1. Men come to a conclusion based on sight,
hearing and experience: How could they alone justify that conclusion?
Pūrvajaṉma Vāsanās (past-life impressions) are the reason they do it.
2. Because this deficiency persists from birth
to birth, man cannot comprehend the truth. The thoughts in the mind are
in a constant gurgle. His unsteady state causes him distress and
yearning for something better. His mind is not prepared to accept
something that is impartial.
3. In those days, Ṛṣis wrote philosophical
teachings, (doctrines, darśanas). They said, “O man! Your experiences
are not enough to comprehend the truth directly. For it to become Satyam
is impossible. The reason is your experience is circumscribed. More
expansive and widening circles of knowledge and experience are out
there. You did not peek into them. They have been unreachable to your
brain, unheard of by your ears and unseen by your eyes.
4. You abandoned looking into the wide circle
of Pēruṇmai (= Great Truth = God, as the ultimate Reality) and settled
with your flawed conclusion. Listen to what the ancestors told you. They
uttered what you never saw, what you never heard and what you never
experienced. Do not fall back thinking resolutely on your own experience
and discounting the Ṛṣi’s teachings. Once you accept their teachings,
you will come to know of them all. Our ancestors, the Ṛṣis taught us the
truths based on the Vedas. Vedas depict the truth. There is nothing in
this world not already in Vedas. Let me bring your attention to Darwin’s
Science of Evolution (1809-82).
5. Everyone talks about Darwin’s Science of
Evolution. According to his research, the origin of man was from the
water (ocean). Darwin’s time was recent: 1809-82. But our Purāṇas
originated thousands of years ago. Before them, were the timeless Vedas.
Vedas have already a mention of these things. All the buried treasures
and Tattvas in the Vedas and their revealing explications took the form
of Purāṇas.
6. Let us pay attention to Bhagavan’s then
Avatars.
7. What is the underlying Tattva of these
Avatars: Matsya, Kūrma, Varāha, Narasimha, Vāmaṉa, Parasurama, Rama,
Balarama, Krishna and Kalki?
8. Let us take Matsya Avatar. Fish, the
Jīvarāsi appears in the water, considered as the first Avatar. The basic
Tattva of origin in water as said in Purāṇas bear evidence to water as
the first material creation among all creations. Āyurveda, talking about
the creation of the world, attests to it. Let us look into it later.
9. Purāṇas explain the philosophies in Vedas
in an easily understood language. Science learning and education has
many approaches. The stories in the Purāṇas bring the teachings in Vedas
within the grasp of the readers.
10. When you direct your attention to Matsya
Avatar, it is apparent it is an aquatic animal. The next Kūrma Avatar is
tortoise living in both water and land (aquatic and terrestrial). The third Avatar is Varāham
(Boar), living by the water, not in the water but on the land. Narasimha
Avatar (Chimera) is half man and half lion. The animal residual
antecedent persists but the functional human motor organs in man exist;
and the upper part of the body referring to the head is that of an
animal (an atavistic remainder) .
11. This small residual animal portion
disappears in Vāmaṉa Avatar. (The early man was shorter.) He appears
like a child with dominance of anger or displeasure. Vāmaṉa Avatar is
wholly human. The next Avatar is Parasurama. There is a dearth of
fullness of Jñāṉēndhriyas (sensory organs) besides the lack of
thought-power, and the susceptibility (propensity) to follow orders. That is why when
his father ordered him to behead his mother, he did so with no
questions.
12. In Rama Avatara, he is in the state of
carrying out what he thought was right. This state is favorable union of
fullness of human form, human thought and act. In Balarama Avatar, there
is no independent thinking power.
.13. Krishna Avatar is Pūrṇa Avatar.
Meditative power is full, perfect and abundant. Krishna Avatar is the
soul meditation coming to a perfection. It is mature and wholesome to
the extent of offering to others spiritual instruction.
14. Dasa-avatara Tattva depicts the strength
and power to elevate man to a divine state, after the passage of the
soul from a one-cell amoeba to animal to man.
15. Man’s intrauterine life explains his great
power to escape metempsychosis. From fertilization to ten months, we can
see in a linear fashion all the states of Dasa-avatara in the growing
fetus.
Notes: (https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/ernst-haeckels-biogenetic-law-1866
External reference
Biogenetic law or Recapitulation disproved: the stages an animal embryo
undergoes during development are a chronological replay of that species'
past evolutionary forms. Each embryo's developmental stage represents an
adult form of an evolutionary ancestor. Darwin: The more general
characters of a taxonomic group tend to be present earlier in the
embryo, while specialized and variable characters tend to manifest later
in the embryo, indicated that these specialized features are the most
recent changes to the ancestral form. Haeckel interpreted the data
differently than Darwin, and he purported instead that the embryonic
stages of extant species represent adult forms of their previous
ancestors. Wilhelm His, professor of anatomy at the University of Basel
in Basel, Switzerland, and at the University of Leipzig in Leipzig,
Germany, opposed Haeckel's biogenetic law. Wilhelm His argued the
Haeckel's biogenetic law overemphasized evolution as the cause of
development and exaggerated the similarities between embryos of
different species. He said that there were obvious differences between
the early stages of embryos of different species, and that those
differences, not the similarities, were important to explain
development.
There are a lot of problems with Haeckel's
theory, mostly because saying, "Hey, this thing kinda looks like that
thing!" doesn't really hold up scientifically.
How can such stages as the egg, larva, pupa,
and adult of a butterfly be explained? Why do some parts of an embryo
show recapitulation and other parts never show it?"—*Cora Reno, Fact or
theory? (1953), p. 69.
The main promoter of recapitulation was
anti-theistic Ernst Haeckel who was guilty of falsifying illustrations
in order to support his views. Even today some authors unwisely continue
to use some of these misrepresentations in evolution sections of
textbooks.
Embryos do reflect the course of
evolution, but that course is far more intricate and quirky than Haeckel
claimed. Different parts of the same embryo can even evolve in different
directions. As a result, the Biogenetic
Law was abandoned, and its fall freed
scientists to appreciate the full range of embryonic changes that
evolution can produce—an appreciation that has yielded spectacular
results in recent years as scientists have discovered some of the
specific genes that control development.[20]
Wikipedia. End of Comment: External
Reference.
16. The fetus floats in the amniotic fluid
during pregnancy. The fetus in its early stages of development looks
like a worm ( = sperm. later multicellular embryo.) Then it looks
like a staff. Gradually small human body parts appear. At the eighth month of
gestation, the fetus has all the body parts of a human. Vedas under the
title of ‘Garbhavāsam’ (in utero existence) explained even before
scientists like Darwin wrote about it.
17. When we hear the Purāṇas as the story form
of Vedas, we should delve into the Tattvas embedded in them and should
not consider them as mere stories for pastime.
18. The Vedas through the medium of Purāṇas
have told us in an easily understandable fashion with proper examples
what were already discovered and endorsed by the scientists.
19. Do you know what Āyurveda says about the
creation of this world?
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