THE POWER OF LORD DATTATREYA- A BRIEF STORY OF KING KARTHAVEERYA

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Jai Gurudevadatta! Ganesh Puraan scriptures describe infant Kartavirya at birth as having no limbs. Kartavirya sought the advice of the elders.

Then he went on a quest to a mountain top to pray to the God Dattatreya for his blessings. King karthaveerya succeeded in the tests of Lord Dattatreya. Lord Dattatreya will always test the intensity of the devotion of the devotees. Dattatreya finally appeared and blessed his devotee with a thousand powerful hands. He was also obtained several boons from Lord Dattatreya. Mighty Sahasrarjun then conquered all the known and unknown oversea kingdoms. In reference to his powerful hands Sahasrarjun is addressed as Sahasrabahu, Sahasrabujhadhari etc.. He is also referred to as Rajarajeshwar, Kartavirya, Kartyviryarjun, Kritaviryanandan, Parakrami Arjun, Haihayaraja, Dashagrivajayi, Nagapal etc. He was known to be one of the seven greatest emperors that had ever lived. That is the power of Lord Dattatreya. Dattatreya became his mentor as well as his guru

(teacher) and guided him during his entire life. The God Vishnu’s Chakra had one thousand spikes. Sahasrarjun was the avaatar of Chakra, each spoke of it represented his hand. King Karthaveerya ruled his kingdom for somany thousands of years and instructed his people to recite dattanama always and to perform Anaghastami vratha always. DIGAMBARA DIGAMBARA SHREE PAADA VALLABHA DIGAMBARA is the powerful mantra of Lord Dattatreya which was given by Shree Vasudevananda saraswathy swamy. He has given instructions to his servants and all bhaktas of lord Dattatreya to recite it at all times, then Lord Dattatreya will take care of his servants in all aspects. We request all the willing devotees to recite the above mantra and read Shree Gurucharitra parayan atleast one chapter perday or sapthaha deeksha and

perform shree dattapuja for the blessings of Jagadguru Dattabhagavan. Please see the following photograph who are performing Dattapuja in California. No caste is there, no creed is there, no gender is there, no limitations are there for Dattapuja. Perform the seva to lord dattatreya and have the blessings of Dattamaharaj. AVADHOOTHA CHINTHANA SHREE GURUDEVADATTA..... Subrahmanyam.Bharathuladatta_gururayasmarthrugaami-dattavaibhavam

 

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Sir, I wish to make a sincere query regarding GURU CHARITRAM. I was told by an elderly soul outside the Dutta Swami Samarth Temple,Sadashivpeth Pune that ladies are not to read the above said as it is a SIDDHA GRANTH. I have 3 copies of it in my collection and I do read it . The English version is so good.Now, I feel somewhat affected by that person's advice. I do not know whether to believe this advice or ignore it! So, I wish to ask you : are there any such Dont's for ladies ? Are ladies allowed to read SREE GURU CHARITRAM? Please help me with a clarification.I do not want to disobey any such shastraic rule ........knowingly! Waiting for your reply. Regards, Akhila Shivan

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Hello,

 

Not to take away the beauty of greatness of Lord Dattatreya.

 

The reason Kartavirya has 1000 hands is because he is the incarnation of Sudarshana Chakra on the Hands of Lord Vishnu.

 

Sudarshana Chakra, is faster than the mind can think of. One chakra got proud of the steadfastness, so Lord Vishnu smiled, and so he said to that chakra, lets see, ( a small proud ness, made the chakra to fall on earth to be born as a mortal ) and he was an ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu, and Lord Dattatreya was his guru ( how he became guru, this piece of story I don't know).

 

He used to take care of his citizens even before they approaced him with troubles. That is the reason we have the Kaartaviryarjuna Stotra for removal of obstacles, if you are being harrased by either spouses ( it works ), or if you are having a threat of being stolen, that mantra works wonders.

 

 

He was a good king till, he did that henious thing of killing Bhargava ( Parasurama's) father.

 

Any how just wanted to share the story.

Anand

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Dear Amma,

 

Thankyou Amma for thinking upon my posting.

 

First, the story what you have said is interesting and it

is not exactly correct because the parents of Karthaveerraarjuna did

not go to Sahyadri to meditate on Lord Dattatreya.Rather they prayed to

Ganapapthy at a Moolasthana in Maharashtra (it is also premised that the cult of

Ganesha cameforth because of their concerted efforts) and later upon the

guidance of Ganesha, Karthaveeraarjuna embraced a parivrajaka marga(sanyasi

marga whereby one keeps moving form place to place to meditate) and then went to

Sahyaadri Parvatha Himself and started to pray.

 

Second a discrepancy of the story which is unsupported by either Datta

purana, Karthaveerarjuna Charitra or Bhargava Charitra--The baby was not born

with thousand arms(weak or otherwise) but was born with no arms(a deformity)

which was later rectified by Lord Dattatreya.

 

Third discrepancy again unsupported anywhere the question

of Sudarshana chakra being " taught' a lesson does not come anywhere

because a Vishnu-amsikam will never go against a Vishnu amsa

(Dattatreya) and hence the fight between Karthaveeraarjuna was purely

an egoistical fight ending in the death of Him under Lord

Dattatreya's hands and thus He attaining moksha according to Datta-

BhakthaVijayam.

 

Also, anything big used to be collated with the number 1000 and hence the number

of spokes of Sudarshana being 1000 was attributed to Karthaveerarjuna(and Lord

Dattatreya with a central face of Vishnu also formed a thetical favour for the

stance).

