 The image that is being shown to you right now is 18,000 BC, that means about 20,000 years ago. There are images of homes or buildings built in triangular forms which are over 8,000 years, that's 6,000 BC in places like Romania. There are skeletal images of… to leave your body with your legs crossed in a proper Siddhasana posture. Now in Lebanon, this is a classic representation of Guru Pooja Stone. This is very important to understand that it is in the last twelve to fifteen thousand years that the longing to know got organized and found an organized expression through various systems of yoga. It's fantastic to see that this goes back right up to the time of the Adiyogi. If we want to look for physical proof, still there's a little bit of physical proof left around the world suggesting these things. I'm not some kind of an archaeologist or an expert in this matters. But you will see some of the things that we will look at today will intrigue anyone and set us thinking. We cannot call this one hundred percent proof, but it suggests a few things. What is this all about? Why this has to be connected to Saptarishis? Because it's a particular way of looking at life. When I say particular way of looking at life, it is not about someone's opinion, but it is about an internal reflection of the cosmos, an internal understanding of the nature of creation and a very internalized understanding of human being and the making of a human being and every other creature on this planet. When I say internal, I am talking about in contrast with modern science, which observes everything from outside and gone quite deep into its observation today as to how the physical creation has happened. It is in no way in contradiction with the inner way of looking, it is just that it starts at a different end. It's like if you start looking at a tree from the top, your understanding of the tree will be one way. If you start looking at a tree from its roots, your understanding of the tree will be completely different. Only when a meeting point happens somewhere, they look similar. Today we are coming to a place in the history of modern science and in the development of modern science where mysticism and modern science are beginning to look similar. So this exploration today will be important in that sense and as I said, it is… this is not an archaeology lesson for you, but it's just to show you that there have been many suggestions to show that the origin of this is Adiyogi and from him how it could have reached various places. Within myself I know it did, but you don't have to go by my experience of life because somebody else's experience can never be yours. But here is a little bit of physical proof going around. This whole process of Adiyogi and transmission of this way of knowing started in the region that today we refer to as Manasarovar and Kailash. And from there it spread to places, in different spaces they went. There are many references to the Seven Sages, particularly in Central Asia, Turkey, Romania, as far as Northern Africa, Arabia, there are continuous references to Seven Sages and the tradition, even today it is. And you will see in Arabia in places like Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Sudan, in all these places, even today popular restaurants are named as Seven Sages. So that is how much prevalent it is even today. When you ask these people who the Seven Sages are, nobody knows who the Seven Sages are in the common knowledge of the people, but from generation to generation for thousands of years the idea of Seven Sages coming from the East, Seven Wisemen coming from the East is still very much prevalent in most of the cultures out there. For example, you will see the images of snake worship going back right up to 18,000 BC in places like Siberia and Central Asia. These are very rudimentary images you must understand because they are so rudimentary not because the people who made these things were rudimentary in their mind, but because the tools available to do this was rudimentary. Nobody can ever dig up the whole planet to find out if there are more sophisticated expressions of this. It is just that when you spread a message just everybody may start doing things. The image that is being shown to you right now is 18,000 BC that means about 20,000 years ago. The approximate date that we established for Adiyogi's presence in this region is somewhere between 40 to 60,000 years ago. You might have heard that many times I've been saying it is 15,000 years ago because for 15,000 years we have solid physical proof iconographic proof which is over 12,000 years old. Because of that we've been saying 15,000 but when I have spoken long time ago, 10, 12 years ago I've always spoken in terms of 40 to 60,000 years ago because in the yogic culture that is how it is seen but today without a proof if you say something it'll become meaningless in the world because of that we have brought down the date to 12 to 15,000 years. Here is a 18,000 BC which is 20,000 years ago. They made calendars which is purely the yogic form of calendar. You will see in India any number of pictures like this. Here is this third image or the first image which is made into a diagram in the third phase is three sets of spirals. The central set of spirals and the lower set together represents the solar cycle calendar which is 364 days which is the year that we follow even today. And the upper set refers to 354 days which is the lunar cycle of the calendar which is what the Hindu calendar follows even today. And a combination of these two which is today being referred to as loony solar calendar. This