Vasu asked, "Mom,
I am a genetic scientist. I am working in the US on the evolution of man. "Theory of evolution. Charles Darwin" have you heard of him? "
His Mother sat next to him,
smiled and said, "I know about Darwin, Vasu.
The ten avatars of Vishnu?"
Vasu replied yes.
"Ok! Then let me tell you what you and your Darwin don't know.
Listen carefully:
The first avatar was the Matsya avatar, it means the fish. That is because life began in the water.
Vasu began to listen with a little more attention.
She continued,
"Then came the Koorma Avatar,
which means the tortoise, because life moved from the water to the land. The amphibian!
So the Tortoise denoted the evolution from sea to land.
which meant the wild animals with not much intellect, you call them the Dinosaurs, correct?"
Vasu nodded wide eyed.
"The fourth avatar was Narasimha,
half man and half animal, the evolution from wild animals to intelligent beings.
who could grow really tall. Do you know why that is?
Because, there were two kinds of humans, Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens and Homo Sapiens won that battle."
Vasu could see that his Mother was in full flow and he was stupefied.
the man who wielded the axe, lived in cave and forest dweller. Angry, and not social.
The seventh avatar was Ram,
the first rational thinking social being, who practised and laid out the laws of society and the basis of human relationships.
a true farmer who showed value of agriculture in the life.
The Ninth avatar was Krishna,
the statesman, the politician, the diplomat, the Ambassador, the sutile interpreter, the lover who played the game of society
And finally, my boy,
will come Kalki,
the man you are working on.
The man who will be genetically supreme."
Vasu looked at his Mother speechless.
"This is amazing Mom, how did you .... ?
She said, "Yes it does, son!
We Indians knew some amazing things,
but just thought, how to pass it on scientifically to be memorized...
So we made them into mythological stories.
Mythology creates faith and makes man sensible.
Religious or Scientific. Your call."
( A Must Read n pass it on to other people to appreciate Indian knowledge which was way ahead than today's modern science)