BRAHMA PURANA – 2
More Creation
To continue with the process of creation, Brahma gave birth to a man and a woman from his own body. The man was named Svayambhuva Manu and the woman was named Shatarupa. Humans are descended from Manu. That is the reason they are known as manava. Manu and Shatarupa had three sons named Vira, Priyavrata and Uttanapada.
Uttanapada's son was the great Dhruva. Dhruva performed very difficult meditation (tapasya) for three thousand divine years. Brahma was so pleased at this that he granted Dhruva an eternal place in the sky, near the constellation that is known as saptarshi or the seven sages. This is the constellation Ursa Majoris and Dhruva is the pole Star.
In Dhruva's line there was a king named Prachinavarhi. Prachinavarhi had ten sons, known as the Prachetas. These Prachetas were supposed to look after the world and rule over it, but they were not interested in such mundane matters. They went off instead to perform tapasya under the ocean. The tapasya went on for ten thousand years. The upshot was that the earth had no ruler and began to suffer. People started to die and thick forests sprouted everywhere. So thick were the forests that even the winds could not blow.
News of this catastrophe reached the Prachetas. They were furious with the trees and created wind (vayu) and fire (agni) from their mouths. The wind dried up the trees and the fire burnt them, so that, very soon, there were very few trees left on earth.
Everyone was alarmed at the effects of the Prachetas anger. The moon-god Soma (or Chandra) came to the Prachetas with a beautiful woman and said, "Prachetas, please control your anger. You need someone to rule over the world so that you can concentrate on your tapasya. This woman is named Marisha. Her son will rule over the world".
The Prachetas agreed to this proposal and Daksha was born. The word praja means subject and the word pati means master. Since Daksha ruled over the world and its subjects, Daksha came to be known as Prajapati.
The sages interrupted Romaharshana. They said, "Sage, we are completely confused. We have heard that Daksha was born from Brahma's toe. And yet you have told us that Daksha was the son of the Prachetas. How is this possible?"
Romaharshana replied, "There is no reason for bewilderment. Many Dakshas have been born to rule over the world. One was born from Brahma's toe, yet another was the son of the Prachetas."
Om Namah Shivay
Q: Guruji, I am not able to keep any commitments. How to keep commitments?Guruji : If you have accepted that you cannot keep any commitment, then you have refused to improve. Because you are seeking pleasure and comfort. Commitment puts you on track and eventually brings pleasure. If you cannot keep commitment, that much misery you will face. Be prepared for it. If you do not want misery, you have to honor some commitments. It is not possible to honor every single commitment. That is where Lord Krishna's example is the best. He said I will not lift a weapon in war. Then in the war he saw that Bheeshma is not listening, he took his Sudarshan Chakra. Based on what is better for the greater good, he changed his commitment. If you have made a foolish commitment, when you become intelligent you should let go your foolish commitment.
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Thousands of events may come and create doubt within you, despite that if you move on with courage and strength, then one can say that you have true faith. A person with strong faith will never face failure or have any downfall in life.
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Q: Why is there suffering in love?
Guruji : Without knowledge, there is suffering in love too. Despite knowledge, if there is suffering, then accept it. That is the nature of love.
Om Namah Shivay
Reflect on this
A rich Italian father was celebrating his only son’s birthday. The high light of the day’s program was a football match. The stadium was flooded with people who longed to watch the enthralling match between two famous teams of Italy. The crowd roared with joy as the teams competed with each other, but the birthday boy watched the game without enthusiasm.
He looked at his father and said sulkily, ‘Dad! Why are you so stingy?’
The father who had spent some millions of dollars for the celebration of his only son’s birthday was perplexed. He looked at his son surprisingly.
The son explained, ‘In this hot sun, look how these fellows are chasing only one ball. How sad? Could you not be little more generous in providing each one of them a ball so that they could play with them happily?’
At times we are just like this boy! We fail to notice the joyful, energizing aspects of many incidents taking place in front of us. Instead, we brood on meaningless issues and miss all the fun in life.
Om Namah Shivay
Atheism Is Not a RealityIt is difficult to see God as formless and it is difficult to see God as form. The formless is so abstract and God in a form appears to be too limited. So some people prefer to be atheists.Atheism is not a reality, it is just a matter of convenience. When you have a spirit of enquiry, or in search of truth, atheism falls apart. With a spirit of enquiry, you cannot deny something which you have not disproved. An atheist denies God without first disproving it. In order to disprove God, you must have enormous knowledge. And when you have enormous knowledge, you cannot disprove it! For one to say that something does not exist, one should know about the whole universe. So you can never be one hundred percent atheist. An atheist is only a believer who is sleeping!
For a person to say, "I don't believe in anything", means he must believe in himself - so he believes in himself about whom he does not even know!
