All shades of Hindus believe that the Preserver Vishnu comes to earth in different forms — suitable to the time that the world needs at that period. The first four manifest forms — the unmanifest takes, are known as ‘Bhogi’; they proceed slowly from the lowest animal form to the higher animal forms, in the soul’s advancement for the fulfilment [...]
The second form of life that took its journey towards evolution was its efforts to come out of the waters and be able to exist on land. In this process came the ‘Kurma’ avtar. The story connected with this avtar is as follows: […]
After the evolument of an animal who could remain both in water and land, the process had to bring a form of life much more suitable to land, so came a life form which the Hindu believe to be the avtar of Vishnu in the form of a ‘boar’ or ‘Varaha’ which could swim but had four very mobile legs [...]