avathara-rama

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Respected members, There was a recent article by one of our erudite colleagues

on rama the fourth.He has mentioned balrama And parasurama as avatharas- which

is commonly accepted. However I have a few doubts on this.

Avathar means a descent by our Lord to this earth to destroy evil and protect

vedic dharma.He returns to vaikuntha afterwards.All his kalyangunas remain

unaltered and no thamoguna is present.in the avathara

Parasurama is a mortal,born to mortal parents and grew like other jeevas,The

Lords avesa entered into him and endowed him with power to destroy a powerful

and insolent king. The powe r was withdrawn during his encounter with Srirama.He

yhen continued his exisence even during the next yuga..He was supposed to have

annhilated 21 dynasies of kshathriyas-as punishment for the fault of one

king.Can this be the charecterstic of an avathara.The fact that he was only an

avesa amsa of the Lord is also held by an eminent scholar in his book-maranum

maraithamizhum.

Balaram is repeatedly quoted as avathara of adisesha. He preceeded

Krishna-perhaps a compensation for being born as a younger brother to Rama and

carrying out some unpalatable orders of the elder brother.Balaram was known to

be a heavy drinker and quicktempered. Krishna beguiled him to go on a pilgrimage

before the Kurushetra war,What was the neccessity of two simultaneous

avatharas?Is not the Lord powerful to handle problems singlehandedly.Granted

parasurama was an avathara why should two avathra purushas clash' We also

observe that there are no temples for parasurama and balarama.

Is it possible that avathara here is appended to recognise the two great weapns

of the Lord-parasu and hala?

Lastly can Ramanuja rather than Ramamisra be truly considered the Rama of

kaliyuga, since like Lakshmana and Balramo he was adisesha sent to propagate the

Lords glory.My impertinence may kindly be pardoned .

I had also observed taht only seven avatharas ar e depicted on the front wall

before the prakaram in the Govindaraja temple in tirupathi.Tirupathi natives may

please confirm.

Adiyen dasan Narayanan

 

 

 

 

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