Shiva Giving Boon to Bhradwaja

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Hello,

It is said that shiva and Parvathi gave boon to Sage Bharadwaja that

they will be born in kali age in their Gotra.

 

Can you tell me the source of the story in which puran or granth it

comes and the context.

 

thank you

mohan

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Sai Ram,

please read Swami's Discourse "Shiva Shakti" delivered on Gurupournima Day, 6

July 1963, 6:30PM. (Sathya Sai Speaks III 5, 19.)

 

HTML version: http://www.sathyasai.org/discour/1963/d630706.htm

PDF version: http://www.sssbpt.info/ssspeaks/volume03/sss03-15.pdf

 

Shiva Shakthi

Gurupournima Day, 6 July 1963, 6:30PM. (Sathya Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Speaks III 5, 19.)

[Editor's note. This discourse was exciting for two important reasons. First,

Swami illustrated his powers by curing himself, in a few seconds and before

thousands of people, of a severe stroke that he had had for eight days and

explaining why this event had to take place. Second, for the first time, Swami

mentioned Prema Sai, his next incarnation. Swami said that he would come back

in a third incarnation as Prema Sai eight years after he leaves this body.]

This is not Swami's illness; this is an illness that Swami has taken on in order

to save some one. Swami has no illnesses, nor will he get ill at any time. You

must all be happy; that alone will make Swami happy. If you grieve, Swami will

not be happy. Your joy is Swami's food. (Then, Baba signaled to Kasturi to

speak. After his short speech was over, Baba wanted the mike to be held before

him. He asked through it "Vinapisthundaa!". But, though he asked again and

again, the voice was so indistinct that no could make out what it meant. He

then signed for water. When it was brought, he sprinkled a little with his

shaking right hand on the stricken left hand, on his left leg. He stroked his

left hand with the right. Immediately, he used both hands to stroke his left

leg, and that touch was enough to cure it. He doffed the disease in a trice! He

started to speak! It was the same musical voice.) For those who have no refuge,

God is the refuge (Dikku lenivaniki devude gathi). That is exactly the reason I

had to take on the disease that one helpless devotee was to get. He had to

suffer this dire illness, as well as the four heart attacks that accompanied

it, and he would not have survived it. So, according to my duty (dharma) to

protect devotees (bakthasamrakshana), I had to rescue him. Of course, this is

not the first time that I have taken on the illness of persons whom I wanted to

save. Even in the previous Sariram at Shirdi, I had this responsibility. The

suffering that you saw was too much for this particular devotee, so I had to

save him by going through it myself. This is my play (leela), my nature. It is

part of the task for which I have come, sishyarakshana. People who were near me

during the last week were asking me to give them the name of the person whom I

had saved. I told them that it would make them angry against that person, for

Swami, they would say, "had to undergo much pain in order to save that one

person." Then, they replied that they would honor the person because of the

extraordinary devotion that persuaded Swami to run to his rescue that Saturday

morning. Some people even asked me whether it was this person or that, giving

names of those who had attacks of paralysis, especially on the left side! This

is even more ludicrous, because when I save a person I save him completely. I

do not wait until he gets the disease, and I do not leave him a fraction of a

disease so that he may be identified later. It all looks funny to me, the

guesses and surmises that you make. Even in Shirdi, Dada Saheb, Nadaram,

Balawanth, all were saved by these means. Balawanth was destined to get plague,

but the bubo was taken over and the boy saved. This is perhaps the longest

period when I kept the devotees wondering and worried. That was because of the

heart attacks, which had to come later on the devotee, from which also he had

to be saved. Then, there is another reason why the 8-day period had to be

observed. I shall tell you why. This means I must tell you about myself, about

something I haven't disclosed so far, something that I was keeping within

myself for the last 37 years. The time has come to announce it. This is a

sacred day, and I shall tell you. You know I declared on the very day when I

decided to disclose my Identity, my mission, and my Advent that I belonged to

the Apasthamba Suthra and the Bharadwaja lineage (gothra). This Bharadwaja was

a great sage, who studied the Vedas for a full one hundred years; but, finding

that the Vedas were endless (anantha), he did penance (thapas) for prolonging

life, and from Indra he got two extensions of a century each. Even then, the

Vedas could not be completed, so he asked Indra again for another hundred

years. Indra showed him 3 huge mountain ranges and said, "What, you have

learned in 3 centuries form only

3 handfuls from out of the 3 ranges that make up the Vedas. So give up the

attempt to exhaust the Vedas. Perform a ritual (yaga) instead, which I shall

teach you; that will give you the fruit of Vedic study, full and complete."

