Monday, March 26, 2018

Avunu Nizam....




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Avunu Nizam - telugu poem....

There is a saying in telugu language that says “పందిని తీసుకొని సింహాసనం మీద కూర్చో పెడితే అదీ మళ్ళి మురికి లోకే వెళుతోంది". These lines or saying always fascinated me since as a kid. Why would someone anoint ‘pit’ as a king? Because the saying says “even if the pig is offered kingship it would rush to live in its shit-hole or dirty muddy pool”. Many years later I came across a beautiful story. I think it is part of Bhagavatam***. Mahavishnu took Avatar as a ‘wild boar’ – Varaha avatar to kill demon called Hiranyakshaka – brother of demon king Hiranyakashyap – father of Prahlad, having killed the demon and his Avatar purpose fulfilled “the Varaha avatar” goes into forest. There he sees other boars enjoying in pile of waste. Identifying himself as one among them ‘Mahavishnu’ too starts enjoying their life-style. This carries on for years and the Gods become tensed as the world without its sustainer – Vishnu is very chaotic. So they chose King of Gods – Indra to go and plead Vishnu to come back. Lord Indra agrees and meets Mahavishnu who has forgotten his real self and come to think himself as ‘pig’ and enjoying their life-style. Indra tried explaining and finding all his talks going waste thought of tempting Vishnu with a promise to take him to heaven. He explains the beauty of heaven assuming Vishnu would be tempted to go with them. But the Lord thought for a while and asked “Will there be shit in heaven?” to which Indra said ‘no’ with a disgust and sweetly Vishnu as pig answered ‘then how is that place more enjoyable than this?’ and went back to his playing in that mud.
There are 2 ways we can take this story and it’s moral.


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