LORD AYYAPPA.
“SWAMIYE AHARANAM AYYAPPA”
WE HINDUS BELIEVE THAT MAHAVISHNU-LAXMINARAYAN, TOOK VARIOUS AVATARS TO UPLIFT “DHARMA” AND TO HELP EXTRICATE THE BELIVERS OUT OF THE CLUTCHES OF EVILS. IMPORTANT AMONGST THE AVATARS ARE THE BETTER KNOWN TEN-INCARNATIONS.LORD”AYYAPPA” IS ONE OF THE LESSER KNOWN “AVATARS” WITH THE POWERS OF LORD SHIVA ALSO , KNOWN AND WORSHIPPED IN THE SOUTH BUT NOT IN THE NORTHERN PART OF HINDUSTAN.
THE “SKANDA PURNA” DEPICTS LORD “AYYAPPA’S” INCARNATION ASUR HIDUMBA WITH FACE OF A BUFFALO TOOK PENANCE TO HAVE THE BLESSINGS OF LORD SHIVA TO DEFEAT THE DEVAS MOVED BY THE EXTREME “THAPASYA” AND “POOJA ARCHANAS”, LORD SHIVA GOT PLEASED AND ON APPEARING BEFORE THE ASURA, HE DEMANDED FROM SHIVA, “VAR” BLESSINGS OF POWER, STRENGTH AND NO-DEATH.SHIVA GRANTED THE ASURA THE BLESSINGS THAT NO MAN COULD TAKE HIS LIFE OUT OF HIM. THE ASURA WAS KNOWN AS MAHISHASURA BECAUSE OF HIS APPEARNCE. HE GOT ALL POWER AND STARTED ATTACKING DEVAS AND THE MOST REVERED “RISHIS” MAHISHASURA WANTED THAT ALL POOJAS TO THE GODS AND DEVAS ETC.SOULD BE STOPPED. THE DEVAS, RISHIS ANFD OTHER DEVOTEES GOT PANIK STRIKEN AND TIRED TO BE HIDDEN FROM THE REACH OF MAHISASURA. WITH NO OTHER WAY OUT, THE DEVAS AND SAPTARISHIS APPROACHED LORD SHIVA FOR HELP,. THEY WERE TOLD THAT MAHISHASURA CAN BE DESTROYED BY NONE OTHER THAN A LADY. GODDESS PARVATI ON LORD SHIVA’S INSTANCE, AND KNOWING ABOUT FORTHCOMING INCARNATION, GOT PREPARED. SHE BECAME MAHISHASURA MARDINI IN GODDESS DURGA WITH POWERS OF ALL THE THREE GODS OF “SRISHTI”’”STITY””SAMHAR” FOUGHT WITH MAHISHASURA AND KILLED HIM RELIEVING THE DEVAS AND RISHIS.
MAHISHASURA’S SISTER HIDUMBI GOT ANNOYED AN HEARING THE DEATH OF MAHISHASURA. HIDUMBI, LEAVING ALL OTHER ACTIVITES,SAT IN PENANCE TO HAVE THE BLESSINGS OF BRAHMA THE LORD OF “SRISHTI”. BRAHMA GOT PLEASED WITH HER THAPASYA AND APPEARED BEFORE THE MAHISHASURNI.HIDUMBI WANTED FROM BRAHMA THE POWERS OF NOT TO BE KILLED BY ANYBODY, BRAHMA WAS SURE THAT THOSE WHO TOOK BIRTH HAS TO DIE AND HE CANNOT GIVE THE PREPARED TO BE KILLED BY THE OFSPIRING OF LORD VISHNU AND LORD SHIVA. HIDUMBI WANTED NO OTHER ALTERNATIONS IN HER DEMANDS AND SHE WAS SURE THAT THESE GODS BEING MALES, THEY CANNOT GIVE BIRTH TO A CHILD AND THUS SHE CAN ESCAPE SURELY FROM DEATH. BRAHMA HAD NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE EXCEPT TO GRANT HER THE BLESSINGS OR TO GET A BAD NAME. THE BLESSINGS, AS SUCH WAS GRANTED AND BRAHMA DISAPPEARED. HIDUMBI STARTED TAKING REVENGE OF THE DEATH OF HER BROTHER MAHISHASURA. SHE DESTROYED ALL THE DHARMAS AND GOOD DEEDS THROUGHTOUT THE WORLD.
