Living God—Lessons For Children Before getting towards our question on Adhiparasakthi & Bangaru amma let's go back to see things that will make us understand better.
Parents teach children to believe in God. They take them to temples. They set up a space in their homes with pictures and murthis of Gods and light oil lamps morning and evening and conduct daily worship. Children watch their parents and follow them. They hear stories from the Puranas and learn right from wrong through religious stories. They learn to build good habits, confidence and strong character.
Children watch and joyously celebrate with their parents festivals like Pongal, Navarathiri and Deepavali. Children learn about Buddha and Jesus Christ also as divine incarnations. Children enjoy these times because they see their families and friends come together, they can wear new clothes, eat special sweets and savories and learn to share and live in harmony.
Parents give children pendants and bracelets with figures of Gods to protect and keep them safe. These are the ways that children become familiar with Gods. They learn to recognize the various faces of Gods and their abodes like the milky ocean for Vishnu and the Kailasa Mountain for Siva. Special features like the third eye of Shiva, the elephant face of Ganesha, Devi's Trident/Trisoolam and Murugan's peacock become etched in their minds and hearts.
Yet, how can parents teach their children about living Gods, a living God like Sri Bangaru Adigalar? Devotees know that Guru Adigalar is an incarnation, an Avadaram of Adhiparasakthi. Adults know that He is She, She is He and They walk, talk and act as one.
But for children who are familiar with Gods whose faces are blue and who have multiple hands, believing that Adigalar who walks, talks, laughs, wears regular clothes and looks like their grandfather or uncle, will be puzzling. They might wonder how their parents can worship Adigalar as God when he looks like nothing like the pictures and murthis of Gods in their homes and temples.
Parents should teach them about Adigalar as Adiparasakthi's Avadaram just as they teach that Rama, and Krishna were Vishnu's avadarams and Sita and Andaal were Laskhmi's avadarams. They should teach them that any time that the human race is on a trajectory of destruction and has lost its way, God takes immense mercy upon humans and decide to come down to the earth in a human form to save them.
Such is the time now, this era of Kali Yuga, when Adiparasakthi has decided out of immense mercy to be born as Guru Bangaru Adigalar, as the Kalki Avadaram. She wants to teach through Her incarnation as Sri Bangaru Adigalar how we must live by following Her Four Pillars of teaching of Bhakti, Dhyanam, Thondu and Dharmam.
Parents should impress upon their children that it is not beyond belief that we are living in the time of Adiparasakthi born as Bangaru Adigalar, just as people lived in the time of Rama, Krishna, Buddha and Jesus. Parents should teach their children Adhiparasakthi's message as taught by Guru Bangaru Adigalar of One Mother-Adiparasakthi, One clan-Human Race; Same Blood-Clad in Red.
Om Sakthi! Guruvadi Saranam! Thiruvadi Saranam!
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