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Dear Vishnu,
My original problem statement was that we should not go beyond vedic 
texts. Seen from that light, extending the meaning of "to enter" 
or "to pervade" to include spatio-temporal and psycho-somatic 
pervasion is uncalled for from Rig Vedic sUktas. Traditional Indian 
bhashyakartas (and European sanskritists after them) offer a "solar 
interpretation", where the pervasion simply means pervasion of sun's 
rays and this might very well be true. (I find lot of holes in this 
interpretation is a different story).

Excuse me for a digression and poor analogy - There is a movie 
called "Being John Malcovich" - The premise is that, there is a 
mysterious room in a mysterious story in a building and it contains a 
portal into the mind of John Malcovich. One gets to look and see 
through the eyes and mind of him. One day, John malcovich 
accidentally enters the portal. He sees all people as himself, (in 
restaurant for e.g.) and all he hears is "malcovich.. john 
malcovich ..." 

Coming back to main topic, here are some "correct interpretations" of 
certain Rig mantras.

1. Vishnu slayed vishnu and released vishNus.
2. Vishnu and vishnu trampled on the dead bodies of vishnus.

etc. and the incorrect interpretations are

1. Indra slayed vrtra and released the waters.
2. Indra and vishnu trampled on the dead bodies of dasyus.

I would much prefer the "incorrect" interpretations - The "correct" 
interpretation looks like "Being John Malcovich" to me.

Things begin to get funny when you apply this interpretation to Indo-
Iranian Avestan religion. Well, one might object saying why should we 
apply this interpretation to different religion and close their eyes 
to "sacrificing unto vayu", verethraghna, mithra and ahura, athrawan 
and zaotar priests, offering haoma etc. If these remind one of vayu, 
Indra vrtrahan, mithra and varuna, atharvan and hotr priests and 
offering soma, it is a solid start.

If time permits, I'll post about ten incarnations of the Indo-Iranian 
Verethraghna, which includes boar and dwarf.

Regards,
Kasturi Rangan .K



--- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Vishnu" <vsmvishnu@xxxx> wrote:
> --- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "amshuman_k" <amshuman_k@xxxx> 
wrote:
> > Dear Sriram,
> >
> > Correct interpretation: "Vishnu, the antaryami of Indra!, we 
> > sons ...."
> > 
> > Now, here is the interesting part:
> > 4. "VishNu the bull, far-stepper, far-goer made three steps and 
> from 
> > his feet all these were created..."
> > Correct interpretation: "Vishnu, the antaryami of VishNu...." 
wait, 






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