Many of the stories about the Hindu gods are charmingly anthropomorphic, but it's a mistake to take them too literally. The myths point to a higher reality, as the Hindu guru will explain.
The Vishnu Purana describes who Vishnu reality is. The cosmic waters are Vishnu's body. From this the universe is made, the Earth, the stars, the many dimensions of the reality, everything that is and ever will be. He exists in all forms but he is not material. Rather he is intelligence itself. Nothing exists outside him. As the Vishnu Purana puts it, " He who knows Vishnu as the unchanging, eternal, universal reality, enters into the Supreme Lord, and becomes one with that preeminent deity".
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