DIVINE INFORMATION PART 2-9 Varaha Purana part 11 Posted by: "DILIP KUMARRAVINDRAN" [email protected] prdili Mon Oct 25, 20107:14 am (PDT)
Varaha purana Part 11 LORD GANAPATI KingPrajapal then asked sage Mahatapa about the manifestation of lord Ganapati and aboutthe significance of chaturthiin terms of Ganapati's worship.Mahatapa narrated the following tale- "Once, all the deities went to seek Shiva's help in sorting out apeculiar problem they were facedwith- while they experienced all sorts of hurdles and problems in their work resulting into repeated failuresin their work, the demonson the contrary accomplished alltheir work successfully without any problem. Whenlord Shiva learnt about their problem, he burst into laughter. Hardly had he stopped laughing thana radiantadolescent manifested himself from hisopened mouth. The child was so divinely charming that Parvati, who was sittingbeside Shiva looked at him withoutdropping her eyelids. When Shiva found her staring at the child he became jealous. Jealousytransformed into anger and Shiva cursed the child-'From now onwards your facewill resemble an elephant and your bellywill become large as a pot. Inthe name of yagyopavit you would havenothing but a snake hanging across your shoulder.' Thechild was none other than Ganesh. Lord Shiva's angerdid not subside even after having cursed Ganesh. He was still trembling inanger and was sweating profusely. Numerous Ganeshas manifested themselves fromthose sweat-drops and each of them had ahead of an elephant as well as a largebelly. Suddenly,lord Brahma appeared andrequested lord Shiva by saying-'Youshould make this divine child, who has manifested from your mouth, the lord of all these Vinayakas. Thus,lordShiva made Ganesh the lord of all theVinayakas and blessed him-'You will be the first deity to get worshipped in any ritual.' Chaturthihas deep association with the worship of lord Ganesh,as it was on this very day that he had manifestedhimself. HavingPrasad ,prepared from sesame seeds andworshipping lord Ganesh on this day is believed to bring great auspiciousness. Adevotee who worships lord Ganesh on chaturthi never experiences any kind of obstacle in his work. My note- In other puranas there is anotherstory telling thatwhen Parvathy went for a bath shecreated Ganesh to watch at gate so that no one to enter her bathing area, even Lord siva came Ganesh did not allow Lordsiva to enter there NAG DEVTA KingPrajapal then requested Mahatapa to shed light on the origin of the serpents and the significance of 'panchami'. SageMahatapa replied-The serpents came fromthe lineage of Kadru-Kashyap's wife. Sage Kashyap had numerous progeny fromKadru-Vasuki, Anant, Kambal, Karkotak, Padma,Mahapadma, Shankh, Kulik, etc. When all these serpents started tormenting human-beings, lord Brahmacursed them that they would be annihilated during swayambhuva manvantar due tothe curse of their own mother. Theserpents became terrified and promised to mend their ways. They then requested lord Brahma to give them a placeto live in. LordBrahma instructed them to go to threedifferent netherworlds- Sutal, Vital and Patal. He also warned them that during Vaivaswat manvantarJanmejay would perform a grand yagyawith the objective of destroying the wicked serpents but the virtuous among them would manage to survive. Thisparticular incident had occurred on panchami and hence it became the destroyer of all sins. A devotee who worships 'Nag'(serpent) on this day and offers milk will never be troubledby them. Varaha Purana part 12 Posted by: "DILIP KUMARRAVINDRAN" [email protected] prdili Tue Oct 26, 2010 8:20 am (PDT) KARTIKEYA DescribingKartikeya's manifestation and how his worship got associated with the auspicious day of shashthi, sageMahatapa told king Prajapal- Once ,a fierce battle was betweenthe deities and demons in which the deities got defeated. The reasonbehind their defeat was the absence of an able commander who could lead them. The deities went to seek the help of lord Brahma. Being unable to solve theirproblem, lord Brahma took thedeities to lord Shiva. LordShiva invoked 'Shakti' present within his body and thus manifested lord Kartikeya.He was named after the six 'Kritikas' who had nurtured Lord shiva then made Kartikeya the commander of the deities on the auspiciousday of shashthi. Under his able leadership ,the deities finally managed to defeat the demons. Adevotee who worships lord Kartikeya on shashthi enjoys prosperity and gets all his desire fulfilled. A childless couple must worship onthis auspicious day to getblessed with a son. LORD ADITYA KingPrajapal asked Mahatapa-"The thought of divine radiance taking the form of human radiance bewilders me. Pleaseclear my doubts." SageMahatapa replied -"When the almighty God willed to manifest himself in other tangible forms, an effulgence emanated from hisbeing resulting into the creationof 'Surya'(The Sun). Thewhole world became illumined with Surya's radiance and all the deities dwellingwithin the body of Almighty God expressed their gratitude. Initially, unbearable heat emanatedfrom 'Surya', causing great uncomforted to the deities but later on Almighty God reduced itto bearable limit at the request of the deities. Surya had manifested himself on the auspicious day of'saptami' hence this particular day became deeply associated withthe worship of Surya. ASHTA MATRIKAS Continuingwith his narration, sage Mahatapa said -"During ancient times, there lived a mighty demonnamed'Andhakasur'. Andhakasur had becomearrogant because of a boon of immortality received from lord Brahma. Being tormented by Andhakasur, all the deities went to seeklord Brahma's help.Lord Brahma took the deities to lord Shiva who agreed to kill the wickeddemon-Andhakasur. Thebattle commenced and a fierce dual fight broke out between Lord Shiva and Andhakasur .Shiva attackedAndhakasur with his trident . Streamof blood oozed out from the wound, but to Shiva's utter amazement each drop of blood falling on the ground resulted in into the creationof numerous Andhakasuras. In a short time the battle field wasovercrowded with countless Andhakasuras. Now,Shiva's anger crossed all limitsand he thundered loudly. Flames emanated from themouth of enraged Shiva resulting intothe manifestation of goddess 'Yogishwari' . Similarly,even more goddesses manifested themselves from different deities- Vaishnavi from lord Vishnu, Brahmifrom lord Brahma, Kaumari fromKartikeya, Mahendri from Indra, Yami from Yama,Varahi from lord Varah and Maheshwari from lord Narayan. All these eight goddesses came to be known as'Matrikas' and lord assigned them the auspicious day for their worship. A devotee who worships these eightmatrikas on ashtami are blessed. The use of 'bael'(wood- apple) fruit on thisday has great significance. Posted by R. Gopalakrishnan on 5-11-2021 I will 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/1754376567.647289.1636102081996%40mail.yahoo.com.
