God for those who believe His Existence does not show himself to his devotees all the time and does appear briefly. This appearance can be incarnations, or Avatar. For incarnations, one should have lived during this period of time and physically present where He or She lived or visited.
Vishwaroopam is when the Lord shows @"Himself as God" to some special person such as Arjuna in Mahabharatha. The important thing about Vishwaroopam is that the Lord only shows this form for a very brief period of time. In Fact during the Avatar of Lord as Krishna, he apparently showed himself as the God [ Vishwaroopam] only six times during this Avatar.
The common theme for both the incarnation namely the avatar and Vishwaroopam is the brevity of time or absence of permanence.
Now let us turn to driving and the road when it is pristine. You do really enjoy driving when the road is good, the motor is responsive and the landscape is exquisite. You can choose the area where the landscape is good, buy and drive the best motor with the money we have, but hey! what about the road condition.
This obviously depends on where you live, the authorities on how they lay down the road and maintain, the nature such as rain does not spoil the laid road and so on.
What would you say when the road is pristine only for a short period of time and then when the road surface is so bad that you wish you are not there!. You start praying that the road gets re laid to a better condition and you do not know when that would be.
You keep praying since you cannot do anything else and it is not under your control even though it should be?
And then one day the road is relaid and it is pristine, and you rejoice at the best road surface you are able to drive and start enjoying the ride!!
You worship the God in this case the pristine road, which has made an avatar when you are able to Darshan it. Sometimes you feel the road is soooooo goooooood that you forget to worship the Avatar only to realise that the next time you drive, what you had the time before was indeed a Vishwaroopam!!!!!
I hope you got it and sorry for the sarcastic part of it and learn to laugh with me
and say Deivame [Oh, The Lord/ God] and worship the Pristine Road next time you drive on one!!!!!
Warm Regards and Best Wishes
Chockalingam
Vishwaroopam is when the Lord shows @"Himself as God" to some special person such as Arjuna in Mahabharatha. The important thing about Vishwaroopam is that the Lord only shows this form for a very brief period of time. In Fact during the Avatar of Lord as Krishna, he apparently showed himself as the God [ Vishwaroopam] only six times during this Avatar.
The common theme for both the incarnation namely the avatar and Vishwaroopam is the brevity of time or absence of permanence.
Now let us turn to driving and the road when it is pristine. You do really enjoy driving when the road is good, the motor is responsive and the landscape is exquisite. You can choose the area where the landscape is good, buy and drive the best motor with the money we have, but hey! what about the road condition.
This obviously depends on where you live, the authorities on how they lay down the road and maintain, the nature such as rain does not spoil the laid road and so on.
What would you say when the road is pristine only for a short period of time and then when the road surface is so bad that you wish you are not there!. You start praying that the road gets re laid to a better condition and you do not know when that would be.
You keep praying since you cannot do anything else and it is not under your control even though it should be?
And then one day the road is relaid and it is pristine, and you rejoice at the best road surface you are able to drive and start enjoying the ride!!
You worship the God in this case the pristine road, which has made an avatar when you are able to Darshan it. Sometimes you feel the road is soooooo goooooood that you forget to worship the Avatar only to realise that the next time you drive, what you had the time before was indeed a Vishwaroopam!!!!!
I hope you got it and sorry for the sarcastic part of it and learn to laugh with me
and say Deivame [Oh, The Lord/ God] and worship the Pristine Road next time you drive on one!!!!!
Warm Regards and Best Wishes
Chockalingam
