DIVINE INFORMATION PART 2-4
Respected friends, I hope thisnew series Varahapurana is interesting.These are information posted in US Brahmins Yahoo group in 2010 by Dilip KumarRavindran. Sincerely, Gopalakrishnan 01-11-2021 Varaha Purana part 5 Posted by: "DILIP KUMAR RAVINDRAN" [email protected] prdili Fri Oct 22, 2010 5:28 am (PDT) KING VASU AND SAGE RAIMYA UNITE WITHSRI HARI Prithvi was anxious to know aboutthe effect sage Brihaspati's discourses had on King Vasu as well as sageRaimya. She asked lord Varah-"What did both king Vasu and sage Raimya do afterlistening to the preachings of sage Brihaspati?" Lord Varah replied-"King Vasuwas so impressed by Brihaspati's discourses that he decided to spend the restof his life in the service of lord Narayan. He appointed Viwasman-his eldestson as his successor and left for Pushkar teerth. He engaged himself in austerepenance by chanting pundarikaksha stotra. One day, while Vasu was chantingpundarikaksha stotra, he experienced an amazing incident-an entity whosecomplexion was blue, manifested from his body and stood with folded hands. Inhis bewilderment, king Vasu requested the stranger to introduce himself. The entity narrated the followingtale to him - "O King, you were the ruler ofJanasthan in your second previous birth. Once, while you had gone deep into theforest on a hunting spree, you were delighted to find a deer which in fact wasnone other but myself. In fact, I had disguised myself as a deer and waswandering in the forest. Being oblivious of this fact you had killed that dear.Later on, when you realized your mistake, you cursed yourself for having killedan innocent Brahmin. To get absolved of this sin, you had observed a fast onEkadashi and had donated a cow to please lord Narayan . But,in spite of all these austerities you did not attain liberation because at thetime of your death you had chanted your wife's name whose name was Narayaniinstead of Narayan.This blunder of yours had stopped you from attaining to Vishnu loka for onecomplete kalpa. But, my revengeful soul continued to torture your soul till itwas driven out by lord Narayan's escorts. It was only then that you were able toattain to Vishnu loka." "Inyour next birth you were born as the king of Kashmir. I did not spare you evenin that birthand possessed your body. You performed numerous yagyas to get rid of me but allyour efforts went in vain as you had not chanted the holy name of lord Vishnuin any of the rituals that you had performed. But, now I was forced to abandonyour body since you have been constantly chanting the sacrosanct pundarikakshastotra.I have also become absolved of all my sin by the virtue of listening tothe pundarikaksha stotra." KingVasu expressed his gratitude to the entity for shedding light on his previousbirths.Suddenly, a divine aircraftdescended from the heaven and king Vasu left for Vishnuloka mounted on it. Meanwhile, sage Raimya got the newsof Vasu's ascension to heaven to Vishnuloka, he wanted to emulate the feat ofhis friend. He reached Gaya and performed shraddh in the name of hisancestors . He then engaged himself in anaustere penance .Sanat kumar-one of the manasputras became very pleased byRaimya's penance and appeared before him. He complimented Raimya for liberating hisancestors by performing shraddh at Gaya. He then described the virtues ofperforming shraddh at Gaya and narrated the following tale - "There lived a king namedVishal who had no son. One day, he invited few Brahmins to his palace and askedthem how he could beget a son. All the brahmins revealed to him that he did not have son because ofthe curse of his ancestors. "You have not performed theirshraddh so, they are angry with you and you can never beget a son unless youperformed shraddh rituals at Gaya. Vishalwent to Gaya as per the instruction of the brahmins. He performed the shraddhrituals and offered pinda-daan in the name of his ancestors. While he was still performing therituals, he was amazed to see three men descending from the sky-one of them wasof fair complexion while the remaining two were of wheatish and dark complexionrespectively. Vishalcuriously asked them as to who they were. The fair-complexioned person replied- 'I am your father-'sit' . The personwith wheatish complexion is my father and the third person amongst us is mygrandfather. My father had committed grave sinswhile he was alive and killing a brahmin was one the gravest sin he hadcommitted. My grandfather was even worse than my father and his dark complexionis nothing as compared to his grave sins. He had killed numerous innocent sagesfor no fault of theirs. All three of us have come to expressour gratitude as wehave become liberated from our sins by the virtue of the shraddh ritualsyou have performed. The water which you had offered tous while performing the rituals have given us the ability to communicate withyou, even though we are spirits.' After finishing his tale, Sanat kumar told sage Raimyathat Gaya was supreme among all the places of pilgrimage and the virtues ofperforming shraddh over there is incomparable. Sage Raimya dedicated rest of his life to theworship of lord Gadadhar. At last, lord Gadadhar appeared before him. SageRaimya requested the lord to give him a place in his abode which was dwelled bysages like Sanak and Sanandan . Lord Gadadhar blessed him bysaying-'So be it. 'This way, sage Raimya attained enlightenment with theblessings of the merciful lord Gadadhar and ultimately attained to the divineabode of lord Vishnu. Mynote- The importance of srardha at Gaya is vividly told. Pithru isliberated by performing srardha at Gaya. A liberated pithru becomes Deva. Still many states my writings inthis regard is not correct. For them Gaya srardha is another Theertha srardhaand Badakhana??!!! Iwill continue in next posting -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1708024666.2352444.1635729674911%40mail.yahoo.com.
