in the Ganges are the Kasmiris and Indians.

      “Do you, O! fool, oppose my attempt to buy immortal glory with this mortal body?

     NOTE: As with the reference to the “Garden of Gethsemane” prayer of Jesus while his disciples slept, this refers to a Gospel story also.   That his disciples, and especially Peter counseled Jesus not to go to Jerusalem and be crucified.

      “Speak no more, if you feel hesitation to strike me, cannot I do so with my own sword?’  Thus saying he drew his sword, and when he was at the point of striking himself, his hand was stayed by a heavenly being, and his head was crowned with flowers.  And he saw not the goddess nor the hunter nor the victim nor the child.”

      NOTE: Jesus was not allowed to die, or even kill himself.   But his “punishment” or “sacrifice” was to watch his disciples and children die, some of them by torture.   After this he was “crowned with flowers” in Kashmir.  Thus, as in the Abraham-Isaac scene that starts this story, God stays the hand of the one who would sacrifice his son.  

Varuna "the one who encompasses the whole world" is one of the oldest Vedic deities. He is the personification of the sky and is also associated with clouds and water, rivers and ocean. He sustains life by giving rain and crops.  He has a thousand eyes and oversees the whole world.    In some of  the temples he is depicted as riding on a crocodile.   In two of his four arms, he holds a serpent and the noose (pasa). Sometimes he is pictured as riding in a chariot drawn by seven swans and holding the lotus, the noose, the conch and a vessel of gems in the four hands with an umbrella over his head.

      “A divine personage introduced himself to the king as Varuna.  He said that the umbrella which stood over the king’s head was captured by the king’s father-in-law named Rauma from his city in former times.  ‘Without the umbrella,’ said Varuna, ‘our subjects are subjected to endless dangers.  Therefore, before taking back this umbrella, I have tested your kindness, and this magical show was my own creation.’ 

       NOTE BY DR. ROBERT F. HOLT, MD: Here one needs a knowledge of the Sumerian Gods, the Anunaki or Elohim, obtainable in English now in Zechariah Sitchin’s many books (Avon).   The Anunaki used their spacecraft not only to maintain their superiority and rule over primitive humans, but also to fight each other in wars (called the “Wars of the Gods” by Sitchin, that went on for millennia.   Here it is made clear that “Varuna’s Umbrella” refers to space-craft.

     “The king then delivered the umbrella to Varuna and also offered prayers to him, and said that ‘even the kalpa tree was not equal to good beings.  For the tree gave blessings when asked, while the good gave benefits unasked.   If you had not asked for the umbrella for the benefit of your subjects, but had taken it for your own use, your act would not have been righteous.  Charitable men do not favor their dependents by halves, a tree gives shade as well as fruits.”

       NOTE:  Here is the only part of this long series of “stories” connected to King Meghaváhana that has no “Pesher” meaning.    Traditional Indian proverbs, perhaps completely interjected by Kahlana.      “Urged by my dependents I ask for some favor.   With your favor I have conquered the whole earth, now advise me how I can cross the ocean to the island.’  

When Jesus as King Meghaváhana made this request of the ancient Vedic deity Varuna, he was asking it of "the one who encompasses the whole world". " The personification of the sky and who was also associated with clouds and water, rivers and ocean.   The one wih a thousand eyes who oversees the whole world.    The one sometimes  pictured as riding in a chariot drawn by seven swans and  with an umbrella over his head. Note how similar this picture is to that on the mural but with Lord Shiva in the place of Varuna, and the cone-shaped space-craft the "umbrella".

       NOTE: Here we are combining TIME/SPACE travel with Astrology.   With “Varuna’s” help Jesus as King Meghaváhana has conquered the ancient world of Essene Judea and of India.   And is destined to conquer the Roman Empire as well.  Through Constantine and the Roman Catholic Church.  Now he wants to conquer the “Age of Aquarius” across the “Sea” of the “Age of Pisces”..

     “Then replied Varuna that ‘if you wish to cross the sea I will make the water hard.’   The king acknowledged the favor when the god disappeared with the umbrella.  On the next day, the king crossed the hardened sea with his astonished army.”

