Kurma Puranam : 8 : Sri Kurma (Vishnu) tells the munis about Indradyumna’s ArAdhana (6)
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s’rI kUrma said,
Sri Rama's sons Lava Kusa visited and worshipped at this Ancient Sri Kurma Mokshasthana
“O the bext among munis, thus addressed by Indradyumna, I was moved by the desire to grace a devotee and told him everything as it is”.
If you remember, the indradyumna story was a part of a conversation that janArdana as s’rI kUrma, was having with Indra (Hero, God, Astronomical Point, War Strategist), the other Devas , Narada and the mahaRSis. (Kurma Puranam : 2 : Who is She?)
“Thus having graced (favoured, been kind to, anugRhya) that wise one (vipra), and having explained to him, all that I was asked by that twice born one, without leaving anything out, there itself I disappeared.”
(The word is antarhitah abhavam. Antar is inside, hita, in this context, is one who has gone. So I think the sense of this phrase could be that Vishnu went back into Indradyumna or went back into what was around, kind of dissolved back.
There is a movie called Sri Anjaneyam in telugu where a young rather less literate village boy is devoted to Hanuman. When Hanuman descides to appear before the boy, he keeps drawing on the material around Him to form Himself into the image and size that the boy has in his mind of Hanuman, but that kind of scares the kid. So He finally arranges Himself into a man-form about the same size as this devotee. I rather like that scene in the movie which expresses how an immaterial being forms Itself into a being that can be perceived by the senses of the devotee in the manner that is acceptable to him.
I think it may have been thus that vISNupriyA, nArAyaNi and lakSmIkAnta, nArAyaNa appeared before Indradyumna.)
“Then he too, that best among the dvijAs, being thus instructed by me, began to adore (ArAdhayAmAsa) the ultimate (the beyond – param), with all his thoughts collected (samAhitah), being one of a pure idea (bhAva pUtah).
Having given up his friendship (love/attachment/snEham) for his sons and others, without duality, without graspingness (niSparigrahah), having given up all Karmas, he reached, (approached, took residence in) the ultimate passionless state. (param vairAgyam samAs’ritah)!
Having seen The Self in his Self, and the whole moving world in his Self, having reached the final, indestructible (akshara), ancient (pUrvikA) Brahmi bhAvAnA.
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