Can God be called a net?

 Can God be called a net? A net prevents you from escaping but does not prevent your seeing the beyond. It is not a gunny bag or a holdall. It makes visible your captivity; it makes the free space visible to you but not available. It allows light and wind but prevents your movement out. A net need not be necessarily negative. It can be positive like the beloved's net for a lover. A running man is chased and a net is thrown around. He is captured. But the falling man is saved by the net thrown under. Sometimes you are too smart for the net. Sometimes the net is too smart for you. And sometimes too much smartness itself becomes the net.

God is always a good net says Sri Vishnu Sahasranama; sutantu: is one of the names. And the divine net is always growing, becoming plenty, developing into more nuances. It is always incremental in goodness. Tantuvardhana: And freedom, rightly understood, is a net of responsiblities; self-willed initiatives. There is a net called Vasudevan - so says Nammalwar. How to illustrate by abinaya in dancing this portion of 5th Ten, 3rd Tiruvaymozhi, 6th pasuram.? Azhwar Thiruvarangapperumal Araiyar illustrated while dancing by actions like throwing a net and collecting it by strings and all that. 'akappattEn Vasudevan valaiyuLE' 'caught in the net called Vaasudevan'. But Emberumanar who was seeing that suggested by alternative abinaya, the beauty of eyes and demeanor. Vasudeva's net is his enchanting grace-pouring eyes; His charming demeanor. Just a look across ThirumaNatthooN is sufficient to tie you for ever. If you have doubts you can ask the Malla. But why that great Bhagavan allowed himself to be tied by petty, short shreds of thread by Yasoda? Who knows? And when He was bound at last by kaNNi nuN siRu thAmbu, He was so joyful as if He had won in a contest. By being tied He has bound all the hearts in devotion.