Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji
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CHAPTER 7
Immaculate Knowledge
According to Indian mythology, Manu experienced a doom in which eleven sages had sailed, by tying their boat to the fin of a fish, to a towering peak of the Himalayas and found shelter there[1]. In the sacred composition called the Shreemad-Bhagwat[2], which is contemporaneous with Krishn-God came down to earth for his pleasure and dealing with his life and precepts, the sage Mrikandu’s son Markandeya Ji has rendered an account of the doom he claims to have seen with his own “eyes”. He lived on the north of the Himalayas, on the bank of the Pushpbhadr river. According to Chapter 8 and 9 of the twelfth section of Shreemad Bhagwat, the great sage Shaunak and some others told Sut Ji (a pupil of Vyas) the Markandeya Ji had a vision of Balmukund (infant Vishnu) on a Banyan-leaf.
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References and Context
- ↑ The reference here is to Matsya-Avtar, the first of the ten incarnations of Vishnu. During the reign of the Seventh Manu, the whole earth, which had become corrupt, was swept away by a flood, and all living beings perished except the pious Manu and the eleven sages who were saved by Vishnu in the form of a huge fish. The entire episode is, of course, symbolic.
- ↑ Name of one of the eighteen Puran (repositories of the Hindu mythology). It has already been pointed out that, like the Mahabharat, these scriptures are also ascribed to Maharshi Vyas.