is 20,000 years old and somebody cannot arrive at this without an inner perspective. Just by observation of the outside one cannot arrive at a calendar like this which is this is a very sophisticated manifestation of the calendar. If you if this is written in braille even if a blind person puts his hands around he will know which day which day of the year it is which day of the month it is and which face of the moon it is all these things can be found out just by touching the rock or looking at it. And along with that comes snake worship which is the three snakes going up. This is a representation of Eda, Pingala and Shushumna the three channels within the body. So this is a very yogic expression. India is full of these kind of images. This was found in Siberia which is dated as 18,000 BC right now by the archaeologists. There are images of homes or buildings built in triangular forms which are over 8,000 years that 6000 BC in places like Romania. Eastern Europe and Central Asia is full of these kind of possibilities. If you look at the geometric perfection of how it is done, this is the basic form of Yantra. Triangular block in Isha Yoga Center is built exactly like this. Unfortunately we are not 8,000 BC we are now we built this only about 22 years ago and they built a perfect Yantra shaped building for whatever purposes that they were doing this. Obviously these are aligned properly to the eastern direction and these directions are adjusted to either equinox or solstice usually. Our own buildings like Dhyanalinga and Triangular block are adjusted to the equinox because equinox is significant for me in my perception of life that is 23rd of September is a equinox and because my understanding of everything comes from the equinox, I adjusted it to the equinoxes, some of them adjusted to solstice. For the Saptarishis solstice must have been definitely be a most important aspect of their life because it is on that day for them Adiyogi opened up the doors for them. So if you go on like this there are any number of possibilities as we go further to Turkey, to further down to Mesopotamian region, Greece, Crete, further down to places like Lebanon and North Africa you will see geographically every place has something to say where the influence is yogic in its nature and a whole lot of them going back way back to like 12,000, 13,000 years. For example we can see here in Turkey which is dated as 10,000 BC. This is a very typically Indian image in the terms of a linga or a head with a snake climbing on it because this is the yogic symbolism of a human being's inner potential being aroused or it is the symbolism of Kundalini. Similar images are found as far as South America in Peru, in Ecuador, in that region. One must understand most of these things have been either destroyed by age and the natural processes that happen on the earth in terms of earthquakes and other events that happened. At the same time they've also been systematically destroyed by certain forces in the last you know 2,000 years or so. Systematic destruction of anything which was considered pagan happened in many areas and either buried or broken or destroyed or used as material to build other buildings that they wish to build. In spite of that there is substantial evidence spreading across the planet showing that the influence of the seven sages, the yogic culture and the science of yoga are manifesting itself in so many ways. We must understand the proof that we are talking about according to today's archaeological substance is only the physical proof. Today you are doing yoga in United States. Suppose a thousand years later somebody wants to find out how, how will they find yoga in you? So there will be no proof in your home, there will be no proof anywhere that you are practicing yoga in your life. So it is only when we manifest something which is physical, which is made in such a way that it will last forever, only then we can talk about it. But even for this we can show, we can see that thousands of years ago people practicing yoga, they lived and died in yogic postures. There are skeletal images of people sitting in, see that could be you when you were doing your Shambhavi Mahamudra you happened to die or you attain enlightenment and you, you are conscious enough to leave your body with your legs crossed in a proper siddhasana posture. See here somebody died doing Shambhavi or they died in a siddhasana posture some eight thousand years ago in Romania. And if this one person did this, I am sure this is not the only person who did this. It, there must have been a whole culture of this dimension. And there are any number of images showing people sitting in yogic postures. This is usually the representation of Pashupati as one dimension of Adiyogi that is he is the Pashupati. They called him Pashupati because all the life forms are claimed to a certain genealogy and because he exhibited or he demonstrated how everything comes from the same source and that source is nothingness and he is a representation of that. Because of that he was called as Pashupati and also because when he, when he sat in certain states it is, it is something that people have witnessed that all kinds of creatures gathered around him. Because all of them gathered around him people saw him as a lord of all creatures and he is the Pashupati. This is a representation of that. A repetition of these images across the planet in various forms and in various different manifestations of art has found expression in cave arts going as far back as eight, ten thousand years. And when I say cave paintings and arts you must understand