Darwin Theory and Vishnu Avatarams.
Evolution theory resembles Vishnu Avatar
"Whenever Dharma, or the situation of law and order, is endangered on this
world, I shall incarnate onto this world to re-establish Dharma, law and order,
and to protect the good people and to destroy the evil elements of the society."
Vishnu is the name given to the protector and sustainer of the universe. Lord
Vishnu, has incarnated in various life forms through different yugas (ages or
eons) in situations where Dharma was in danger, because of certain evil elements
in the world. There are ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu. These incarnations are
termed as the 'avatars' of Lord Vishnu. Each avatar of Lord Vishnu shall be
presented below with appropriate details of the situation under which the lord
was compelled to appear on the earth.
While many explanations are given for the 10 avatars of Vishnu, one can see
striking similarity of these stories with the theory of evolution of life.
THE FIRST SIX INCARNATIONS OF VISHNU DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION
world, I shall incarnate onto this world to re-establish Dharma, law and order,
and to protect the good people and to destroy the evil elements of the society."
Vishnu is the name given to the protector and sustainer of the universe. Lord
Vishnu, has incarnated in various life forms through different yugas (ages or
eons) in situations where Dharma was in danger, because of certain evil elements
in the world. There are ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu. These incarnations are
termed as the 'avatars' of Lord Vishnu. Each avatar of Lord Vishnu shall be
presented below with appropriate details of the situation under which the lord
was compelled to appear on the earth.
While many explanations are given for the 10 avatars of Vishnu, one can see
striking similarity of these stories with the theory of evolution of life.
THE FIRST SIX INCARNATIONS OF VISHNU DARWIN'S THEORY OF EVOLUTION
Matsya (Fish) Life starts in water (600 million-400 million years ago)
Kurma (Turtle) The first amphibians emerge (100 million years ago)
Varaha (Boar) The first mammals evolve (60 million years ago)
Narasimha (half man-half lion) Half man-half animal appear (30 million years
ago)
Vamana (short man) Homo Erectus, Upright, yet short and weaponless (5 million -
2 million years ago)
Parashurama (parashu=axe, Rama=name of God)
Bronze age; the coming of Ramapithecus; development of first weapons such asKurma (Turtle) The first amphibians emerge (100 million years ago)
Varaha (Boar) The first mammals evolve (60 million years ago)
Narasimha (half man-half lion) Half man-half animal appear (30 million years
ago)
Vamana (short man) Homo Erectus, Upright, yet short and weaponless (5 million -
2 million years ago)
Parashurama (parashu=axe, Rama=name of God)
axe. Homo Sapiens (350,000-100,000 years ago)
The Story of MATSYA Avatar
In MATSYA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as a fish in this world. In
the earliest yuga (era) of Sata-yuga, a king named Manu was performing severe
penance for thousands of years. One day as he was performing ablutions with
river water, a small fish came into his hands and just as he was about to throw
the fish back into the river, the fish requested the king to save its life.
Heeding its request, the king put the fish into a jar of water but the fish
started growing and the jar was not big enough for it. Then the king threw it
into the river, but it soon it outgrew the river and the king then threw it into
Ganges and then into the ocean. The king realized that it was Lord Vishnu
himself and then the lord made an appearance and made a special request to the
king. It predicted that the world would come to an end by a huge flood in seven
days and requested the king to build a huge boat and take the seven
sages(hermits), seeds of all plants, one animal of each type and told him that
he would appear as a fish to propel the boat to Mt Himavan for surviving the
flood to the next yuga(eon). True to his word, after seven days the Lord
appeared and the king tied the boat to the fish by using the royal serpent
Vasuki and the fish took all of them to Mt Himavan and kept them there till the
flood was over and in the new era, the king started procreation for the new era.
The Story of KURMA Avatar
In KURMA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as a turtle. It is an
interesting story involving both the gods (devtas) and asuras (demons). In the
ongoing saga of battle between the gods and asuras, on one occasion the gods
suddenly lost all their strength due to a curse by the short-tempered sage
Durvasa. The sage had once presented a garland of flowers to Indra, king of
gods, who carelessly gave it away to his elephant which trampled it.
