The Deceit

(Human, Evolution and about Few Forces above us)

Mankind is the luckiest being on this planet as of today. Even after almost 99% of all species on earth were wiped out in the event of “Great dying”, we somehow evolved from our ancestors, particularly animals. Maybe if dinosaurs were canny enough to invent a machine travelling at velocities higher than that of light and pushed themselves through time to this day, they would have then realized that, contrivance of such kind of machine was a huge blunder. They wouldn’t have had any courage to see their whole race in obsolescence. Troodon, which is considered to be a genius amongst all dinosaurs could never have digested this phenomena and blamed itself for veracious Theorizing of Relativity, if this time travelling event had been authentic enough. Maybe mankind would feel the same if they invent such kind of machines. But we don’t have to worry as something tagged “Time Machine” is never going to surface itself from mankind’s prodigy. Let’s take for an instance. Till today there’s nothing called Time Machine in practical world unless you’re inside a TARDIS with The Doctor from Gallifrey. If mankind invents such machine he’ll be more eager to know about his future than his past. Maybe few historian of future will be researching our present. Maybe he takes interest to visit to see us. By this time he should have been here. But we find no one. Which means there’s nothing called a machine which considers time as a physical quantity and moves back and forth inside it. So shall all be happy that the secret of future is still intact and Gods shall be happy that they’ll still be respected.

But who were we before this present evolution? If we ask that question to Darwin he’ll answer we were evolved from monkeys. If we ask that same questions to religious thinker we’ll get most innovative answers of all time. Abrahamic followers will say earth was created in 4004 BC and God created sun and stars and moon and planets only after creating earth. Hinduism says universe is 11 billion years old (which is almost close to currently accepted figure of 13.8 billion years). They involved all such measuring units like Kalpas and Yugas. Though these kind of theories of measurements were first rejected by various people initially, this value has sustained and has found its apex in today’s world. History is full of everything and history never repeats itself. If history had repeated itself, then historians and people could have no duty to perform on this earth. Various evangelist theories in order to deconstruct India have rejected any science involving in our history and always tried to convince us that out to lunch Europeans were superior to us. Till today we’ve always trusted and believed in that and all our educational systems and institutions are all based on the traces left behind by the imbecile Europeans. In fact one will be awed if I say even the names of various political institutions who create all menace across India, are all based on the faulty theories of the westerners. We lost our rich identity of our past to extreme extent that if you go to a child and say that “Boudhayana” in his book “Sulpha Sutra” has stated Pythagoras theorem even 600 years before the so called great Pythagoras himself, the child will give a gaudy glimpse of its disbelief. No one is ready to believe that our ancestors were in a situation where science and religion went hand in hand.

This can be explained by five stages of our mind. The stages are namely Proof, Knowledge, Reality, Memory and Sleep. Our mind does not accept anything without proof and with that proof gains knowledge and knowledge opens up reality which stays in our mind as memory, but why does sleep has anything to do with this? Actually it’s the most important routine one has to do every day. Try not sleeping for days you’ll know the real discrepancy. I’ll tell you a short story which I myself built up inside my mind based on my own views of pragmatism and lets all see whether we accept it. This story has passed each and every stage of the above five barriers.

We all must be familiar with ten avatars of Vishnu. If we see those sculptures and painting in many temples of India they seem comical. All we see is a balderdash in name of God and Religion. A human with fish legs called Matsaya Avatar. How awkward it sounds, human with fish body! How could he answer his nature calls or how he could have possibly walked? A common mind seeing those pictures make them laugh for rest of their life. Oh wait! I haven’t even started yet! The second one is called Koorma Avatar. Now comes the next one with the appearance of a tortoise. The great Lord Vishnu who is considered to be the safe guarder of the universe takes a form of a tortoise. In fact it is considered as a bad sign of luck in many parts of south India if a tortoise enters our house. Now this indirectly proves that the Lord Vishnu is considered unlucky. The third is Varaha Avatar. A Boar which holds earth in its nose. Go to kid and say once world was saved by a pig. He or she will laugh its ass out. Fourth is Nrisimha Avatar. Half lion and half man. I’m already bored of half man and half animal stories. Fifth comes Vamana Avatar, a dwarf. Great Lord takes a form of Dwarf to save earth from the clutches of Mahabali. Thankfully the next four involves all human lookalikes. Parashurama, Rama, Balarama, Krushna. The tenth is yet unknown calling himself “Kalki”. There are also Upa-Avatars such as Nara Narayan, Narada, Kapila and 9 more which also includes Buddha according to many.

In today’s world of advanced technologies where science is God, almost no one has any time to hear all these idiotic idiosyncrasies in name of religion. We Indians are even been influenced too much by westerners. In fact all the learning we learn today are their influences and they have been successful in creating an image that however great we Indians once were we won’t be able to accept it. Various bogus theories such as Aryan invasion and Dravidian aborigines have taken deep roots inside our culture that one can hardly be able to eradicate such spurious theories from our day to day life. In fact many academic institutions have taken huge steps to teach these concocted concepts that we as Indians have lost our identity that today we search ourselves in places where we really don’t belong to.

Fine it’s time for myself to confess that I myself have been too much into western ideologies that I found myself in a situation where I have to decide and change path. After I took the diversion came a new thought process. A process which was hugely influenced by the western thought but now with an Indian identity.

