puranas : an interpretation

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Namaskar,

 

Just a thought I have,What do you have to say about it : am I right or

wrong? ANd what others have to say, I could be a fool not knowledgeable but

this is my interpretation of the Puranic story. Note it is personal opinion and

not authority hence could be wrong and to be discarded after reading if you

find it wrong.

 

It is stated in our Puranas that there was water everywhere and that Lord

Vishnu rested on his Seshnag on this water. And later on Lord Vishnu's Boar

Avtaar(Incarnation) lifts Earth from the water.

 

As a Hindu I believe that the Puranas are true.

 

But when the rationalist mind laugh at us for believing such

stories. So I questioned if our Puranas are really what they mean or just false

stories. So with a rationalist mind,if you read the story it states water was everywhere sound hilarious , how can

there be water everywhere and no land. And that Vishnu removed the earth from

the water/oceans . But as a Hindu believing that the sriptures said is a true

as a Hindu , and trying to find out if there is something hidden in it.

 

The Purana states how the Vishnu Avtaar Varaha lifted the earth form

underwater:

" When

the demon, Hiranyaksha dragged Bhoomi Devi (Mother Earth) underwater, Vishnu

took the form of Varaha (a wild boar). After a fierce battle he overpowered the

demon and lifted Bhoomi Devi from the waters. He pushed with his snout and the

land puckered forming the Himalayan

Mountains. He dragged more land

from the sea and shaped the Indian subcontinent. "

 

(Note: I could not find the exact wordings of the Puranas)

 

Does this not relate to the scientific thought on one of the process

of formation of continents formation of earth?Origionally, all the

land mass was one land mass and termed as Pangea, around 300 million years ago.

Infact if you cut the various continents from a map and try to join, they fit

exactly in form of a puzzle. And that the triangular part of the Indian ap was

a separate part. And when it hit the land mass in the north (Nepal

region), it led to creation of Himalayas and still since

the two land mass are still moving the height of Himalayas

is still rising . That is what scientists say how the Himalayas

were formed.That is till the continents formed only a small part of the globe

had a collection of land mass and hence the entire globe looked like to

be of only water.

 

 

 

Now in the light of this knowledge that we study the Puranas,the

above story of Vishnu avtaar and what scientist give us are the same. In

Puranas they have mixed it with story and instead of writing that there was a

single landmass called PANGEA, Sages wrote " Earth was hidden in

Oceans " as all continents formed a single land mass it looked like there

was water everywhere and that is what is mentioned in the Vishnu Purana story.

 

Does it now show that the Puranas written by Sages have hidden the same story

that Science is trying to discover now and we Hindus knew it or the Sages knew

it.

 

Probably from this we can infer that in the Puranas there is Science mixed in

mythological and allegorical stories on the formation of earth. In this light

we can even fix the date of Vishnu Avtaar Varaha as 300 million years back or

whatever the scientist think the time the continents drifted.

 

Correct me if I am wrong. This is personal opinions , I am not a scientist who

knows all of Science nor a Sage who knows all scriptures. So could be wrong.

 

 

 

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Namaskar,

devishakti_india

( divyabhakti )

 

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