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I came across the following in my in-box. This is from another forum but the comments about various matters pertaining to gods made me feel that this may be of interest to our learned members:
"Subject :- SAsta and SrIvidya
mahASayAh,
" sahasram vartantE jagati vibudhAh kshudra phaladAh
na manyE swapnE va tadanusaraNam tatkR*ita phalam "
So says the jagadguru. In Hinduism, there are so many millions of gods and deities, every one is always ready to help the human beings during their hardships whether requested or not requested.
I tell you an incident of my meternal uncle. He was a medical practitioner at vizianagaram, and used to live in rented houses, changing his recidence from one place to another.
One day, he was in search of another suitable house, as his house owners asked him to vecate.
Some friend has shown him one house, at the same time warning him that there is a talk of some devil in it and no body is occupying because of its fear, even though the house is well situated and spacious enough and the rent also is very low.. My uncle readily accepted to occupy the house disbeleiving all the rumours. But one night he woke up with a tapping noice of his bedroom, opened door and found a female image standing there. It was laughingly telling, " Don`t fear my son, I am so and so Sakthi, I will make you very rich and great man, provided you worship me as your kula dEvata. If you don`t accept me, you will have to face many hardships." But my uncle did not accept her as kula dEvata. As a result, he has lost two children at birth and also a child of one and half year old, with an unrecognized disease.
My grand mother, who was living in a small villiage in orissa state, used to wake up at
3 O`clock at night to cleanse the front yard and backyard and also clean the utensils. One day
she found her cousin sister at that time asking what help she can do for her. My grandma could somehow scented that she is not her cousin but some devil. She entrusted the whole of her duties and calmly went inside. That devil has performed all the duties very neatly. My grandma did not reveal this to any one for so many days and every night the devil was coming and performing all the duties what ever is entrusted. But one day, she could not keep it secret and revealed it to some of her friends. That devil did not come again.
For SrIrAmadAsu, rAmOji and lakShmOji went to tAnIShA`s bed room paid him the coins and asked him the receipt. Are they the real Rama and lakshmana?
SrIAnjanEya used to enter into a boy of forteen and exibniting so many super human feats like climbing upon the top of rAma mandirs and jumping from that heights to the ground like a monkey.
He used to throw away a number of persons so easily. On every Teusday and Friday he used to tell future of othrs. So, a number of persons with querries and gifts were standing in a que for that boy on those two days. Do you believe all this is done by AnjanEya ? The great rAmaBhakta who is going to ascend the throne of brahmadEva, spending his life time on mahEndragiri always in meditation! doing all this nuisence spoiling the education and career of this innocent boy, making him a mad man?
This is all to say, that there are mirieds of kshudra phalada dEvatas in the world. They come to us whether you invite them or not - in the guise of a superior deity. Even the so called brahma, vishNu, ISwara,durga and any other dEvata when looked at extrovertly with a name and form will have their powers and duties with some limitations only. Every one of them is a kShudraphaladah. At best all these can give sArUpyam, sAmIpyam or sAlOkyam only. They all exibit themselves with an aBhaya hasta, indicating that they can save you when you enter into the grip of any fear.
The story of the so called SAsta or hariharaputra was mentioned in some purAna that the son of mOhini and paramESwara was appointed as the border protecter of kailasa. He is also the protector of our bounderies of the nation, region, town and villiage. In telugu he is called as "pOlaiah" or "polidEvata". In SrIvidyArNava tantra a mantra in his name was mentioned with a dhyAna SlOka as,
" aSwArUDham trinEtram ca SAstAram pASakEnaca
baddhwA sAdhyam sAdhakAgrE pAtayantam BhajAmyaham }}"
He is the one who will bring the desired person to your presence. His mantra reads as,
"SAstAram mRigayASrAntam aSwArUDham gaNAvRitam
pAnIyArtham vinA SAstrE tEna tO raivatE namah " He is the one who shows water, when one is tired and thirsty while hunting in a forest. The stories told about him are fictitious and unbelievable.
