RE: Lord Narasimha
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• March 29, 2003
Srimathe RAmanuajaya Namaha NOTE: This is what I thought of and hence, does not necessarily reflect the ideas of our purvacharyas. According to Ramanuja Sampradayam, all the sentients/insentients are created by lord for his happiness, i.e his expectation is that they must serve him out of their will and not by order. Hiranyakashibu was one amongst those, who didn't want to serve him, rather, was trying to stop other bhagavathas from serving the lord. And we know the rest of the story regarding how Narasimha avataram took place etc. When lord finally killed him, he did that with his own hands. One must remember that according to our sampradayam, anyone who is killed by the lord gets the moksham. Ravana, kumbakarna , vali and others did get the moksham. But, in hiranya's case, it was by the hands of the lord. So, my thought was that: a) The avataram that he took i.e the beast/man form - hence tearing one off is not questionable. This justification is for others. b) For those who are seeking the real intention of the lord - the lord could have thought as follows: HE created this Hiranyan, only to serve HIM. But, Hiranyan ended up troubling others. Now HE has killed Hiranya who is getting the moksham. To justify the moksham that is being given to him(by the very sankalpam of the lord), the lord wanted to find out how HE could use his body to serve HIM for some purpose(the idea behind the creation was to serve him and hence this needs to be justified). Just after the death, Hiranya's soul(having attained the realization) would have regretted that the body it was attached to was of no use for the God. So, the lord would have tried to grab something out of him which is the intestine and would have found that it could be used as a garland. This would have made the hiranyan's soul happy, because, the soul would have felt that, the body that it was attached to was of some use to the lord. c) The lord came as an avatar and he had every right to do whatever he wants. This cannot be questioned as a "barbarian act" etc. Why Intestine?? Good question. Two important things are good in us. One is the mind, that can think about good things and can distinguish the good and bad for the atman, and this mind is an attribute of the atman. The other one is the intestine, that does good to the body and that could distinguish what is good and what is bad for the body. In case of Hiranyan, once the atman was detached from the body, mind becomes out of question. The remaining is the body in which the thing that does most of the good is the intestine. And hence, this was picked up by the Lord and worn as a garland. Once again, it might be silly and very much questionable, but, it is something that came up in my mind. I apologize for any mistakes/silliness. Yatheendra Pravanam Vandhe RAMYA Jamataram Munim Adiyen RAmanuja Dasan, Lakshmi Narasimhan -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com Group Home: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bhakti-list Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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