Lord Hayagreevar.

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Dear Sri Madhavakannan & Sri Satakopan,

 

This is a rather long email. Please do read on.

Following adiyen's doubt and the subsequent answers adiyen received from

both Sri Madhavakannan and Sri Satakopan,Sri Madhavakannan writes about

the Avataram of Lord Hayagreeva as follows;

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>The traditions say: The rAkshasa (horse faced whose name was Hayagriva)

had

>obtained the boon described in BrahmANda PuraaNam. There was a asurA,

by

>name Hayagreeva (with horse face) who did his severe penance/ tapas on

>Parvathi Devi. Parvathi, pleased with his tapas, appeared in his front

and

>the asurA asked for "no death". She said "Impossible-can not be

granted".

>Then the asurA amended the request and said "Except for a horse faced

one,

>(which means: Hayagrivan- Haya-horse: greeva-neck: or Hayavadhanan) no

one

>else can kill me". (thinking that it can never happen!). She consented.

>He became tremendously proud of his achievement and started harassing

>every deva and rishi. He troubles all three worlds. He snatched away

the

>Vedas from BrahmA and disappeared. Then is the history. The Lord

>appeared as Hayagreevar and killed the asurA to save the world and

bring

>back the Vedas.

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And Sri Satakopan writes as follows;

>During PraLayam , Moola Prakruthi reaches

>the subtle state of Tamas . The Jeevans get

>embedded in that Tamas and suffer very much.

>VyUha VaasudEvan incarnates as Aniruddhan and

>rests on the swirling torrent of PraLayam waters.

>He engages in Yoga nidhrai and reflects on how

>He can create the world anew and save the suffering

>jeevans locked in Tamas .

>During the Yoga Nidhrai, He creates Brahma Devan

>from the Lotus arising out of His Naabhi. Next ,

>He instructs Brahma Devan on the VedhAdhyayanam

>and the meaning of all the Four VedAs. He also

>blesses Brahma Deavan on the intricacies of

>Srishti (Creation ).Before the creation of

>Brahman , His sankalpam led to the existence of

>two drops of water on the lotus leaf below

>the lotus flower . These two drops of water

>became the asurans Madhu with TamO GuNam and

>Kaitabhan with rajO guNam. They entered the lotus

>flower through the stem .There , BrahmA had just

>concluded creating four Vedas as four beautiful

>children.The two asurans grabbed the four babies

>and ran off to the nether world (PaathALam).

>BrahmA was heart broken over his inconsolable loss.

>He could not continue with the creation of the world

>without the help of the VedAs , which were his eyes

>and guides. Brahma devan approached Aniruddha BhagavAn

>and begged for help .Aniruddhan took the form of

>a VeLLai parimukhan ( Human Body and a Horse's

>face down to His neck ). The hue of the avathAra

>moorthy was clear white like a spatikam . This

>is the HayagrIva Moorthy. He proceeded to the hiding

>place of the two asurans in PaathALam and raised

>the UdhgItha svaram. The asurans were frightened

>on hearing the sound of UdhgItham. They dropped

>the Four children (Vedams)and ran towards the direction

>wherefrom the udhgItham originated. At that time ,

>Sri HayagrIvan recovered the children and returned

>them to Brahma Devan and restarted His Yoganidhrai

>as HayagrIvan. The asurans ran back to where they

>stole the VedAs and found HayagrIvan engaged in

>Yoga Nidhrai . The asurans made a lot of noise and

>woke up the Lord. Sri Hayagrivan got up from His

>bed of Adhi Seshan and fought with the asurans

>and destroyed them. Afterwards , Sri HayagrIvan

>reinstructed Brahma Devan on the secrets of creation

>using the VedAs and returned to VyUha sthAnam.

 

As Sri Prassana Venkatesh had informed me about both the " versions"

describing Lord Haygreevar's avataram, adiyen has posted the above

article.

 

 

 

 

 

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