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A new look at mythology
A. RAMALINGA SASTRY
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A discourse highlighted the many facets of Krishna Kadhaamritham.
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“The attribute of the creator of the universe being all pervasive, He stands extolled with all reverence as the Parabrahman. The supreme being’s manifest descends into this world through his many avatars. The most endearing of these is Krishna.” Thus observed Medasani Mohan, director of TTD Annamacharya Project, Tirupathi, in his prelude to the nine-day narration of the Ambrosial story of Krishna (Krishna Kadhaamritham).
The discourse is being organised by the founder managers (US based Dr. Prasad and his wife Dr. Sujatha) of Anil Neerukonda Educational Society (ANES), Institute of Technology and Sciences (ANITS) and NRI General Hospital at Singivalasa in Visakhapatnam in association with Vedic Seva Trust founded by Sriman A.S.N. Murty and his wife Ramadevi and managed by one of its trustee A. Chandramouli; the event began last Wednesday at Kalabharathi.
Mohan, on the first evening, explained how the Bhagavatha Purana of Vyasabhagavan is an expansive expatiation of his father Parasara’s Vishnupuranam, how it was taught by him to his son Sukha who in turn narrated it to king Pareekshith, the only heir of the Pandavas who survived the Mahabharat war. The Avadhana Chakravarty (Mohan) on the next two evenings eloquently elucidated as to why and how Srimahavishnu was born to Devaki and Vasudeva in the prison and how they saved the child from being killed by his maternal uncle Kamsa by getting him substituted in place of Yogamaaya born as a female child at the same time to Nanda’s wife Yasodha in Gokulam.
Quoting excerpts from the Bhagavatha purana and its Telugu version by Pothana besides Leela Suka’s Srikrishna Karnamritham, Gaarga Bhagavatham and occasionally a few slokas from Sankara’s Gopala Choodavamani Satakam, Mohan rendered an engrossingly discernible explication of all the eventful episodes like the killing of the demons sent by Kamsa, lifting and holding the Govardhanagiri on his little finger, Kaaliyamardhana and so on in which Krishna, even as a child, turned out to be an embodiment of invincible power of divinity.
At the same time, Mohan also gave an analysis of the Lord’s descent as Krishna - he chose to live among cowherds and extended his singular grace to the maidens (Gopikas) from their families for their ardent adoration for him, his education at the feet of Guru Sandeepa as any other ordinary child and so on. Similar narrations in the next two sessions revealed an account of him moving to Brindavanam, getting the township of Dwaraka concrete on the ground, his marriages with Rukmini, Satyabhama, Jambhavathi, Kalindhi, Jithi, Bhadra, Mitravinda and Lakshana besides getting wedded to 16,000 Jeevanayikas after liberating them from the clutches of Narakasura and so on. Thus by the fifth day, he completed narration of some episodes from Mahabharatam as well detailing as to how Krishna came to meet the Pandavas in the Droupadi Swayamvara sabha.
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