Avatara Rahasyam

Hayagrivamaham Vande Spatikachala Sannibam Chandramandala Madhyastam Saraswathya Samanvitham - Vishnu Tilaka Samhita. Hayagrivamaham Vande Spatikachala Sannibam Vidhya Sahayavan Devaha, Vishwakseno Hari Prabuhu Adikartha Sadevanam Aprameyo Janardhanaha - Mokshadharma, Mahabharata-Santiparva. The story of this Avatara is very sim­ple and short. God, while He was resting on Sesha in the nectar ocean (laya) after deluge Amirutha willed to create this world. He created first the four faced Brahma and vested in him the task of expanding it with all its sentient and non-sential things. For this purpose He revealed Vedas to him as his aid to complete this work. Madhu and Kaitabha rakshasas becoming aware of the power of the vedas and the power thereby gained by Brahma to expand this world snatched them away from him and kept them at the bottom of the sea. Consequently. Brahma thus deprived of the Vedas beca­me powerless and did not know what to do. He therefore performed tapas. Sriman Narayana pleased with his bhakti incarnated and took the form of Hayagriva and killed the said rakshasas and restored the vedas to Brahma. This is referred to in the Veda and it states. Yo Brahmanam Vidhadathi Poorvam Yo Vai Vedamcha Prahigothi Thasmai Thagruha Devamathma Budhi Prasadam Mumushu Vaisaranamaham Prapadye Pushkara Paranaihi Pushkaraicha Saggais- teerya Thasmin Vihaayase This story part of the avatara is not as much important as the spiritual signification of its philosophical import and the su­per knowledge of its content and revelation. This avatar is unique as it is different from other avatars of Narayana, which are the incarnations of His gunas, such as bala, veeryasakti, tejas and iswarya. This avatara of Hayagriva is an epitome of jnanaswarupa. The hidden truth of this avatara is the reve­lation of the full view of jnana which is supremely essential for the aspiring jeeva to have its ascent to Vaikunta. It fully reveals the true nature nature of God and upanishadic truths relating to HIM. Our problems about the creation of the world, of relation between God and man and the existence of destruction of this universe are all solved by the knowledge revealed through this avatara.