DEVAS HAD TO SUFFER OLD AGE BECAUSE OF THE CURSE CAST UPON THE LOT BY MAHARISHI DURVASA. THIS CAUSED ASURAS TO BECOME ALL POWERFUL AND DESTROY THEIR ALL TIME ENEMY THE DEVAS. IN THE END THE ASURAS WERE MADE TO COMPROMISE WITH THE DEVAS FOR “SAMUDRA MANTHAN” FOR “AMRUTHA” THE ELIXIR OF NO-DEATH. ASURA THEN GOT POSSESSION OF THE “AMRUTA” WITHOUT WHICH THE DEVAS CAN NOT REGAIN THEIR ORIGINAL FORM LORD VISHNU RELIEVED THE ELIXIR FROM THE CLUTCHES OF ASURA AS A DANCING APSARA MOHINI.
MOHINI WAS EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL BUT LORD SHIVA COULD NOT WITNESS THE INCIDENT OF VISHNU AS MOHINI RELIEVING “AMRUTA” FROM ASURAS. LORD SHIVA REQUESTED VISHNU FOR GLIMPSE OF HIS MOHINI FORM. THE STORY GOES THAT LORD SHIVA GOT ATTRACTED ON SEEING MOHINI SO MUCH SO THAT THE AFFAIR ENDED WITH THE BIRTH OF AN ALL POWERFUL SON TO THEM. THIS OFSPRING WITH THE POWERS OF SHIVA AND VISHNU WAS PLACED BY THE SIDE OF RIVER “PAMPA” A THIRTH IN THE FOREST AREA. RAJA OF THE PANDLA STATE (IN KERALA) WAS TO ARRIVE FOR HIS “SHIKAR”. THE PANDALA RAJA WAS A GREAT DEVOTEE OF LORD SHIVA BUT HE HAD NO SON.
LORD SHIVA APPEARED BEFORE THE RAJA AS A SANYASI (MUNI) AND ON HIS ADVICE THE RAJA AND HIS RANI WERE THE HAPPIEST TO ADOPT THE CHILD WITH A GOLD MUDRA (MANI) ON ITS NECK. THE LOVE AND AFFECTION BESTOWED BY THE RAJA-PARIWAR ON THE CHILD HAS CAUSEDE THEM TO BE BLESSED WITH THEIR OWN SON AS TIME PASSED.IN COURSE OF TIME RAJA WANTED THE ADOPTED CHILD, “MANIKHANTAN” AS HE WAS CALLED BECAUSE OF THE “MANI” ON HIS NECK, TO BE THE RAJA’S SUCCESSOR TO THE THRONE. THERE UPON RANI WAS TAKEN IN CONFIDENCE BY THE MANTRI SAYING THAT HER OWN SON WILL GET NO POSITION.
RANI AND MANTRI USED ALL MEANS TO KILL “MANIKHANTAN” AND THEY ALL FAILED. AS A LAST RESORT RANI FEIGNED STOMACH TROUBLES FOR WHICH MILK OF TIGER WAS GOT PRESCRIBED BY ROYAL PHYSICIAN WHICH NONE ELSE COULD PROCURE. MANIKHANTAN, TWELVE YERS OF AGE AT THAT TIME GOT SMELL OF THE DRAMA. WITH GREAT PRERSUATIONS HE CONVINCED THE RAJA WHO WAS ALL LOVE FOR MANIKHANTAN FOR TWO BLESSINGS (VARDAN). ONE WAS TO ALLOW MANIKHANTAN TO GO TO THE THICK FORESTS TO BRING TIGER’S MILK AND THE OTHER WAS TO ALLOW HIM TO LEAVE THE RAJAMAHAL THERE AFTER. RAJA SEEMS EXTREME SORROW BUT WAS COMFORTED BY BRAHMARSHI AGASTYA MUNI DISCLOSING THE AVATAR’S SCERET.
