ADOPTING THE OCCULT FORCES FOR INDIAN MILITARY OPERATIONS

 

‘A true warrior with full knowledge of Dhanurveda…would be fully alert while in deep rest, completely calm and fully aware in the field of battle, all while fighting only for the highest purpose with no attachment to the outcome. They were established in being while they performed action. They were invincible on the battlefield.’ – ‘Dhanurveda’, ancient Indian treatise on ‘Shastrashastra’ or military sciences

 

‘He who enters combat, ethereally tuned to the battlefield, with elemental forces to command, is a Yodha Rishi.’ – Veteran Col RS Sidhu

 

Setting the Context

‘There is a source of madness deep within every human being which, if developed, leads to a highly evolved sixth sense of a Karma Yogi…’ – ‘SUCCESS FROM BEING MAD’ by Veteran Col RS Sidhu

…and one has to be really mad to propagate even the thought that the subject of this hypothesis is ‘an idea whose Time has come in India…’

Adopting the occult forces into military operations, currently the forte of the most powerful countries, is a force multiplier par excellence, the most intangible battle winning factor, and is yet not explored in modern wars, in the Indian context.

India in its prehistoric past, when it was renowned by the name of Bharat, possessed amidst its fold renowned ‘Rishi Yodhas’ and ‘super warriors’, adept in harnessing elemental forces of nature and employing them on the battlefield. Names of Parshuram, Dronacharya, Kripacharya, Ashwathama, Bhishma, Arjuna, Karna were enough to shock and awe the opponents into submission. Somewhere down the line the tradition of warrior saints got lost in transit, replaced by mere saints, and setting in of a pacifist mindset, resulting in the subsuming of the indigenous culture by the more powerful forces from without.

Environment Scan

“... In a more remote future, weapon systems that use different physical principles will be created (beam, geophysical, wave, genetic, psychophysical and other types of weapons).”

- Russian President Vladimir Putin in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 13 February 2012

 

In the futuristic strategic space of major powers, synthesis in the triad of artificial intelligence, nano, and bio technologies is fueling research and development of weapons that will employ elemental forces of nature, and creation of advanced ‘Bionic Super Warriors’. There is enough empirical data of this ongoing research by the more powerful countries, some of whom are inimical to the national interest of India. To know more readers may browse the references at the end.

India, owing to lack of resources and infrastructure, is lagging far behind its principal adversaries in this race. A viable alternative for India to obviate this disadvantage would be to go back into its past to develop ‘Yodha Rishis’, in the mould of ‘super warriors’ of yore, through occult practices. Unfortunately, following this path is fraught with uncertainties, by being cut off from our rich yogic heritage and the intellectual stigma involved in even proposing recourse to this initiative. In the US, the stigma attached to Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) and Psychokinesis (PK), has influenced the military to change the nomenclature of these words to ‘sensemaking’, for further ongoing studies.

Indian Occult Experiences On Battlefield Post Independence

Post-independence, in the Indian context, there are several recorded incidents of occult occurrences on the battlefield. Unfortunately, not all of them are authentically documented. Also, several of these occult incidents had to be discarded from the study as the subjects who experienced them or were eyewitness to, were hesitant to place them on record. Some of the more interesting verified occult occurrences are briefly shared below.

Late Lt Gen Hanut Singh, Maha Vir Chakra, a renowned soldier saint, as Commandant of Poona Horse, is known to have employed his considerable psychic abilities to successfully guide his tanks through an extensive enemy minefield in the Shakargarh bulge during the 1971 war.

In another instance of 1971 war, then Flying Officer AK Singh, decorated with Vir Chakra for displaying gallantry during the war, and his ‘Lions’ Squadron flying the antiquated Mysteres, lost no aircrafts in action despite being hit by enemy fire on numerous occasions during the entire war. Ashok Chauhan, and the ground crew, firmly believe that the occult spiritual routine followed by him and religiously practiced by the ground crew were the reason behind this interesting statistic.

Col Lalit Chamola, Sena Medal, veteran of Operation PAWAN and Operation RAKSHAK, had commanded 5 MARATHA LI during active anti insurgency military operations in Jammu & Kashmir. In his impactful essay ‘Meditation My Experiences of Visions (Part 2)’, he shares experiences where he put to very interesting use his psychic vision abilities to positively impact battlefield occurrences.

The Navy too has its share of known occult experience from the war. Vice Admiral N Krishnan,   C-in-C Eastern Naval Command, on page 356 of his book ‘A Sailor’s Story’, recalls how in the run up to the 1971 War he had sought intervention of Lord Venkatesh to influence Naval Headquarters to revert their decision to move aircraft carrier INS Vikrant from Eastern Fleet to the Western seaboard, and successfully too.