An atheist can never be sincere because sincerity needs depth - and an atheist refuses to go to his depth. Because the deeper he goes, he finds a void, a field of all possibilities - he has to accept that there are many secrets he does not know. He would then need to acknowledge his ignorance, which he refuses to do, because the moment he is sincere, he seriously starts doubting his atheism. A doubt-free atheist is next to impossible! So you can never be a sincere and doubt-free atheist.
Om Namah Shivay
No Human Being Is Perfect!Do you like yourself? Your whole self? Most young people have trouble with the way they perceive themselves. They fail to see value in themselves, fail to see talent, and fail to see ability. It's wrong!You are not the only one in the world with negative feelings about yourself! We all have something we don't like in our body as well as our mind for that matter.Let's figure out what is this problem all about and fix it as soon as we can.On one side, we have ones labeled as 'gifted '.They are the motivated ones, the ones that have passion, popularity most of the time and turn heads everywhere they go. Some youngsters actually earn that through hard-work.
On the other hand...well... most of us know what means to be sitting in a corner, away from the spotlight and wondering: "I wish I knew that popularity too, it must be so cool!"
Most members of today`s society fail to notice that there is no such thing as 'gifted 'and 'ungifted'. We fail to appreciate diversity!
Diversity is what gives this world color, vivacity and uniqueness; we would be so much happier if we learned to appreciate the small things that people do, say or express in any other way!
Look in the mirror! See those freckles? (This is just an example. The freckles may very well be your hair, your voice or whatever makes you feel uncomfortable with yourself). Of course you do! You've been wondering how to get rid of those for quite a while now, haven't you?
The freckles aren't the problem! And don't think your eye-sight is perfect because you can see all these little 'flaws'! Actually, these are the very things blindfolding you and stop you from exploring your real potential and seeing what you are truly made of!
Bothering yourself with this kind of details consumes your precious time and energy while your real potential is just held back and screaming: "I need attention! Look at me, I am here!"
Most young people (and not only them), end up living focused on the insignificant aspects of their being while missing out on such great opportunities that life has in store for them ! As a result, they live a dull life and fail to quench their inner thirst for knowledge, passion or adventure.
It's a dreadful tragedy to see people failing for no reason! Because there is something taking up precious mental, spiritual and physical resources. These are not just some exaggerations. We simply tend to take these things lightly because so many among us confront themselves with these problems so we tend its "normal".
Good news and some bad ones!
Let us start with the good, saying that these inferiority feelings are all in our head! They do NOT represent reality! It is us who don't like freckles and turn them into "mountains"! Nobody else really cares!" Think of you! Do you care about someone else's freckles? No, and maybe you don't even see them until that person starts complaining about them.
We can change everything if we learn to change the way we think and consequently take off the nasty blindfold!
It is only then when we can start exploring our real potential plus love what our mirror portrays us to be .We'll also learn that the only things that can be labeled are jars, not people! We can feel the sparkle and finally know how it's like to shine because of who we are and because of our gifts.
On the other hand (the bad news), even though it's all in our head, it takes practice to change the way our mind works and it isn't that easy to modify the process. It would have been much easier if we had not let these false images of ourselves creep into our mind in the first place, yet there's no use in beating ourselves up for that. Most of what is done can be undone!
With that being said, let's start even if it might turn out to be a bumpy ride and just consider every bump a massage.
The trick is to learn to love everything that makes you different and unique. You might have heard this phrase one too many times, but that's just because people, have experienced these things and came to the same conclusion: there is something special in EVERY person! You add color and substance to the place you are. Why not add a lovely color?
What we see as 'perfect people', are not in the real world because no human being is perfect. That is why pencils have erasers...
Om Namah Shivay
♥♥"-Wish you blessed monday . Monday is important day to God shiva and mother parvati.-"♥♥♥♥"-Bhava karaka narakahaaraka hey,Bhavatharaka pathakadaraka hey,Hara Sankara kinkara karma chayam,Janatarana taraya thapithakam.-"♥♥
♥♥"-Oh God Shiva help people to cross this day to day life,
You are the creator of the world,You liberates one from hell,
You are the destroyer of the world and You uplifts sinners,
Oh God Shankara, please save All and your slave from his existence.-"♥♥
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED THAT:-Why lord shiva fell at Goddess Kali's feet?It happened once, that the world was threatened by the Asuras (demons). The demons rallied together to overthrow the gods and gain control of the earth. The leader of this uprising was Raktabija, the demon-general. Through the practice of austerities, Raktabija was granted a boon. This boon, granted by Brahma, allowed Raktabija's power to increase by a thousand every time a drop of his blood was spilled.