The Devtas approached Vishnu for help. Vishnu then asked them to churn the ocean
of milk after adding medicines into the ocean. Mt Mandara could be used a the
churning stick he said. He requested them to ask them help of Asuras in lifting
the mountain in exchange for offer of the share of nectar of immortality that
would ensue from the churning. Both the devatas and the asuras churned the ocean
using the serpent Vasuki as the rope. At the start, playing a Machiavellian
trick, Indra, king of the gods asked the asuras for the head end of vasuki. But
asuras suspecting foul play, took the head end, only to be deceived as the
poison from Vasuki was slowly weakening them. But as churning was proceeding the
mountain was sinking and then Lord Vishnu took the form of the turtle KURMA and
kept the mountain afloat. As soon as the bowl of amrita, the nectar of
immortality was out, the asuras grabbed it. Then Lord Vishnu took the form of an
apsara, a beautiful maiden, and seduced the asuras into letting her distribute
the nectar and also to abide by her order of distribution. As soon as the
devatas were served the maiden disappeared thus totally deceiving the asuras and
making them totally weak.
The Story of VARAHA Avatar
In VARAHA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as a boar in this world. A
demon Hiranyaksha, had prayed for Lord Brahma and got awarded a boon that no
beast nor man nor god could kill him. But somehow from the list of beasts the
name of boar was missing. This proved to be his lacunae. He then started a
campaign of plunder across the worlds. He pushed the world to the Pataal loka,
or the under of the sea. He stole the Vedas, the holy scriptures from the Lord
Brahma, while he was asleep and performed huge atrocities. To retrieve the Vedas
and to save the world the Lord Vishnu assumed the role of a boar and brought out
the earth from the under of the ocean, using its two tusks. It then killed
Hiranyaksha and retrieved the Vedas from the asura and brought it back to the
safe custody of the Lord Brahma.
The Story of NARASIMHA Avatar
In NARASIMHA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as a semi-man, semi-lion in
this world. The king of demons (asuras), Hiranyakasyapa, wanted to become
immortal and wanted to remain young forever. To this end, he meditated for Lord
Brahma and because of his severe penance, the gods were frightened and asked
Brahma to pacify the king. Brahma was impressed by his austerity and granted him
a wish. HiranyaKasyapa wished that he be neither killed by a man or beast, nor
in daylight or at night and neither inside or outside a building. Having
obtained the wish he considered himself the supreme God and frobade all worship
of gods by anyone.
But his son Prahlada, was an ardent devotee of Vishnu. This enraged
Hiranyakasyapa very much. He ordered numerous ways to kill Prahlada including
asking his sister Holika to sit with Prahlada in the fire. But everytime
Prahlada escaped unhurt. Enraged, once he asked Prahlad to show him the Lord
Vishnu. Prahlad said, "He is everywhere". Further enraged, Hiranyakasyapa
knocked down a pillar, and asked if Lord was present there. Lord Vishnu then
emerged as a half lion, half man from the pillar which was neither inside the
house nor outside, and the time was evening, neither night nor day. He then
killed Hiranyakasyapa thus saving the life of his devotee Prahlada.
The Story of VAMANA Avatar
In VAMANA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as a dwarf priest in this
world. Bali, the grandson of Prahlada was a very valorous and mighty asura. By
his penance and might, he conquered the whole world. Indra and other gods
fearing that he and asuras would conquer all the three worlds, went to Lord
Vishnu for help. Lord Vishnu was then born as a dwarf Vamana in the household of
a brahmana (priest). He went to Bali on growing up and asked for alms. Bali was
delighted to offer him anything he requested even though his priest warned him
that it was Lord Vishnu.
