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Universal Forms
Lord karthikeya has shown his universal form two times.
Lord karthikeya at first instance has shown his visvaroop to gods. Gods can see
- entire universe,
- eight directions,
- seven worlds,
- mountains and other things in visvaroop of lord karthikeya.
Surapadma adopted different forms through his great powers of maya (Illusion) – forms of
- Brahma,
- Vishnu,
- Rudra, Asura, terrible animals like bull and lion, birds like chakravaka, wind, fire, darkness, ocean.
Skanda extinguished all those forms. He then graced devas by showing his own Viswarupa, which included
- devas,
- Vedas,
- asuras,
- humans etc.
- Brahmandas were seen hanging at the ends of hairs on his body.
Surapadma, who also had this unique darshan, temporarily developed intense devotion towards Skanda, the son of Siva at that time.
Once Skanda changed from Viswarupa to his normal boyish appearance, Surapadma became his former demonist self and restarted his fight ferociously, assuming different forms again.
Finally he took the form of a huge mango tree. Skanda's ‘Shakti' cleaved the tree into two. The asura came back to his normal form and rushed at Skanda with a sword. Skanda's ‘Shakti' again split the asura into two.
The two parts turned into a fierce peacock and cock, both pouncing at Skanda. At that very instant, in an unexpected development, by a mere glance of supreme grace, Skanda pacified the two animals and blessed them with vignana (Supreme Self-experience) and took them as his vehicle and flag. Such was Skanda's mercy even to his sworn enemies.
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