Vamana Avatar - first Human Incarnation of Lord Vishnu

This is the first avatar (incarnation) of Lord Vishnu in which he incarnated as human. This is also known as the dwarf avatar. Before I tell you story about this, there is one announcement. My workshop on 7 chakra meditation is going to start on 21^st May. So, if anybody is interested, mail me on reikimasterdhwani@gmail.com I am going to give free 1 month of life coaching with this and also free healing to all 7 chakra. There are a few seats left for this. Secondly, anyone is interested to know about the future, I do predictions based on planetary energy and gives remedies based on karma improvement. So, if you want this, contact me on www.facebook.com/raceisnotover so, let’s begin the story of Vamana Avatar.

Last time, we read a story of Prahlad and how Lord Vishnu took Narsimha Avatar to save him and kill Hiranyakasipu. After Prahlad, his son Virechana became the king and he is followed by Mahabali who was a great ruler and people loved him. The people were happy and he was taught Vedas by his grandfather Prahlad. But after Shukracharya became his guru. Due to Indra had elixir during the churning of the sea (remembered the story told you before), he was so powerful and he killed Mahabali. Shukracharya brought him back to the life as he knew Sanjivani power, by which, he can bring back to life to the person whose neck is not cut.

Afterwards, Mahabali prayed a lot to Lord Brahma and asked for the boon and he asked, “Most people are afraid of demons and I want to show the world that we are also good people and for that, I need a power equal to Indra so, we are not defeated by Indra, the king of heaven.” So, Lord Brahma gave him this boon because he felt he was a righteous person. Shukracharya was very intelligent and good at strategy and with his help, Mahabali won all the three worlds and conquered them with heaven. Shukracharya told him to do 100 Yagna to become king of the heaven. Mahabali respected his guru and started the preparation for Yagna.

Meanwhile, Indra felt dejected because he not only defeated by Mahabali, but also he made the perfect governance on all. He was actually worried and went to his mother Aditi. His mother saw him and asked the matter. He explained his mother and his mother promised him to solve it out. She did a penance to Lord Vishnu. Lord Vishnu appeared in front of her and asked her for a boon. She asked Mahabali has taken my son’s kingdom and I want it back. Lord Vishnu explained that Mahabali was a good king and he deserved to be second Indra. But she said, “Do you think the rest demons also deserve?” So, she asked Lord Vishnu to take birth from her and end the kingdom of Mahabali. He granted her wish and soon after he was born from her as a dwarf, very intelligent boy.

Meanwhile, Mahabali had completed 99 Yagna for becoming king and he was about to do 100^th Yagna. When he was about to start, this Lord Vishnu as a dwarf Brahmin went there and asked for some alms. Mahabali bowed this child and said that today I am going to do 100^th yagna so, I will fulfill wish of everybody. But Shukracharya interrupted him and told him that this child is none else but Lord Vishnu and he came here on behalf of Indra and everything will be lost if you give him promise for alms. He only heard half of it and said that if my Lord has come then I will fulfill all of his wishes. Shukracharya got angry and cursed him, “You disobeyed me so you will lose your entire splendor.” Still he was ready to give everything asked by this child and he remained unafraid. He asked the dwarf child, “What do you want?” Lord Vishnu in the appearance of a child asked for 3 steps of land for his Yagna. Mahabali has not expected this so, he told the child to ask everything so, in future, you won’t have to ask anything from anybody.

But still, Lord Vishnu said, “I want only 3 steps land measured by my feet. If a person cannot satisfy by the 3 steps of land, he can never be satisfied with anything.” Mahabali felt everything is magical and he was starring at the boy with magnetically. He said he would give. So, Lord Vishnu increased his size and became such a big that in first foot, he took the whole earth. In the second foot, he took whole heaven. Now, he told Mahabali, your promise was broken as he couldn’t take the third step. Mahabali said, “I am not going to break the promise. You can take the third step on my head.” He took the third step, but because of the force Mahabali went to the underground. Lord Vishnu said to him, “You are my true devotee. Even Shukracharya warned you, still you gave me this promise and kept it. Ask for a boon.” Mahabali asked that you will be in front of me for day and night so I can worship you. Lord Vishnu granted this.

