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From: Srinivasan Balaji (adiyen03_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 06:43:45 PDT
||Srimathe Ramanujaaya Nama: ||
Thanks for your explnation. Can you clarify to my further on the following:
1) Why did Vamana left out Mahabali in the first measure.
2) Assuming that he needed a foot of land, he didn't have to push Mahabali all the way into Paadhaala loka. He just had to push him at most 6 feet. why did he push him to paadhaala loka? by the way, what is paadhaala loka??
3) Assuming that he left out Mahabali in his initial measure, Mahabali should have moved aside when vamana wanted to measure his third foot. what essentially vamana needs is a foot of land and does not have tocrush mahabali into paadhaala to get it. By moving aside, Mahabali cannot own that land as it had already been given to vamana. What is the reason Vamana resorted to acquiring land in this odd way?
As Vamana is the incarnation of Vishnu, the source of all knowledge, and Mahabali was also not a dumb King there should be much deeper meaning to this episode which has to be researched.
Pardon me if I was wrong
Adiyen
Aravamudha Dhaasan
Lakshmi Narasimhan <nrusimhan@hotmail.com> wrote:Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
This is a good question that could be explained by the vyapaka
shakthi of the ultimate. If one says he measure the entire earth with
one foot, how could he do that? Earth is round. Thiruvadi is flat.
So, how could he measure the entire earth? One might also ask, if he
put his thiruvadi on the earth, wouldn't he have crushed everything
on the earth? So, the logical explanation is that he did measure, not
in terms of the sthula shareeram, but with his exceptional vyapakam.
That is the ultimate's greatnes. His antharyamithvam is amazing. As
we say antharyami i.e he exists everywhere, he could manifest the way
he want that we cannot even comprehend given the restriction of our
five senses. He could manifest himself as the air(or whatever) and
measure the entire earth letting everyone alive, uncrushed, in shape
etc(like the modern scientist who measure the distance between
different spots on earth using some electromagnetic waves). So, we
have to understand that the lord measured the entire earth, excepting
mahabhali, with one foot. As he did this, his second foot was already
seen measuring the rest of the universe. Again, this was not through
the sthula shareeram(that the human brain comprehends) of the lord.
The third one was ofcourse with the sthula shareera that had the
intention of putting the bhali in the paadaala loka.
I hope I haven't given any superficial explanation. In case you feel
I did, my humble apologies.
Yatheendra Pravanam Vandhe RAMYA Jamataram Munim
Adiyen Ramanuja Dasan,
Lakshmi Narasimhan
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