Myths are nothing but jumbled memories of a true past. A past buried under mounds of earth and ignorance.
This trilogy is based on this fundamental premise.
I believe that the Hindu gods were not mythical beings or a figment of a rich imagination.
I believe that they were creatures of flesh and blood, like you and me.
I believe that they achieved godhood through their karma, their deeds.
I believe that the words Vishnu and Mahadev are not individual names. They are in fact titles, given to those persons who are the greatest of leaders, who become god-like.
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- I compartmentalize stuff. I line up things, bulletize lists, segregate them. That is not to say I am tidy. My desk will be the messiest. But if I see a 'set desk' I will invariably straighten it up so that each thing is equidistant from the other equivalent thing, or there will be a pattern in the set after I leave that desk. There is a strange method to my madness. I am lazy, I procrastinate stuff. I start a thing & I get bored by the time I have to complete it. I am not regular. If I had to get readers, they would get bored waiting for me to put up new stuff. I'm opinionated. I have an opinion about everything. Even if I do not share it with you, which more often than not I won't if you are not close to me. & even when I do share opinions I won't share the thoughts swirling in the deepest, darkest or perhaps brightest corners of my mind. So I took up to writing blogs, yes blogs.. coz I write too many of them... infrequently. There is no regularity. But again all of them are 'compartmentalized'. See if you can find them all! :P
The Vishnus are those leaders who create a new way of life. Who select a band of followers and lead them to a better path. They are the ‘propagators of good’. They work in partnership with the Mahadevs. A partnership spread over many centuries. Much like the partnership that exists between the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas in Tibetan Buddhism.
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The Mahadevs come in fewer numbers than the Vishnus. They are not required to create a new way of life. They are not required to choose a band of followers and lead them to a better path. They act like surgeons. They have to come in to remove a sickness which will destroy the entire body. Their task clears the land of the malevolent effects of evil. For only with the removal of evil, can good burst forth with renewed creativity. The Mahadevs are therefore, the ‘destroyers of evil’.
Lord Shiva was an outsider, much like Lord Rudra, the previous Mahadev before him. This was an advantage for Shiva, for it allowed him to remain independent of any side. It allowed him to tackle evil with focus and detachment – much like a surgeon does when removing a malignant tumour from the human body. His job is just to remove the cancer. Then the body will heal itself.
But removing the cancerous cells and not a healthy organ takes precision, skill and commitment. Evil is misleading. It points fingers at others. It confuses. It creates divisions.
The Mahadev’s task is not easy.
I firmly believe, that myths arise from the pages of history, exaggerated beyond the imaginations of unsuspecting humans thereby giving them them the persona of a legend.
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