Venkatanathanum Thiruvenkadamudayanum - part 8

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We know that Lord Rama concealed Himself from Vali while shooting Vali with His arrow. Sugreevan approached Vali and challenged him to a wrestling match. Vali beat up Sugreevan while Lord Rama watched them fight.  Sugreevan asked the Lord why he hadn’t interfered. Lord Rama replied that, He was unable to distinguish between Vali and Sugreevan as they looked identical. The following day Lord Rama asked a flower garland to be prepared and insisted that, Lakshmana should garland Sugreevan before the match. That day the Lord shot and killed Vali.

Books will tell us that, the Lord had asked Sugreevan to wear the garland in order to be able to identify him from Vali. In reality, the Lord is the Supreme Being and can differentiate between the two without the help of a garland. Then, did Lord Rama lie? The Lord did not lie as He referred to the arrogant behaviour of both Sugreevan as well as Vali. Both the brothers displayed arrogance. They thought that, “they were fighting”. They felt that victory would be because of their effort. They did not acknowledge the Lord as the inner controller. Hence Lord Rama found their attitudes to be identical and witnessed the match without interfering.

Sugreevan never treated Lord Lakshmana with respect. He felt that he need to show respect only to Lord Rama as, Lord Rama was a king like himself. Lord Rama never protected anyone who did not pay their respect to Lakshmana. Hence, He insisted that, Lakshmana should garland Sugreevan. In order to wear the garland Sugreevan had to bow his head before Lakshmana thus, pleasing Lord Rama. Perumal in this way even rectified the Bagawatha apacharam committed by Sugreevan.

Perumal has taught as a very important aspect of saranagathi during Vali vadham. People mistakenly assume that, Perumal hid Himself from Vali because, Vali had been blessed with a boon that he would obtain 50% of his opponent’s powers. The Vedas state that, it is impossible to measure Perumal’s powers. His power is hence measured as infinity. Even if Vali inherited 50% of Perumal’s powers, Perumal would still have unlimited powers since, infinity divided by 2 is also infinity.

We will examine Vali Vadham in the next post.

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