The Lotus petal is the equivalent of the saddle. The Lotus stands for the three dimensional space which according to Einstein’s ideas is curved like a saddle due to gravity.
The lotus rising from his navel is the umbilical connection life on earth has to the Universal reality. 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 Padmanabha icon gives the whole picture. The five heads of Anantha stand for the five bases. 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 coiled snake stands for the helical form of the DNA and the protein builder RNA, the two templates of life. He lies on the coiled five headed snake Anantha literally meaning endless. Vishnu lives in the milky ocean which is the star studded milky way. The story of Vamana Avataar is the demonstration of Vishnu’s three dimensionality contrasted to the two dimensionality of the asura regions. He represents the regal authority of the Divinity with magisterial powers on earth and regulates the evolution of life on earth. He is coloured blue black combining the blueness of the terrestrial sky with the blackness of the outer space. The three worlds are the three dimensions of space or the x, y, z, axes of co-ordinate geometry. He is the tribhuvanavapusha, the celestial Being with three worlds as his body. His four heads represent the four dimensions of Space -Time. This was a lower order of Reality represented by Brahma, the four headed Progenitor or the Prajapati.
Purusha Sukta looks upon creation in more prosaic terms as a Yagna or ritual sacrifice by the Gods.įrom out of the five dimensional Being came the four dimensional one or the Space -Time. Having entered He became” pairs of opposites. 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, every thing whatsoever. “The vast Universe” says Krishna in the Gita, (XIV,3) “is my womb.
(A recent report in the New Scientist, dated 18 December 1999, quoting Raman Sundaram, Physical Review letters Vol 83, p4690, confirms this deduction.) The Universe may be visualized as five dimensional: space-time-energy. The three dimensions of space, the time and the humming “noise”. Thus OM represents all the observed attributes of the manifest Universe. 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. The dot is the humming “noise” corresponding to few degrees Kelvin experimentally observed to permeate outer space. It is a continuum and not a continuity because the relationship between the components is not obvious. The crescent represents the time component of the space time continuum. The three limbs of the Devanagari OM stand for the curved three-dimensional space or the material part of the Universe. It is the complete description of the four dimensional Universe and the “noise” pervading it. OM Tat Sat, the Hindus say, meaning that OM is the reality. Behind the seemingly absurd symbols lurk meanings only a twentieth century person can understand and appreciate. Hindu mythology presents quintessential science as imaginative fiction. How did our ancients arrive at such startling conclusions? Was it by intuition? We are not in a position to give an answer to it. It tallies with the experimental conclusions of science. In a highly condensed form Hindu genesis is represented by the icon, Padmanabha.
The Hindu view of Genesis is more detailed and is explained here. It describes the creation of the Universe, the solar system and the living beings in the course of six days by God. The Book of Genesis or B'reshiyth (בְּרֵאשִׁית) is the first book of the Jewish Bible. *Discussions must be supported by evidence or quotes. This project aims to chart out common ancestors through deliberation upon evidence, common or similar, found in the Vedas, Puranas, Shrutis, Smritis, Upanyas' and Upanishads of the Indian sub-continent, and the Bible, the Tanach / Mirqa and the Quran without bias.
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