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**Drugmachine** · 04-28-2012, 08:02 PM

Well said Biswa..Actually I was also hoping this thread will take a twist in the right direction of cosmology,science and spiced with info from religious text cos I feel its all inter related.

I also have often wondered if in the next Mahapralaya is it the same Earth we will be in or some other universe and some other planet which will play the role of Earth again.

I was reading about Varaha Avatar yesterday and I was wondering where could Earth have been submerged for Lord Vishnu to pick it up again.
What was the waters they were referring too in the Puranas?
Its every interesting to try to wonder what could have been like before(even though I know I might not actually really know but no harm trying to decipher)

I think you are on a slippery slope when you want to flirt with science, cosmology and religious text et all in one and the same thread. Let me try to elaborate:

First let us take the case of science or big bang theory. Let us assume the theory is fully explained and accepted by all. Once this is achieved, the question will arise as to what caused the big bang and was it possible for such a cause to exist before, whether such big bangs did occur in the past and whether such past big bangs resulted in life or not. If it did, where are/were such life forms? If such big bangs did not result in life, why not? .

Now let us take the varaha avatar episode. Who is that person who is narrating the episode? Where was he stationed when Maha Vishnu took out the earth from deep under waters (when there was no land mass)? Why was the narrator not consumed by the preceding maha pralaya? Was the narrator reporting the current developments or was he reporting the past incidences? Were the past incidences actually seen by him or were they narrated to him?

If the original episode was narrated based on direct testimony of Maha Vishnu, the narrator should have been extremely fortunate to converse directly with Vishnu. What good deeds or karma did the narrator do to merit such such a face to face conversation with Vishnu.

04-28-2012, 08:02 PM	#13
Drugmachine Join Date Apr 2006 Posts 4,490 Senior Member	Well said Biswa..Actually I was also hoping this thread will take a twist in the right direction of cosmology,science and spiced with info from religious text cos I feel its all inter related. I also have often wondered if in the next Mahapralaya is it the same Earth we will be in or some other universe and some other planet which will play the role of Earth again. I was reading about Varaha Avatar yesterday and I was wondering where could Earth have been submerged for Lord Vishnu to pick it up again. What was the waters they were referring too in the Puranas? Its every interesting to try to wonder what could have been like before(even though I know I might not actually really know but no harm trying to decipher) I think you are on a slippery slope when you want to flirt with science, cosmology and religious text et all in one and the same thread. Let me try to elaborate: First let us take the case of science or big bang theory. Let us assume the theory is fully explained and accepted by all. Once this is achieved, the question will arise as to what caused the big bang and was it possible for such a cause to exist before, whether such big bangs did occur in the past and whether such past big bangs resulted in life or not. If it did, where are/were such life forms? If such big bangs did not result in life, why not? . Now let us take the varaha avatar episode. Who is that person who is narrating the episode? Where was he stationed when Maha Vishnu took out the earth from deep under waters (when there was no land mass)? Why was the narrator not consumed by the preceding maha pralaya? Was the narrator reporting the current developments or was he reporting the past incidences? Were the past incidences actually seen by him or were they narrated to him? If the original episode was narrated based on direct testimony of Maha Vishnu, the narrator should have been extremely fortunate to converse directly with Vishnu. What good deeds or karma did the narrator do to merit such such a face to face conversation with Vishnu.
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