When Vali and Sugriva are born from the union of demigods (Indra and Surya with Aruni) why do they have a monkey form?
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So the question is that, by the union of Aruna and Indra, Sugrima and Vali are born.
So now they are devatas, so how are vanaras born to them? Actually it’s a long story. Aruna is a charioteer of Surya, and he takes on the form of, he takes a female form so that he can enter into the assembly of Indra. I come as Aruni.
And there is a union between Indra and Aruni. So now there are 2-3 points which are important to understand. If you look at, I think it’s the 6th chapter of the 6th kando.
It is titled, one of the chapters, early chapters of the 6th kando. It is the progeny of the daughters of Daksha. So there it is described how from the daughters of Daksha, various species are born.
So in the purports today, Acharya has explained that actually the devatas are not bound by the laws which manavas are bound by. That means in the normal reproduction species, the humans will get humans. The animals will get animals.
But the devatas, they are given extra powers because they have to do certain services. So at that particular time, within the procreation population of the universe, in order to get other species, the daughters of Daksha are given the power by which they can beget other species also. So that devatas in general have that power.
And in this particular case, actually there is another story over here. There was this Vanara Raj, Riksha Raj, who was doing austerity for satisfying Indra to get sons from him. So what happens, Indra when he got these children, then he decided that Riksha Raj is anyway praying for blessings to get children, so I will give these children.
And that way, he gave those children and he had the power by which he could make those children into a form that is appropriate so that they could be the sons of Riksha Raj. That’s how they got the Vanara family. So firstly, they have the capacity to give progeny according to time and place and circumstance, according to whatever species is required.
And in this particular case, according to their context, we give them the Vanara species.