When Mahabali was making and redesigning his kingdom, he found one black man. He wanted to be his gatekeeper. Now here in Vaikunth, at the place of Lord Vishnu, his wife goddess Laxmi missed him. So, she also came to Mahabali. She said, “My husband has gone for work and I can’t live without him. Please protect me.” Mahabali said, “You are my sister and from today, I will protect you.” From that day, they all have prosperity in the underground world. Once she was praying there and Mahabali heard and asked, “Whom are praying for?” She said, “For you.” He got happy and told her to ask anything from him. She said, “I want my husband back.” He was puzzled and asked, “Who is your husband?” She said, “That gatekeeper.” Both disappeared and Mahabali asked for forgiveness after realizing this. Lord Vishnu gave him boon that he will make him another Indra after Indra’s kingdom.

This is how Rakshabandhan is celebrated in India. Every woman ties Rakhi (sacred thread) on the hands of her brother on this day. So, this was the story of Mahabali and Lord Vishnu’s Vamana Avatar. Stay tuned for the next incarnation. In case you want to register for workshop or need astrology consultation, mail on reikimasterdhwani@gmail.com

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Narsimha Avatar

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Last time, in the Varaha incarnation we saw that 2 gatekeepers of Lord Vishnu born as Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakasipu and one of that died by Lord Vishnu as Boar incarnation. After the death of his brother, Hiranyakasipu became very evil and decided to destroy all the followers and Lord Vishnu himself. He thought that if he wanted to win from him, he needed a great boon and immortality. This immortality can only be gained by Lord Brahma. So, he took penance for years and all the angels were terrified by his will and prayed Lord Brahma.

Meanwhile, Lord Indra came to know that he was not with his men. Therefore, he thought to destroy all demons and they could never attack back in future so, he attacked them with all angels. As Lord Indra expected, all the demons were defeated and most demons either died or were captured. After destroying everything, Lord Indra went to the palace of Hiranyakasipu and he found his wife Kayadhu there. Lord Indra thought to take her as a prisoner so, in future, he could use her against Hiranyakasipu. So, he was forcibly taking her to Amaravati, capital of Lord Indra in heaven, sage Narada appeared. He is the sage who can move to all the heavens, earth and underground and be a messenger for different people.

He said, “Indra Stop! What are you doing? You will get a sin for fighting with a lady who didn’t raise any weapons and you are hurting her.” Lord Indra told him that Hiranyakasipu was not there so he destroyed whole city and now taking her because in future, he could use her as hostage against him. Sage Narada said, “Taking her in a prison is the great sin as she has not harmed you and she is pure and innocent.” Lord Indra thought on this and realized this ordered his men to leave her and left. Sage Narada helped the trembling Kayadhu and asked her, “My daughter, are you alright?” She looked at him and took a deep breath and bowed him and told that if Lord Indra had took me there, I would have killed myself because Hiranyakasipu is the only man I have loved in my life.

Sage Narada helped her and calmed her and he said that he knew already that she was carrying a child and this was not good for any of them. He asked her, “What will you do now?” She looked around all the death and devastation and thought that if she stayed there, maybe someone else or Lord Indra would come. So, he asked sage Narada, “I have a request for you. I will look after you as I am your own daughter. Would you please take me to your hermitage if it is ok with you? Narada smiled and said yes as his purpose of coming there was to take her to home. He took her to his home and she looked after sage Narada well and he intelligently said her lots of stories of Lord Vishnu.

Hearing all the stories of Lord Vishnu, she developed an attachment towards Lord Vishnu. Additionally, the unborn baby in her womb also heard these stories and loved Lord Vishnu. Time has passed.