There are two temples of Ayyappa having two wives and three sons in the suberbs of the main temple inicates that he is not a bachelor.
In the passing times, the minds of the people are subjected to many changes, searching for a new devata who can easily fulfil their desires. For some days it was Siva and after some days it is vishNu,
then SrIrAma, then SrIkRiShNa, then pAnduranga vitthal, then saibAbA, satyasAibAbA, meherbAba, in this way the man is eternally changing his mind. .
There is a theory of orgument that because it would be very difficult to please the superior gods so easily, we should search for a person who can recommend us to the superior deity, just like we first approach the peon of the officer beforehand and settle bribe amount. For that purpose, this Ayyappa can mediate for both Hari and Hara too. Some people hearing of Lalita sahasranama as very powerful and LalitAdE is also very powerful goddess, and the wife of Siva, they attribute relationship of Ayyappa with her and if Ayyappa takes us to lalithAdEvi, She will certainly recommend us to Sivaji and make him grant the mOkSha for us.
But they do not know that lalithAdEvi is not a woman and she never conceived any son at all.
They all, I am afraid, will leave her once for all, if I say that she never offered any one any boons.
She never exibited any aBhayahastam in her hands. The devotees of her will never care for mOkSha saying, " bandha mOkSha vihIno~smi nityam brahmAsmim sO~smyaham". She is neither a woman, nor a man but just only a niShkala having all the kaLAs in her. She will not give any thing but you can obtain every thing frrom her. She just "swarUpa nirUpaNa hEtuh", makes you recognize who you are.
SrividyA is Atmavidya simultaneously prevailing in both parA and aparA BhUmikAs. lalitA is not a single dEvata. She is "sarva dEvata samUha mUrtI." All the gods including the trimUrtis male and female are in her. Every one of them is her creation. her own extension!. We can not compare any one with
lalita. She "sarvAnatItya lalati". What to say about the dummy gods?
namah kamalE kamalAlayE prasIda prasIda
krishnarao ."
"Subject :- SAsta and SrIvidya
mahASayAh,
" sahasram vartantE jagati vibudhAh kshudra phaladAh
na manyE swapnE va tadanusaraNam tatkR*ita phalam "
So says the jagadguru. In Hinduism, there are so many millions of gods and deities, every one is always ready to help the human beings during their hardships whether requested or not requested.
I tell you an incident of my meternal uncle. He was a medical practitioner at vizianagaram, and used to live in rented houses, changing his recidence from one place to another.
One day, he was in search of another suitable house, as his house owners asked him to vecate.
Some friend has shown him one house, at the same time warning him that there is a talk of some devil in it and no body is occupying because of its fear, even though the house is well situated and spacious enough and the rent also is very low.. My uncle readily accepted to occupy the house disbeleiving all the rumours. But one night he woke up with a tapping noice of his bedroom, opened door and found a female image standing there. It was laughingly telling, " Don`t fear my son, I am so and so Sakthi, I will make you very rich and great man, provided you worship me as your kula dEvata. If you don`t accept me, you will have to face many hardships." But my uncle did not accept her as kula dEvata. As a result, he has lost two children at birth and also a child of one and half year old, with an unrecognized disease.
My grand mother, who was living in a small villiage in orissa state, used to wake up at
3 O`clock at night to cleanse the front yard and backyard and also clean the utensils. One day
she found her cousin sister at that time asking what help she can do for her. My grandma could somehow scented that she is not her cousin but some devil. She entrusted the whole of her duties and calmly went inside. That devil has performed all the duties very neatly. My grandma did not reveal this to any one for so many days and every night the devil was coming and performing all the duties what ever is entrusted. But one day, she could not keep it secret and revealed it to some of her friends. That devil did not come again.
For SrIrAmadAsu, rAmOji and lakShmOji went to tAnIShA`s bed room paid him the coins and asked him the receipt. Are they the real Rama and lakshmana?
SrIAnjanEya used to enter into a boy of forteen and exibniting so many super human feats like climbing upon the top of rAma mandirs and jumping from that heights to the ground like a monkey.