LORD MANIKHANTAN ON HIS WAY TO BRING TIGER’S MILK KILLED MAHISHASURANI. ON KNOWING THE DESTINATION OF MANIKAHANTN, DEVARJ INDRA WHO WAS PLEASED OF DESTROYING THE ASURANI BECAME A TIGER HIMSELF AND DEVAS BECAME TIGRESSES AND CUBS ON THE TIGER, MANIKHANTAN LEAD A PROCEESSION TO THE RAJA-MAHAL, THE INHABITANTS OF WHICH GOT CONVINCED THAT MANIKHANTAN WAS NOT AN ORDINARY CHILD.
RAJA BEGGED PARDON FOR THE DEEDS OF RANI AND ROYAL PHYSICIAN WITH THE CONNIVENCE OF MANTRI. MANIKHANTAN SOUGHT PERMISSION TO LEAVE RAJAMAHAL AND THE UNWILLING RAJA WAS NOT ALLOWED TO WORSHIP HIM AT A TEMPLE WHERE THE ARROW SENT BY MANIKHANTAN FELL. THE ARROW FELL AT SHABARI HILLS WHERE RAJA BUILT THE TEMPLE OF SHABARI-MALAI. DURING MAKAR SANKRANTI DAYS DEVOTEES THROUGH THE THICK FOREST FULL WITH TIGERS AND OTHERS WILD LIVES SPECIALLY PRESCRIBED “VRITAS” POOJAS AND SPECIALLY DESIGNED BUNDLES OF SELECTED COLLECTIONS OF “DRAVYAS” (ARTICLES) ARE TAKEN.“SWAMIYE SHARANAM AYYAPPA” “OH LORD YYAPPA” KINDLY BLESSES US AND SAFE-GUARD US THOSE WHO HAVE COME TO YOUR FEET FOR RESCUE-CAN BE HEARD FROM THE MOUTH OF EVERY DEVOTEE. LORD AYYAPPA IS WORSHIPPED ALONGWITH KARTIKEYA.
LORD AYYAPPA IS ALSO KNOWN AS “DHARMA SHASTA” ONE WHO HAD TAKEN THE INCARNATION TO SAVE THE “DHARMA” LORD AYYAPPA’S BLESSINGS ARE TO BE SOUGHT SPECIALLY IN THER PRESENT “KALIYUGA” ACCORDING TO THE SHASTRAS LORD AYYAPPA HAS ALL THE POWERS TO SAVE HIS DEVOTEES FORM AFFLICTIONS CAST BY ALL TYPES OF “SHANYDOSHAS”.
THE “SKANDA PURNA” DEPICTS LORD “AYYAPPA’S” INCARNATION ASUR HIDUMBA WITH FACE OF A BUFFALO TOOK PENANCE TO HAVE THE BLESSINGS OF LORD SHIVA TO DEFEAT THE DEVAS MOVED BY THE EXTREME “THAPASYA” AND “POOJA ARCHANAS”, LORD SHIVA GOT PLEASED AND ON APPEARING BEFORE THE ASURA, HE DEMANDED FROM SHIVA, “VAR” BLESSINGS OF POWER, STRENGTH AND NO-DEATH.SHIVA GRANTED THE ASURA THE BLESSINGS THAT NO MAN COULD TAKE HIS LIFE OUT OF HIM. THE ASURA WAS KNOWN AS MAHISHASURA BECAUSE OF HIS APPEARNCE. HE GOT ALL POWER AND STARTED ATTACKING DEVAS AND THE MOST REVERED “RISHIS” MAHISHASURA WANTED THAT ALL POOJAS TO THE GODS AND DEVAS ETC.SOULD BE STOPPED. THE DEVAS, RISHIS ANFD OTHER DEVOTEES GOT PANIK STRIKEN AND TIRED TO BE HIDDEN FROM THE REACH OF MAHISASURA. WITH NO OTHER WAY OUT, THE DEVAS AND SAPTARISHIS APPROACHED LORD SHIVA FOR HELP,. THEY WERE TOLD THAT MAHISHASURA CAN BE DESTROYED BY NONE OTHER THAN A LADY. GODDESS PARVATI ON LORD SHIVA’S INSTANCE, AND KNOWING ABOUT FORTHCOMING INCARNATION, GOT PREPARED. SHE BECAME MAHISHASURA MARDINI IN GODDESS DURGA WITH POWERS OF ALL THE THREE GODS OF “SRISHTI”’”STITY””SAMHAR” FOUGHT WITH MAHISHASURA AND KILLED HIM RELIEVING THE DEVAS AND RISHIS.