The demon soldiers, led by Raktabija, came forth and the gods trembled with outrage. The demons ravaged the earth and its inhabitants. Who would rid the world of this monster? In desperation the gods turned to their Shakti (female energy) counterparts. The great and beautiful goddess Durga stepped forward. She had protected them before and was obliged to do it again. Armed with the weapons of the gods, Durga rode into battle on a tiger, her champion mount. She switched goddess forms many time during battle, slaying demon soldiers as quickly as they advanced until all that remained was the demon-general.
The battle between Raktabija and the Devi ensued. Durga charged again and again; Raktabija's blood spilled everywhere. From each drop of blood a thousand more demons like him sprang up. Full armies arose from the puddles of Raktabija's blood. Demons advanced on the goddess by the thousands. They rode on elephants and horse drawn chariots. They laughed and shouted at the goddess' dilemma. Upon seeing this, Durga became enraged. She knitted her brows in absolute fury. From this concentration came Kali, the Terrible One.
The whole universe shook with the thundering roar of this powerfully terrible goddess. Those demons who stood nearest the mighty Devi were consumed within the roaring rage of energy. Kali emerged, naked except for a covering of tiger skin. Her skin was of the deepest black, and hung loosely on Her bones. This mad skeleton of a hag was armed with a skull topped staff, a noose, and the sword of Vengeance. She appeared most frightening with her blood red eyes,sunken deep into her skull, wild with raw power anxious to be unleashed and a third eye flaming brilliantly from her forehead. Her entangled black hair blew wildly about Her shoulders.
She turned her furious gaze upon the demon armies, half fell lifeless from the deadly grip of Her stare. She let out a loud and petrifying shriek and more fell dead to the ground at Kali's feet. With wild cackling, She advanced on Her enemies. She reached out with her claw-like hands and shoveled some of the remaining demons into her gaping mouth.
The rest turned away in fear of this ferocious Devi. The skies were filled with the sound of Her shrieking laughter. But Kali didn't stop at that. She stretched out Her bright red tongue and swallowed all of the elephants and their riders as they tried to run. The horse drawn chariots disappeared with another mouthful into the abyss of Dark Goddess.
With his armies fully destroyed, again the great Devi faced off with Raktabija. Kali pierced the demon in the side and quickly caught the flowing blood with her tongue and drank it greedily. The life energy of Rakatibija flowed out with his dripping blood like wine from a bottle. This time he was not given the chance to raise more demons from his blood. He was helpless in the face of this terrifying hag. Kali lifted him high in the air so she could more easily drain the blood from his body. Finally, drunken with the blood of victory, Kali, threw away the demon-general's corpse. The world was saved. . . . .almost.
It was time for Kali to begin her victory dance among the demon corpses. By now She was drunk from Raktabija's blood and the effect it had on Her caused her to dance wildly. As She danced She threw Her head back and again filled the skies with her shrill cackling.
Her terrible laughter drew the attention of the gods who then came to see the outcome of the battle. They watched as she weaved in and out between the bodies of the demons. As she went she snatched up tokens of victory. From the demon hands she created a belt and from their heads she fashioned a garland which she wore around her neck. Her dancing grew more and more frenzied as she slipped into a trance. Her feet pounded out destruction with each step upon the earth.
Soon the demon corpses were reduced to mush, yet Kali continued dancing. It seemed as though nothing would stop Her, and again the world was on the verge of collapse. Something had to be done,and soon. The gods begged Shiva to intervene and calm Kali before it was too late.
Shiva did not yet believe that the world would be destroyed. As Lord of the Dance, He himself was enjoying the fine display of dancing. He laughed and waved the other gods away. "Let Kali enjoy herself,"he said, "Her job was well done."That was right before he was unseated by the thunderous pounding of Kali's dance. When he attempted to right himself, another foot step from the Devi sent him flying in the air. He then understood the full force of what was taking place. He hurried down to the other gods. They again beseeched him to do something.Shiva called out to Kali, but She could not hear him, such was the fever that raced through Her. She continued pounding what was left of demon flesh into oblivion. She rattled her staff and shook her great head. Her hair whipped wildly about causing great winds to carry off a few of the gods that were near by. She turned about, and lifted her arms to the sky, laughing crazily all the while. Nothing could stop this display of raw energy.
Shiva called out again, but again His words went unheard. Finally in an act of complete desperation, Shiva threw Himself down beneath Her feet.Kali continued her frenzied dancing, pounding the life out of her husband. It was a few moments more before She realized that it was indeed Her husband, Shiva, who lay flattened at Her feet. This quickly brought Her out of Her trance, and She was once more the calm Devi.
Once more the world was saved from total destruction. Shiva's quick and selfless thinking had balanced the Devi's dance of destruction. With the world now safe, the gods returned to their regular routines.Share your thoughts if you have heard about this story. How you feel about it!
