the supreme light of Ardhanarishwar
Lord
Brahma emerged from the lotus stemming from the navel of Mahavishnu. He began
to ponder about himself. As he wondered and asked to himself,-‘Who am I and who
is my creator?’ he heard a voice saying,-‘Tapa’. Brahma therefore, began to
meditate and after thousands of years of meditation knew that he was Brahma and
entrusted by the supreme lord the task to expand creation. Lord Vishnu also
appeared before Lord Brahma and both of them wished to know further about their
own emergence and origin. They explored the ultimate source of creation
together. Finding no answer through discussion they prayed to the invisible
source to enlighten them. A brilliant light appeared between them that baffled
them all the way. They followed the light that was vertically present between
them. They followed it downward and then upward but found no end to it. Finding
neither its origin nor its end they stopped and prayed to the unknowable divine
light to enlighten them,-“Supreme Lord! We are not capable of knowing you. We
merely salute you in reverence. Please appear in such form that may be knowable
to us.” They repeatedly prayed. In spite of such prayers they heard only a
sound echoing around the light,-‘ohm….ohm’ . The right side of the light showed
alphabet ‘a’ and was as golden as sunlight; the left side of the light showed
alphabet ‘u’ and looked as bright as fire and the middle of light showed
alphabet ‘m’ with the colour of light as silver. As the two lords kept on praying to be enlightened by the supreme
light in a manifest form, there appeared lord Shiv with goddess Parvati as his
consort. They blessed the two lords and quenched their thirst of knowledge. The
two lords received supreme wisdom and blessings from lord Ardhnarishwar. Having
blessed and enlightened them the light disappeared. Lord Shiv is manifestation
of supreme spiritual wisdom and dispassion and mother Parvati is manifestation
of intelligence and power. One who is blessed by them attains wisdom and power
both.
Sthaneshwar
mahadev
Long back a bunch of auster brothers
known as Baalkhilya took the vow of attaining liberation and performed great
penance by chanting name of lord Shiv while hanging from a tree. Lord Shiv and
mother Parvati were passing over the spot. When mother Parvati found them
hanging so with name of lord on their lips she said to lord Shiv,-‘ Lord1 They
are so youthful yet having renounced the worldly pleasures they have been
performing such rigorous penance to please you. Why don’t you give them a
matching reward?’ Lord Shiv began to smile. “Don’t you believe me?” asked
mother.” No. Goddess. They are only physically involved in penance not
mentally.” He explained. The duo began to discuss the eligibility and purity of
the brothers. Lord Shiv then said,’”If you do not believe me then see how I
test them now and you will know the
truth yourself..”
Saying so he appeared as a naked youth endowed
with mesmerizing power. Seeing the charm of naked youth the young wives of
sages felt attracted to him. They offered the naked youth everything. The naked
youth then began to walk away. Hypnotized by the power of naked youth the women
also followed him and chased him for a while. The sages noticed the charm of a
naked youth that had enmeshed their youthful wives. They could not bear the
gesture of their wives and ran after the youth who had spontaneously stolen
away their wives. They rushed after the naked youth with their sticks and began
to beat him up. As they resorted to beat the stranger the naked youth vanished.
Seeing the gesture of sages, mother
Parvati began to smile. Lord Shiv had proved that while chanting the name of
lord the mind of young sages was hovering around the gestures of their wives
alone.
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