Vamana then requested for the amount of land that could come under his three
feet. Bali gracefully agreed. Lord Vishnu then grew in size and covered the
earth and heaven in two stride. And due to lack of space, he put his third leg
on Bali himself and crushed Bali to the nether or the Patala loka(underground
world), thus helping the Gods out.
The Story of PARASHURAMA Avatar
In PARASHURAMA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as a brahmana (priest) in
this world. He was brought in this world to avenge all kshatriyas who had become
arrogant and were suppressing the brahmans in the world. He was born to
Jamadagni and Renuka, and belonged to the Brighu clan. Parashurama was always
carrying an axe presented to him by Lord Shiva of whom he was an ardent devotee.
Kartavirya a powerful king, once went to Jamadagni's home when he was out, and
after a meal, stole the Kamadhenu cow, which was supposed to give endless
quantity of milk.
Jamadagni was enraged and he went and killed the king and brought Kamadhenu
back. On hearing this, the son of the king came back and killed Jamadagni.
Parashurama was enraged at this and went and avenged the death of his father by
killing all kshatriyas in 21 battles.
The Story of RAMA Avatar
In RAMA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as RAMA, the central character
in the epic Ramayan. In the epic, the character RAMA is expected to show the
world the characteristics of an ideal person, including ideal son, ideal
husband, ideal king and an ideal person. RAMA was incarnated upon this planet to
get rid of the asura with ten heads, Ravana, who had been granted a boon by
Brahma of immunity from gods, and other celestial beings. Ravana was too
vainglorious to be thinking of being vanquished by a man. Hence RAMA was born
and Lakshmi, wife of Lord Vishnu was born as Sita, his wife to be in this life.
The story of Ramayan, is an exciting nail-biting story of the war raged by Rama
against various evil elements of the world and in the end against Ravana.
Ramayan epitomises the ideal behaviour of man, with special focus on man-wife
relationship, son-father relationship and the rules for ideal governance by a
king.
The Story of KRISHNA Avatar
In KRISHNA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as KRISHNA , the central
character in the epic MAHABHARATA. In the biggest epic of Indian mythology a
myriad of topics are covered, including war, love, brotherhood, politics etc. It
is essentially the story of two warring groups of cousin brothers, the PANDAVAs
and the KAURAVAs. As a part of the Mahabahrata, during the war KRISHNA, gives a
long discourse to his disciple ARJUNA, collectively termed as Bhagvad-Gita.
Krishna, during his child-hood was responsible for the killing of Kamsa. Krishna
is also considered to be an ultimate playboy who was responsible for charming
all gopikaas around him.
Unlike Ramayan, Mahabharata deals with more down to earth issues like politics,
human nature, human weaknesses, and does not attempt to idealise the characters
as in Ramayan.
The Story of BUDDHA Avatar
In BUDDHA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as BUDDHA, the ascetic prince
who renounced the throne to lead the world on the path of peace. He is the
founder of the BUDDHIST religion prominent across the world. In certain sects of
Hinduism, he is considered to be a divine incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He was
born the crown prince of the Kapilavastu to Suddhodana and Maya. He was named
Siddhartha, meaning "All thing fulfilled" by the king. But his mother died soon
after his birth but Prajapati, the sister of Maya, brought Siddhartha up.
Buddha was saddened by death of living creatures, since his childhood days and
used to question: "Alas! Do all living creatures kill each other?" He wasn't
happy with any answers that were provided to him and he decided to find out the
meaning and the absolute truth and he left his wife and child to a hermit's life
in the forest and one day, became the enlightened one. His preaching spawned off
the religion of Buddhism now popular across the whole world.
The Story of KALKI Avatar
In KALKI Avatar, Lord Vishnu will incarnate himself as KALKI, the machine-man,
who will come riding his white horse and with his blazing sword in his hands.
This is supposed to be a future avatar of Lord Vishnu. At the end of Kali Yuga
(present eon) He will punish all evil doers in this world, destroy this world
and recreate a golden age again.
KALKI is the last of the avatars of Lord Vishnu.
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