MAHISHASURA’S SISTER HIDUMBI GOT ANNOYED AN HEARING THE DEATH OF MAHISHASURA. HIDUMBI, LEAVING ALL OTHER ACTIVITES,SAT IN PENANCE TO HAVE THE BLESSINGS OF BRAHMA THE LORD OF “SRISHTI”. BRAHMA GOT PLEASED WITH HER THAPASYA AND APPEARED BEFORE THE MAHISHASURNI.HIDUMBI WANTED FROM BRAHMA THE POWERS OF NOT TO BE KILLED BY ANYBODY, BRAHMA WAS SURE THAT THOSE WHO TOOK BIRTH HAS TO DIE AND HE CANNOT GIVE THE PREPARED TO BE KILLED BY THE OFSPIRING OF LORD VISHNU AND LORD SHIVA. HIDUMBI WANTED NO OTHER ALTERNATIONS IN HER DEMANDS AND SHE WAS SURE THAT THESE GODS BEING MALES, THEY CANNOT GIVE BIRTH TO A CHILD AND THUS SHE CAN ESCAPE SURELY FROM DEATH. BRAHMA HAD NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE EXCEPT TO GRANT HER THE BLESSINGS OR TO GET A BAD NAME. THE BLESSINGS, AS SUCH WAS GRANTED AND BRAHMA DISAPPEARED. HIDUMBI STARTED TAKING REVENGE OF THE DEATH OF HER BROTHER MAHISHASURA. SHE DESTROYED ALL THE DHARMAS AND GOOD DEEDS THROUGHTOUT THE WORLD.
DEVAS HAD TO SUFFER OLD AGE BECAUSE OF THE CURSE CAST UPON THE LOT BY MAHARISHI DURVASA. THIS CAUSED ASURAS TO BECOME ALL POWERFUL AND DESTROY THEIR ALL TIME ENEMY THE DEVAS. IN THE END THE ASURAS WERE MADE TO COMPROMISE WITH THE DEVAS FOR “SAMUDRA MANTHAN” FOR “AMRUTHA” THE ELIXIR OF NO-DEATH. ASURA THEN GOT POSSESSION OF THE “AMRUTA” WITHOUT WHICH THE DEVAS CAN NOT REGAIN THEIR ORIGINAL FORM LORD VISHNU RELIEVED THE ELIXIR FROM THE CLUTCHES OF ASURA AS A DANCING APSARA MOHINI.
MOHINI WAS EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL BUT LORD SHIVA COULD NOT WITNESS THE INCIDENT OF VISHNU AS MOHINI RELIEVING “AMRUTA” FROM ASURAS. LORD SHIVA REQUESTED VISHNU FOR GLIMPSE OF HIS MOHINI FORM. THE STORY GOES THAT LORD SHIVA GOT ATTRACTED ON SEEING MOHINI SO MUCH SO THAT THE AFFAIR ENDED WITH THE BIRTH OF AN ALL POWERFUL SON TO THEM. THIS OFSPRING WITH THE POWERS OF SHIVA AND VISHNU WAS PLACED BY THE SIDE OF RIVER “PAMPA” A THIRTH IN THE FOREST AREA. RAJA OF THE PANDLA STATE (IN KERALA) WAS TO ARRIVE FOR HIS “SHIKAR”. THE PANDALA RAJA WAS A GREAT DEVOTEE OF LORD SHIVA BUT HE HAD NO SON.
