Hare Krishna to all the devotees
All glories to srila Prabhupada
I was watching a video about how the reasons of overeating, not doing hard Labour like excercising , or how rejection is terrifying for people. As these are the programes our brain came up with to survive in precarious situation of stone age. Also stone, medivial age, is what was taught to us from starting.
but scriptures tell how even lakhs of years ago there was civilization of people.
So I want to know what are the thoughts of devotees here about the stone age and other ages. Did something like that really existed? Was it only some trible communities like there are today on some islands.
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I think they whoever they are scientists or indiana jones discovered some artifacts .. they all just theories like theory of evolution.. nothing can really be proved to you or me.. just like i cannot prove to you dont exsists its based on faith... some people have faith in theories some people have faith in god.
I watched lof of videos by this person on youtube: Cross-cultural Traces of Vedic Civilization (Radha Mohan Das - Vedic Science and history)
His got some facinating videos. I think some of the videos are bit over the top (just my opinion lol).. probably cant be proved but most seem 100 percent legit.
I think in this age out brains have become fried with junk food and netflix (tv) so we cant really see or do much 'overthinking' save except whats the next tv series to watch on amazon prime (which is crap lol),
I myself try to read a lot I have tried to not go into 'spiritual thoughts' jnana lately and just reading pastimes from 10th canto (krishna book -Prabhupada) i feel better in bhakti a little... sometimes too much over thinking about spiritual subjects makes you become a dry and angry person also.. you need Bhagavatam.
Hare Krishna,
Well stone age, bronze age and iron age as per modern method of classification depended mostly on the tools they used for cutting things or hunting etc.
But as per Vedic classification we have Satyuga, Treta Yuga and Dwapar yuga and Kaliyuga.
Satyuga is not Stone age it is Golden age. Where the people were advanced in civilization..
HOW CAN WE SAY?
Satyuga people did move from place to place just by thinking in their mind. * TELEPORTATION* Their main aim in life was attain moksh or liberation and for that they ate Kanda moola ( roots ) and fruits and leaves and lived for many years. They didn't require sharp tools like Spears and daggers made of Stone to kill animals.
But you see there are always tribal people who are animal like they exsisted in jungles and they used stone made objects as well.
Then coming to Treta Yuga ( during Rama's time) you have been mentioned in scriptures that there were well planned architecture and cities in Ayodhya and kingly robes and golden ornaments. But there is also mention that there are some tribals ( like you hear the story of tribal Shabri and tribal Kevat) there exsisted both in cities there was advanced civilizations and in also tribal people exsisted in those days too.
( maybe the tribal's were eating non veg and they were using stones or bronze articles to gather food). But we read during Rama's time bows and arrows and spears and all the astra shastras were made of metal ( could be iron ). isn't it?
Then there was this Brahmastra ( which is nothing less to an atom bomb or nuclear weapon). So, you can see at the same time there existed two types of civilizations Advanced as well as tribal people in the jungles.
Same is the case with Dwapar yuga too. Krishna time we are well aware of the Pushpak vimana and other flying objects ( like our UFO's and flying cars that we are making now) but again in the jugles there are always these tribal people who were using spears daggers made of some metal.
So modern day simple classification is also seen in those days in the tribal sect but again advanced civilization in the cities of kings and rulers ( like Dwaraka and Ayodhya ) also exsisted.
As per what we get to know from scriptures is-
Satyuga people travelled from place to place just by thinking in mind (teleportation) even astra travel to different planets Like ( we see rishis's teleported themselves suddenly went to visit Indraloka and brahmaloka etc).
In Treta Yuga people were doing Yajna and did astral travel. ( some sages like Vishwamitra etc.) still did teleportation by using their mind, some of them were using Pushpak Vimana ( like our Ravana) some moved by chariots and horses.. tribes moved across using bullock carts.
So, you can see there is advanced civilization co- existed along with the tribal masses.
Coming to Dwapar yuga the some sages still did teleportation ( who considerably were very less during this time except some sages like Narada, Vyasdeva etc. ) but majorly the transportation was chariots and vimanas and horses ...and again the tribals used spears draggers made of stone to iron or bronze articles. all were in vogue.
So we cannot for sure say there are three ages stone age, bronze age and iron age..
You can see in Satyuga there were so much highly advanced people.
You are able to see now with the development of Computers and AI and Internet we can talk to people see them from other end of the world. ( Like teleportation) just at a click of a button. We call ourselves modern but then in Satyuga they were simply transported to the other end of the world just by thinking in mind no need for any gadgets also.
So, as per that who is most advanced? we or Satyugi's?
So, the classification Stone age, bronze age and iron age is not applicable to Satyuga, treta and dwapar and kaliyuga at all.
Hare Krishna