Vishnu Avatars in Scriptures

Scientific Correlations

1. Matasya Avatar - > Life originated in sea, fish are the first vertebrates

Age of fish - 400 million years, Tetrapod fish evolved.

2. Kurma - > They represent amphibians, could survive on both land and water

365 million years ago - turtle and amphibians evolved.

3. Varaha -> Wild land animal - complete transition from water to land, next milestone in evolution

200-250 million years ago, Sauropsids (egg laying on land) and Synapsid (proto mammals had eyeholes in skull behind) evolved the primitive land dwellers. This was age of dinosaurs too.

4. Narasimha -> (half men-half lion) conceptualization of Homo sapiens, the next big thing in evolution

5-200 million years ago various creatures, animals, mammals evolved; Hence, Narsimha represents a transition from animals and humans.

5. Vaman -> Short human being, still not completely evolved

4.4 million Years ago Australopithecus evolved. They were 1-1.2 m tall, first species of human evolution.

6. Parashuram -> Living in jungles, started using weapons

500,000 years ago, Homo Heidelbergenesies used advanced forms of tools and were primitively socializing, yet wild.

7. Ram -> Moving to civil societies, learning to live as community and to respect women. various skills developed, still not corrupt

10,000 BC fully evolved intellectual humans, who could think about humanity, piety and impiety. Respected people women and developed cooperative behaviours akin to current stage.

8. Kritsna -> Society advancement in political field, complexity added manipulation and greed

3000 BC, revivalist of humanity as it saw the nadir of impiety out of selfish desires, greed, power-led malfeasance and attachments.

9. Buddha > Emphasized on Sankhya. On the path of enlightenment, more evolved human being, trying to find answers within

600 BC, societies lost the core virtues of Dharma, fought and killed each other for frivolous reasons. They overemphasized symbolic rituals, considering practices as religion without deeper understanding of it. This is when Logic of Religion was emphasized by Bhagwan Buddha, which had its origin in Kapil's Sankhya, which is also the base of Srimad Bhagwad Gita.

10. Kalki ->Human advanced to the age of machineries
* Vishnu Avatar is nothing but a representation of the evolution of Earth; Telling us symbolically, how life was first created, evolved and various stages thereafter. Our scriptures made sense. It once again proves that mythical stories, which encoded the scientific knowledge for preservation, were created so that they could be easily remembered.

Yet to come! Worth noticing that Kal means machines and mechanical process. Kalki is said to be the next Avatar in the current era. There are numerous possibilities and interpretations of it. Humanity would discard all virtues and live in stress and fear and this is when an avatar- called Kalki - would use super-intellectual Robots and gadgets to save the world. Scriptures say that our era (Kal-yug) is world of machine and so as the name Kalki suggest, the new avatar has to be a man of machines. He cannot be a robot himself as it contradicts other logics of souls and consciousness. However, he might use various machines as weapons and sound more pragmatic and in line with other concepts.