In this message let us understand and marvel at our ancient Rishis' visualization of the Genesis of Universe or Origin of Life, conceived in the form of Lord Padmanabha which when studied in depth matches the belief and faith the other religions had also. This also coordinates with scientific explanation.
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Genesis is the first book of the Old Testament describing the creation of the Universe, the solar system and the living beings in the course of six days by God. The Hindu view of Genesis is more detailed and is explained here.
The Hindu way of explaining the origin of universe is represented by the icon, Padmanabha. It tallies with the experimental conclusions of science. How did our ancients arrive at such startling conclusions
OM Tat Sat, the Hindus say meaning that OM is the reality. It is the complete description of the four dimensional Universe and the " noise" pervading it. The three limbs of the Devanagari OM stand for the curved three dimensional space or the material part of the Universe. The crescent represents the time component of the space time continuum. It is a continuum and not a continuity because the relationship between the components is not obvious. The dot is the humming "noise" corresponding to few degrees Kelvin experimentally observed to permeate outer space uniformly. It is an energy dimension not yet understood. It had been predicted as consequence of the big bang theory of the origin of the Universe but is not dependent upon the theory since it is an independent experimental observation. Thus OM represents all the observed attributes of the manifest Universe. The three dimensions of space, the time and the humming "noise". The Universe may be visualized as five dimensional :space-time-energy.
Krishna in Gita, (XIV,3): "The vast Universe is my womb. I inseminate the same, whereby all Beings arise". The Taittiriya Upanishad echoes the sentiment : The Brahman "desired 'May I Procreate the many.' He performed penance and created everything whatsoever . Having created them He entered them. Having entered He became" pairs of opposites.
Purusha Sukta looks upon creation in more prosaic terms as a Yagna or ritual sacrifice by the Gods. From out of the five dimensional Being came the four dimensional one or the Space - Time. This was a lower order of Reality represented by Brahma, the four headed Progenitor or the Prajapati. His four heads represent the four dimensions of Space -Time.
Vishnu is the tribhuvanavapusha, the celestial Being with three worlds as his body. The three worlds are the three dimensions of space or the x, y, z, axes of co-ordinate geometry. He is coloured blue black combining the blueness of the terrestrial sky with the blackness of the outer space. He represents the regal authority of the Divinity with magisterial powers on earth and regulates the evolution of life on earth.
The story of Vamana Avataar is the demonstration of Vishnu's three dimensionality contrasted to the two
dimensionality of the asura regions. Vishnu lives in the milky ocean which is the star studded milky way. He lies on the coiled five headed snake Anantha literally meaning endless. The coiled snake stands for the helical form of the DNA and the protein builder RNA, the two templates of life. Though the molecules have several billion repetitive units they are made up of five organic bases three of which are common to both DNA and RNA and one is exclusive to each. The five heads of Anantha stand for the five bases.
The Padmanabha icon gives the whole picture. Vishnu reclining on the bed formed by the coiled snake Anantha
stands for the DNA-RNA template based Life floating in three dimensional space. The lotus rising from his navel is the umbilical connection life on earth has to the Universal reality. The Lotus stands for the three dimensional space which according to Einstein's ideas is curved like a saddle due to gravity. The Lotus petal is the equivalent of the saddle. The Brahma on the lotus is the anthropomorphic formalization of the ultimate. The Chaturbhuja (four armed) Vishnu with six limbs and a human form is the fusion of the two dominant forms of life on earth, the vertebrate and the invertebrate. The former are four limbed whist the latter have a multiplicity of limbs. The most common invertebrates , like the ant and the cockroach are six-limbed.
The Genesis of Hindus therefore is : Life originates in deep Space- Time represented anthropomorphically as the four headed Brahma and develops as the foetus Vishnu representing the three dimensional Space (supported by the DNA-RNA templates shown as the coiled snake Anantha) and the living beings therein.
It evolves through the intermediacy of the bisexual Ardhanreeswara into the glorious form of Chaturbhuja Vishnu representing the fusion of the vertebrate and the invertebrate forms of life. The snake as a genetic compulsion is also found in the Jewish Bible. So in some way not understood by us the ancients had an intuitive idea. The Hindu concept predates the Jewish idea by a few millennia.
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