By PRAGYANSHARMA POLAVARAPU (Vrs.Somanchi)
These three incarnations appear to have lot of
historical significance to some prehistoric periods of early Aryan-Aryan and
Aryan-Dravidian confrontations in ancient pre-history of india.
(1)One is about a “divine Boy-Saint” called
Lord Vamana an ocean of knowledge ,ocean of tolerance and unbounded energy. The
incarnation of 3000 years back appears to be to convince people of those times
(Aryans and Dravidians who were fighting with each other ) about
the necessity of having a common high morality-based religion
and a common Indian culture irrespective of Aryan and Dravidian classifications
and to end all confrontations.
The mighty “Rakshasa” king Bali (perhaps a
mighty Dravidian emperor) himself appears to have taken some initiative in
association with the “boy saint” from the Aryan side. Both appear to have felt
that there should be no more wars between Aryan and Dravidian rulers and
that the great beliefs and philosophies of both should merge and form a
tolerant common religion. Both Dravidian and Aryan thinkers and rulers perhaps
took such an initiative. Earlier there were incessant wars between the great
Dravidians and Aryans but later there was merger of the two great cultures and
great civilizations. The Dravidians were most enterprising and inventive people
of India in prehistoric times. They built great temples and built great
shipping fleets. They established empires in the Far East and also conducted
trade with the Roman Empire. History shows that they spread the ancient
amalgamated Dravidian-Aryan culture into South East Asia.
History also shows that when Vedic Aryans
first entered the Dravidian dominated India 5000 years ago. In those very ancient
times Lord Shiva was worshipped only by Dravidians and Indus Valley
people. The Holy Bull (Lord Shiva’s vehicle) was also worshipped only by
Dravidians and Indus valley people . Lord Vishnu and Lord Indra etc were not
worshipped by Dravidians and were not known to Dravidian religion. Later both
religions merged completely and Vishnu and Shiva worship became a most
important feature of the new merged Hindu religion. Vishnu and Shiva temples
came up throughout India . Subsequently there have been through the centuries
great saints of both Vishnu and Shiva traditions from both south India
and north India. This particular incarnation of Lord Vishnu as Lord Vamana
appears to be a symbol of complete amalgamation of Aryan and Dravidian
philosophies, religions and cultures with absolute unconditional agreement of
both sides.
(2)Another incarnation of Lord Vishnu
(“Lord Parashurama”) is about ancient fierce internal wars within
various Aryan groups in north India for supremacy. Warlords of some
dominant Aryan tribes seized all power and controlled all land and became sole
rulers. Lord Parashurama lead the victimized Aryan tribes against the
domineering Aryan tribes and established right balance in power-sharing
and then disappeared into the Himalayan mountains . He is said to be an
immortal sage doing penance in the Himalayas
( 3 )Still another incarnation of
Lord Vishnu is Lord Balarama treated with great respect as elder brother of
Lord Krishna. He was a very great conqueror in his own right and killed many
extremely powerful and wicked kings. He later settled down as an
elder statesman. He was greatly respected as leader of the vast
agricultural classes and the cattle-rearing classes and
has the plough as his symbolic weapon.
Note:- Ancient philosophers felt that in
course of centuries and millenniums of time the world would be
overtaken by excessive competition between nations and that selfishness and
greed will result in increase in evil and crime in the world. It is said
that god almighty would be forced to appear in another incarnation (“Kalki”) to
subdue the wicked and selfish persons and to establish peace and morality and
to cool down people and force them into a path of sober behavior. Such a
restless and confused situation appears to have already started on the globe
with the birth of the industrial revolution and high technology revolution and
resulted in two World Wars and existence of many high tension problems in many
areas of the world. The people of the world appear to be forgetting that planet
earth is the only place for human beings to live and that if it is made
uninhabitable the situation would be like that of a leaking ship caught in high
storms and sinking.
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