DIVINE INFORMATION PART 2-10 VarahaPurana part 13 Posted by: "DILIP KUMARRAVINDRAN" [email protected] prdili Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:26 am (PDT) Varaha purana Part 13 GODDESS DURGA KingPrajapal requested sage Mahatapa to narrate about the manifestation of goddess Durga and thesignificance of her worship on navami. Sage Mahatapa replied-The mightydemon-Vetrasur had driven out deities from the heaven. All the deities went to lordBrahma and sought his help. As lord Brahma was wondering about his furthercourse of action, suddenly goddessDurga appeared from nowhere. She held various weapons in each of her eight arms and was mounted on a ferociouslion. Lord Brahma was relieved as he was confident that GoddessDurga would certainly kill Vretasur.Finally, goddess Durga indeed killed the dreaded demon without muchdifficulty .Later on, all the deities requested her to make himalaya mountain as her abode to which sheagreed. This particular place, in course of time became famous as Nandadevi.
One who worships goddess Durga on the auspicious day of navamigets her blessings. DASH DISHAS Havingfinished the tale of goddess Durga, sage Mahatapa revealed how all the six directions came intoexistence-"Six divine women manifested themselves from both the ears of lord Brahmaduring the initial phase of creation. Thename of these six divine women were Purva(east), Dakshina(south) ,Paschima(west) , Uttara(north), Urdhva (upwards) and Adhara (downwards) . Incourse of time all of them got married to six different Lokpals. Lord Brahma assigned theauspicious day of dashami for theirworship. Onewho worships all these six goddesses on the auspicious day of dashami is blessed and onewho observes fast on this day getsabsolved of all his sins. KUBER Continuingwith the tales of the manifestation of various deities, sage Mahatapa said-"In the process of doinghis creation, lord Brahma bellowed as a result of which Kuberamanifested himself. Lord Brahma assigned kubera the lordship of allthe wealth and prosperity. It was 'ekadashi' when Kubera had manifested himself, so this particular day has deep association with his worship. One who observes a fast on the auspicious day of ekadashi never lives inpoverty." LORD VISHNU Describinghow lord Vishnu manifested, sage Mahatapa told Prajapal -"Narayan -the almighty God incarnated aslord Vishnu to nurture all the livingcreatures inhabiting the world. Eventually, lord Vishnu entrusted the job of world's welfare to goddessYoganidra and himself went into hismeditative sleep. While he was still in his meditative sleep, a lotus flower emanated from his navel. LordBrahma was seated on that lotus flower. Thealmighty God was delighted to see himself in the incarnation of Vishnu. Heblessed Vishnu by saying- 'May you destroy all kind of ignorance with the help of your sword. Holdthis chakra I am giving you, to severthe evil influences of 'kaal-chakra' (wheel of time).May all the sins bedestroyed by your mace. May the deity-Vayu adorn your hand in the form of a conch and vaijyanti mala inyour neck? May the Sun and Moon adornyour person in the form of shrivatsa and kaustubh diamonds. May Garuda be your mount and goddess Laxmiyour consort. May people desirous ofsalvation worship you on the auspicious day of dwadashi. One who worship you on this day will definitelyattain to the heaven.' Varaha Purana part 14 Posted by: "DILIP KUMAR RAVINDRAN"[email protected] prdili Thu Oct 28, 2010 4:56 am (PDT) DHARMASageMahatapa then told king Mahapal about the manifestation of Dharma and the significance oftrayodashi-' Dharma manifested himself from the right part of almightyGod and appeared like a bullock. The almighty God instructed him to protect the mankind fromall evils and sins. All the four feet of Dharma signified fourvarious virtues-truth, purity, penance and charity. Insatyayuga, Dharma was four footed-all the four virtues were prevalent during thatera. Intreta yuga, the feet reduced to three. Thesubsequent eras of dwapar and kaliyuga saw the further decline in virtuosity in which Dharma had twofeet and one foot respectively. ' 'Once,a fierce battle was fought between the deities and demons. The bone of contention was a woman for whom boththe side made claims. Dharmaintervened and solved the contentious issue to the satisfaction of both thewarring sides. Lord Brahma was very impressed by the deftness with which Dharma had handled such atough situation and blessed him bysaying-I am assigning theauspicious day of tryodashi to you. One who observes a fast and worship you on this day will be liberated from all his sins.' RUDRA SageMahatapa then went on to describe the incident that led to the manifestation of lord Rudra and thesignificance of chaturdashi- Inthe beginning of creation, when lordBrahma failed in his repeated attempts to create, he became frustrated. Frustration turned into fury and from his fury manifested a divine entity who cried incessantly. Lord Brahma tried to stop him from crying and said-tvamma rud(don't cry).This is how lord Rudragot his name. LordBrahma then requested Rudra to commence creation but since Rudra lacked thepower needed for doing creationtherefore he refused and went to do penance. Lateron, lord Brahma created his manasputrasand other living creatures. DakshaPrajapati was one of these manasputras. Once,he had organised a grand yagya in which all the deities and even thedemons had been invited.' Meanwhile,Rudra's penance was disturbed by the constant chanting of the mantras at the yagya performed by DakshaPrajapati. Rudra was infuriated resulting into the emanation of flames from his mouth. Eventuallythese fire-balls got transformedinto ferocious spirits and ghosts. Rudrathen reached the place where the yagya was being performed and with the help of all the spirits and ghosts starteddestroying the oblation site. It was only after lord Brahma'sintervention that Rudra calmed down. Allthe deities then eulogized Rudra and sought his blessings. One who worships lord Rudra on the auspicious day ofchaturdashi becomes absolved of all hissins. Postedby R. Gopalakrishnan, 78, former AsstGeneral Manager Kerala Telecom Trivandrum on 6-11-2021 -- 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/615149886.753383.1636171305882%40mail.yahoo.com.