According to me the best ever theory ever proposed by western thinker is the “Theory of Evolution” by Charles Darwin. But wait! Have we Indians proposed anything similar like this before? We all know we are not even close. First thought which goes into our mind is that “We are inferior to Europeans and mighty Americans and so as a result we couldn’t have been anywhere close to where they stand”. Let me take you where I bashed my Gods earlier in this precise.

Today science accept the fact that life on earth first formed as a result of amino acids in water. Then after few billion years from water it slowly evolved to sustain itself on land which we are familiar of. Then occurred the event of “Great Dying”, which wiped out almost everything. Then after billions and billions of years, after evolutions after evolutions nature finally selected we kind of humans to sustain. A selection by natural process. Here we are calling ourselves “The Cro-Magnon” or the “Homo sapiens”, meaning skillful genius race.

But wait! Has anyone noticed a striking similarity in above paragraphs? I think almost no one has! And if you have done it then you deserve my sincere appreciation. What we Indians wrote and drew and sculptured in temples is what Scientist claim today. And one thing where I have to appreciate them here is they have rightly named these processes in general. They call this research. Yes! You heard it! They’re right. Read it again. “Re”search. What we once searched and safe guarded is again being repeated in name of intellects.

In Vishnu’s first avatar he claims to be fish, Matsaya Avatar. Was He dumb and naïve to state such stuffs? No! Never! Life first originated in water doesn’t mean necessarily fish. But in order to make it simple and understandable our ancestors stated it fish, as first thing strikes in our mind when we say fish is water. The same water from where life originated. Then slowly the life from water gradually saw land. Its desire to evolve made it possible to stay sustainable in both land and water. This is second avatar of Vishnu called Koorma Avatar, meaning tortoise, an amphibian. After life slowly developed on land, after few billion years there was a great calamity which wiped nine out of ten species on earth. This was called Great Dying. This runs parallel with the third avatar of Vishnu, Varaha avatar. Varaha Avatar states that earth (Bhoomidevi) was stolen by a demon named Iranyakshan (twin brother of Hiranyakashibu who plays a huge part in Nrisimha Avatar). Iranyakshan was then slaughtered by a pig faced god named Varaha. Here Varaha is hypothecated to sustained species from the Great Dying and Iranyakshan to the event of the Great Dying itself which destroyed Earth (Bhoomidevi). After few billion years, after species evolved in time they never formed mankind in a single day. Initially they were just animal contaminated beings. This is the fourth avatar called Nrisimha Avatar which is a half lion and half man. This depicts the same fact Darwin proposed in his theory that mankind was evolved from animals. Though the nature of animals vary from these theories the silhouette of these theories remain the same, that we people had animal ancestry. This avatar kills Iranyakashibu through the faith of Prahaladhan. Then slowly these beings slowly formed higher species, today we call them human and here comes the fifth avatar Vamana Avatar, which is dwarf. We humans weren’t even humans when so called evolution took place. The physical state we are in right now wasn’t the same before 5000 years. We were much taller and much stalwart before five millennia. But before 50 millennia we were even shorter than our present structure, like a dwarf. The growth of humans is always proportional to the oxygen content in the atmosphere. Not only humans, even small beings such as worms were once much larger in size due to the oxygen content in atmosphere. The dwarfs were inception of evolution. After few billion years again after changes following changes in nature, these dwarf species evolved into something of even higher order and we all know what dwarfs evolved into, in the process of evolution. The following syllogistic figure shows how evolution of species` runs parallel with the Avatars of Vishnu.

The next four avatars involved no evolution physically but they attacked more of our inner `mental evolution. The second Yuga named “Thretha Yuga” was the time when Rama gave birth. Though He is famed for killing the skilled administrator Ravanan, He is unknown for many dharma He laid down in his kingdom. Those structured way of leading life rules, sustained man to survive till the end of third Yuga “Dwapara Yuga”. Rama dharma always involved deeds like “Good to everyone”. But at the end of Dwapara Yuga good people were continue to do good even after another person does the opposite. If this had continued the negation would have outplayed the positive, making negative sustain. But in order to make mankind sustain Krushna did something miraculous. To put it short in simple terms he said, “Just replicate what you get. If you get good then reciprocate it. If it’s the opposite then do the opposite”. I’ll explain it with a small epitome. When Ravana ran out of weapons, Lord Rama said that the fight was done for the day as He was no more interested in defeating a person who had nothing to defend with. But in his next Avatar, Krushna, He commanded Arjuna to kill Karna when Karna was busy in rescuing his chariot which was stuck in ground. But the similarity between these cases are that both decisions were taken to force the sustainability of Dharma. Even today we are following the dharma laid by Krushna with or without our knowledge. And for this proof just go and slap a kindergarten kid. He’ll try to slap you again. If this is a scenario for a kid imagine the situation of a matured being. We always have seen this as the sculptures and drawings but never interpreted in the way I have explained before. We have always drawn away from our grounds and found ourselves in the state of instability. Today’s world is the exact mirror of Krushna’s teaching- Bagavat Gita. One knows how one can lead his life in each and every situation without any exceptions.

Avatars are not for religious sake. They are actually evolution of mankind and species. Each avatar depicts each of the states of specie’s evolution, both physically and mentally. Though there are showcased wrongly in various places, in my point of view, I still believe in the fact that this is a result of misinterpretation of facts of physical appearance of various avatars, as evolution took place within ourselves but the core truth cannot be blown away.

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• K.PRASANNAVENKATESH