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V6-Ferocious Animal Incarnations

 

By  PRAGYANSHARMA POLAVARAPU (Vrs.Somanchi)

 At the very beginning of creation god almighty had to incarnate himself in some fierce non-human forms  to protect the weak and punish the wicked.

(1) At beginning of time ,billions of years ago , a wicked demon king stole all “books of knowledge” from Lord Brahma and took them deep into ocean to destroy them. Then Lord Vishnu took the form of a colossal fish ,killed  the demon and recovered  the “books of knowledge” and gave them back to Lord Brahma.

 

(2) Again at a later time billions of years ago, lord Vishnu  took the form of a “mountain sized tortoise” to help the gods who were fighting a losing war with demons to take possession of the treasures of the ocean . The  gods and demons were  locked in a grand fight to   recover the sealed gold pot containing   “Amrith”, the  divine nectar — by drinking which  gods and demons could   become deathless and immortal. At that time millions of years ago gods were not immortal and were weak and often defeated by the demons and driven out of  heaven!  

The gods  prayed to Lord Vishnu(god almighty of the universe) and he assured help to them to  get Amrith. After a long fight gods and demons agreed to churn the ocean together. They used a huge divine snake as rope and a huge mountain as a  churner . But often the huge mountain used as churner was slipping down into the ocean. The gods were mild and innocent though very industrious. But the demons were adopting all wrong means to browbeat the gods . The demons were very strong and wanted every minute to defeat and drive the gods away.

Lord Vishnu appeared on the scene and wanted to render help to the gods. First he turned himself into  a colossal mountain-sized tortoise,crept under the base of the mountain and   supported the slipping mountain on his hard back .  After much churning the sealed dazzling gold pot of  “Amrith” came out along with other valuable wealth from the sea. Again the  the gods and demons started  fighting furiously to seize it . But the gods were weak before  the mighty and pitiless demons.

Lord Vishnu took pity on the gods and decided to help  the gods again. Now, using his mysterious powers, he  transformed himself into a dazzlingly beautiful woman and volunteered to  distribute Amrith equally between both groups .The demons were dazed at her beauty and believed her words to be true and sat in rows peacefully a little away from the gods. The goddess pretended distributing Amrith to both groups but actually exhausted all Amrith while distributing in the gods’ wing . In the vast crowd the demons could not notice the big fraud. The goddess (none other than Lord Vishnu) disappeared into the skies. Thus immortality was acquired only by the gods.

   (3)After further billions of years a colossal demon hid the planet earth inside bottomless oceans of a primordial world. Even the whole sphere of earth disappeared into the primordial ocean. Goddess Earth prayed to Lord Vishnu to rescue her.   Lord Vishnu took the form of a huge wild boar and fought with the demon for a thousand years and rescued Goddess Earth from the bottomless ocean.

    (4) A great demon king Hiranyakashipu who  denied existence of god almighty tried also  to prevent his little son from praying to god almighty. But the devout little boy –who loved god as embodiment of   kindness, goodness and love —refused to follow his father. The wicked king ordered that the little boy, his own son, be killed but Lord Vishnu remaining always invisible protected the boy at every step .  The king angrily challenged his son to show the god almighty in a nearby huge pillar and struck it with his huge golden mace.

Lord Vishnu became extremely angry and could not control his anger. He ,in a very angry  half lion-half human form of lord narasimha( the half-human half-lion form)wearing a golden crown and decked in dazzling jewels, burst out of the pillar amidst blinding lightning and deafening thunder. Even the gods gathered there were frightened. The lion god ,using sharp claws  of his lion body, cut open the stomach of the king and  started drinking the blood in a fit of wild anger and killed the  demon king. Lord Vishnu cooled down only after the little devout son of the wicked king bravely prayed and appealed to the angry god .The god immediately changed to the  sweet  form of a handsome warrior-prince (Lord Vishnu), crowned the little boy as king and disappeared into the skies.

NB: The holy temple I visited 23 years ago on the long forested hill at Mallur —(the story of which i am narrating in detail in other posts in this same blog)–was that of  Lord Narasimha .He is the fierce half-human half-lion form of Lord Vishnu and there are large number of temples to this god throughout India..

 

 

 

 

 

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