Thamaso ma Jyothir Gamaya-A Kolu

 Thamaso ma  Jyothir Gamaya-A Kolu

From darkness let us go to light

 

Kolu by 

Meera  Venkatesan

Humble effort  to understand

By her Appa-Raja Thatha

 

The doll exhibition (bommai kolu)  mainly  of gods,

Started  in the south  perhaps,

To remove darkness by light

And remove  ignorance  by  knowledge

 

An effort  has been by my  daughter Meera

To search for reasons why Gods,

Killed  Asuras and  to throw light,

On the need  for those  Asuras  to disappear,

She finds that  negative  emotions ,

Made them to do bad  things and Gods had  to take action

 

Gods did   set right  innate  quality of Humans,

Ignorance, anger  , pride , cruelty and possessiveness

Invincibility as well as  chararacters  acquired  by them

Like Deciet, blind loyalty, taking revenge and distraction.

By killing living beings called   Asuras,

Who preferred to move   about at night.

But  blind modern day asuras  invented by human beings,

Like   the cell phone and gluttony  of junk foods,

Possibly would make   the gods  in heaven  would be puzzled.

 

1.Ignorance

Lord  shiva  due to his  many sage  devotees,

Decided to do  a vigorous dance  for them only

At that  time there  was an immortal asura ,

Called Muyalaka  who was spreading ignorance to everyone,

Lord  Nataraja put him below   his feet  and danced on him for ever,

So that ignorance  cannot  be spread  by that asura

 

2.Anger

God  shiva  and  goddess parvathy ,

Did create  a great son called  Ganesa

At that  time  when there  was  a asura called Anala,

Who due  to his short temper killed  people like fire,

And Ganesa swallowed the fire (anala) and Dhurva grass cooled him

 

3.Pride

God dathathreya was  the trinity  of gods  rolled in to one

And he had a wife “anagha  Lakshmi”, who was three  goddesses  rolled in to one

At that time  there  was a head stong  and proud Asura  called Jampa(pride)

And no one  could defeat  him and the  devas  requested Anagha  Lakshmi to do it

She simply met Jampa and requested him to lift her  and keep her on his head,

And he did, and when the head strong man took wealth(Lakshmi) on his head , he was destroyed

 

4.Cruelty

As asura called soora padman got the boon ,

For living almost  forever and started  showing his cruelty

To every one and when he started  troubling Indra’s wife,

Her son in law , lord subrahmanya started  fighting with him,

And unable  to win that asura became a mango tree,

The lord cut it in two  and made one part as his vahana peacock,

And other part in to a cock , which he kept on his flag.

 

5.Possesivenes

   There was asura  called  Hayagreeva  who,

Wanted  all the Vedas  only himself, stole it,

And hid at the bottom of the ocean  and the great God,

Took the form of fish went down there and killed that Asura but ,

By the time the pralaya (Final deluge has  started ,

The God  in the fish form swam with Vedas and Manu

And put  them in a safe secure place till water  receded

 

6.Vengence

, The Mahishasura  was  killed  by Durga,

And his sister  Mahishi did thapas  and got a boon

That she can be killed  only  by son of Vishnu and Shiva,

When she  started  taking vengeance  on devas,

Lord Ayyappa the the son of  Lord Shiva and Vishnu killed her

 

7.Invincibibility

   Mahisha a Rakshasa  with a bison head

Did great penance  to God  and got a boon,

That no male   can kill him and he had,

Capacity  to change  his form in various ways,

And so he   thought  that all  worlds were his,

The devas prayed to  Goddess  Durga to kill him

And after a great fight she killed him

 

8.Deceit

There  was a great  pot bellied  sage ,

Called Agasthya  who was requested,

To go south by  Lord Shiva  and on the way

Were two cheating  asuras,Vatapi and ilwala.

The sage was hungry and ilwala,

Fed  him the cooked Vatapi,and thought

As usual  when he calls him Vatapi will come out

But agasthya ordered digestion of food  hehas taken and vatapi was digested

 

10..Blind Loyalty

The very huge  and very strong  Kumbhakarna ,

Was the  yonger  brother of Ravana and

He advised him to  give back  Sita to Rama and surrender.

Ravana did not hear it  and Khumbakarna  went to sleep

Ravana  started loosing the war and woke up kumbhakarma,

He went to fight knowing it was wrong and he fought

Due to his blind loyalty and he  lost his life

 

10.Distraction

Kamsa   wanted to kill baby  Krishna who was death for him

He sent  an asura called trinavarthha who had  the form of whirl wind

In the lap of Yasoda Krishna became  heavy and she left her down,

The whirl wind  Trinavartha  carried the baby  but as the baby grew in weight,

He had  to drop  him on the ground  and die

 

11 Blind Modernism

Even about 50 years  back most  of us, used to

Spent our  time on useful pursuits and when

WE wanted to speak to another  it was  by a visit,

And when we  wanted  to eat  good food , our mummy is to cook.

The Asura  android phone makes us talk  all 24 hours

And Asura  junk food, makes  us eat unhealthy food

I do not know which God will come to destroy them?