Narasimha Avatar - what we learn from this ??

Yesterday ie on 26th of may we celebrated Narasimha jayanti. ie Birth day of lord Narasimha.

All avatars give a common message that whenever a devotee or a righteousness is in trouble lord will come to rescue them. But among all avatars of lord on this earth , narasimha avatar has a special and unique message. Entire human kind has a strong message to learn from this avatar.

Hiranyakashapu was a strong danava. He was the strongest at his time. All the devatas including indra were in fear of hiranyakashapu. He was fearless and declared himself as god. The reason being he was blessed by lord Brahma with a boon.

Hiranyakashapu took boon from brahma very intelligently so that he should live for ever and ever.

Hiranyakashapu thinking in every way took a boon from brahma that ,

1) No living being on this earth Man or Deva or Animals can kill him.

2) No Weapon can kill him

3) He cannot be killed in day or at night.

4) He cannot be killed inside palace or out side palace.

5) He cannot be killed on the earth or in the sky.

With such a powerful boon hiranyakashapu became fully powerfull so that no one on this earth can kill him. He became the supreme power at this time. He conquered all lokas ( worlds).

Today in kaliyug ( iron age ) we also have become some sort of hiranyakashapu. He dont have fear of anything now .. with these modern comforts , prosperity , lethal weapons , advanced medical systems we have started feeling that whatever we do we are safe. Mankind has started proving that he is more intelligent and can do anything on this earth.

All the devas were worried because boon given to hiranyakashapu was so strong that he cannot be killed by any one and in any way. Here we should not forget that unless god wills to do something nothing will happen.

And finally the time came when lord willed to finish the role of the demon hiranyakashapu. Lord willed to answer the call of his beloved devotee prahalada. Lord decided to answer prayers of many saints and sages to escape them from holds of hiranyakashapu.

Lord took form of semi - man (nara) and semi - lion ( simha ).

On this earth there is no such living creature which has head of lion and body of a man.

The time when lord took this avatar was during sandhya kala( union of day with night ).

It was neither day nor fully night.

Narasimha took hiranyakashapu on his laps.

So hiranyakashapu was not on earth nor in the sky.

Lord sat on door steps of his palace.

So now hiranyakashapu was neither inside palace nor out side palace.

Since hiranyakashapu was not supposed to be killed by any weapons,

Lord with his nails teared hiranyakashapu's stomach and killed him.

The message from this avatar is , lord if he wills can do anything , he can take any kind of avatar , he can do anything as per his interest. No power on this cosmos can stop his mission.

Even if entire world stand against his mission , he will succeed in his mission.

Narasimha avatar is a strong message to the mankind , that its only his will that succeeds.

Human intelligence cannot comprehend his divinity and no one can explain his divinity. So only vedas say "Yatho Vacho Nirvitante , aaprayapya manasyasaha".

Drona - The perfect master

We all might have heard story of Ekalavya in Mahabharata. Just to brief , ekalavya was leader of Nishada trible group. Who was staying nearby Dronacharyas ashram where in princes of hastinapur use to learn archery. From the childhood Ekalavya wanted to learn archery from Drona, but because of his lower caste he knew Drona will not accept him as his disciple. So he made out idol of drona and started practicing archery.With his efforts and faith in guru he became one of the best archer.

Later when Arjuna and drona came to know about Ekalavya and his archery , drona ask's for ekalavya's right thumb as guru dakshina ( offering to guru ). Ekalavya happily cut his right thumb and offered at Drona's feet.

Many people blame drona because of this incident. People say drona did it for blind love towards arjuna.

Drona wanted only Arjuna to be best archer at that time so he asked Ekalvya's right thumb so that ekalavya can no more use bow and arrow.

Even i had same stand towards drona till my guru explained the real truth behind this incident.

Just imagine what would have happened if drona could have excepted Ekalavya as his disciple.

Ekalavya could have become still more better archer , say equal to arjuna or even better then arjuna. Here one should not forget that Arjun was very strong and powerful archer. Drona knew that in battle filed it was very difficult for Ekalavya to defect arjuna. For sure Ekalavya could have been defeted and killed by arjuna , by his bravery and grace of krishna.

If this could have happened people could have never remembered name of Ekalavya so much.

Ekalavya's could have been remembered as a normal soldier who died in battle.

My guruji explained the real truth. Drona was immensely pleased with Ekalavyas faith in him and effort he has put to learn archery. And drona wanted coming generation to remember Ekalavya's name and his faith in guru. Drona was a perfect master who knew what should be given to whom. So he asked Ekalavyas right thumb so that he will not get chance to fight with Arjuna and people will respect Ekalavya till end as brave archer.

Dronacharya , kripacharya and Bhishmacharya were highly knowledgeable ,capable gurus who can never make mistakes. We people with limited knowledge and vision underestimate them.

Its only a guru can understand ability of another guru. Its only a guru who know 's faith of all and he is the perfect master who knows what and when should be given to whom.