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a) SrI bhaTTar gives the interpretation that bhagavAn chooses to show only
apart of His greatness when He takes incarnations amongst us. (This does not
mean that He actually has only part of His mahimA during the incarnations. He
has His complete and undiminished attributes at His command, but He just
does not invoke them or use them. This is revealed in SrImad rAmAyaNam,
where Lord rAma emphasizes that He is only a human – (aham mAnusham
manye), even though viSvAmitra and others know His true Nature. See svAmi
deSikan’s description of the six rahasya’s of His incarnations in Slokam 17 of
SaraNAgati dIpikA, which has been described previously).
SrI BhaTTar gives the following references:
amSAvatAro brahmarshe! Yo’yam yadu kulodbhavah
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(V.P. 5.1.2)
“O Brahmarshi! This incarnation of the Lord as kRshNa in the yadu race is only
asmall part of Himself”.
AmSAmSena avatIrya urvyAm
“He has come down to this world only with a part of a part of Himself”.
VishNor-ardham mahA bhAgam putram ikshvAku nanadanam
(V.P. 5.1.3)
(bAla. 18.12)
“rAma, the delight of the ikshvAku race, took birth as half the amSam of
vishNu”.
b) SrI Sa’nkara gives the interpretation in terms of the purusha sUktam
passage
“etAvAn asya mahimA | ato jyAyAgmSca pUrushah |
pAdo’sya viSvAbhUtAni | tri-pAdasyAmRtam divi |
tri-pAd-Urdhva udait-purushah | pAdo’syehAbhavAtpunah |
tato vishva’ng vyakrAmat | sASanAnaSane abhi | “