Manu
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Oct 20, 2026
Mari AweidahHOST
In some stories, it's also Brahma, and so it kind of changes.
Mari AweidahHOST
But in one very well-known story, Matsya visits Manu, who is a human king.
Mari AweidahHOST
And Manu finds a little fish in his hand, which is Matsya, while he's performing some kind of water ritual, water offering.
Mari AweidahHOST
The fish tells Manu that it fears being eaten by a larger fish and asks for his protection.
Mari AweidahHOST
In return, the fish says it will rescue Manu from an incoming flood.
Mari AweidahHOST
Manu protects the fish until it grows large enough to be safe and frees it.
Mari AweidahHOST
And in the story, he sort of gradually puts it in larger containers, allowing it to grow until it's safe, you So the fish tells him the timing of the flood and tells him to build a boat.
Mari AweidahHOST
And then when the flood comes, the fish helps guide the boat to higher ground.
Jyoti TharavanathNARRATOR
So long as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, twice as long does it rise in the south and set in the north, and so long does he follow the sovereign supremacy of the Rudras.
Jyoti TharavanathNARRATOR
eight khanda on the third of these nectars the adityas live with varuna at their head true the devas do not eat or drink but they enjoy by seeing the nectar they enter into the dark color and they rise from that color he who thus knows this nectar becomes one of the adityas with varuna at their head he sees the nectar and rejoices and he having entered that color rises again from that color so long as the sun rises in the south and sets in the north twice as long does it rise in the west and set in the east and so long does he follow the sovereign supremacy of the adityas ninth khanda on the fourth of these nectars the maruts live with soma at their head true the devas do not eat or drink but they enjoy by seeing the nectar they enter into that very dark color and they rise from that color he who thus knows this nectar becomes one of the maruts with soma at the head he sees the nectar and rejoices and he having entered that color rises again from that color so long as the sun rises in the west and sets in the east twice as long does it rise in the north and set in the south and so long does he follow the sovereign supremacy of the maurits tenth khanda on the fifth of these nectars the sadhyas live with brahman at their head true the devas do not eat or drink but they enjoy by seeing the nectar they enter into that color and they rise from that color he who thus knows this nectar becomes one of the sadhyas with brahman at their head he sees the nectar and rejoices and he having entered that color rises again from that color so long as the sun rises in the north and sets in the south twice as long does it rise above and set below and so long does he follow the sovereign power of the sadyas eleventh khanda when from thence he has risen upwards he neither rises nor sets he is alone standing in the centre and on this there is this verse yonder he neither rises nor sets at any time if this is not true ye gods may i lose brahman and indeed to him who thus knows this brahma upanishad the secret doctrine of the veda the sun does not rise and does not set for him there is day once and for all This doctrine, beginning with third, first, first Brahman, Hiranyagarbha, told to Prajapati, Virag, Prajapati to Manu, Manu to his offspring, Ikshavaku, etc.
Jyoti TharavanathNARRATOR
And the father told that doctrine of Brahman to Uddalaka Aruni.
Jyoti TharavanathNARRATOR
A father may therefore tell that doctrine of Brahman to his eldest son or to a worthy people.
SandraNARRATOR
Note, to the present moment, in spite of all controversies and researches, history and science remain as much as ever in the dark as to the origin of the Jews.
SandraNARRATOR
They may be as well the exiled Jandalas of old India, the bricklayers mentioned by Vina Swata, Vedavyasa, and Manu, as the Phoenicians of Herodotus or the Hyksos of Josephus, or descendants of Pali shepherds, or a mixture of all these.
SandraNARRATOR
The Bible names the Tyrians as a kindred people and claims dominion over them.
SandraNARRATOR
Yet whatever they may have been, they became a hybrid people.
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Kirk ZieglerNARRATOR
End of section 4 Section 5 of Book 1, Part 2 of The Secret Doctrine This is a LibriVox recording.
Kirk ZieglerNARRATOR
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Kirk ZieglerNARRATOR
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Read by Kirk Ziegler The Secret Doctrine by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Book 1, Part 2, The Evolution of Symbolism Section 3, Primordial Substance and Divine Thought, Part 2 If we turn to the ordinance of Manu, we find the prototype of all these ideas.
Kirk ZieglerNARRATOR
Mostly lost to the Western world in their original form, disfigured by later interpolations and additions, they have, nevertheless, preserved quite enough of their ancient spirit to show its character.
Balaji RamaswamyHOST
Vaivasvata manvantare ashtavimshati tame kaliyuge prathame pade" So Vaivasvata manvantare.
Balaji RamaswamyHOST
This is-- Manvantaram is from of Vivas-Vivasvan.
Balaji RamaswamyHOST
And this Vaivasvata Manu belongs to this Surya vamsa.
Balaji RamaswamyHOST
And what did Manu do? Manur ikshwakave abravit.
Jyoti TaravanatNARRATOR
This doctrine, beginning with third, first, first Brahman, Hiranyagarbha, told to Prajapati, Virag.
Jyoti TaravanatNARRATOR
Prajapati to Manu.
Jyoti TaravanatNARRATOR
Manu to his offspring, Ikshavaku, etc.
Jyoti TaravanatNARRATOR
And the father told that doctrine of Brahman to Uddalaka Aruni.
Jyoti TaravanatNARRATOR
A father may therefore tell that doctrine of Brahman to his eldest son or to a worthy people.
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Jyoti TaravanatNARRATOR
Fifteenth Kanda.
Jyoti TaravanatNARRATOR
Brahma, Hiranyagarbha or Parameshwara, told this to Prajapati, Kasyapa.
Jyoti TaravanatNARRATOR
Prajapati to Manu, his son.
S90GUEST
This is a cool graphical.
S90GUEST
Hindu Manu, which is patriarch, basically, right? Elder.
S90GUEST
Biblical patriarch.
StevenHOST
Wow.
StevenHOST
That's going to bring everybody together under common ground.
S90GUEST
Yeah.
speaker_8NARRATOR
… generations of the Manus and their series of incarnations as heroes in the old stories.
speaker_8NARRATOR
The Manus sets the tone and type of any given race in terms of its evolutionary… I