Dasavathara –Balarama vs Buddha
controversy –What do you think?
P.R.Ramachander
The ten incarnations
of Lord Vishnu starts with Mathsya
and ends with Kalki of the future . It is told as
“Mathsya , Koorma, Varahascha, Nrusimhascha , Vamana , Ramo, Ramascha, Ramascha , Krishna Kalki Janardhana”
Prayers
addressed to and temples
dedicated to Mathsya, Koorma , Vamana ,
And Balarama are very rare .I had in my
collection some rare stotrams addressed to these Gods and I have presented them along with prayers addressed to you all in the
last nine days.
One reader told me that Balabadhra or Balarama is not
the incarnation of Lord
Vishnu but an incarnation of Adhi Sesha. If he were accepted as
an incarnation then
Lakshmana also should be one
among the Dasavatharas.
That gentleman said
, the Dasavatharas are not as given
above but
“Mathsya , Koorma, Varahascha, Nrusimhascha , Vamana , Ramo, Ramascha
, Krishnascha, Buddha Kalki Janardhana”
That is Balarama is not the eighth incarnation but Budha is the ninth incarnation.One possible reason for this is
that if Balarama is the incarnation , he
has done no great deed in killing the
Asuras .There are few references like this but to my best of my knowledge Hinduism
has not accepted Buddha as God and nor have Buddhists
ever claimed that
Budha is a Hindu God. There is a
Dasavathara Stotra which starts
with “Yaa Thwara Jala
Sanchare …” where Balarama is not included as an incarnation but Budha is. I have
another six Dasavathara Stotras
in my collection (Which I am going to post from tomorrow) where Balarama
is the incarnation and not
Buddha .
I know there are many learned scholars
in and outside face book and I would like their comments on this Issue.
1 comment:
As per Vishnu Puranam and Bhagavat Puranam, Balarama is the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Actually as per our texts, Lord Vishnu has innumerable avatars but we consider only 10 as main. Even Ved Vyas is considered incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The second chapter of Brahma Sutra, which is acknowledged by Krishna in Geetha, is mainly refuting Buddha matham. If we go as per Brahma Sutra, Buddha Dharma is considered avidhigam and nastikam. Buddha Dharma does not follow our Vedas. For them only the word of Lord Buddha is final ( pramanam).
In fact Kumarila Bhatta, founder of Bhatta matham, he wrote commentary on Jaimini Sutra (12000 sutras) on purva memamsa or the Ved purva part. He was the one responsible for driving Buddhism away from India.
In Shankra Bhasyam on Brahma Sutra, you can find the Buddha matham refutation elaborately.
So per per above arguments the eighth avatar of Lord Vishnu cannot be considered Buddha in my opinion. God himself will not come down to talk negative about the Vedas he has given,I consider.
There can be other arguments also both in favor and against.
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