Sunday, March 11, 2012

SRI NARASIMHA AVATARA, GOD’S OMNI-PRESCENCE



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Enggum Ulhan Kannan Endra
Maganaik Kaaindhu

Without in anyway detracting from the divine purport of the Tiruvoimozhi     , Velukudi Sri Krishnan Swami has sublimated the Alwar’s declaration into a little voice play. “Where is He?”  , is the short question his father had asked of Prahalada. “He is everywhere”, is Prahalada’s equally short answer. His father does not understand this short reply. A person can be at one place only. How can a person exist simultaneously in all places?
To clear his doubts, the father asks his son, “Is He in this particular space?”  . The son was expected to answer, “Yes, He is in this space”   . But the son repeats instead that He is everywhere. If Prahalada had stated that He is in the place indicated by his father, in later years, some atheist might argue that since Prahalad had accepted God’s existence in a particular pillar (place)   , it would mean that He is NOT in the next or any other pillar (place)! Perhaps, to avert such a possibility, Prahalada had repeated that He is everywhere.
But his father could not understand the above reasoning either. He therefore indicated a specific pillar (stated elsewhere to have been specially built to his own specifications and supervision) and enquired whether He was there. Prahalada’s answer was “He is also in that specific pillar (among all other places!)”  . It was thereafter that Lord Vishnu appeared out of that pillar as Sri Narasimha. In this manner, God revealed His Omni-presence.   #      end