He used to throw away a number of persons so easily. On every Teusday and Friday he used to tell future of othrs. So, a number of persons with querries and gifts were standing in a que for that boy on those two days. Do you believe all this is done by AnjanEya ? The great rAmaBhakta who is going to ascend the throne of brahmadEva, spending his life time on mahEndragiri always in meditation! doing all this nuisence spoiling the education and career of this innocent boy, making him a mad man?
This is all to say, that there are mirieds of kshudra phalada dEvatas in the world. They come to us whether you invite them or not - in the guise of a superior deity. Even the so called brahma, vishNu, ISwara,durga and any other dEvata when looked at extrovertly with a name and form will have their powers and duties with some limitations only. Every one of them is a kShudraphaladah. At best all these can give sArUpyam, sAmIpyam or sAlOkyam only. They all exibit themselves with an aBhaya hasta, indicating that they can save you when you enter into the grip of any fear.
The story of the so called SAsta or hariharaputra was mentioned in some purAna that the son of mOhini and paramESwara was appointed as the border protecter of kailasa. He is also the protector of our bounderies of the nation, region, town and villiage. In telugu he is called as "pOlaiah" or "polidEvata". In SrIvidyArNava tantra a mantra in his name was mentioned with a dhyAna SlOka as,
" aSwArUDham trinEtram ca SAstAram pASakEnaca
baddhwA sAdhyam sAdhakAgrE pAtayantam BhajAmyaham }}"
He is the one who will bring the desired person to your presence. His mantra reads as,
"SAstAram mRigayASrAntam aSwArUDham gaNAvRitam
pAnIyArtham vinA SAstrE tEna tO raivatE namah " He is the one who shows water, when one is tired and thirsty while hunting in a forest. The stories told about him are fictitious and unbelievable.
There are two temples of Ayyappa having two wives and three sons in the suberbs of the main temple inicates that he is not a bachelor.
In the passing times, the minds of the people are subjected to many changes, searching for a new devata who can easily fulfil their desires. For some days it was Siva and after some days it is vishNu,
then SrIrAma, then SrIkRiShNa, then pAnduranga vitthal, then saibAbA, satyasAibAbA, meherbAba, in this way the man is eternally changing his mind. .
There is a theory of orgument that because it would be very difficult to please the superior gods so easily, we should search for a person who can recommend us to the superior deity, just like we first approach the peon of the officer beforehand and settle bribe amount. For that purpose, this Ayyappa can mediate for both Hari and Hara too. Some people hearing of Lalita sahasranama as very powerful and LalitAdE is also very powerful goddess, and the wife of Siva, they attribute relationship of Ayyappa with her and if Ayyappa takes us to lalithAdEvi, She will certainly recommend us to Sivaji and make him grant the mOkSha for us.
But they do not know that lalithAdEvi is not a woman and she never conceived any son at all.
They all, I am afraid, will leave her once for all, if I say that she never offered any one any boons.
She never exibited any aBhayahastam in her hands. The devotees of her will never care for mOkSha saying, " bandha mOkSha vihIno~smi nityam brahmAsmim sO~smyaham". She is neither a woman, nor a man but just only a niShkala having all the kaLAs in her. She will not give any thing but you can obtain every thing frrom her. She just "swarUpa nirUpaNa hEtuh", makes you recognize who you are.
SrividyA is Atmavidya simultaneously prevailing in both parA and aparA BhUmikAs. lalitA is not a single dEvata. She is "sarva dEvata samUha mUrtI." All the gods including the trimUrtis male and female are in her. Every one of them is her creation. her own extension!. We can not compare any one with
lalita. She "sarvAnatItya lalati". What to say about the dummy gods?
namah kamalE kamalAlayE prasIda prasIda
krishnarao ."
there is so much of bigotry and parochial outlook, enough to call the many deities as "kṣudraphalada" (giving only nuisance value results, I think). In order that our members and readers may become aware of this world of intolerance and prejudice, I posted it here. 
