Narayaneeyam is a stotra composed by Narayana Bhattathiri. Stotra means explaining and highlighting the prevailing good traits in somebody. Vedas say Devas like it when yagnas are carried out, whereas pitrus are happy when their descendants pray to them. It’s human nature to experience being praised as an excellent particular person. Nevertheless, not everybody stays good continually. God alone has that distinctive trait, which is why He’s celebrated by staunch devotees similar to Bhattathiri, mentioned B. Damodhara Deekshithar.

We like to take heed to scriptural discourses as a result of we imagine that God will come to our support, as He has accomplished for numerous others. It isn’t potential to see God, solely expertise Him. Why so? The primary sloka of Narayaneeyam affords a solution. The Supreme Actuality, the Brahma Tatwa, which isn’t simple to understand at first, (we can’t see this God by way of our human eyes), however the realisation of which is the very best purushartha, shines proper in (concrete kind) as Sri Krishna on the Guruvayur temple. Great certainly is the nice fortune of those that search His Grace, says Bhattathiri. If God chooses, He’ll seem to His true devotee, as He did to Arjuna. Chapter XII of the Bhagavad Gita says that having determined to point out His Viswaroopam to Arjuna, Krishna says, “Let me empower you to see My kind,” after which Arjuna is ready to behold the Divine Type.

One could marvel why if He’s the Brahma Tatwa, the deity at Guruvayur has such an outlined kind: glistening like dawn, with lengthy eyes that stretch practically to the ears, reeking of kindness, tooth like pearls, neck adorned with valuable garlands and necklaces, with Mahalakshmi gracing His chest. This type of the idol is alleged to have been in worship and when Krishna was able to depart, He instructed Guru and Vayu to hold the idol and set up it at a sacred spot. As they journeyed with the idol, Lord Siva, whose kind was put in on the very place the place Sri Krishna now stands in Guruvayur, instructed Guru and Vayu to depart the idol there because it was the purest place He Himself determined to maneuver His sojourn just a few metres away, with a view to assist devotees pray to Krishna in peace.