bhOgyAmrutam - SrImAn (Continued)

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1) The One who flourished rapidly in the roaring nrusimha form : As we had

seen in the previous name(nArasimha vapuhu), the nrusimha avatAram is beyond

comparison. All the other forms, including those of the foremost and venerable

celestials pale in comparison to His form.

As told by our EmberumAnAr, it has to be understood

clearly that His form is not one that He had assumed for enabling us to

visualize Him nor is a symbol given by mortals to comprehend His otherwise

unfathomable nature. It is an inseparable & inherent attribute of His, just like

His auspicious qualities. It is unique to Him and Him only. He is the possessor

of such an exquisite divine form.

 

2) When He came as VAmana, He sought a land worth three strides from Bali

and measured the whole worlds as the Trivikrama :

vAmana incarnation was an delightful feast to the eyes

of those who were blessed to witness it and continues to be so for the devotees

who keep visualizing it. It was an extraordinary occasion of limitless beauty

being confined to a tiny little form.

 

 

 

With such a spellbinding form, He tricked Bali. His sole intention

was to bring us all under His all-protective shelter. He grew and measured all

these worlds just to embrace all of us at once and bestow upon us the ineffable

bliss of association with His SrI-pAdams.

 

 

 

Those who were maddened by such a display of His love, zestfully

surrendered to Him and were totally lost in the un-explainable delight that is

the contact with His SrIpAdams. Those disposed otherwise had no other option

but to bow before His over-whelming supremacy. Gods, humans, and demons –

everyone surrendered alike and at-once to that supreme Lord. Thus He became the

one with AsritAs (people seeking His refuge).

 

 

 

3) The One with the tulasi garland on His chest; The One who churned the

ocean by installing the dark mountain and wrapping the snake around it

as a rope:

 

 

 

The tulasi garland is extremely dear to Him. Because Our Mother SrI had herself

decorated His chest with it as a garland. Thus He became The SrImAn (The One

with SrI).

Whenever He takes notice of the garland on His chest, He proudly

remembers the monumental effort that He undertook to win His beloved SrI. First

of all He had to install the huge mountain amidst the ocean. Then He had to

bring the best snake vAsuki and wrap it as a rope around that mountain. Then He

had to secure them from the forces of the churning by being in them and giving

them the requisite resilience. Further, the incompetence of dEvAs and asurAs

impelled Him to be on both sides for ensuring a relentless execution of the job.

And He stood as the fulcrum of the entire process in the form of the

all-enduring kUrma. As if all of this was not enough, He was the One (in

actuality) who had to digest the deadly poison to save all the worlds. And

finally with all those arduous efforts, He won the heart of His beloved SrI and

became the SrImAn.

 

 

 

He is the sparkling gem on the vEnkaTa Hill, Our beloved Lord VenkaTaRamaNa.

 

 

 

Jai Sriman Narayana