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"When sorrow rules your life, where can you seek solace?
When you think your life is a calamitous, sorrowful mess, where can you go for refuge?
When righteous endeavors do not bear fruit, where can you turn for help?
When you're not compensated appropriately for your work, who can get you what you rightfully deserve?
When your mental strength declines inspite of your intelligence, who can bless you with fortitude?
When your memory falters, who can help you?
When courage and bravery bid you goodbye, who can protect you?
When you just can not steel yourself to face defeat, who can cradle you?
If you want to march on the path of victory with assurance, who can give you that resolute mind?
If you want peace and love in family life, who can give it to you?
If you want to beget good children who will do good to society, who can ensure that?
If you want a life free of disease, how can you get it?
If you want to defeat the evil effects of black magic and jealousy, who can help you do that?
"The answer to all these questions is
Sri Sarabesvara, the Lord in His unique manifestation as the Vanquisher of evil forces everywhere.
He is the Great Protector, Motivator and Well Wisher of all beings.
This Lord of Fearlessness is the One who envelops us with His invincible shield of protection.
He destroys negative forces and showers us with positive spiritual energy.
Pray to Him constantly if you want to stay clear off evil."
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- Sathguru Venkataraman
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1. The Universal Omkaara Form
Sri Sarabesvara is Siva's Universal Omkaara form.
He is the great Lord who keeps the universe in check.
He is the root cause of the many divine manifestations,
the pancha bootha sakthi that underlies the physical universe,
the Nava Naayakas,
the Devas
and all mantra, tantra, yantra, yoga, siddhi potentialities.
He is the One who blesses all beings with peace and prosperity.
If we deserve to be famous, it's Sri Sarabesa who grants us fame.
If we deserve to be courageous, it's Sri Sarabesa who grants us courage.
He's the great motivator. If we get stuck in the course of our endeavors, He's the One
who motivates us to move forward and helps us make progress.
He is the grantor of peace and tranquility.
He is the dispenser of all that's good and the vanquisher of all that's evil.
He's the eternal Well Wisher of all beings.
Within Siva who is the root cause of siddhi (spiritual attainment)
and buddhi (spiritual intelligence),
Sri Sarabesa is the Parasakthi who is the Lord of bakthi (devotion) and balam (spiritual fortitude).
2. Sarabesvara Avatar
The scriptural texts known as the Puranas have described the Lord's Sarabesvara
manifestation in detail. What we present here is that which has been conveyed to us by the Siddhas.
The great Lord Narayana manifested as Sri Narasimha
to rid the universe of the evil that was Hiranyakasipu.
Evil Incarnate Hiranyakasipu had oppressed the universe with his tyranny.
He was a consummate egomaniac. His arrogance knew no bounds and he was certain
that he could do whatever he pleased. He found much pleasure in subjecting
all beings, including the Devas, to much pain and suffering.
To protect the denizens of the universe and
to give the evil one his due, Lord Narayana manifested his wrathful, aggressive Narasimha man-lion form.
Sri Narasimha tore the demon apart thus putting an end to his tyrannical rule.
To ensure that Hiranyakasipu's brand of evil is forever banished from the universe, Sri Narasimha
consumed every drop of Hiranyakasipu's blood and then wore the demon's mangled body as a garland.
Thus He made sure that none of the evil one's physical remains made contact with the universe.
The inimitable man-lion roared and performed a terrifying dance.
His eyes shone like great balls of fire and His blood curdling roar struck fear in everyone.
The universe shuddered at this aggressive form of the Lord.
No one could approach Him and no one could bear His all consuming aggressive energy.
So the Devas, Rishis and Siddhas approached Sri Siva and requested His protection.
Sri Siva, with the full support of Sri Soolini and Prathyankira Devis and Their respective entourages,
manifested His supremely aggressive Sarabesvara form.
He embraced Sri Narasimha, cooled Him down and made Him accessible to all beings.
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3. Different Roles in Different Yugas
Sri Sarabesvara, being Siva's Universal Omkara form, is not a new avatar.
It was an avatar that was recreated during Sri Narasimha avatar.
Sri Sarabesa has existed through all the
yugas. In each yuga, Sri Sarabesvara takes on a role that's best suited for
the characteristics of that yuga and the state of spirituality in that age.
The Kritha Yuga is an age of dharma (righteousness).
During this yuga, Sri Sarabesvara takes on the role of anugraha moorthi,
the beatific Lord who blesses one and all with His grace.
When righteousness falters in this age, He assumes the role of dhanda moorthi,
the One who corrects and absolves small mistakes and errors.
During the Tretha Yuga, He dons the role of dhanda moorthi.
In the Dvaapara Yuga, Sri Sarabesvara is a ugra moorthi, the destroyer of sins and evil.
In the Kali Yuga (the present age), He is the prabandha moorthi who protects the virtuous and those
engaged in selfless service from evil. He is the vanquisher of the foes of virtue.
He's the protector of the pious and the virtuous.
He destroys the evil in the evil ones and transforms them into virtuous beings.
4. Tranquil Forms and Aggressive Forms
The One formless, attribute-less Absolute manifests both tranquil and aggressive forms.
The Lord manifests Himself as Dakshina Moorthi, the Universal Teacher, in a form that's the very definition
of peace and tranquility. He also manifests Himself as Sarabesvara, the Universal Protector,
in what's a supremely wrathful, aggressive form.
It's the same Lord who manifests both forms.
To bless peace loving souls like Siddhas and rishis, the Lord manifests His peaceful, tranquil forms.
To put the demonic, egomaniacal evil ones in their place, He manifests His wrathful, aggressive forms.
Since the Kali Yuga (the current age) is an age of evil, it's very important that we worship the
Universal Protector if we want to stay away from evil.
5. Many Manifestations
It's the same Lord who manifests Himself as Siva, Narayana, Sakthi, Ganapathi, Muruga and so on.
There are many many divine manifestations. This is because the Lord recognizes our imperfections and
our failings; He knows that different beings have different temperaments; He knows that different
forms may appeal to different beings. Thus, out of his compassion for our failings, He manifests
His innumerable divine potencies in innumerable avatars.
Human beings are different by way of economics, education, temperament, style of thinking,
karma baggage and other factors.
They also differ in the perfection of their surrender to the Divine Will or the lack of it.
So each one of us may gravitate to a different divine manifestation.
As the expression goes, different strokes for different folks.
Different divine forms may appeal to different people, but it's the same God who receives us all in the end.
In a time of moral decadence and rise of evil, the worship of Sri Sarabesvara is an ideal recourse for
all of humankind.
The Siddhas worship and revere
all
divine forms because each divine form was manifested by God for our spiritual and material welfare.
If the Siddhas do this, should we not?
It's our spiritual duty to acknowledge each divine avatar with gratitude
and render worship to
all
of these divine forms.
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