Is Lord Vishnu black?

Vishnu has a blue or dark complexion because he reflects the color of the cosmos. Vishnu's complexion is also understood to be the color of dark storm clouds and the color of the moon. Some scholars believe that Vishnu's “blueness” is a result of Krishna's dark complexion, as Krishna is an avatar of Vishnu.
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Who is the black form of Vishnu?

Vishnu is described in these texts as mayon, or "one who is dark or black in color" (in north India, the equivalent word is Krishna).
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What does Vishnu really look like?

What does Vishnu look like? Vishnu is represented with a human body, often with blue coloured skin and with four arms. His hands always carry four objects in them, representing the things he is responsible for.
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What nationality is Vishnu?

Vishnu is the god of Preservation, the great maintainer who often appears in various incarnations (avatara) to provide salvation for humanity. Some of his best-known avatars, who are tremendously popular and beloved throughout Hindu India, are the gods Krishna and Rama.
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What is the real colour of Lord Shiva?

What does Shiva look like? Shiva is usually depicted as white, from the ashes of corpses that are smeared on his body, with a blue neck, from holding poison in his throat.
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Why are indian gods blue || why indian god rama krishna colours blue explain by sadhguru



What is Lord Vishnu skin color?

Vishnu has a blue or dark complexion because he reflects the color of the cosmos. Vishnu's complexion is also understood to be the color of dark storm clouds and the color of the moon. Some scholars believe that Vishnu's “blueness” is a result of Krishna's dark complexion, as Krishna is an avatar of Vishnu.
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What is Lord Vishnu skin Colour?

What was the skin color of Lord Vishnu? Vishnu is typically depicted with sky-blue skin. He also has four arms: a pair at the front of his body representing his physical presence in the material world, and two at the back symbolizing his existence in the spiritual realm.
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Who is father of Vishnu?

The birth of these three Gods is a great mystery in itself. While many purans believe that God Brahma and God Vishnu were born from God Shiva, there is no hardcore evidence to prove the same.
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Where is Vishnu God now?

He is considered to live in the city of Vaikuntha on Mt. Meru, where everything is made of shining gold and fabulous jewels and where there are lakes resplendent with lotus flowers.
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Who is the biggest God in the world?

Indra also called Śakra, the supreme god, is the first of the 33, followed by Agni.
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What is the real body Colour of Lord Krishna?

According to Vedas, Lord Krishna is a dark-skinned Dravidian god. Even in traditional patta chitras (cloth art) in Odisha, Lord Krishna and Vishnu are always shown having black skin.
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What is the real height of Lord Vishnu?

Lord Vishnu is in the form of Trivikrama(5th Incarnation of Lord Vishnu). Even then he could not see the lords full form. Hence he requested Lord to give him the form of Aadiseshar Snake . Here Lord Vishnu is close to 35 feet tall more than 20 feet wide with his left leg lifted onto the sky.
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Who Swallowed Vishnu?

Meanwhile, Lord Shiva tries to make Lohitang realise his mistakes. Indradev requests Lord Shiva to protect him from Shankhchur. Meanwhile, Nigas swallows Lord Vishnu.
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Who is black god in Hinduism?

Kali, (Sanskrit: “She Who Is Black” or “She Who Is Death”) in Hinduism, goddess of time, doomsday, and death, or the black goddess (the feminine form of Sanskrit kala, “time-doomsday-death” or “black”).
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Which god loves black colour?

04/11Bhagwan Shani

He loves black and his favourite foods include black sesame laddus made with jaggery and khichdi made with black lentils. Lord Shani is the son of Surya and Chhaya.
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Is Goddess Kali black?

Mother Nature

The Dark appearance of Kali represents the darkness from which everything was born. Her complexion is black. As she is also the goddess of Preservation, Kali is worshiped as the preserver of nature. Kali is standing calm on Shiva, her appearance represents the preservation of mother nature.
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Who is bigger Shiva or Vishnu?

Each is the Lord of the other. In Hindu scriptures, there are 18 puranas – each dedicated to a particular name for God – and each establishing that name as supreme. The Shiva purana establishes Lord Shiva as the greatest. The Vishnu purana establishes Lord Vishnu as the greatest.
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What is the age of Vishnu?

Age of Lord Vishnu is 7 times the age of Brahma. Therefore age of Vishnu is 7 x 100 "Divine years" = 700 "Divine years" = 2177280000000000 earth years (2 quadrillion 177 trillion 280 billion years).
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Who was the last Vishnu?

Kalkin, also called Kalki, final avatar (incarnation) of the Hindu god Vishnu, who is yet to appear. At the end of the present Kali yuga (age), when virtue and dharma have disappeared and the world is ruled by the unjust, Kalkin will appear to destroy the wicked and to usher in a new age.
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Who is the first god?

Who is Brahma? Brahma is the first god in the Hindu triumvirate, or trimurti. The triumvirate consists of three gods who are responsible for the creation, upkeep and destruction of the world. The other two gods are Vishnu and Shiva.
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Who can defeat Shiva?

Ifrit is the perfect summon to use against Shiva because Ifrit's attacks exploit Shiva's weaknesses. While Ifrit will attack Shiva automatically, you and your party can use your own ATB Points to make Ifrit use more powerful fire attacks against the ice queen.
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Is Rama blue or black?

Thus blue is considered the most neutral of all the colors. For this reason, the incarnations of Shri Vishnu, Shri Krishna, Shri Rama are shown with blue skin color.
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Is Krishna blue skinned?

Lord Krishna is the incarnation of Lord Vishnu and his blue colour is emblematic of internal strength, the calmness and serenity. As per ancient scriptures, when the Demon Putana tried to kill the young Krishna with his poisoned milk, Krishna didn't die and instead, his skin became blue.
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What is the colour of Lord Ram?

He is shown black, blue or dark color, typically wearing reddish color clothes. If his wife and brother are a part of the iconography, Lakshamana is on his left side while Sita always on the right of Rama, both of golden-yellow complexion.
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