Hero with Thousand Faces...Survival of the fittest.

Our family for logical reason do not idolize folks like zealot fans. We appreciate and do like some people with whom we 'connect' but I cannot imagine a scenario where we go with a garland with a group to put it around whoever it might be - 

a cinema hero or a political leader or such. 

Every human - woman/man for that matter, is a hero/heroine with thousand faces/roles in her/his life time.

We are born little children, then young adults, adults, daughters, sons, wives, husbands, sisters, brothers, fathers, mothers, friends, members, colleagues, elders and so on and so forth. Many faces, many roles ----> one human.

I have read Joseph Campbell's works and realized during the time I could pause & reflect & think how we all made progress....in life form

from a small cell (you and Avinash being Biotech Engineers know more than me) From Embryo to full cycle of Dasha Avatar, an analogy of Embryo transformation to human.

from cell progression, a microscopic life form to the higher order of animals, so the journey had to be exciting...

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1.Matsya - fish, the first class of vertebrates; Life/single cell organisms evolved in water; Invasion of land by fish;

Embryo swims in fluid as a fish, a fact is our vertibrae still represents closely  that of a fish which I read in a book 'Your Inner Fish - Neil Shubin'

2.Kurma - Tortoise, amphibious (living in both water and land), 

Embryo starts developing limbs, organs that help live on land

3.Varaha - Boar, Mammal wild land-based animal

Embryo becomes a vertibrae, land dwelling animal, with respiratory systems, hands, legs for land based living

4.Narasimha - Lion/man, beings that are half-animal and half-human (indicative of emergence of human thoughts but Animal actions but getting powerful and wild in nature)

Embryo/Child develops fingers, nails like Narasimha and gets active

5.Vamana - short, premature human beings, hominids

Child grows and takes human form

6.Parasurama - Full grown human with powers to survive in the world and remove obstacles he faces taking them head on

Child is delivered, new life to mother

7.Rama - humans living in community, beginning of civil society, setting up life standards, rules, family, relationships

Child learns to live in society, marries

8.Krishna - humans practicing animal husbandry, politically advanced societies, strategies, groups

Child grows up to middle age, life-leading strategies, life-saving wars 

9.Buddha - humans finding enlightenment

Old age, inner looking, welfare of not only self, but all

10.Kalki - death and its great powers of destruction and so the cycle begins...

Full circle, from tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come and go!! At the time of birth, only guaranteed

thing is death, as life once born is like a released arrow shooting towards death - it can never be turned back.

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There is a programmme in Bhakti TV ' Andhra Mahabharatam' by Garikapati Narasimha Rao (you can watch few episodes 

on YouTube). So it starts with a cinema song(from the film Kurukshetra - Hero Krishna, Sobhan Babu..). The song

brilliantly relates Mahabharatam/Kurukshethra war to human's life struggles/war. It goes like this

Manava(Human) Jeevithame Oka MahaBharatam, Adhi Manchi Chedula Renti Naduma Nithya Garshanam, Narulunde Ila Sadanam(Earth) Kurukshethrama,

Ika Jaruguthundhi Anu Kshanam Dharma Yuddhame'....But like warrior Arjuna did before Bhagavad Gita preaching and

counselling by Lord Krishna, we do not have a choice to refuse to go on with it...

Anivaryam(Must and should) Yuddham, Sara(Arrow) Sandhaname(Aim and Shoot in life) Dharmam....!!

The battlefield is symbolic of the field of life, where everyone strives to live by survival of the fittest.

Each of us is a Hero with Thousand Faces.