Cmde Srikant B Kesnur, who as a Lt Cdr was the commissioning Signal Communication Officer of the new INS ‘Delhi’, in his write up ‘A Bridge Across Forever’ narrates, “Vice Admiral MP Awati, who incidentally was the erstwhile Signal Communication Officer of the old INS ‘Delhi’… seemed to worship the old ‘Delhi’, seemingly mesmerized by its reputation as a lucky ship and the legend of red bearded ghost.”

Legends, as that of the red bearded ghost of INS ‘Delhi’, OP Baba of the Siachen Glacier, Baba Harbhajan Singh of Nathu La and many more, whether factual or not, command an overpowering influence on the rank and file of the Indian armed forces, and cast an occult influence on the troops. Those who look askance at this observation, have to look at the mesmeric influence exercised by the Vatican on the Catholics, Mecca on the Muslims, Golden Temple on the Sikhs, Kashi Vishwanath on the Hindus, and so on. It is the faith that matters, a faith that moves millions annually to undertake pilgrimage to these sites revered by the believers since centuries. It is this same belief, of being looked after by a guardian deity, which provides that intangible mental strength to the believers to face the rigours of life threatening environment with equanimity.

Preliminary research, based on personal experiences, indicates towards the development of enhanced sensory perception in combatants exposed to prolonged dangers on the battlefield. Interaction with captured militants during Operation PAWAN in Sri Lanka in the eighties did bring out the interesting information of the militants being literally able to sniff out the presence of IPKF ambush, thus avoiding them. Apparently, the use of ‘bidi’, spiced food items, defecations, and body odour, could be smelled by the militants from hundreds of metres away, owing to sharpened sensory perceptions brought on by prolonged isolated living in the jungles. Similarly, during Operation MEGHDOOT, extended deployment on the high glaciers enabled developing of a sixth sense which enabled some of the combatants to become more sensitive to impending environmental dangers.  

Forging Occult As A Military Weapon

The occult encompasses a vast repertoire of skills involving ESP (extrasensory perception), telepathy (read and project thoughts), clairvoyance (visions and remote sensing of objects), psychokinesis (project energy to impact matter), and ‘mantra siddhas’ (control of elemental forces of nature).

The military employment of these skills is scientifically an unproven field, is strewn with ambiguity, and there shall be no foreseeable clarity in the near term. Proficiency and reliability of the psychic expert(s) is critical to success of this factor. Even those with extensive provenance are unable to generate a positive outcome always and every time. Concentration lapses tend to occur in the life threatening environment prevalent on the battlefield. Gifted psychics are emotionally high strung, have low psychological threshold to withstand high stress environment, and the ethics of the psychic resource may not always be in sync with the military requirements.

It therefore needs to be absorbed that occult resources should be employed over and above the conventional resources for accomplishing the military mission.

There is no repudiating the fact, that when successful, the occult resources can exert an enormous force multiplier effect, minimise own casualties, and be a battle winning factor. The occult resources are cheaper to incorporate and maintain, easy to secrete from enemy surveillance, and their psychic attacks leave no footprint for the enemy to identify, a perfect weapon for being employed in the ongoing hybrid wars!

Dependent on the capabilities of own occult resources, the possibilities of employing them to pursue military operations are limitless. Forewarning of adversary intentions, gaining information of enemy deployment of forces and operational plans. Remote surveillance of areas of interest, and forecasting environmental turbulence which can impact own military operations. Locating gaps in enemy obstacles, and guiding own forces. Disrupting minds of enemy commanders, while strengthening resolve of own troops and commanders. Provide healing to battlefield casualties, and undertaking part in military operations as combatants. All combined, its provides a glimpse of the military role which can be entrusted to suitable psychic adepts.

Reintegrating The Occult Into Indian Military

India possesses a vast repertory of occult resources in its ancient texts, and numerous adept practitioners of the occult in its extensive network of religious sects and ashrams. But the access to this talent is hampered by the fog of duplicity that hangs over the overall occult environment, and the proclivity for secretiveness amongst the genuine psychic resources. There are numerous sects and societies, vernacular institutes of high learning, secret societies and family groups holding closely guarded ancient manuscripts, individual practioners engaged in commercial exploitation of the occult, and of course the adepts with a conscience employing their art for the greater good in rural communities, the ubiquitous ‘Ojhas’.

Indian military already has a deep foundation of occult in the structure, customs and traditions of its fighting units. Religious Teachers are authorised in all fighting units, there are distinctive customs and rituals for propitiating religious deities before undertaking major events, an extensive network of deities and guardian spirits exists in remote operational areas, and yoga and meditation is incorporated into officially approved ‘physical’ training.

