Why are we called men? – J K SIVAN
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA told this story in a speech in America.
The old Testament tells us about the deluge. The Babylonians, Egyptians, Chinese and the Hindus also have their stories of the deluge.
Manu, a great ancient sage, was praying on the banks of the Ganges, when a little minnow came to him for protection. He put it into a pot of water before him.
“What do you want?” asked Manu.
The little minnow replied: ‘’I am pursued by a big fish. Save me from it ‘’
Manu carried the little fish to his home. By next morning the small fish became as big as the pot, and said,
“I cannot live in this pot any longer.”
Manu put the fish in a tank, and the next day it became as big as the tank.
So Manu took the big gish to a river and by next morning the big fish filled the river. Manu then put the big fish into the ocean.
The biggest fish then said: “Manu, I am the Creator of the Universe. I have taken this form to come and warn you that I will deluge the world. You build an ark, and in it put a pair of every kind of animals, and let your family enter the ark, and there will project out of the water, my horn. Fasten the ark to it, and when the deluge subsides, come out and people the earth.”
So the world was deluged, and Manu saved his own family and two of every kind of animal and seeds of every plant. When the deluge subsided, he came and peopled the world and we are all called “man,” because we are the progeny of Manu.
