By PRAGYANSHARMA POLAVARAPU (Vrs.Somanchi)
Lord Vishnu takes on the additional duty of
incarnating himself on earth in different eras for eliminating very wicked
persons and for protecting the weak. This duty is in addition to his great work
as administrator of the universe of billion galaxies. The incarnations of lord
Vishnu as Lord Rama, Lord Krishna and Lord Buddha have extremely great
significance for creating a great living moral philosophies in India
about 3000 years ago.
(1) Lord Rama though a great conqueror
was a pious philosophic-minded prince who treated the material world as
an illusion and gave greatest stress to morality and spirituality
in human life. If we view Lord Rama’s life from such an angle we can
understand his insistence about maintaining most affectionate
family relations , about respecting parents as living gods and about
necessity of leading a life of highest morality, truthfulness and spirituality
. Following his strict ideals Lord Rama renounced his title to throne (
though being the eldest son and the greatest warrior of his time) and spent
life in a forest for fourteen long years–living like a hermit among other
hermits in the forest. During that period he killed the most powerful but most
wicked rakshasa king Ravana who kidnapped his queen .
(2) Lord Krishna was the greatest warrior of a
later time. He showed unbelievable extraordinary godly powers right
from his early child hood and eliminated strongest demons who tried to kill
him. He protected the pious Pandava princes and handed back their kingdom
after eliminating the most cruel Kaurava princes who usurped Pandava’s kingdom
by dubious , immoral and unethical means.
Above all , Lord Krishna was a very saintly
philosophic person greatly worried over the lives of common men who toiled day
and night to feed their families. He was also aware that some people
adopt corrupt means to earn money and do not perform their duties sincerely and
thus bring down the moral character of general society. He proclaimed a great
philosophy about performing one’s duties selflessly with a spiritual turn of
mind whatever the duty be. Performing one’s duties means doing some work(as
permitted by his family’s financial circumstances) to feed his family and to
provide them minimum safety and minimum necessities.
As per his family circumstances a person
adopts and joins a certain job or occupation to earn his livelihood. He has to
start performing such allotted work as a god-given opportunity and has to
perform the work without murmur. Let us imagine that a person works as a
laborer, another works under an employer, another sets up his own
business and still another works as a soldier. Lord Krishna gave greatest
importance to moral character of every person performing his allotted duty.
Lord Krishna proclaimed that a person who
performs his allotted duty in a selfless way and with a spiritual mentality is
equal to god almighty himself. Lord Krishna said that god almighty treats such
a person as his own equal and treats such a person as greater than the great
intellectuals, great emperors and even great saints. God almighty offers such a
person of sterling character a gold and diamond throne equal to his own in the
high heaven. Such was the high pedestal Lord Krishna gave in human society to a
person performing duty sincerely and with a spiritual bent of mind.
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