 

In the power of rhetoric and trying to support one's path or God or

Goddess(in mycase) one should not play with truth and thus subvert

truth. Popularizing the name of God in a divine way is onething whereas

Propogandizing the same name is different.

Because the original truth(the word original need not be

placed before truth as Truth is always original but Iam placing a

tautology anyways) will be even puissant and man-made stories or

folkstories will lessen the original glory.

 

Also,There is nothing worng in presenting different views and cautiously saying

it was proposed by various people or texts but to outright proscribe(or

anti-scribe) something is not called for.

 

Finally, frankly speaking, I think that whether thousand arms of

Karthaveeraarjuna was given by Datta or by virtue of His being a Sudarshana

Avatara or because of the symbolic nature is plain non-issue for me. All that

matters is how devoted he was to Lord Dattatreya and how the Lord showered His

benediction upon Him.

 

Let us all aspire for this benediction, what do you say Amma?

 

Jaya Siddhasiddhantha Gurunatha

Jaya Gurdeva Datta!

 

Shreeram Balijepalli

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smarthrugaami-Dattavaibhavam , " raasvihaari "

<raasvihaari wrote:

>

>

> Sir,

> This is what I know of Karthaviryaarjuna. His parents the King, and

> the Queen were praying for a child, and finally GOD blessed them

with

> a child, a son. This child at birth was frail, had thousand arms,

all

> which were weak, and the child was very disabled. The king and his

> wife grief stricken prayed and took their son to the Lord

Dattatreya

> who was in penance on Sahyadri. Lord Dattatreya was the ONE who

> blessed and made Karthaveeryarjuna a healthy child with all the

> thousand arms, and the resultant Great and Good King he was. He

> prayed to Lord Dattatreya that he wanted to die in his guru's

hands.

> His guru was Lord Dattatreya. Finally at the end the Lord had to

> vanquish Kathaveeryaarjuna whose arms were felled by HIS LORD, and

he

> passed away at HIS LORD'S feet. Thus The Sudarshan Chakra was

taught

> a lesson. It was also said that Lord Dattatreya's most favorite

> sishya was King Karthaveeryaarjuna. This is the POWER OF THE LORD

SRI

> MAHAVISHNU WHO ALONG WITH SRI BRAHMA DEVA AND SRI MAHESWARA IS NONE

> OTHER THAN LORD DATTATREYA HIMSELF!

>

> Please correct me if there is any.

> thank you,

> Manjula

> Jai Sairam Sri Venkateswara Sri DattaGuru Deva Namo Namaha:

>

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Dear friend and well wisher,

 

I will be much oblidged, if you could kindly upload

KARTHAVEERYARJUNA STOTRAM FILE

 

Thanking you,

 

Yours affectionately

N.s.Venkhataraman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smarthrugaami-Dattavaibhavam , " Anand

Srivatsa " <tejaswi2 wrote:

>

> Hello,

>

> Not to take away the beauty of greatness of Lord Dattatreya.

>

> The reason Kartavirya has 1000 hands is because he is the

incarnation of

> Sudarshana Chakra on the Hands of Lord Vishnu.

>

> Sudarshana Chakra, is faster than the mind can think of. One

chakra got

> proud of the steadfastness, so Lord Vishnu smiled, and so he said

to that

> chakra, lets see, ( a small proud ness, made the chakra to fall on

earth to

> be born as a mortal ) and he was an ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu,

and Lord

> Dattatreya was his guru ( how he became guru, this piece of story

I don't

> know).

>

> He used to take care of his citizens even before they approaced

him with

> troubles. That is the reason we have the Kaartaviryarjuna Stotra

for removal

> of obstacles, if you are being harrased by either spouses ( it

works ), or

> if you are having a threat of being stolen, that mantra works

wonders.

>

> He was a good king till, he did that henious thing of killing

Bhargava (

> Parasurama's) father.

>

> Any how just wanted to share the story.

>

> Anand

>

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Dear Venkhataraman,If you do a search in this group or Rajarajeshwari Kalpataru groups who will find this sloka..AnandOn 14 Apr 2007 22:17:05 -0700,

nsv1951 <nsv1951 wrote:

 

 

 

 

Dear friend and well wisher,

 

I will be much oblidged, if you could kindly upload

KARTHAVEERYARJUNA STOTRAM FILE

 

Thanking you,

 

Yours affectionately

N.s.Venkhataraman

 

Smarthrugaami-Dattavaibhavam , " Anand

 

Srivatsa " <tejaswi2 wrote:

>

> Hello,

>

> Not to take away the beauty of greatness of Lord Dattatreya.

>

> The reason Kartavirya has 1000 hands is because he is the

incarnation of

> Sudarshana Chakra on the Hands of Lord Vishnu.

>

> Sudarshana Chakra, is faster than the mind can think of. One

chakra got

> proud of the steadfastness, so Lord Vishnu smiled, and so he said

to that

> chakra, lets see, ( a small proud ness, made the chakra to fall on

earth to

> be born as a mortal ) and he was an ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu,

and Lord

> Dattatreya was his guru ( how he became guru, this piece of story

I don't

> know).

>

> He used to take care of his citizens even before they approaced

him with

> troubles. That is the reason we have the Kaartaviryarjuna Stotra

for removal

> of obstacles, if you are being harrased by either spouses ( it

works ), or

> if you are having a threat of being stolen, that mantra works

wonders.

>

> He was a good king till, he did that henious thing of killing

Bhargava (

> Parasurama's) father.

>

> Any how just wanted to share the story.

>

> Anand

>