Now on the other side, Brahma got pleased with Hiranyakasipu because his penance got too powerful and because of that air, all the heavens started burning up. So, Lord Brahma went to the earth to meet Hiranyakasipu. He was so much in deep penance that he didn’t realized that Lord has come and after Lord Brahma touched him, he bowed him. Lord Brahma was pleased with his penance so he asked him to wish for a boon. He asked, “I wish to be immortal”, but Lord Brahma stopped in between and told him, “that is not possible because everyone who is born has to die. I cannot change the laws of nature.”

Hiranyakasipu thought to ask for something which makes impossible for him to die. He continued, “Lord, I wish that I cannot be killed by any man or God or animal or any other creature which is created by you. Nobody can kill me during day or night, in earth or in heavens, either inside or outside of the house, not with any weapons.” When Lord Brahma heard this he got silent as he has to grant this and he had no choice. So, he told Lord Vishnu, “I think you will need to take care of this.” And then he grated Hiranyakasipu’s wish. Afterwards, Lord vanished and Hiranyakasipu joyously went home. He hurt to see all the devastation happened in his state. He got too angry and went to heaven to take the revenge.

All the angels had to leave the heavens and he found his wife Kayadhu there and took her back to the palace. Despite she asked to change his ways and stop all the attacks and all, he continued. It was a time when none able to raise a voice against him and Kayadhu gave a birth to Prahlad. As he was there with Narada, he became too different than his father. As he started growing up, he continued to pray Lord Vishnu and his firm, kind and gentle gesture created problems for Hiranyakasipu as people started loving Prahlad for his worships. Hiranyakasipu wanted him to be worshipped as God above of Lord Vishnu. He went to Prahlad and tried to talk. But he was shunned by the reply he got. Prahlad said, “I have learnt that Lord Vishnu who is the ruler of the three worlds, if you devoted him, he will be always there for us.” He got angry on him and went to the teacher. The teacher was terrified with Hiranyakasipu and he said that he did not teach a single thing from this. He told him about how he learned about Lord Vishnu. At school, he said the same story to everyone.

Hiranyakasipu got angry and went to Prahlad to ask about how he learned this. Prahlad replied, “It is the truth which I found everywhere. In every single leaf and everywhere.” Hiranyakasipu got angry and he ordered to kill his son and the guard looked at him with anxiety. They took him and tried to kill with the sword, but the blade did not go through his body. Then they tried to throw him from the mountain, but again he was back and saved. They threw him in the snake well, but he came back without any problem. They tried mad elephants, but everything becomes alright wherever he went. After tired of everything, Hiranyakasipu called his sister Holika and asked her for the help. She had the boon that the fire cannot burn her. She made sit him in her lap and set the fire. However, Hiranyakasipu could not calculate the power of devotion and she started burning in the fire whereas Prahlad was fine. In Hindu, Holi is burnt every year as part of this to burn all the sins and second day, people play with colors to celebrate this.

Now, Hiranyakasipu was afraid and he catched Prahlad and asked, “I am going to kill you myself and I would see from where Lord Vishnu is coming to save you.” He asked Prahlad, “show me where is Lord Vishnu?” Prahlad pointed towards one pillar and Hiranyakasipu got shunned as the pillar shatter and from the pillar some ferocious figure came out. Hiranyakasipu stepped back and asked, “who are you in the face of lion and body of a man?” That figure said loudly, “I am Narsimha, one incarnation of Lord Vishnu and I have come to kill you.” They both started fighting. Lord Vishnu dragged him near the threshold of the door (neither inside nor outside) and he placed him on his lap (neither earth not heaven) and then killed him with his claws (no weapon) at twilight (neither day nor night). After killing him, he roared loudly and sat on the throne. All the demons escaped and even angels were also afraid to see this figure.

Only Prahlad was standing there and said, “Thank you My Lord, you came to protect me. I knew you would come.” He asked Prahlad to grant a boon. Prahlad asked peace for his father. Looking at the little Prahlad, he smiled and said, “don’t worry for your father. He will attain his place back after 3 births. He has born like this because of a curse.” Afterwards, Prahlad became the ruler and he left all bad practices and created heaven on the earth.

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