Puranas : Myth or Science

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holydiscoveries, "saidevo" <saidevo>

wrote:

 

 

Since water is Vishnu's abode, he has the

> name Narayana, the term naara signifying water. The name Vishnu is

> from the Sanskrit root vish, meaning to spread, enter, pervade."

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Namaskar,

 

Just a thought I have, Saidevo.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

(Nepalregion), 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

Himalayaswere

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.

 

Namaskar,

devishakti_india

 

 

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