LORD SHIVA APPEARED BEFORE THE RAJA AS A SANYASI (MUNI) AND ON HIS ADVICE THE RAJA AND HIS RANI WERE THE HAPPIEST TO ADOPT THE CHILD WITH A GOLD MUDRA (MANI) ON ITS NECK. THE LOVE AND AFFECTION BESTOWED BY THE RAJA-PARIWAR ON THE CHILD HAS CAUSEDE THEM TO BE BLESSED WITH THEIR OWN SON AS TIME PASSED.IN COURSE OF TIME RAJA WANTED THE ADOPTED CHILD, “MANIKHANTAN” AS HE WAS CALLED BECAUSE OF THE “MANI” ON HIS NECK, TO BE THE RAJA’S SUCCESSOR TO THE THRONE. THERE UPON RANI WAS TAKEN IN CONFIDENCE BY THE MANTRI SAYING THAT HER OWN SON WILL GET NO POSITION.
RANI AND MANTRI USED ALL MEANS TO KILL “MANIKHANTAN” AND THEY ALL FAILED. AS A LAST RESORT RANI FEIGNED STOMACH TROUBLES FOR WHICH MILK OF TIGER WAS GOT PRESCRIBED BY ROYAL PHYSICIAN WHICH NONE ELSE COULD PROCURE. MANIKHANTAN, TWELVE YERS OF AGE AT THAT TIME GOT SMELL OF THE DRAMA. WITH GREAT PRERSUATIONS HE CONVINCED THE RAJA WHO WAS ALL LOVE FOR MANIKHANTAN FOR TWO BLESSINGS (VARDAN). ONE WAS TO ALLOW MANIKHANTAN TO GO TO THE THICK FORESTS TO BRING TIGER’S MILK AND THE OTHER WAS TO ALLOW HIM TO LEAVE THE RAJAMAHAL THERE AFTER. RAJA SEEMS EXTREME SORROW BUT WAS COMFORTED BY BRAHMARSHI AGASTYA MUNI DISCLOSING THE AVATAR’S SCERET.
LORD MANIKHANTAN ON HIS WAY TO BRING TIGER’S MILK KILLED MAHISHASURANI. ON KNOWING THE DESTINATION OF MANIKAHANTN, DEVARJ INDRA WHO WAS PLEASED OF DESTROYING THE ASURANI BECAME A TIGER HIMSELF AND DEVAS BECAME TIGRESSES AND CUBS ON THE TIGER, MANIKHANTAN LEAD A PROCEESSION TO THE RAJA-MAHAL, THE INHABITANTS OF WHICH GOT CONVINCED THAT MANIKHANTAN WAS NOT AN ORDINARY CHILD.
RAJA BEGGED PARDON FOR THE DEEDS OF RANI AND ROYAL PHYSICIAN WITH THE CONNIVENCE OF MANTRI. MANIKHANTAN SOUGHT PERMISSION TO LEAVE RAJAMAHAL AND THE UNWILLING RAJA WAS NOT ALLOWED TO WORSHIP HIM AT A TEMPLE WHERE THE ARROW SENT BY MANIKHANTAN FELL. THE ARROW FELL AT SHABARI HILLS WHERE RAJA BUILT THE TEMPLE OF SHABARI-MALAI. DURING MAKAR SANKRANTI DAYS DEVOTEES THROUGH THE THICK FOREST FULL WITH TIGERS AND OTHERS WILD LIVES SPECIALLY PRESCRIBED “VRITAS” POOJAS AND SPECIALLY DESIGNED BUNDLES OF SELECTED COLLECTIONS OF “DRAVYAS” (ARTICLES) ARE TAKEN.“SWAMIYE SHARANAM AYYAPPA” “OH LORD YYAPPA” KINDLY BLESSES US AND SAFE-GUARD US THOSE WHO HAVE COME TO YOUR FEET FOR RESCUE-CAN BE HEARD FROM THE MOUTH OF EVERY DEVOTEE. LORD AYYAPPA IS WORSHIPPED ALONGWITH KARTIKEYA.
LORD AYYAPPA IS ALSO KNOWN AS “DHARMA SHASTA” ONE WHO HAD TAKEN THE INCARNATION TO SAVE THE “DHARMA” LORD AYYAPPA’S BLESSINGS ARE TO BE SOUGHT SPECIALLY IN THER PRESENT “KALIYUGA” ACCORDING TO THE SHASTRAS LORD AYYAPPA HAS ALL THE POWERS TO SAVE HIS DEVOTEES FORM AFFLICTIONS CAST BY ALL TYPES OF “SHANYDOSHAS”.
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