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sukumar • April 6, 2003 


Sri Krishnaya Namah!

A clarification for this through my limited knowledge from reading puranas 
is as below:

When He starts growing tall,  he conquers the whole galaxy thus, when he is 
measuring the planet earth He keeps His divyapadam several thousand feets 
above the circumference of earth, taking care of His jeevas not to get 
destroyed under His divyapadam.  He must have did this being not on earth 
but being on space, allowing Himself for better positioning.  This is like 
a marble underneath our feet.  Though He did like this, somehow His 
divyapadam touches the edge of the Himalayas, thus blood(Ganga) gushes out 
of His Padam and Lord Brahma collects the same in His Kamandalam, lest the 
planet earth will be immersed in it.  This is how Ganga born and lived in 
Brahmaloka till she gets on the Jata of Lord Shiva.

This same vigraham of Lord measures the Sky also, after wards, He must have 
got adequate posture and position to Push Bali into Pathala.  This very 
avataram (also called as Trivikram) and the way He had positioned Himself 
 is beyond the knowledge of jeevas, though this may be  defined to some 
extent in puranas.  He can take any shape & size, within mili seconds to do 
what He wanted to do and His deeds are beyond our knowledge.

I will appreciate if any gyanis of this group elaborate and clearly explain 
this.

Sukumar

Sri Krishna Parabrahmane Namah!


-----Original Message-----
From:	Srinivasan Balaji [SMTP:adiyen03@yahoo.com]
Sent:	06/04/2003 7:58 AM
To:	bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com
Subject:	Vamana Avatharam


||Srimathe Ramanujaaya Nama:||

I need a clarification on the Vamana Avatharam. The story goes like Vishnu 
in the form of young boy Vamana, came asking for three foot of land to 
Mahabali and with one foot he measured the entire bhumi, with one foot the 
Akasha and since there was no place for the third foot Mahabali gave his 
head.



Here is my question:

Mahabali was also in the Bhumi. How was he not covered in the first 
footstep when Vishnu was measuring the Bhumi with the first step

Waiting for a nice explanation.

Adiyen

Aravamudha Dhaasan





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