A Study of the Bhagavata Purana or Esoteric Hinduism Part 38

Galava, Diptiman, Parasurama, Asvatthama, Kripa, Rishya Sringa and Vyasa shall be the seven Ris.h.i.+s.

Sarvabhouma, son of Devaguhya by Sarasvati, shall be the Avatara. He shall wrest the kingdom of Svarga Loka from Purandara and make it over to Bali.

(The eighth Manvantara is the Second half of the Fourth Round and should be the spiritual half according to Theosophical ideas. But we find the Asura King Bali, who was removed from the kingdom of Triloki in the Vaivasvat Manvantara, restored to the kingdom of Svarga).

Amongst the Ris.h.i.+s we find Parasurama who fought with Rama and Asvatthama and Kripa who ranged themselves against the Pandava brothers in the battle of Kurukshetra.

All this shews that spirituality was developed out of materiality. The sons of Manu are Nirmoka and Virajaska. _Moka_ is the cast off skin of an animal and may well represent the sthula body. Nirmoka is one without Moka.

Virajaska is without Rajas. So the course of evolution shews a tendency in the first place to cast off the sthula body and to overcome the Rajas.

THE NINTH MANVANTARA.

*SKANDHA VIII. CHAP. 13.*

The ninth Manu is Daksha Savarni. He is the son of Varuna Bhutaketu, Diptaketu and others shall be his sons. Para, Marichi garbha and others shall be the Devas and Adbhuta their Indra. Dyu timat and others shall be the Ris.h.i.+s.

Rishabha, son of ayushmat by Ambudhara, shall be the Avatara.

THE TENTH MANVANTARA.

*SKANDHA VIII. CHAP. 13.*

Brahma Savarni is the tenth Manu. He is the son of Upasloka. Bhurishena and others shall be his sons. Havishmat, Sukrita, Satya, Jaya, Murti and others shall be the Ris.h.i.+s; Suvasana, Aviruddha and others shall be the Devas and Sambhu their Indra.

Vishvaksena, son of Visvasrij by Visuchi, shall be the Avatara.

THE ELEVENTH MANVANTARA.

*SKANDHA VIII. CHAP. 13*

Dharma Savarni is the eleventh Manu. Satya-Dharma and others shall be his ten sons. Vihangama, Kalagama, Nirvana-ruchi and others shall be the Devas, Vaidhrita their king, and Aruna and others the Ris.h.i.+s.

Dharma-Setu, son of aryaka by Vaidhrita shall be the Avatara.

THE TWELFTH MANVANTARA.

*SKANDHA VIII. CHAP. 13.*

Rudra-Savarni is the twelfth Manu. Devavat, Upadeva, Devasrestha and others shall be his sons (men shall be evolved into Devas In this Manvantara). Harita and others shall be the Devas, Ritadhaman their Indra. Tapomurti, Tapasvin, Agnidhraka and others the Ris.h.i.+s; Svadhaman, son of Satya-sahas by Sunrita, shall be the Avatara.

THE THIRTEENTH MANVANTARA.

*SKANDHA VIII. CHAP. 13.*

Deva Savarni is the thirteenth Manu. Chitra Sena, Vichitra and others shall he his sons, Sukarma and Sutrama the Devas, Divaspati their Indra and Nirmoka, Tatvadarsa, and others the Ris.h.i.+s.

Yogesvara, son of Devahotra by Vrihati, shall be the Avatara.

THE FOURTEENTH MANVANTARA.

*SKANDHA VIII. CHAP. 13.*

Indra Savarni is the fourteenth Manu. Uru, Gambhira, Vradhna and others shall be his sons.

Pavitra and Chakshusha the Devas, Suchi their Indra, Agni, Vahu, Suchi, Suddha Magadha and others the Ris.h.i.+s.

Brihat-bhanu, son of Satrayana by Vitana, shall be the Avatara (_i.e._ the great sun shall absorb everything.)

THE ADMINISTRATION OF A MANVANTARA

*SKANDHA VIII. CHAP. 14.*

Said Raja Pariks.h.i.+t: - Tell me, O Ris.h.i.+, what are the respective duties of Manu and others in the Manvantaras.

Suka replied: - The _Avatara_ of each Manvantara guides the Manu, the sons of Manu, the Ris.h.i.+s, the Indra and the Devas of that Manvantara.

(Each Manvantara has its own place in the history of the Kalpa, and the general evolution has to be worked out in the way best adapted to that Manvantara. The administration of each Manvantara is in the hands of a separate set of kings and ministers. Vishnu incarnates in each Manvantara, as the king of all who serve as administrative officers of that Manvantara and he is as such called the special Avatara for that Manvantara. The divine kings, the Ris.h.i.+s, the Devas, all work under His direction. He gives the law that is to be administered. He shews the path, which evolution is to take in any particular Manvantara.)

Yajna and others are Avataras of Purusha. Guided by them, Manu and others lead the course of the universe.

_Ris.h.i.+s_: - At the end of every four Yugas, the Srutis become devoured by time. (The human races have a life period timed to the four Yugas.

They have their infancy, as it were, in Satya Yuga, and they have to be guided by wise sayings, which form the Srutis of those races. The Srutis become better understood with the growth of racial intelligence and other texts take the place of old ones. When the races do not require the help of the earlier texts, those texts become lost in time. When the races begin another life cycle, they require again the help of teachings, which become revealed to the Ris.h.i.+s. The Ris.h.i.+s then give those teachings to the races.) The Ris.h.i.+s find out the Srutis, by means of Tapas. The eternal Dharma proceeds from the Srutis. (People know their duties from the scriptures.)

_Ma.n.u.s_. - The Ma.n.u.s then take up the Dharma, and each in his own time devotedly promulgates it on the earth.

_Manu's sons_. - The sons of Manu preserve the Dharma, generation after generation, till the end of the Manvantara.

_Devas and Indra_. - Indra, with the Devas that partic.i.p.ate in sacrificial offerings, protects the three Lokas and gives rains.