today your child is drawing something in your house and sticks it on the wall and if somebody finds it ten, fifteen thousand years later the chances of finding it how remote it is that is how remote it is for us to find those things. They might have done a million artworks, we may find one or we may not. So in spite of that so much has been found we can go on like this in various places all these manifestations. But the more recent ones would be a certain tribe of people who identified themselves as Minoans. It's called the Minoan culture or they were also called as Manus in Germany and in German language the word Manus means the first man which has been the essential representation in India Manu is referred to as the first man or the man. Manu is not a person, Manu is the man like people refer to Adam in the west. Manu is a man or the origin of the man. When we say a man that does not exclude a woman we are talking we are referring to a human being as a man. It is somewhere down the line that the usage became like this when societies became more and more patriarchal and man oriented. The the word that was used to describe a human being started describing only a man and they had to find another word to describe the female of the species. In Minos in Crete which is a Greek island today and Manu in India in many ways go parallel in their descriptions and the way things are described. The manifestation the now that we are looking at these Saptarishis as being the transmitters of Adiyogi's teaching naturally wherever they went the representation of the snake the bull and the form of the linga manifested itself. You will see in places like Ireland in very strong representation of the linga worship. The people in Brittany when I say Brittany in France a region which is called Brittany and when I happened to be in Brittany they were very excited and they took me to a temple which is supposed to be 6000 years old where they were still worshipping the four elements and they said we came from northern Gangetic plain and it is our brothers who went to the island which today is known as Britain. He said this is real Brittany. So this goes on endlessly there's a whole lot of pictures we could show you and there's a whole lot of material which may be a little too much for you to digest in this little time that we have but we will just run through these pictures for you to just see for yourself to make out I will not really say much about it but just look through this just see how intriguing and wonderful it is that going way back the oldest picture that we have is dated as twenty thousand years ago here is Ireland you see this snake symbolism which is typically typically yogic and here is the worship of Linga and the three this spiral which is the cosmic representation or it is the manifestation of what we call as the saligram the inside of the saligram is made like this is the the image of the anionite is used as saligram because that is the representation the yogic representation of the cosmic galaxies this is 2000 bc these spirals this has been one of our thing to build an underground spiral like this in the Indian yoga center we've still not managed to do this as a process of meditation to go through the spiral if you go through a dark spiral like this if at the end of it you will naturally become meditative we've been wanting to build a proper spiral geometrically correct spiral which only that bottom corner one is the right one but we are yet to do it here is zeus worship as a serpent the serpent worship is very deep rooted in in every culture on the planet of course you must have seen the naga temple in the yoga center this is the image that we have today in the yoga center but somewhere around 700 bc a jewish king ordered that all snake temples must be destroyed because for whatever his own reasons so systematically these things were broken in that region otherwise the whole of arabia eastern europe northern africa south america were full of snake worship and temples were snake worship wherever anybody connected with adiyogi goes naturally the manifestation of snake and snake worship would be there even today the modern medical sciences using spiral snakes mesopotamia you see many images of this you must see this in turkey and iraq region there are plenty of broken parts of snake worship the symbol of commerce even today is spiral snake with seven meeting places the symbol of health is three and a half spirals of the snake which is something that we are using in so many ways dhyanalinga is seven pointed spiral and the devi bairavi is a three and a half spiral this is how these images are made this is a physical representation this could be manifested in so many different ways this is common knowledge biblical knowledge that moses used a copper snake or a brass snake to cure people of various things and this snake worship continued at some point even jesus spoke something about snake worship that is there is a statement by jesus about snake worship or a brass this thing because in the in the language of that region the word snake and the word brass are very similar sounding so somewhere i don't know the exact place but those in america should know this better the rising of the man is the rising of the snake this is clearly a yogic statement that the rising of the kundalini is the ultimate rising of the human being because without raising your energy to a higher dimension the evolution of a human being or thinking that a human being is genuinely changing is a illusory process because whatever changes you make in your attitude and your intentions are purely psychological