       NOTE: Here it is acknowledged that Jesus did, indeed, visit our time at the end of the “Age of Pisces” and the beginning of the “Age of Aquarius”.    In doing so he fulfilled his promise to Christians to “return at the End of the Age” (John 14:1-3 and other texts) and also fulfilled the Messianic promises to Israel in the Old Testament (May 1948 to 1967 and beyond).    The image of “walking on the water” is used here to definitely identify Meghaváhana as Jesus!  

      Appendix D Page viii. “It is said that some time after he had forbidden the killing of animals, a Brahmana took his dead son and came to the king’s door and began to weep.   He said that as he had given no sacrifice to Durga who wanted some, his only son had died of fever that day.  ‘If you do not save my son O! king! By permitting the sacrifice of a living being I shall hold thee as the cause of the child’s death.  Say thou O! chief of men!  If there is no difference between the life of a Brahmana and that of a beast.”

    NOTE In this story, which repeats the Pesher meaning and symbolism of the earlier story, at least lip service is paid to the ethical difficulties of preserving animal lives when humans may suffer thereby.  

     “Those kings are dead, O! mother earth! Who killed even Rishis to save Brahmanas.’   When the Brahmanna had said these and other harsh words through grief, the king thought that he had resolved not to kill animals, and asked himself if he should not break his vow for the Brahmana.”

     NOTE: Here other Indian traditions are cited in which men died to save other men.   Certainly it makes more sense for an animal to die to save his son.    The Brahmana is here accusing Jesus of allowing the Brahmana’s son to die so that Jesus could keep his own vow.  Thus Jesus would be responsible for the death of the Brahmana’s son. 

     “‘But if he dies for me,’ he thought, ‘I shall be guilty of greater sin, my mind is in doubt, nor can it choose either alternative, like the flower which falls in the whirl-pool here many currents meet.  Therefore, by sacrificing myself, I shall satisfy Durga, I shall save the life of the Brahmana and of his son, as well as keep my promise.’  

     NOTE: Here we are in a deeper quandary  than is apparent by a surface reading.   The deeper question is the apparent responsibility of God (or the gods) for the evil things that happen on this earth.   Surely they have the power to intervene and alter history.  Why don’t they do this?   Part of the answer is attempted in the story (the flower caught in the whirl-pool).    Who can tell, even of the “gods”, the outcome of such an intervention?   In this current “case”, if Jesus decides to overturn his rule against killing animals to save this one person’s son, others will also want the same rule to be over-ruled in their favor.   And after animals, men will be killed.  Wars, crime, and disease will again be rampant in Kashmir and India, and soon it will be as if King Meghaváhana had never been born or ruled.  In a word, Kashmir will no longer be “Heaven on Earth”.  

       “Thus determining he dismissed the Brahmana, promising to revive his son the next day.  In the night, when the king was going to sacrifice himself, Durga prevented him from so doing, and brought the Brahmana’s dead son to life again.”

      NOTE: Not only does this refer us once again to the many healings by Jesus in the Gospels, (and raising ordinary people from the dead), but it also leaves the question unanswered of how the “gods” can intervene or change their rules without adversely affecting history.    Leaving the “ball in our court”.  Which, indeed, it really is!    A further symbolic meaning here is connected to “the next day”.   It is “during the night” (the “Age of Pisces”) that Jesus’ sacrifice has effect.    The “next day” (the “Age of Aquarius”) the Brahmana’s son (other traditional religions besides Islam, Judaism, and Christianity) come to life again.  

     This story, and the “Pesher” interpretation of it here given by Dr. Robert F. Holt, MD, MPH is supported by a stone mural carving recently excavated by unknown excavators, then photographed by Sue Olsson in Phalgam, Kashmir late in 2001 or early in 2002. 

   

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THE A,B,Gs of LOVE

SHEOL and Noah's Flood

The Invisible ESSENES

1844-End of the World

ADAM and EVE Myth

Sodom and Gomorrah

TIME-TRAVELER

Destroyer of Ages

 

If you have read the above SUMMARY of the Kashmir traditions of LORD SHIVA

and at least SOME of the eight topics with LINKS above, you MIGHT be ready for

SOME or ALL of the TOPICS with links below (Definitely HERETICAL to most!)

VARUNA'S UMBRELLA

PRAVARASENA I (Jesus Again)

YHWH and SHIVA compared

FATHER-MOTHER GOD