Wednesday, August 15, 2012

 Upamanyu story

Upamanyu was a brilliant child, he was drinking milk, he cousin snathched milk from him. He started crying, he went to his mother and narrated the whole incident and she gave him a solution of powdered grains, but Upamanyu don’t want any thing other than milk. His mother said to him that – you should get satisfied with what ever you get. She also said that perhaps may in the our previous life we might not have prayed lord Shiva that is the reason for our difficulties. Hearing this Upamanyu went to Himalayas to perform tapas. He continued his tapas as a result of that there araised a unbearable heat, the deities approached Lord Vishnu for help. Lord Vishnu understood the reason of such unbearable heat asked Lord Shiva for the help. Lord shiva wanted to test the Devotion of Upamanyu, he disguised himself in the form of Indra and went to Upamanyu.
He started abusing Shiva which made Upamanyu very angry, he tried to kill him and failed. Then he tried to himself. Which made Shiva pleased and then Reaveled his identity, he granted the designation of ganapatya and also a ocean of milk and curd.

Shiva has five faces one of them is sathyoojaatham .   Vedas define lord Shiva as Sathyoojatham which means appearing immediately as soon as his devotees call him.

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