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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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