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37)Brahmmadi Deva Durdarsa
Visvaroopaaya Sri Venkatesaaya nama:
Salutations to Sri Venkatesa, whose Visvaroopam could not be witnessed
even by deities like Brahmaa !
The Lord's Visvaroopam was indicated by the three naamaas, Ananta sirase
nama:, Anantaakshaaya nama: and Ananta charanaaya nama:
The present sacred name tells us that this Visvaroopam is so glorious, so
magnificent, so brilliant and so huge, as to bewilder even exalted deities
like the Chaturmukha Brahma, who reside in close proximity to the Lord, in
the lotus rising from His navel.
When they found the entire universe forming but a minuscule part of the
Lord's visvaroopa tirumeni, Brahmaa and others were almost blinded by the
Lord's brilliance and tejas, bewildered by the variety and vividness of
life forms found in His colossal form and frightened by the hitherto
unseen and unheard of colossus who towered above them. This is described
in the following sloka from Vamana Purana--
"yEte sarve Hare: tasya roopam para puranjayam
Drashtum na shaknuvan netrai: tejasaa tasya taapitaa:".
This is the same Visvaroopam which Arjuna too found impossible to see and
absorb fully , despite the Lord blessing him with divine eyes--"divyam
dadhaami te chakshu:".
The Lord's Cosmic Form is of such
brilliance, splendour and magnificence that none with ordinary eyes made of
flesh and blood, like Brahmaa, Rudraa or other mortals, is capable of having
even a glimpse of the same.
Sri Krishna Himself reveals this
in the Gita-
"na tu maam sakyase drashtum
anenaiva chakshushaa
Divyam dadhaami te chakshu: pasya
me yogam isvaram"
(Arjuna! Your mundane eyes are
incapable of absorbing the glory of My Visvaroopam. I shall provide you with
divine eyes, so that you are enabled to see Me in all my splendour")
Hence it is only those by whom the
Lord wishes to be seen in all His magnificence, who are fortunate indeed to be
blessed with the sight and others, however exalted, are denied the privilege,
whether they be Brahma, Rudra, or Indra.
Thus, while Rudra and Brahma
couldn't see the Lord even after millennia of hard penance, the very same
elusive Paramatma came rushing personally to save and was seen by, a mere
elephant, says Sri Tondaradippodi Azhwar in Tirumaalai--
"Pennulaam sadaiyinaanum
Piramanum unnai kaanbaan
ennilaa oozhi oozhi tavam seidaar
velgi nirpa
vinnulaar viyappa vandu Anaikku
andru arulai eenda
Kannaraa! unnai andro kalai kanaa
karudum aare"
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