VEDAS

Knowledge can be acquired and applied. Acquiring knowledge on various aspects of God will be interesting and never ending, as it's unimaginably vast. With our limited knowledge, though it is very difficult to understand HIM, there are a few points that can be shared.

We will start with a simple approach and try to explore some aspects of some of HIS qualities.

When we purchase an article with lot more technical stuff in it, based on the worthiness and complexity, the article comes with a literature. The literature would be a guideline to assemble various parts of it, and to understand how the article works. If the product has too many features and functionality, sometimes, a representative would be sent to give a brief demo on how the product works. When this is true for simple man made articles, would not we need some one else [devotees of the Lord like Alwars and Nayanmars ] or some evidence to show us a few qualities of the creator, who created these massive planets, powerful stars, the Sun, the Moon, and so on ?. In addition to that, so many questions would raise in our minds, such as

• How do these planets revolve around the sun?
• Who supplies the fuel for them constantly, and where does the fuel come from? 
• Do they run without fuel?
• What about wear and tear of these revolving masses ?
• What is the purpose of these actions?
• Is it all natural or some supreme power made it happen and we named it as nature?

and many more unanswered questions.
It leaves us with lot more contemplation of the creator. Our life time is limited to only praise these creations without thinking of how great the creator would be.

Any belief on religion says that God revealed himself in the form of Vedas, which in our mundane language, the literature about HIM.

What are Vedas?
God revealed Vedas to us and HE reveals himself through Vedas
A simple analogy would explain what Vedas mean by.

Analogy: When we stand in front of the mirror, obviously, we see the exact replica of our image. The image does everything of what we do. In a similar pattern, to Lord Narayana, Garuda is HIS reflection and hence Garuda would be facing HIM in all temples. Since, Garuda or Naimidevan is the mirror image of the Lord, He represents vedas which say all about the Lord.

NITHYASOORI
All living entities are said to be from the 'Marginal Energy' of the Ultimate God. Needless to mention that a spark from HIM would posses the qualities of HIM. No one is inferior and each soul that takes birth has some meaning for taking such a birth. We can say that birth of each soul is a kind of incarnation to this world to perform his purpose of coming to this wonderful Earth.
Suparna, otherwise called as Garuda is one of the 'Nithya Sooryas' has taken the birth to relieve his mother from slavery. His story of birth and how he relieves his mother from the bondage of slavery, is an interesting one and shows to the mankind that how we're indebted to our parents.

VINATHA'S IMPATIENCE
Vinatha and Kadru were wives of Kashyap muni [sainly person]. Kashyappa was said to be the father of all living beings. When Vinatha and Kadru approached him to beget children for them. Kadru asked him to bless her with powerful snakes as children, and Vinatha requested him for knowledgeable children. Kashyappa blessed them with what they asked for. Time passed by, Vinatha was blessed with two huge eggs and Kadru gave birth to Huge and Powerful snakes like 'Karkodaka', 'Kalinga', and so on. But Vinatha was yet to see her chidren. The eggs took years to get hatched. Vinatha lost patience and wanted to see her chidren, she started breaking one of the eggs. When the egg was broken by her, there was a powerful light from the egg, she saw a divine form of a person looked like the one from celestial planet. The divine person was not full in form, there was no growth of limbs below the hip part of him. He came out of the egg and said, "Oh Mother, you did not have patience to let me grow fully, I'm really disappointed to see how impatient you are". He cursed her and said she would be enslaved by Kadru for this deed and his brother, who is in another egg would relieve her if she would be patient enough to wait till the egg hatches by itself then he flew up in the sky and became the charioteer to the Sun God.
Vinatha was disappointed to hear this and with grief held her patience to see her second son. Days rolled on and Garuda came out of the second egg.

VINATHA vs KADRU
Days rolled by and one fine day, Vinatha and Kadru were talking together and witnessed a ghandarva [angelic person] flying across the sky on a white horse. When he moved away, Kadru said Vinatha that the horse was white in color but the tail was black. In fact, it was not so. Vinatha responded to her and said, she too saw the horse and it wasn't having a black tail. The discussion turned into an argument and both entered into an agreement/bet. Kadru said, if the tail were not black she would become slave to Vinatha and so should Vinatha be to her if she fails. Vinatha agreed to it and started finding the ghandarva. In the mean time, Kadru called one of her children, snake to cover the tail part so that it might look like a black tail. The snake obeyed her mother and flew up and wound over the tail of the horse. When Vinatha and Kadru saw the Ghandarva on the same horse but with tail black in color, Kadru said, "I proved what I said, and You're my slave from today". Vinatha understood that the curse of her first son, Arunan became true.

VINATHA RELIEVED FROM SLAVERY
Garuda, who came out from the egg as the second son, was highly knowledgeable, assumed a golden body with a very huge structure. Devatas [those who're in heaven] and others requested him to reduce himself to a smaller structure. One flap of its wing can...... will continue....