In the previous episode, we’ve witnessed a very important point highlighted by Bhagawan Krishna who says that the physical form of His and ours are completely different and they are incomparable. Whereas our physical forms are made up of the five elements of “Prithivi”, “Appu”, “Tejas”, “Vaayu” and “Aakaasha” (The five elements of the world), Bhagawan’s physical form is made of five different elements such as “Parameshti”, “Puman”, “Vishwaha”, “Nivrutthaha” and “Sarvaha”. Moreover, our physical forms are embodiments of a combination of all the three “Gunas” – The “Sattva Guna”, “Rajo Guna” and the “Taamasa Guna”, whereas, Bhagawan’s physical form is completely an embodiment of only the “Sattva Guna”. This is why we refer Bhagawan’s physical form as “Divine physical form” and not just a mere “physical form”. Moreover, because of this important characteristic, all our sins and impurities will be washed away if we worship Bhagawan’s divine form. We’ve also seen a classic case of Hanuman and how he was transformed completely after seeing Bhagawan Rama for the first time at Kishkinta.
Moving on further thus, Arjuna asks the fourth consecutive question – “Oh Bhagawan Krishna! If that is the case, what is the purpose behind your incarnation? All of us know the purpose behind our birth – It is the resultant of our “Paapa” and “Punya”. If our “Paapa Karma” is on the dominating front, our birth is going to be full of sufferings and consequences pertaining to that. If our “Punya Karma” is on the dominating front, then obviously our birth is going to be full of happiness and the resultant pertaining to the effects of our “Punya Karma”. However, in your case, is this logic applicable?” For this, Bhagawan is going to give a very important reply here, which all of us should understand very clearly. Bhagawan says thus, “Oh my dear Arjuna! Please understand – No “Karma” can touch me at any point in time! My incarnation in this world is not related to any “Paapa Karma” or “Punya Karma” in any way! None of the “Karma-Phalam” can touch me or can even come close to me at any time! Rather, I’m also completely uninterested in “Karma-Phalam”. But if you ask me as to why I’m incarnating again and again, the answer is very simple – I incarnate in this world only because of my compassion and my “Icchaa Shakti” (Intention / will power to cleanse the world from “Adharma” in this context)!”
Now this is a very important point that Bhagawan Krishna is explaining here. We should clearly understand one thing – Bhagawan incarnates in this world out of compassion and a “Sankalpa” to create a positive change in this world. He is not going to gain anything at a personal level by incarnating in this world. Bhagawan incarnates every time with a definitive purpose and this purpose is completely directed towards the betterment of the world. For instance, all of us know a lot about the Ramayana story and how Bhagawan Rama incarnated in this world – We might even see that Bhagawan Rama has undergone enormous trials and tribulations all through His divine incarnation. But are these trials and tribulations a resultant of any “Karma Phalam”? The answer is “No”! Bhagawan Rama voluntarily undertook all those sufferings on to Himself – The reason for this is to illustrate several aspects of “Dharma” to the world. Firstly, the main purpose of the incarnation of Bhagawan Rama was to establish the “Dharma” that younger people should listen to the words of elders. A son should obey the words of a father, a younger brother should listen to the words of an elder brother, and so on. During the Tretha Yuga, it seems that this “Dharma” had deteriorated to a great extent, and hence, Bhagawan wanted to do some course-correction in this. This is the sole purpose behind Bhagawan Rama’s divine incarnation! In similar lines, Bhagawan Narasimha’s incarnation was to destroy the evil “Adharma” in the form of Hiranya-Kashibu and to establish the fact to the world that Bhagawan is always behind an ardent “Bhakta”. Here, Prahlaada was an ardent devotee of Bhagawan Vishnu and he had enormous trust in Bhagawan to protect him at all times. Bhagawan proved to the world through His divine incarnation of “Narasimha” that He would come running, in order to protect His devotee during times of trouble!
Hence, the point here is very clear – Every incarnation of Bhagawan in this world has a specific purpose and the ultimate aim here is to establish “Dharma”. So this is what we’ve to understand from this pointer today, and we shall wait till the next episode to continue this discussion further! Stay tuned! 🙂
The Indian Dharma 