and they can be washed away in a moment if you lose your mind you would have lost it but the raising of the human being is only when the energy the latent energy which we refer to as kundalini which is clearly represented as a coiled up snake in the yogic system it is only in the raising of that there is a permanent transformation in a human being this is a statement made by jesus in the bible saying that the rising of the snake is the rising of the man or the rising of the man is the rising of the snake so these are all different things which says the influence of the yogic system goes right back to eighteen twenty thousand years in terms of archaeological proof and there is really no part of the planet i think the only place they did not go is north pole and south pole maybe in the eskimo culture it does not exist literally everywhere else some influence of this is seen and it has spread across and all this done without any kind of compulsiveness without any kind of force only by showing the significance of what it is and there are beautiful representations of more sophisticated manifestation of yogic culture particularly in middle east or west asia as we call it here particularly this particular stone that you're seeing is the guru puja stone when i went to balbek which is part of the finnishian temple which was built in now in lebanon when i happened to visit this place about ten years ago the moment i saw this stone which is the guru puja stone with sixteen offerings with the room for sixteen offerings even today when we do guru puja it is called a show to show pachara that means sixteen ways of inviting a guru sixteen ways of making it happen this is a classic representation of guru puja stone you will find an exact exactly similar stone in uttarkashi you will find the stones in in banaras you will find the stones in southern india in various temples the triangle the manifestation of the stone in in the way it is done is geometrically one hundred percent correct this cannot be done by anybody other other than somebody who is steeped in yogic sciences and this must be about four thousand five hundred to five thousand years old in intact even today in lebanon lebanese children in their schools study and they know from history that indian indian sculptors indian labor indian elephants came to work on the finnishian temples if all these people went if the labor went the sculptors went and the elephants went how would the yogis not be there they would be the forerunners of this whole process and you will see in balwak temple there's another image of lotuses in the ceiling obviously this is a clear indian art sneaking into finnishian temple because the sculptors from india the first thing that they learn is to make a lotus it's the simplest manifestation of sculpting and they put it in the ceiling of this finnishian temple almost four thousand two four thousand five hundred to five thousand years ago the people in that region would have definitely not seen a lotus because no such thing exists there but you will see lotuses hanging from the ceiling this is a lotus inside anahata symbol in the ceiling of the finnishian temple the sun temple in lebanon which is called as balbek this is a fantastic temple it's a must-see for anybody if you ever happen to be in that region it is something that one must see it is a phenomenal manifestation of human will as to how and the inspiration that is taken from a divine contact once somebody is touched by something of the beyond your own earning of the bread or making your own name and fame doesn't arise you want to create something that manifests itself and functions beyond yourself so these ancient temples are a manifestation of that you see the symbol the yogic symbols of anahata and the blossoming of the flower it is it is across the planet in many many representations in the form of sculpture once again we must remember only that which was carved and stone and that which endured the ravages of time you see but so much of it which is in practice will never be seen unless like that skeletal representation where someone died in a yogic posture if that happens only maybe there will be proof of yoga in north america after ten thousand years so these are all various symbolisms i will not go into this this is jordan you can see a manifestation of the linga forms and the crescent moon and snakes this is very important this is a three headed bull before the first one is in samaria but we have these things in indus valley whoever fixes these dates on what basis i do not know we will go by that and this is about five thousand years where three headed bull three headed bull is a representation of the same process of the ida pingala and the shushumna represented as a bull later on evolved or parallely it also evolved into three headed snakes or three snakes these three headed bulls and there are wonderful stories going back in many ways for those of you who familiar if you happen to attend the lila program about the way krishna represented yoga there's a beautiful story about krishna taming the bull there is a whole lot of stories going back into history where this was today it is being labeled as bull jumping where people conquering the bull was not only a mash or manifestation in a society but it was also considered as a spiritual pursuit that if you conquer the bull within you that means you conquer your animal nature that is when you are delivered so these two things are very much there in krishna's life of he taming a bull and then dancing upon the hood of a snake so these two things are a symbolic representation of how he