Niraja Mohapatra
Real unscripted talk, honest reflections, and exploring life's complexities through stories, symbolism, and everyday moments.
I'm figuring life out one day at a time, and sharing my thoughts on God, relationships, personal growth, and whatever else comes to mind.
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Niraja Mohapatra
My main takeaways from 'Mahaavatar Narasimha: movie:
1. Prahlad faced unimaginable situations and did not leave God in those situations. God took an unimaginable form to free his devotee from Hiranyakashipu. Moral of the story being- When something unimaginable happens to you, you pray to the unimaginable. Think of another parallel, Draupadi cheerharan. Duryodhan gave an unimaginable task to dushashan to strip Draupadi, noone could save her so she started praying to the unimaginable and he helped her in unimaginable ways.
2. Anger is divine and important. It depends on the intent from which the anger arises. Prahlad, a 5 year old kid was tortured mercilessly by his father. If, that situation is not making you angry there is something really wrong with you. The anger of Lord Narasimha stemmed from compassion and was necessary. The anger that Hiranyakashipu was filled with stemmed from his own ego and to prove his 'superiority' and hence served no greater purpose. It was just for his own sake, to make him feel better about himself. A person who is content with himself the way God has made him would never want to 'prove himself superior' because he knows the divine can never go wrong with his creation.
3.No creation of God is made without purpose. In every avatar of the Lord, he has shown the importance of people, even animals. For e.g. Hiranyaksh captured Bhudevi in deep trenches so Lord took the form of a boar i.e the Varaha avatar to show us that boars can use their tusks to dig inside the trenches. That's how Lord saved Bhudevi. He took the form of Lion-Man because the nails of lion are very sharp and can tear almost anything. It is said lion marks are as poisonous as the snake bites. This is what it means when it is said that God is in everything. As you understand God deeper you would even see his presence even in the so called inanimate objects. I like to see them as God extending himself and taking the form of a stone, animal, person however and whatever he chooses to embody.
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Niraja Mohapatra
It just takes one person to believe in you for you to start going after your dreams. Cheering on you just as you are at the moment, not changing anything about you. I would be so embarrassed to start this youtube channel if it weren't for that one person. This is what this channel focuses to express. To put your raw self out and be unapologetic about it.
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