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Vishwaroop: Fourth Dimensional form or beyond

One day, this idea struck my mind while thinking of random things. Many of us know the scene from Mahabharata in which Krishna shows Arjuna his true form. To see that he grants Arjuna divyadrishti or "divine vision".  What Arjuna saw only he knows but in the epic it is described that, in that form Krishna or Vishnu was as big as the universe and had infinite arms and heads.

Now let us come to a scientific theory of 10 dimensions. 1 dimension is a point, 2 dimension is a line joining the points, so it has length and breadth and 3 dimension is something which has length, breadth and depth/height. We are 3rd dimensional people. The 4th dimension is theorised as time or time duration. To get more info on 10 dimensions, watch this video.

Example for 2 dimensional person: a flat drawing of a person or a photograph
Example for 3 dimensional person: a mannequin or we people
Example for 4 dimensional person: a person from his birth to his death or entire life cycle. (time duration)

Now it is theorized that Gods, demons and ghosts live outside the 3rd dimension, so time is relative for them. They can roam around in past, present and future; unlike we mortals who are stuck in only one tense i.e. present. This is the reason ghosts or gods/demigods/angels teleport from one place to another, as they can travel through space and time. But there are more than 4 dimensions... what if 'The God' lives beyond that?

If u want to see a person's time duration, it goes from his birth to his death in a timeline, like a video. If you want to see the whole of the time duration at the same time then it will look something like all the frames of the entire video in front of you on the same screen. Imagine how will it look like?

Painting of the 'Universal form' probably by Raja Ravi Varma


Now let's get back to the scene from the Mahabharata. This universal form of Krishna, called Vishwaroop has infinite number of heads and limbs, it shows creation and destruction of entire universe at the same time. It is infinite and endless. What if that was the 10th dimensional form of the God? It depicts the forms of the god in every tense, from past, present and future. Out of the many heads of the God, some were from his previous incarnations and may be some from the future. Some heads are also of other Hindu gods symbolising that those are different forms of the same God. Same goes with the hand gestures as it depicts infinite limbs. Obviously what we see in pictures, sculptures or TV shows are the imaginations of the artists. Reality might be different from that.


Dear atheists, look at it from scientific and philosophical perspective of ancient Indians. I personally believe the Hindu epics and mythologies are not always literal, they are often symbolic, and most of the times misinterpreted. Thank you for reading my article. Tell me your views on it in the comment section.
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  1. NemMay 24, 2015 at 9:45 AM

    Imagine a higher dimensional being traveling through dimensions. We would see it start as a point, then slowly expand to its complete shape (3D) and then slowly shrink back to a point and finally vanish.

    Same as the flatlanders would imagine us as cross sectional beings. We would imagine higher dimensional beings as point-expands-to-shape-then-shrink-back to point beings lol

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  2. PranavMay 24, 2015 at 9:57 AM

    yeah... so the guy in present tense is a point while his whole life-time is the line.

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