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20) Krishnaya Sri Venkatesaaya nama:
 
During the Krishnavataram, the Lord sported a dark complexion, earning Him the sobriquet, "Krishna:". It is from the unparalleled beauty of this Krishna that the saying "Black is Beautiful" emanated perhaps. Though black is normally considered inauspicous, the Lord's complexion was an endearing, enchanting and enticing black, as could be seen by His universal appeal--right from babies in arms to Gopis known for their beauty to hardened Maharshis were attracted to the Lord like the proverbial bees to a honey-filled flower.
 
Azhwars wax eloquent on this complexionary speciality, describing the Lord variously as
 
"Kannan ennum karum deivam"
"karia meni misai velia neeru siride idum peria kola tadam Kannan"
 
The Lord is not pitch black, but of the hue of rain-bearing clouds--"megha shyaamam" "neela mughil vannan" "Aazhi mazhai kanna!" etc.
 
Sri Andal says in a lighter vein, from the perspective of a Gopi who has been stood up by Sri Krishna, that His heart ( inside)
is as black as His body(outside) --"puram pol ullum kariyaan".
 
The Lord derives the name Krishna also from His untiring efforts to emancipate souls bound by the unravelable bonds of Karma. Like an eternally hopeful farmer, who persists with cultivation despite any number of disappointing yields, the Lord too never shuts down the factory of Creation in the fond hope that some atleast of the countless souls would tread the path of righteousness and reach Him.
 
Bhavishyottara Purana considers Tiruvenkatamudayaan verily as Sri Krishna Himself and equates  the ant hill from which the Lord emerged to be Sri Devaki, the Tamarind tree atop it to be Sri Vasudeva, Sri Balarama, avataara of Sri Adisesha, as Seshaachalam, the hallowed hilly terrain of Tirumala as Mathura, the Swami Pushkarini asYamuna nathi and the varied fauna and flora of the hills, which spend their lives in the service of the Lord, as the Gopa kanyaas.
 
It is also noteworthy that the Lord of Tiruvenkatam points to His tiruvadi with His open right palm, symbolically indicating the Bhagavat Gita dictum to surrender to Him--"Maam Ekam sharanam vraja!", thereby confirming that this Lord is indeed Sri Krishna (Venkata Krishnan) of the kaliyuga.



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