tamed animal nature within himself and arrived at a place where he's on top of a snake's hood representing that he's reached the snake has risen within him so the man has risen that is what these two stories are trying to say here is a beautiful manifestation of a linga and a yogic symbol of seven dimensions of life peaking out and the human figure in between these are different art forms trying to say the same thing so this is from the indus valley okay this is in the indian region here is a 2000 year old egyptian snake with a crescent on top of it and here what you see is the snake which is the linga bairui temple this is the symbol of infinity they representing infinite nature or cosmic arousal of energy which is which is also possible within an individual human being so this called as the arborus in today's language this happened a few years ago i was in conversation with a physicist and we had six seven hours of non-stop unbroken conversation and i was trying to demonstrate to him and if you become meditative or if you get settled in a certain way within yourself if you hold one's hand let's say nine to twelve inches above my head right now you can clearly feel the energy moving in this in this form and i said this is the this is a dimension which represents you cross the physical limitations if you hold your hand on top of anybody's head please don't go about experimenting like this and proving something about someone else but you will see the energy will always move this way the moment it has hit this form that means he's class he's crossed the physical limitations within himself when i said this and crossing physical limitations also means moving from finite to infinite it is on that day that i you know i logically connected he said the this physicist told me that this is the symbol we use for the expression of the infinite i said well this is this is from the yogic culture only someone who is known this within himself could have used that so the number system the zero and the infinite both came from the yogic culture today when you say shunya which is the zero nobody could have thought of a zero except one who's experienced that sense of emptiness and the vastness of emptiness when we say emptiness the word emptiness or nothingness naturally brings psychologically a negative connotation but emptiness means limitlessness nothingness means limitlessness nothingness also means infinite nature that can only be arrived at experientially not logically not by thought but only by experience so it is not an accident that both zero and the infinite comes from the yogic basis and that has become the basis of all modern sciences today everything that you do is between zero and infinite but crossing these two boundaries is what is considered ultimate yoga because true union happens only when you transcend the numbers numbers means finite nature only when you cross this there is a true union then only you can say something is in a state of yoga this is a coil snake this is a thousand years ago when you enter spender hall in the yoga center we have a very similar representation everybody has to walk over this because spender literally means a state of primordial energies today the same cultures are very fearful and giving negative images of snakes but the same cultures at a certain time worship snakes and because of a certain campaign snake has become evil but even that campaign is not a complete success because it contradicts itself for example if you take the story of adam and eve there was a dumb couple who did not know what to do and a snake arrived and it initiated life someone who initiates life upon this planet it's up to you whether you call him the agent of the divine or call him the agent of the devil if you're for life you would definitely call him as the agent of the divine if you're anti-life then you would call him as the agent of the devil here are our beautiful snakes cascading snakes at the entrance of jana linga temple this is the linga barabi someday maybe when i stop traveling around when i sit down in place the science behind this we can experientially manifest for those who are interested as to how all sounds are leading towards this are rooted in this dimension that is what the previous image was about these are south american manifestations of uh someone trying to build a rudimentary dhyana linga this is very interesting uh geographically today in the country that we call as peru it's called chavin this is a classic um yeah i will be uh to uh what to say it will be too arrogant for me to say it's a classic reproduction of dhyana linga site dhyana linga is a classic reproduction of this one we were not aware of this at that time but now it's really fantastic to see exactly in a say similar kind of magnetic and other kind of forces which work on the planet someone tried to establish uh a very similar uh setup of an energy center this is the plan from the top but you will see so many things which are very similar you will see uh it's very very similar in construction to the dhyana linga complex in terms of uh the plan the way we did the approaches as to how it should be to make it experientially possible for people who enter the temple when we built the dhyana linga we were not aware of these things but today people have researched into these things and found out this is a seven snakes coming out of human beings had these are all yogic representations of the rising of the kundalini this is in south america a few thousand years ago this is a an art form of a depiction of somebody using a mudra like this and initiating someone these are classic