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The Supreme Being is impartial

 

03-01-1998 :: Pg: 24 :: Col: c

 

Cl: Religion

 

CHENNAI, Jan. 3.

 

It is reiterated in the scriptures that the Supreme

Being does not show partiality for anyone and

showers His grace on all who are devoted to Him

and surrender to Him. A perusal of the scriptures

will show that the celestials (Devas) had always

enjoyed His bountiful grace. Does this mean that

the Lord had been partial in their case? Such a

doubt was raised by King Pareekshit during the

course of listening to the Bhagavata Purana from

Sage Suka. The king submitted, ``How did the

Lord who is alike to everyone and is the beloved

friend of all created beings, kill the demons (the

sons of Diti) for the sake of Indra like a partial

being, O holy one?''

 

In his discourse on the Narayaneeyam Sri B.

Sundar Kumar said, the sage explained the

reason for this by relating His incarnation of

Narasimha in the unique form of a man-lion for

the sake of protecting His child-devotee Prahlada

who suffered untold sufferings at the hands of his

own father, the demon-king Hiranyakasipu. The

Almighty incarnates whenever there arises an

occasion to punish those who pose a threat to

Dharma and in the process trouble those who

adhere to the path of Dharma.

 

Hiranyakasipu who started hating the Lord after

his brother Hiranyaksha was punished by Him

went to the extent of threatening everyone to

accept Him as the most powerful in all the worlds

and punished any one who dared to praise the

Supreme Being. It is ironical that Hiranyakasipu's

own son Prahlada grew up to be a great devotee

of the Lord and the Almighty Himself incarnated

to save His devotee by assuming the form of

Narasimha to fulfil the conditions of the boons

Hiranyakasipu had obtained to make himself

invincible. He did so because the demon-king had

violated Dharma and troubled others who

pursued the righteous path.

 

That the Lord considers it His duty to punish the

sinful was explained by Sage Narada to Yudishtra

during the Rajasuya sacrifice he conducted when

the Lord had to kill Sisupala but He also blessed

him when all in the assembly were witness to the

manner in which the soul of Sisupala merged into

Lord Krishna.

 

When Yudishtra remarked that the Lord had

granted the most beatific state to one who had

insulted Him, which was the end sought by those

who were exclusively devoted to Him, it was

Narada instead who resolved his doubt. There

have been exceptions like Kamsa, Hiranyakasipu

and Sisupala who realised God because they

remembered Him due to fear or hatred. But saints

have cautioned that these cases are exceptions

and when the royal path of devotion is open to all

one should not resort to such means.

 

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Regards,

Shree

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