Yet the Indian military’s exploitation of this advantage has been minuscule. The reason for this lacunae is not too far to see; it lies in the intellectual stigma attached to open propagation and optimal exploiting of this resource. It is an irony, that we have cut off ourselves from our key strategic resource, under factors induced externally into our society and consequently the military. With US, Russia, and China leading research and employment of anomalous sciences and weapons, India can no longer afford to ignore this field. More so as it can rely on its intrinsic strength in this field, from its past. 

The nation should pursue this development through a two prong ‘top down’ and a ‘bottom up’ approach. At the national level it should establish dedicated organisations to pursue research into this field. Organisations best placed to undertake this activity could be the Defence Intelligence Agency, Establishment 22, and Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DRDO). The agencies named are depictive only and merely to stress the aspect of spreading a broad spectrum net. This would provide the advantage of pursuing parallel paths for greater chances of success, secrecy of information, adequate funding, and enhanced strategic direction of effort.

At the fighting unit level in the initial phase, it shall have to be personality based, depending on the attitude and aptitude of the commanders. Identifying suitable resources shall be critical to this effort. There is adequate literature on the subject, such as in ‘Dhanurveda’, for identification and training of natural talent. Recourse can also be undertaken to recruit prospective raw talent through Unit Headquarter Enrolment quota. The ‘Ghataks’ of Infantry Battalions and Reconnaissance Troops/Platoons of Armoured and Mechanised Infantry units may best serve the purpose for training and employing the adept resources, and similarly for the Special Forces. It stands to reason that rudimentary exposure of the adepts to military tactics and requirements would pay handsome dividends through enhanced quality of results.

Where inclined, the formations deployed permanently in operational areas can also scour their area of responsibility to identify local adepts and employ their services on discretionary basis. The military as well as the security hierarchies of the country hold considerable domain knowledge of genuine ‘sages’, some of whom can be approached to support inhouse training programs for the identified talents.                                                                

Pursuit of this approach is now more of an imperative for India to safeguard its national and military leadership, which is highly exposed to occult forces of the adversaries.

It’s an idea whose Time has come for India!

References

“In 2014, the Office of Naval Research US Navy embarked on a four-year, $3.85 million research program to explore the phenomena it calls premonition and intuition, or “Spidey sense” for sailors and Marines. “We have to understand what gives rise to this so-called ‘sixth sense,’ says Dr Peter Squire, a program officer in ONR’s Expeditionary Manoeuvre Warfare and Combating Terrorism department… “If the researchers understand the process, there may be ways to accelerate it — and possibly spread the powers of intuition throughout military units.” ‘US Military Believes People Have A Sixth Sense’, by Annie Jacobsen the author of ‘Phenomena’, Times, 3 April 2017 

 https://time.com/4721715/phenomena-annie-jacobsen/ 

 

“The Commerce Department imposed sanctions on Chinese technology companies and announced recently that China’s military is engaged in dangerous work related to ‘brain control’ warfare research. The announcement of the sanctions provided limited specific details of the work by China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences and 11 related Chinese research institutes. Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security said only that the academy and its affiliates are using ‘biotechnology processes to support Chinese military end-uses and end-users, to include purported brain-control weaponry.” ‘China’s Brain Control Warfare Work Revealed’ - by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times - Wednesday, December 29, 2021

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/29/pla-brain-control-warfare-work-revealed/

 

“The paper by Serge Kernbach at the Research Centre of Advanced Robotics and Environmental Science in Stuttgart, Germany, details the Soviet Union’s extensive experiments, called “psychotronics”. The paper is based on Russian technical journals and recently declassified documents. The psychotronics project draws similarities to part of the controversial program MKUltra in the US. Scientists involved in the MKUltra program researched the possibility of manipulating people’s minds by altering their brain functions using electromagnetic waves. This program led to the development of pyschotronic weapons, which were intended to be used to perform these mind-shifting functions.” “The USSR Spent Dollar 1 Billion On Mind Control Programs”, by News.com.au, New York Times December 28, 2013

https://nypost.com/2013/12/28/the-soviet-union-spent-1-billion-on-mind-control-programs/

 

The Sixth Sense Of A Successful Leader, by Col RS Sidhu

https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/the-sixth-sense-of-a-successful-leader/2296863/

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The State And Its Armed Forces Energy Vibration Conflict, by Col RS Sidhu

https://goachronicle.com/alternative-view-point-on-paradoxes-in-indian-context-3/

 

Provenance Of Occult Phenomenon On The Battlefield, by Col RS Sidhu

https://goachronicle.com/alternative-view-point-on-paradoxes-in-indian-context-4/

 

‘Dhanurveda’, ancient Indian treatise on ‘Shastrashastra’ or military sciences

‘The Psychic Battlefield: A History Of The Military Occult Complex’, by W Adam Mandlebaum