This lectures deals with the question why Krsna chose to appear in a pre-industrial, pre-technological age.

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SB 1.11.15

dvari dvari grhanam ca

dadhy-aksata-phaleksubhih

alankrtam purna-kumbhair

balibhir dhupa-dipakaih

TRANSLATION

In each and every door of the residential houses, auspicious things like curd, unbroken fruits, sugarcane and full waterpots with articles for worship, incense and candles were all displayed.

Key points:

- Human interactions were less efficient in those times, but more personal and therefore more interesting.

 - People would fire weapons by a mantra. The physical apparatus was always the same, a bow and an arrow, but the energy was pulled out of the air, from a powerful energy field. Vedic knowledge was based on knowledge of cosmic correspondences where things on the earth were icons which represent cosmic powers and which are connected to their cosmic equivalent. Fire in the earth is connected to cosmic fire. Weapons were thus used by activating the subtle elements.

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