Chapter 6: chapter 6

Seshnag hailed the enormous swaroop of Vishnu in sheer delight. It's so charming and attractive. He appeared in his ananth chaturbhuj swaroop and it's very glorious."Seshnag! I'm overwhelmed with your immense devotion towards me. I'm greatly impressed with your strict penance and hardship. I'm ready to satisfy your any desire."Tears came from Seshnag with utter happiness."Prabhu ! Bhaktvatsala! I'm totally fed with my brothers, my mother and whole my life. They are filled with envity and always quarrel among one other for superiority. My mother, who should be inspirational to my brothers, who should teach morals to them is on adharm path and is molesting my Vinatha mata. I would like to free myself from those miserable creatures and all bad people. I wish that my mind is always filled with spirituality, goodness and peace."He smiled,"Adisesh! I'm so much pleased with your compassion and control over desires and heart. I, Narayan am unifying you in myself right now. You will be free from all manacles of this janm from this moment. You will always serve me in my Vaikunth and you will be my bed and entire world hails you as Seshpanp of Narayan.""Dhanyosmi Parampitha! My life got blessed today", Seshnag fell on his feet and took blessings."Adisesh! You are so much interested in serving bhagvan and goodness. Your mind is set in correct dharma. You should do one thing for welfare of human kind. Only people with sahanubhuthi (benevolence) like you and one who wins over all desires can do that""What Prabhu? Whatever you'll order, I'll feel as my duty"Vishnu explained,"Earth, because of the presence of mountains, forests and so many humans couldn't stable herself. Hold her and stabilize her on your hoods."Seshnag accepted and then onwards is holding the huge earth on his head. He has been patiently carrying the earth. Prabhu impressed by his patience, duty- boundedness and devotion freed him from curse of Kadhru too and granted him divinity."Narayan Narayana! Laxmi, tell me now what you have understood from this story?""Devarshi! Narayan surely grants everything if we pray with utmost devotion and dedication. He's bhaktvatsala who loves all beings and is always ready to fulfill wishes of devotees. Bhakti and dedication take us to him."Bhala! Beautifully said! I'm glad as you're grasping everything quickly. And another thing,Shantakaram Bhujagashayanam Padmanabham Suresham!!Vishwadharam gaganasadrusham meghavarnam subhangam!!!!Laxmikantam Kamalanayanam Yogibhirdhyanagamyam !!Vandevishnum Bhavabhayaharam Sarvalokaikanadham..Meaning of these lyrics is;He has a serene appearance even though he lies on serpent bed, Adisesh!! He is the one from whose navel, source of all creation, Brahmdev was born. He's the lord of dev. He's infinite. He's bluish in colour which fills our hearts with bliss. He's the beloved of mahadevi and he is attainable only through meditation. He removed all fears of worldly existence and lord of all lokas.These lines describe his greatness. To satisfy his devotee's desire, he accepted to lie on a serpent which always release dangerous venom. Even that dreadful venom can't disturb his shantswaroop. Only bhakti is the way to get him.I'll come again tomorrow to narrate another interesting and spiritual story"Devotion, respect, love and spirituality inside mind are needed. Narad made Laxmi realize them through narrating this story.On the other side, asur came to know that Brihuspathi left for Himalayas and Viswaroopa had become the priest of Indra in his absence. Viswaroopa is son of "Thwasta Prajapati"and Asurmata, "Rachana". Viswaroopa thus was related to both asurs and rishis. Asur informed Rachana about Viswaroopa performing yagnas for dev and urged her to ask him a part of oblation (havissu) of that yagnas for asur. Asurmata as a mother, thought that asur acquire equal powers as dev as soon as they gain divine powers of the oblation, defeat swarga and become adhipatis of the universe. She went near Viswaroopa and prayed him to keep a part of oblation for asur. Viswaroopa initially disagreed as he couldn't deceive gods, they trust him. Asur matha begged him,"Viswaroopa! I'm your mother who gave birth and brought you up. You shouldn't deny my words. Accept my request. Asur are not your enemies but your relatives. If you give a little oblation, they can gain powers to defend themselves. Always gods try to harm and end them. They can protect themselves from dev", she played a drama which melt his heart and accepted her plea. Since that day, whenever Viswaroopa did yagnas for dev, he poured some of the sacred yagn ghee for oblation for dev and hid some remnants for asur secretly and uses for them. As a result, asur strengthen themselves and acquired many divine powers of the oblation. A few days later, Indra identified that and shook in anger over Viswaroopa. He immediately cut off all his heads in single stroke of his sword. Suddenly he heard heavy lightening accompanied by thunder in the sky. Akashvani spoke,"Indra! Beheading Viswaroopa you acquired brahmana hatyapathak dhosh, the biggest sin!! Now you're unfit as devraj with this grave sin. You are dethroned from swarg simhasaan right this moment "Indra fell down and grieved for the mistake done in haste. Agni dev had been observing everything from swarg and came running in fret after akashvani speech. Agni dev succoured him seeing him repenting heavily for the mistake and after thinking a while suggested Indra,"Indra dev! I got an idea! Why don't you donate your sin to anyone else?? If you do so, you'll be free from it and again become devraj".Indra felt it's a great idea and adjured everyone,"Everyone! Vandevatha! Jal! Prakruti! Dharti! I, Indradev am suffering with a great sin because of killing a brahman. Please anyone free me from this. I'm unable to bear this. It's devastating me". Then women came and said,"Devraj Indra! Food and water are the primary needs for any human being. You are the one who provide us water through rains. We are able to cultivate crops with those rains. You're the main reason for our sustainability so it's our responsibility to help you in your difficult times. The whole women of the universe are ready to bear your sin on your behalf". Indra wiped out his floating tears and appreciated their sacrifice. Trees, earth and oceans too came before observing this and decided to help Indra from their side too and accepted Indra's request.Indra gladdened by all of them and said,"Women will bear one-fourth of my sin and release it in menstruation every month.Trees bear another quarter and release in form of sap, oceans in form of froth and finally earth in form of wasteland.I can never forget your sacrifice. I, Indra dev, am blessing you all with special boons for this service.Primarily, women came in front and dared to bear the sin. They motivated others too for this paropkar(helping others). I'm granting you a boon that only a woman can give birth to a child in this world from now. Only a women can enjoy the greatest pleasure, being called as maa. Trees will be the source of food to all. Oceans washes away all sins of the people who dipped in them and do mangalsnaan. Earth can bear any number of human beings.".As they took Indra's sin, Indra got released from paap and get his Indrasan. Indra felt that everything ended happily. But he was totally unaware then about the other future consequences of beheading Viswaroopa which ruin not only him but also the whole world.TO BE CONTINUED...