bhOgyAmrutam - kESavaha (Continued)

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3) With LakShmi partnering Him on His chest : Our mother LakShmi is the abode of

 

incomparable beauty and prosperity. The love and compassion that She has towards

 

Her children complement Her external beauty in totality.

 

 

 

He is the “One” chosen by Her. The very fact that She adorns His chest with

utmost joy, serves as a perfect reference to His inconceivable fame, glory and

His surpassingly sublime beauty (external as well as internal). His magnetic

charm is absolute in all respects. His captivating form beggars description and

all His features eminently match His beauty.

 

His celebrated name “kESava” becomes all the more centroidal exactly in this

context. “kESava” means – “The One with a wealth of beautiful hair”, which

eloquently depicts both His soundaryam and Iswaryam (opulence).

 

 

 

4) The One with deeds that befit His eminence: His deeds are not the ones

that can lessen His magnanimity, fame and glory. His deeds are fully in

accordance with His beauty and eminence.

 

Our mother AnDAL says so in “nAcchiyAr tirumozhi” -2-5 – “Though

you come and spoil the nice castles of sand that we children had built with a

lot of effort, somehow we never get even the slightest of anger on you. O

cunning mAdhava!, O my kESava!!, its just because of your lovely hair, charming

face and an appealing form”.

 

 

 

With the fine white sand, we built the special castles and decorated the

streets...

 

 

such nice showpieces were spoilt by you. Still in your case

 

 

 

though heartbroken, none of us are angry even to the slightest extent

 

 

 

O cunning KriShNA!, my kESavA!!….Don’t you have eyes on you??

 

 

 

Though on occasions, His deeds bear a mischievous and cunning facade,

they actually originate from His overflowing love towards us. In this case, it

was the love towards those little girls who were happy in their own innocent

world.

 

 

 

It is well known that the anger of little children is unbiased and is

free from any kind of restriction (like the beauty of the object on which they

are angry upon etc). Even such kids were awestruck with the beauty of our tiny

goon and they couldn’t retaliate. Such is the bewitching beauty of our Lord

“kESava” and equally notorious are His deeds

 

 

 

5) Stunning feats that are celebrated all over: Needless to say, the acts

of creation, destruction, maintenance and deliverance are outstanding.

 

The episodes of protecting gajEndra, prahlAda, draupadi are the

prominent ones that easily capture our imagination.

So also is His famous exploit of slaying the demon kESi, which earned

Him the name – “kESava”. Even sage nArada panicked on seeing the demon kESi who

disguised himself as a horse to harm Krishna.

 

 

This demon symbolizes a philosophy which advocates the thought that – “God

does not exist”. It is pregnant with a logic, which can even frustrate the likes

of nArada. He ripped apart the speech and logic of those who promoted such a

thought through His Bhagavad Gita. And that’s precisely why Our Lord Krishna

became famous as the subduer of kESi – “The kESava”.

 

 

 

JAI SRIMAN NARAYANA

 

 

 

 

 

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