Lent Vrat - Week 3 - stories and layers

While delineating concepts, one often resorts to the format of storytelling -  so it reaches a wider audience.

And I do not subscribe to the school of thought that says,
'Stories retold in the Puranas, are merely allegories.
They are not to be considered as chronicles of real events.'

Puranas are chronicles of real life events, even while they serve as pointers to values and concepts.

With flow of time, stories may get distorted.
Hidden layers that communicate inner meaning, may get switched off.
And vital details that need to be communicated, may even get erased from people's memories.
This is what has happened to the ancient dharma that was prevalent in various lands of the globe - when newer religions came to grow alongside.
 
Now we can look, at an example.

-Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi.