Shri Shirdi Sai speaks-28th Sept/Have a very Happy and Blessed Dusshera

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Wishing you all a very Happy and Blessed Dusshera.May Sai always be with us and

help us all to get rid of all the negative energies with in us and thus become a

better human being..

Legends of Vijaya-Dashmi/ Dasha-Hara/Dusshera

The history of Dussehra is an ancient one and derives its origin from a number

of popular legends found in the scriptures.

 

Victory of Prabhu Ramachandra over Ravana :

On this day in the Treta Yug, Shri Ram (7th incarnation of Vishnu), killed the

great demon Ravan who had abducted Ram's wife Sita to his kingdom of Lanka. Ram,

along, with his brother Lakshman follower Hanuman, and an army of monkeys fought

a great battle to rescue his wife Sita. The war against Ravan lasted for ten

days.

Rama had performed " Chandi Hom†and invoked the blessings of Durga to kill

Ravana. Durga blessed Rama with the secret to kill Ravana. Ravana was defeated

in his own kingdom of Lanka by Rama & the vanarsena. Rama with Sita & Laxman

returned victorious to his kingdom of Ayodhya on the Ashwin Shukla dashami. This

victory of Rama is since then celebrated as “Vijaya Dashamiâ€.

So also prior to the defeat of Ravana, when Rambhakt Shri Hanuman went to Lanka

to search Sita, he found her on the day of Ashvin shukla dashami.

The Ravana Palace which was burnt by Hanuman -Ashok vatika where Ravana kept

Sita

Sitadevi was kept in queen Mandothari’s palace until she was moved to Sita

Kotua and then on to Ashoka Vatika. The remains that are found are the remnants

of later civilizations. This place is now called Sita Kotuwa which means

‘Sita's Fort’ and got its name because of Sitadevi's stay here.

The Sita tear pond is believed to have been formed by the tears of Sitadevi and

has not dried up since, even during severe droughts when the adjoining rivers

dry up.

Sugriva's cave

 

Rama Sita Lakshmana and Anjaneya carving inside Sugriva cave.

This carving is carved on a rock on the Ella – Wellawaya road. It is visible

from the main road if one takes an interest in locating it. It was discovered

recently. Getting closer is not safe as the surroundings are full of wasps. This

carving has lot of similarities to Rishi Pulasthi’s statue. This is the only

historical caving of Rawana available globally.

Sanjivani Mountain from where Sanjivani Booti was acquired to save Lashman

which has many exotic herbs even now

Laggala- It is here that King Ravana was killed by Lord Rama’s Brahmaastharam.

The top of Laggala is flat and is believed to have been hit by the

Brahmaastharam.

During these 10 days of Dasha-Hara, huge idols of Ravana, Kumbhakarna (brother

of Ravana) & Meghanad (son of Ravana) are erected and are set on fire by the

enthusiastic youth at the sun set.

After Dasha-Hara, the hot weather of the summer ends, especially in North India

and as the winter starts, the cold weather becomes breeding ground for many

kinds of infections. Hence burning huge Ravana statues filled with the crackers

containing phosphorous purifies the atmosphere. At the same time the temples

perform Chandi Homa or Durga Homa which also helps in purifying the atmosphere.

Many houses also perform Aditya Homa as a Shanti Yagna and recite Sundara Kanda

of Srimad Ramayana for 9 days. All these Yagna Performances are to create

powerful agents into the atmosphere surrounding the house so as to keep the

household environment clean & healthy.

The purpose of performing these homas is also to kill & sacrifice the 10 bad

qualities, which are represented by ten heads of Ravana as follows:

(1) Kama vasana (Lust), (2) Krodha (Anger), (3) Moha (delusoion), (4) Lobha

(Greed), (5) Mada (Over Pride), (6) Matsara (Jealousy), (7) Manas (Mind), (8)

Buddhi (Intellect), (9) Chitta (will) & (10) Ahankara (Ego).

Rama sethu

Some houses perform Yagnas 3 times daily along with sandhya vandana, called as

Aahavaneeya Agni, Grahapatya Agni, Dakshina Agni. In addition to this, the

Aditya Homa is performed with the Maha Surya Mantras and the Aruna Prapathaka of

the Yajurveda. The effect of these mantras is to keep the heart, brain and

digestive functions of the body in balance. The imbalances in these occur in the

absence of adequate sunlight in the winter months.

 

Victory of Durga Mata over Mahishasur :Some of the Aasuras (Demons) were very

powerful and ambitious, and continually tried to defeat Gods and capture the

Heaven. One such Aasura called Mahishasur, who looked like a buffalo, grew very

powerful & created havoc on the earth. Under his leadership the Aasuras even

defeated the Devas (Gods), all of whom were powerless including Brahma, Vishnu

etc... Finally, when the world was getting crushed under Mahishasura's tyranny,

the Devas came together & contributed their individual energy to form

“Shakti†a single mass of incandescent energy to fight & kill Mahishasur.

The below picture is of Mahishasur @ Chamundi hills..

 

A very powerful band of lightening dazzled from the mouths of Brahma, Vishnu &

Mahesh (Shiva) and a beautiful, magnificent, radiant young virgin with ten hands

appeared. All the Gods gave their special weapons to her. This Shakti coalesced

in the form of Goddess Durga.

Durga with weapons in her ten hands, riding on Lion, who assisted her in the

fight, took on Mahishasur. The battle raged for nine days and nights. Finally on

the tenth day of Ashwin shukla paksha, the evil demon Mahishasur was defeated &

killed by Durga.

Hence Dasha-Hara is also known as Navaratra or Durgotsava and is a celebration

of victory of Goddess Durga. Durga as Consort of Lord Shiva represents two forms

of female energy - one mild & protective and the other fierce & destructive.

Home Coming of Durga Mata

Daksha, the Lord of the Earth, and his wife, Menaka, had a daughter called Sati.

Uma, right from her childhood, started worshipping Lord Shiva as her

would-be-husband. Lord Shiva, being pleased with the worship of Sati, came to

marry her. Daksha was against their marriage but could not prevent it to happen.

A little time later, Daksha arranged a `yagna` where everyone except Lord Shiva

was invited. Sati, feeling ashamed of her father`s behaviour and shocked by the

attitude metted towards her husband, killed herself. There was no end to his

anguish when Lord Shiva came to know about this. He lifted the body of Sati on

his shoulders and started dancing madly. With the supreme power dancing with

wrath, the World was on the verge of destruction.

Then Lord Narayana came forward as a saviour and used his `Chakra` to cut

Sati`s body into pieces. Those pieces started falling off from the shoulder of

the dancing Shiva into different parts of the World. Shiva was finally pacified

when the last piece fell off from his shoulder. Lord Narayana, however, revived

Sati to new life.

Maa Nandi keshari temple is one of the 51 Shakti piths in the hindu religion.it

is called a Shakti pith because the collar bone of Maa Sati fell over here after

being cut by the chakra of lord Vishnu.

The places where the pieces had fallen are known as the `Shakti Piths` or energy

pits. Kalighat in Kolkata, Kamakshya near Guwahati and Vaishnav Devi in Jammu

are three of these places.

In her next birth Sati was born as Parvati/ Shaila-Putri(First form of Durga),

the daughter of Himalaya. Lord Narayana asked Shiva to forgive Daksha. Ever

since peace was restored, Durga, with her children, Kartikeya, Ganesh and her

two `sakhis` - Jaya and Vijaya, comes to visit her parents each year during the

season of `Sharatkal` or autumn when Durga-Puja is celebrated. Thus the other

name of Durga-puja is `Sharodotshob`.

 

End of Agnyatwas of Pandavas

In Dwapar Yuga, after Pandavas lost to Kauravas in the game of Dice, they had to

proceed to 12 years of “Vanawas†(exile to forest) followed by one year of

Agnyatawas. Pandavas spent 12 years in forest and hid their weapons in a hole on

a “Shami†tree before entering the Kingdom of Virat to complete the last one

year of Agnyatwas. After the completion of that year on Vijayadashmi they took

the weapons from the Shami tree, declared their true identity & defeated

Kauravas, who had attacked King Virat to steal his cattle wealth. Since that

day the exchange of Shami leaves on Dassera day became symbols of good, will and

victory. Hence on Dasha-Hara Shami Tree & the weapons are worshipped.

Kautsa's Gurudakshina

Kautsa, the young son of Devdatt, a Brahmin, was living in the city of Paithan.

After completing education from Rishi Varatantu, he insisted on his guru

accepting Guru Dakshina (present).

But Guru said, " Kautsa, to give 'dakshina' in return for learning wisdom is not

proper. Graduation of the disciple makes the guru happy, and this is the real

Guru Dakshina. "

Kautsa was not satisfied. He still felt it was his duty to give his guru

something. Finally the guru said, " Alright, if you insist on giving me dakshina,

so give me 140 million gold coins, 10 million for each of the 14 sciences I have

taught you. "

Kautsa went to king Raghu. Raghuraja was an ancestor of Lord Rama, famous for

his generosity. But just at that time he had emptied all his coffers on the

Brahmins, after performing the Vishvajit sacrifice. He asked Kautsa to give him

three days' time. Raghuraja immediately left to get the gold coins from Indra.

Indra summoned Kuber, the god of wealth. Indra told Kuber, " Make a rain of gold

coins fall on the " Shanu " and " Aapati " trees round Raghuraja's city of Ayodhya. "

The rain of gold coins began to fall. King Raghu gave all the coins to Kautsa,

and Kautsa hastened to offer the coins to Varatantu Rishi. Guru had asked only

140 millions, so he gave the rest back to Kautsa. Kautsa was not interested in

money. In those days honor was considered more valuable than wealth. He asked

the king to take the remaining gold coins back. But the king refused to take

them back as kings do not take back the daan (gift).

Finally Kautsa distributed the gold coins to the people of Ayodhya on the day of

Ashwin shukla dashami. In remembrance of this event the custom is kept of

looting the leaves of the " Aapati " trees, and people present each other these

leaves as " sone(gold).Sai Baba took Mahasamadhi on October 15, 1918 at 2.30pm.

He took samadhi on the lap of one of his devotees with hardly any belongings,

and was buried in the " Buty Wada " according to his wish. Later a mandir was

built there known as the " Samadhi Mandir " .This day was a very holy day for

Hindus as well as for Muslims as Hindu's festival 'dassera' and Muslim's

festival 'muharram' had come on the same day. Sai Baba is a symbol of unity of

religions, especially Hindu and islam and he left his body on this very holy day

when 'dassera' and 'muharram' came simultaneously. This is also a great sign of

his greatness as people believe that great soul leaves the earth on some holy

day.

Message from the teachings of Saibaba for 28th september

Remembering Baba will Remove Our Hardships

God is the Abode of Supreme Bliss and the embodiment of the pure Spirit and the

Truth who is not touched by the polarities of pleasure and pain, sin and merit.

Sai is the Perfect Master with a pure heart. The Holy Trinity, viz.,

Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva assumed the form of Dattatreya, whose incarnation is Shirdi

Sai. We should know that to have His darshan is to achieve the purpose of life.

Baba's heart is filled with kindness and love. He took human birth although He

is that Formless Absolute Reality. He moved among the commoners as commoner in

flesh and blood and blessed the devotees cross the ocean of worldly life. Baba

will indwell as Bliss in the heart of those devotees who have no desires or any

trace of arrogance. Indeed, for people who would see, think and serve Baba with

firm faith, He will appear in everyone as His Divinity pervades every being.

When the deed is noble, God would help. Baba Himself declared that there is no

difference between His

picture and Himself. In this hectic world, we may not find time to sit and

meditate. It is enough for a Baba devotee to recall the image of Sai and

mentally sing Bhajans to Him. Chanting Sai's name removes all doubts and

difficulties. There is no room for fears when we take refuge in Him. We can

serenely shed our perishable body and merge with the immortal Baba.

 

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