#Bible : #Genesis
#LIBERATING_INDIAN_MIND- -46

A culture is a flexible mould with its own chemistry. Anything poured into it may not be replica of others that receive it nor the reception is purely passive and indiscriminate. The role of linguistics substrate is not missed by sensible scholars but that of substrate cultures is generally ignored, national temperament is not at all given weight while all borrowing and even imitations are a testimony to our thesis, Divergence apart the binding chords do not connect the divergent offshoots tut run straight to the original. This fact was so clearly perceived and so eloquently and convincingly expresses by Max Muller and yet the home of ‘Sanskrit’ was only slightly moved aside is a glaring example of how obsessed with Indian superiority they were. However one of his aims of his Vedic scholarship was to establish superiority of Christian religion, as he admitted in intimate communications. He was also eager to start a parallel branch of Comparative Religion that prompted him to pioneer a project of translating Sacred Books of East Series. Here as well we find confirmation of the same Vedic impact as we find in language.

All the religions having similarities with Indian themes, thoughts, and symbols have their pure, pristine and sensible from s in India, while they turn vague, a bit incoherent and decadent as they proceeded Westward. Not only that, much of the content is lost that makes them translucent calling for surmises and laboured explanations. This is what we witnessed in the three similitude that we noticed yesterday.

What was there when creation was not undertaken by God? In what state and where was he? The Christian belief is that it was chaos. But What was the state of chaos? Was The God part of that Chaos? Where did he stay even if devoid of form ? What was he doing till that time? These questions could not be avoided had religious or say metaphysical cosmology had its roots in the West. They were raised and answered so aptly, logically and with necessary skeptically in the Nasadiya Sukta that we refuse to believe what we read because of it’s unexpected authenticity.

But the Biblical genesis was not inspired by a single poem, although it convinces us of the fact that this Sukta was learnt by the settler in Anatolia and its vicinity. Of the two versions of fish incarnation of ViShnu, the convincing one relating to recovery of the Vedas from a devil hidden in Parala, also confirms the loss of the Vedas and the fact that it was in their knowledge that those settled abroad have maintained the text faithfully.

What musk not be missed is that it was a recurring theme of the Vedic contemplation, and as such numerous theories were prevalent regarding the beginning of creation, and they all formed part of the cultural noise there as well. One of them in The Purusha Sukta is that all the creation came in to being in one go सकृत द्यौ अजायत सकृत् भू: अजायत, the Biblical command “Let there be light and there was light.” owes its inspiration from this one.

There is another version in which it was all primordial water, (अप्रकेत) but extraordinary, (ससार) containing all that became manifest later. It was sensate. It wished to manifest in multiple forms and he heated himself and toiled (अतप्यत् श्रमो अश्राम्यत )and in the process got tired and exhausted ( श्रान्त: तेपान:) and as such had to take rest to evolve further. This idea again was borrowed but the days are inconceivable in absence of the Sun which as said were created on the fourth day. Such discrepancies are not found in any of the Vedic versions. They try to be rational and matter of fact.

There is another borrowing of making a woman out of the male. In Indian versions the lord of time कालेश्वर represents hermaphroditic characteristics of both genders(अर्धनारीश्वर), and even Kali in her primordial form is not feminine, but represents the two genders and the other is created out of her rib. in the Biblical account we find it a bit bizarre in form.