Trivikrama

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Contents

1 A Name of Vishnu
2 Vishnu's Threefold Steps in the Rig Veda
3 Interpretation
4 Trivikrama in the Bible
5 References:

A Name of Vishnu

Trivikrama is one of the many names of the Hindu deity Vishnu meaning 'He who strides out three times'.

Vishnu's Threefold Steps in the Rig Veda

1. Of Vishnu now I declare the mighty works, who has measured out the earthly worlds and that higher seat of our self-accomplishing he supports, he the wide-moving, in the threefold steps of his universal movement.
2. That Vishnu affirms on high by his mightiness and he is like a terrible Lion [LEO] that ranges in the difficult places, yea, his lair is on the mountain-tops, he in whose three wide movements all the worlds find their dwelling-place.
3. Let our strength and our thought go forward to Vishnu the all-pervading, the wide-moving Bull [TAURUS] whose dwelling- place is on the mountain, he who being One has measured all this long and far-extending seat of our self-accomplishing by only three of his strides.
4. He whose three steps are full of the honey- wine and they perish not but have ecstasy by the self-harmony of their nature; yea, he being One holds the triple principle and earth and heaven also, even all the worlds.
5. May I attain to and enjoy that goal of his movement, the Delight, where souls that seek the godhead have the rapture; for there in that highest step of the wide-moving Vishnu is that Friend of men [AQUARIUS] who is the fount of the sweetness.
6. Those are the dwellings-places of ye twain which we desire as the goal of our journey, where the many-horned herds of Light go traveling; the highest step of wide-moving Vishnu shines down on us here in its manifold vastness. (RigVeda 1.154)

Interpretation

Cosmologist Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet holds that Vishnu's three strides are to be understood in terms of the movement of the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Astrological Ages corresponding to the fixed signs of the Zodiac. The Eagle is known to be Vishnu's 'Vahana' or Vehicle, and is also known to be one of the symbols for the fixed sign of Scorpio. In Ms. Norelli-Bachelet's cosmological view, the three strides of Vishnu begin from the starting point of the Age of Scorpio; and from there move in clockwise fashion following the Precession of the Equinoxes (which moves in reverse zodialogical order) through the other three fixed signs of the Zodiac (or Ages of the Precession): Leo, Taurus and Aquarius. PNB teaches that upon each of Vishnu's steps through the Ages of the fixed signs, an Evolutionary Avatar emerges to assist the evolution of consciousness on Earth. This is a controversial teaching implying that an ancient zodiacal knowledge is embedded in the Hindu myth of the Ten Avatars of Vishnu.

Trivikrama in the Bible

Images similar to Trivikrama's movement in the Rig Veda can be found in The Revelation of St John (Chapter 12, 7.), written on the Greek island, Patmos, around 70 AD. In his vision of Heaven or the Cosmos, John sees four `beasts' therein: the first is a Lion, the second is a Calf, the third is a Man, and the fourth an Eagle (Norelli-Bachelet, 1976). The same reference can be found in 'The Book of the Prophet', Ezekiel Chap: 1; 4-20

"I looked and behold, a door opened in Heaven; and the voice said, come up hither, and I will show you the things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: And beheld a throne was set in Heaven and One sat on the throne. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats and upon the seats were four and twenty elders clothed in white raiment and on their heads, crowns of gold. And in the midst of the throne were four beasts with eyes before and behind. And the first beast was like a Lion [Leo] and the second beast like a calf [Taurus], and a third beast had a face as a man [Aquarius] and the forth beast was like a flying eagle [Scorpio]. And the four beast had each of them, six wings about him and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was and is and is to come.“ The Revelation of Saint John the Divine Chap: 4; 1-9

References:

"The New Way: A Study in the Rise and Establishment of a Gnostic Society" Volumes 1 & 2, by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, Aeon Books, ISBN 0945747063.
"The Hidden Manna", by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, Aeon Books, 1976, ISBN 0945747993.

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