APPEARANCE OF LORD DATTATREYA

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JAI DATTA || JAYA JAYA DATTA|| APPEARANCE OF DATTATREYA: =========================== WHAT IS THE APPEARANCE OF BHAGAWAN DATTATREYA? IT IS BELIEVED THAT BHAGAWAN DATTATREYA COULD BE SEEN EVEN TODAY AS HE IS IMMORTAL. IF SO, WHAT WOULD BE HIS FORM? ACCEPTEDLY, HE IS A TRINITY AS EVEN KALIDAS, THE TOP MOST SANSKRIT WRITER SAYS NAMAHA TRIMOORTAYE THUBHYAM PRAAK SRUSHTE KEVALAATMANE|| GUNATRAYA VIBHAAGAYA PASCHAAD BHEDAMUPEYUSHE|| " I BOW TO THE OH TRINITY, WHO WAS ALONE BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE AND WHO TURNED INTO DIFFERENT SHAPES IN ORDER TO HAVE DIVISION ACCORDING TO THE THREE ATTRIBUTES". THE FOLLOWING VERSE DESCRIBES HIS APPEARANCE: VAAMAPADO DHRUTHA SESHE|

DAKSHINAHA KOORMAPRUSTAGAHA|| DATTATREYA DWIBAAHUSTAATHU VAAMOTHSANGE SHRIYASAHA|| THE LEFT FOOT IS PLACED ON THE SESA COBRA, THE RIGHT ONE IS ON THE BACK OF TORTOISE. DATTATREYA HAS TWO HANDS WITH LAXMI ON THE LEFT SIDE . HERE DATTATREYA IS DESCRIBED AS THE ALMIGHTY VISHNU AS THAT WAS THE FORM IN WHICH DATTATREYA REMAINED WITH HIS PARENTS ATRI AND ANASUYA. OUT OF THREE, BRAHMA AND SHIV LEFT THEIR AMSA WITH VISHNU AND VISHNU REMAINED WITH ATRI AND ANASOOYA. THUS THE VISHNU FORM REPRESENTS DATTATREYA TRINITY AND HAS TWO HANDS IN THE HUMAN FORM. VISHNU IS THE MANAGER AND PROTECTOR OF THE UNIVERSE WHILE THE TWO OTHERS ARE BEHIND THE CURTAIN, SO TO SAY, AS THE CREATOR AND DESTROYER RESPECTIVELY. SO

BHAGAWAN DATTATREYA MOVES IN THE HUMAN FORM. WHAT ARE HIS BELONGINGS? WHERE DOES HE STAY? WHAT IS HIS ROUTINE? SHREE VASUDEVAANAND SARASWATHY (TEMBE SWAMY) WHO WAS TAKEN AS A DIRECT DISCIPLE OF SHRI DATATREYA BHAGAWAN DESCRIBES HIS AS UNDER: MAALAA KAMANDALU ADHAHA KARAPADMAYUGME MADHYASTHA PAANI YUGALE DHAMARU THRISHOOLE|| YASYASTHA OORDHVAKARAYOH SHUBHA SHANKA CHAKRE| VANDE TAMATHRI VARADAM BHUJA SHATKA YUKTHAM|| I BOW DOWN TO THE ONE WHO GAVE BOON TO SAGE ATRI WHO HAS A GARLAND AND A WATER POT IN THE LOWER PAIR OF HANDS, HAS A DRUM AND A TRIDENT IN THE MIDDLE PAIR, WHO HAS THE AUSPICIOUS CONCH AND WHEEL IN THE UPPERMOST PAIR OF HANDS AND IS THUS BEARING SIX HANDS. DATTATREYA HAS A SAFFRON (KAASHAYA) COLOURED DRESS, WHO IS UNBORN WHOSE EYES ARE

LIKE LOTUS, WHO IS ABSORBED IN PLAYING WITH THE COW AND THE DOGS. THE FIRST INCARNATION OF DATATREYA IS SHRIPAD SHREEVALLABHA IS HAVING THE FOLLOWING APPEARANCE: KAASHAAYA VASTRAM KARADANDA DHAARINAM KAMANDALAM PADMA KARENA SHANKHAM CHAKRAM GADAA BHOOSHITHA BHOOSHANAADHYAM SHREE PAADA RAAJAM SARANAM PRAPADHYE|| I SURRENDER MYSELF TO SHREEPADRAJA WHO HAS SAFFRON DRESS, HAS A WATER POT AND A CONCH IN THE LOTUS LIKE HAND AS WELL

AS A WHEEL AND AMACE AND IS FULL OF DECORATIONS. BHAGAWAN DATTATREYA IS REPRESENTED BY HIS "PADUKAS". THE DEVOTEE SHOULD BOWS DOWN TO HIS PADUKA. :: SHREE DATTA SARANAM MAMA :: subrahmanyam.bharathula

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