Genesis (Bonus Features)

While the Genesis story in the Bible focuses on the fall of original man,
the Hindu scriptures extol the first beings on earth as divine individuals
who could assume corporeal forms and similarly create offspring
by divine command of their will.

In one such account, in the hoary Purana, Srimad Bhagavata,
the first man and woman in physical form,
the Hindu 'Adam and Eve,'
were called Svayambhuva Manu
('man born of the Creator')
and his wife Shatarupa
('having a hundred images or forms')
whose children intermarried with Prajapatis,
perfect celestial beings who took physical forms to become
the progenitors of mankind.

Thus, entering the original unique human forms created by God
were souls that had either passed through the upward
evolutionary stages of creation as Prakriti prepared the earth
for the advent of man,
or were pristine souls that had descended to earth specifically
to begin the world's human population.

In either case, original man was uniquely endowed to express
soul perfection.

Those 'Adams and Eves' and their offspring
who maintained their divine consciousness in
the 'Eden' of the spiritual eye
returned to Spirit or the heavenly realms
after a blissful sojourn on earth.

The 'fallen' human beings
and their 'fallen' offspring
were caught in the reincarnational cycles
that are the fate of desire-filled,
sense-identified mortals.

(God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita, commentary on XV:I)