DASAVATHAR

'Vishnu' is a great lord in Hindu mythology. His epic is based on the concept of 'dasavathar'. We can see lot of differences between the Indian concept of God and that of the Sarasans and Europeans. What are they?

India’s culture is based on the concept of 'vasudhaivakakudumbakam'. So, Indian epics do not show any probability of god. It tells us about super power but it does not describe god. Yes, in Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavath geetha, they are not describing gods because Rama, Krishna and all the rest are just humans, not gods.

We know that theorems in the form of a story are more acceptable than that of its pure forms. Indian scientists are also doing the same. We can find a good example for that from the concept of 'dasavatharam' which means, ‘The ten faces of Lord Vishnu’. They are, ‘Malsya’, ‘Kurma’, ‘Varaha’, ‘Narasimha’, ‘Vamana’, ‘Rama-Rama-Rama’, ‘Krishna’ and ‘Kalki’.

The first one is Malsya (the fish) that tells us that life first appeared in water. Then comes Kurma (the teratoid); the life from water came onto land too. The next one is Varaha which means that full life appeared on land but it did not change its habit. Next one is 'Narasimha'(A monster that is half lion and half man). It shows that the animal form changed to that of a human.

The fifth one is Vamana (A full human). He is a 'brahmana' (Brahmana=A man who knows the brahma; brahma=universe. This means, a man who knows the truth behind the universe). Rama-Rama-Rama (the three civilizations). Krishna the second last one is a pure human (what we see today) and the final one, Kalki represents the end of the universe.

With this example, we can conclude that 'Dasavathar' is a just a theory. It’s nothing more than a replica of Darwin’s theory of natural selection; it does not give us the probability of the existence of a god.

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