Puranas &
Vedic Literature
The Vedic literature is the book of life. It gives all these
information in a well structured manner. Spiritual masters in every
age help mankind to understand the purpose of life and through that
they help mankind in progressing through their evolutionary journey.
The master's life become guiding lights in the darkness of our
ignorance.
Since it is very difficult to understand the purpose of life , all the
vedic information is given in a symbolic form. Exactly like the first
school book is in the form of symbols, so is vedic literature. A
student learns alphabet through symbols. "A" for apple, "B"
for ball, "C" for cat etc. The knowledge is given in the
form of symbols.
Indra - chief of the Devas (Gods)
Since the human mind is always revolved around the world of senses (Indriyas),
God Indra is talked and praised first. His kingdom of heaven (Swarga)
is talked about. The rituals of obtaining wealth and prosperity etc is
later given. Then comes the element of sacrifice which most of them
wrongly interpret it as sacrifice of animals. Since we have evolved
from animals, we still carry the trace desires of it. We have to
sacrifice those animal nature and evolve to pure man. Unfortunately
this information is taken as literally and animal sacrifice was
performed.
Kali drinking blood after chopping the demon mahishan's head and
drinking his blood, thank God, is not literally followed. Otherwise we
would be cannibals drinking human blood. Here the buffalo head
Mahishan represent Ego. Buffalo is a
black colored animal that
is lazy and swims in dirty stagnant water. Lack represent darkness or
total absorption of color which symbolizes the attitude of Ego. Ego is
totally absorbed only in its welfare and not concerned of anything.
Ego like buffalo is lazy and dwells in the stagnant darkness of
ignorance.
Blood represents energy and so Kali drinking blood indicates that we
have to chop off of our Ego and drink the energy of the Ego which
means directing that energy in our Journey to the Source. This is how
the whole of Vedic literature including the puranas are wrongly mis-understood.
In the next few pages
we would try to give the best interpretation of the puranas and Vedic literature.
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