Couple of additional thoughts on nArasimha-vapuh.

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A couple of additional thoughts came to mind on this great nAma of

bhagavAn. I asm sharing this for those that may be interested.

 

In yesterday's posting, I had included the following paragraph.

 

"9. In normal course of life, something that came from breaking a

jaDa

form such as the pillar should be expected to be another piece of the

same jaDa form. One should expect a live form to be originating only

from another life form. Here, the narasimha avatAram illustrates the

unusual, which can happen only because BhagavAn is the divya purusha,

and in matters relating to Him, we should not be applying normal

logic as we are used to do".

 

I just remembered that svAmi deSikan poetically describes this

unusual birth of Lord nRsimha from the pillar in his daSavatAra

stotram in one of his poetic naya-s. He describes the lucky pillar

from which Lord nRsimha emerged, as the grandmother of brahmA –

mahAsura gRha sthUNA pitAmahyabhUt (Slokam 5). The "lineage" in

this description is that bhagavAn is the father of brahmA, and since

the pillar gave "birth" to Lord nRsimha, the pillar thus becomes the

grandmother of brahmA.

 

svAmi deSikan also shares with us the six rahasya-s of bhagavAn's

incarnations through Slokam 17 of his SrI SaraNAgati dIpikA. All

these six rahasya-s apply to His nRsimha incarnation as well, and I

asm listing them below:

 

These are:

- He takes many incarnations with different forms at will as

needed – nAnA vidhaih. One of these is the nRsimha incarnation.

- The incarnations are all true forms that He assumes, and not

just mAyA forms – a-kapaTaih.

- Every incarnation of His is fully endowed with His parattvam

and all His kalyANa guNa-s in full, irrespective of the incarnation

He takes – ajahat-svabhAvaih

- His forms in His incarnations are not made of pa'nca bhUta-s

like ours, but His tirumEni in His incarnations is also made of

Suddha-sattva, and so He is beyond the three guNa-s, sattva, rajas,

and tamas – a-prAkRtaih

- The forms in His incarnations are takenas part of His leelA,

and not as a result of any karma as in our case – nij-vihAra-siddhaih

- They are taken purely for the protection of His devotees and

the destruction of their enemies – AtmIya rakshaNa vipaksha

vinASanArthaih.

 

-dAsan kRshNamAcAryan