Vedic history

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SB Canto 4

SB 4.7.9, Purport: Consciousness is carried with the transmigration of the soul. There are many instances of this in Vedic history, such as the case of Mahārāja Bharata. After quitting his body as a king, Mahārāja Bharata was transferred to the body of a deer, but he retained the same consciousness.

SB 4.28.10, Purport: From the Vedic history of creation we can understand that the first living creature was Lord Brahmā, who created the seven great sages and other Prajāpatis to increase the universal population.

SB 4.29.42-44, Purport: The Vedic histories—the purāṇas and Mahābhārata—relate human histories that extend millions and millions of years into the past.

SB Canto 9

SB 9.10.28, Purport: In Vedic history there are many instances of how one becomes godless and is condemned by the laws of nature.

Teachings of Lord Caitanya

Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 6: There are some instances of great mystics' also expanding their bodily features in different ways, but Kṛṣṇa did not expand Himself by any yoga process. Each expansion of Kṛṣṇa was a separate individual. In Vedic history, Saubhari Ṛṣi, a sage, expanded himself into eight forms by the yoga process, but Saubhari Ṛṣi remained one.

Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead

Krsna Book, Preface: As far as we, the followers of Vedic civilization, are concerned, we accept the Vedic history of the whole universe, which consists of different planetary systems, called Svargaloka, or the higher planetary system, Martyaloka, or the intermediary planetary system, and Pātālaloka, or the lower planetary system.

Krsna Book, Preface: The modern historians of this earth cannot supply historical evidences of events that occurred before 5,000 years ago, and the anthropologists say that 40,000 years ago Homo sapiens had not appeared on this planet because evolution had not reached that point. But the Vedic histories, such as the Purāṇas and Mahābhārata, relate human histories which extend millions and billions of years into the past.

Krsna Book, Chapter 87: The Vedic histories like the Purāṇas and Mahābhārata are called the fifth Veda.

Krsna Book, Chapter 89: We also find in Vedic history that if a kṣatriya king was irresponsible, sometimes a consulting board of brāhmaṇas maintained by the monarchy would dethrone him.

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Bhagavad-Gita, text 2.26, Los Angeles, December 6, 1968: So gradually, if you go up, God comes to be our original father. And we say also, God is the original father. And the history, Vedic history, also says like that.

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Lecture on SB 1.3.15 -- Los Angeles, September 20, 1972: So here is history also. This Vedic history is not that for one thousand years or two thousand years. No, not like that. One period. One millennium, Brahmā's one day, it is millions and millions of years.

Lecture on SB 5.5.2 -- Boston, April 28, 1969: Some of the rascals, they say that ten thousand years before there was no human being. So this is going on, mental speculation. But we have got Vedic history, millions and millions of years.

Lecture on SB 5.5.2 -- Boston, April 28, 1969: From Vedic history we understand that in the creation, when everything was all water, at that time, a lotus flower grew out of the abdomen of Viṣṇu and there was creation of Brahmā.

General Lectures

Speech to Indian Audience -- Montreal, July 28, 1968:: The whole planet was known as Bhārata-varṣa. That we understand from the Vedic history. And there was one king.

Lecture at Christian Monastery -- Melbourne, April 6, 1972:: Formerly, in this planet also, there was only one king, and he was ruling over all the planets. Gradually, people have divided their interests and become different nations. From Vedic history we can see...

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Morning Walk -- May 12, 1975, Perth: Amogha: Their whole idea of Indian history, of Vedic history, is completely perverted. When we say five thousand years ago Vyāsadeva compiled this in writing, they say, "There was no civilization five thousand..

1970 Correspondence

Letter to Hayagriva -- Los Angeles 9 March, 1970: Regarding your question do the Vedic histories refer to this planet only. No. Vedic history means of this universe. Our history begins from the beginning of the creation because the creation takes place with the birth of Brahma from the abdomen lotus flower of Lord Visnu.