The Nine Unknown
The Nine Unknown
The Nine Unknown
Ashoka (270.BCE) was one of the greatest Indian Emperors, he wanted to be the
only ruler of India. He continued the legacy of his great grandfather
Chandragupta Maurya. He went on conquering many parts of India to bring them
under his rule. It was a cakewalk for him until he tried to conquer Kalinga (The
present day Orrissa). The people of Kalinga resisted this invasion, they fought a
valiant battle to defend their land , they could not be intimidated by the huge
armies of Ashoka. Finally Ashoka won the battle which cost the lives of 1,00,000
men !
The scenes of death and destruction moved Ashoka so much that he decided to
never wage a battle again. He got himself converted into the religion of Buddha.
At the same time, he decided that all the weapons of war and all knowledge that
can cause destruction should be hidden from the view of the people. [I guess only
a few people could read at that time and fewer still had the complete knowledge
of science and hence it was easy to conceal information]
He created a secret society called “The Nine Unknown” , a group of nine people
who would have access to all knowledge and also develop it but would ensure
that it did not get into the wrong hands. “The Nine Unknown” is one of the oldest
secret societies in existence as we know and their aim was “to preserve and
develop knowledge that would be dangerous to humanity if it fell into the wrong
hands”. The nine people were supposedly well versed in 9 fields, the fields are as
follows :-
Each of The Nine Unknown supposedly have a book each; which contains
complete information on the field assigned to them.
J.C.Bose, and Vikram Sarabhai, the man behind the Indian space and missile
defense programs are speculated to have been members of the Nine but the
society is so secretive that no on even knows if it exists at all.
The Nine are also supposedly responsible for the creation of the Cholera vaccine,
when the scientist from Germany came to India he is supposed to have been
given instructions by the Nine Unknown on how to make the vaccine and he did
it. They did this because among the priorities assigned to them,they were to look
after the well-being of the world.
So, what this means is that ancient India did have an advanced science which
was curtailed and put under wraps by Ashoka after seeing the bloodshed it could
produce. The job of developing and knowing the science was given to 9 people
who were to add to the knowledge but would not let it go into the wrong hands.
This explains why we haven't seen any mass-destructive offensive or defensive
equipment by our ancestors for at least the past 2000years which left us open for
attacks by the barbarians of the North West.
Ashoka may have wanted us to abstain from war because of the destruction it
could produce. Moreover since he was spreading Buddhism, a religion of peace all
over the globe, he may not have apprehended any danger of wars.
This explains why we didn't inherit much super-knowledge from our ancestors.
We weren't meant to know it as it would be dangerous to one and all.
Post script: (How I ended up with this article). I was searching the Internet for secret Indian societies , but the results
repeatedly pointed to something called “the nine Unknown”. A little more searching revealed that it was started by Ashoka
etc. I have referred the following pages and also added my own inputs to write this article.
References:
Wikipedia
Sanskrit texts