images of the gurusisha paramparaya in its own form in those cultures this is uh i don't know if you can call it a pyramid it's not a pyramid really it's somewhere in central america so on the spring equinox it leaves an image like a coil i mean like a snake going up with seven forms of bends going up only on that one day it happens uh the equinox is a tremendous possibility uh in some way they the whole effort has been to create forms which will help a human being to attain to his fullest form so various times of mechanisms were created uh some are very sophisticated some are rudimentary in nature but the effort has been there all over the world so here we are today uh seeing the impact of yogic systems across the planet whatever these images and stuff we're talking about is only what is left of in form of physical uh things but uh the impact that would have happened for example right now for most of you who are in north america or in united states for uh a few thousand people who are doing isha yoga let's say or a few million people across the world who are doing isha yoga let's say after 10,000 years where is the proof that you did yoga there may be there may be still a few stones left in dhyanalinga in case we build something in tennessee there may be a few stones left there so somebody will say after 10,000 years in two different places somebody was do seemed to be doing some yoga but a few millions people are doing and many other millions of people are doing different forms of yoga all that will not be left so similarly when you see one image like this there must have been a whole population or a generation of people or many generations of people doing this otherwise the continuity of it for the last 20,000 years uh manifesting like this would not happen unless it was an active culture across the world and which has been systematically wiped out in the last couple of thousand years for whatever reasons there is lore in south america where they're talking about people from another wherever landed there some six seven thousand years ago and suddenly tribes who were living without any uh engineering capabilities their highest level of engineering was a uh a leather tent which is called a tepi from there suddenly they started building uh constructions stone constructions which have even lasted till today uh which are masterpieces of engineering so they say the gods came from elsewhere and taught them this in the lord this is how it is i want you to just imagine six thousand years ago if somebody came floating on an ocean on whatever they floated upon and landed in your land suppose you're in indiana and somebody came floating six thousand years ago when you had not imagined anything beyond the land on which you exist they definitely would look like gods who came from elsewhere and they brought in mathematics they brought in engineering geometry and other dimensions and suddenly those who are living in tents suddenly started building constructions which are which do not you cannot culture cannot evolve from a rudimentary tent which is just put up with a piece of leather and stick to a sophisticated construction in just a short span of time it would take a whole lot of time for people to evolve that unless an input came from elsewhere the suggestions that the input came from elsewhere which uh you can call it gods or uh you can say their saptarishis or wherever they came from yes definitely they came from elsewhere everything suggests they could have only come from the east and not from anywhere else so you could assume if you wish if it if it assists your indian ego you can say these people came from india not indiana i mean india so if it is because this would be very presumptuous to say yes this is saptarishis but a lot of things indicate it could be them it would be very presumptuous for anybody to say yes this is so because there is no such thing but in my experience within myself i know these seven sages reached out to the whole world and because that was adiyogi's intention and that's how they went and there are there are more uh what to say believable stories uh at the time of mahabarath arjuna decides to see we must understand this one thing that if you go through the indian lore if you go as far back as five six thousand years ago very clearly they're talking about the planet being round in fact even today in the local languages in india when we say geography we say bhogol bhogol means study of a globe the very word is suggesting that the earth is round so this is not like whatever a few hundred years ago galilio invented that discovered that earth is round but thousands of years we've been talking about it you should see the descriptions in mahabarath where when vayu takes kunti devi he takes her across the world and for the first time she sees and realizes that the planet is round and she talks about it and she couldn't believe that actually you can go round and come back so they're talking about vayu as the god of winds who took her around she realized that the planet is round there are any number of things to suggest that people were traveling or people did travel to those parts of the world and also if you go back further eighteen thousand or twenty thousand bc uh during the ice age largely these continents were connected that people could have even walked across not necessarily gone by traveled by the sea but they could have walked across because land masses was connected one way or the other so it is possible if you look at the knowledge that suddenly they exhibited we can say definitely it is so but we don't have exact proof to say it is so