Bharadwaja decided to perform the ritual; Indra taught him how to do it; all

preparations were completed. The sage wanted Shakthi to preside over and bless

the ritual. So he went to Kailasa, but the time was not opportune for

presenting his petition. Shiva and Shakthi were engaged in a competitive dance,

trying to find out who could dance longer. Eight days passed thus, before

Shakthi noticed Bharadwaja standing in the cold. She just cast a smile at him

and danced along as before! The sage mistook the smile as a cynical refusal to

notice him, so he turned his back on Kailasa and started to descend. To his

dismay, he found his left leg, hand, and eye put out of action by a stroke.

Shiva saw him fall, came up to him, and consoled him. Bharadwaja was told that

Shakthi had indeed blessed him and his ritual. Then, Shiva revived him and

cured him,

sprinkling water from the Kamandalu. Both Shiva and Shakthi granted him the

boons of a sage (rishi); they would both attend the ritual, they said. After

the ritual was over, they were so pleased that they conferred even more boons

on the sage. Shiva said that they would take human form and be born in the

Bharadwaja lineage, thrice: Shiva alone as Shirdi Sai Baba, Shiva and Shakthi

together at Puttaparthy as Sathya Sai Baba, and Shakthi alone as Prema Sai,

later. Then, Shiva remembered the illness that had suddenly come upon

Bharadwaja at Kailasa on the eighth day of waiting in the cold on the ice. He

gave another assurance. "As expiation for the neglect that Shakthi showed you

at Kailasa for 8 days, this Shakthi will suffer the stroke for 8 days when we

both take birth as Sathya Sai and, on the eighth day, I shall relieve her from

all signs of the disease by sprinkling water, just as I did at Kailasa to cure

your illness." It was the working out of this assurance that you witnessed

today, just now. This had to happen, this stroke and the cure. The assurance

given in the Thretha era had to be honored. I may tell you now that the poor,

forlorn devotee who had to suffer the stroke that I took over was a convenient

excuse, which was utilized. You see, a railway engine is not made available to

haul just one car; when a number of cars are ready, then the engine is put into

action. So too, the disease had to be gone through, the devotee had to be saved,

the assurance had to be carried out, the mystery had to be cleared, the Divinity

had to be more clearly announced by the manifestation of this Grand Miracle. All

these were accomplished by this one incident. Let me tell you one more thing:

Nothing can impede or halt the work of the Avathaara. When I was upstairs all

these days, some people were foolishly saying, "It is all over with Sai Baba,"

and they turned back many who were coming to Puttaparthy! Some said I was in

samadhi, as if I were a spiritual aspirant (sadhaka)! Some feared I was the

victim of black magic, as if anything can affect me! The splendor of this

Avathar will go on increasing, day by day. Formerly, when the Govardhanagiri (a

mountain) was raised aloft by the little boy Krishna, the cowherd maids and boys

(gopees and gopalas) realized that Krishna was the Lord. Now, not one

Govardhanagiri but a whole range will be lifted, you will see! Have patience,

have faith. Tomorrow morning, I shall give every one of you the Namaskaram

Blessing that you missed today.

mohanhg88 <mohanhg88 (AT) (DOT) co.in> wrote:

Hello,It is said that shiva and Parvathi gave boon to Sage Bharadwaja thatthey

will be born in kali age in their Gotra.Can you tell me the source of the story

in which puran or granth itcomes and the context.thank youmohan