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Moving on to the next episode, the demons and the Gods had come together to Mt. Mandara and they started to plough all the earth around and beneath it. The design of instruments used in lifting the big mountain was done by the one of Architects in the Gods named Thwasta. They had put big rods under the mountain, tied long ropes around it and finally were able to move it. Few of them were shouting their names, few of them were shouting about their greatness and few of them were just make huge sounds. When we lift heavy objects, this is so common and we should understand the weight of the mountain keeping in mind the super powered demons and Gods were trying to lift it. Moving it few units towards the ocean, they lost all their energy and dropped it. With this, few of them died underneath the mountain and few of them were injured. Some wanted to drop off this idea.
Moving on to the next episode, the demons and the Gods had come together to Mt. Mandara and they started to plough all the earth around and beneath it. The design of instruments used in lifting the big mountain was done by the one of Architects in the Gods named Thwasta. They had put big rods under the mountain, tied long ropes around it and finally were able to move it. Few of them were shouting their names, few of them were shouting about their greatness and few of them were just make huge sounds. When we lift heavy objects, this is so common and we should understand the weight of the mountain keeping in mind the super powered demons and Gods were trying to lift it. Moving it few units towards the ocean, they lost all their energy and dropped it. With this, few of them died underneath the mountain and few of them were injured. Some wanted to drop off this idea.
Gods went into depression and said
ఏలా హరికాడకేగితి | Why we went to the God?
మేలా దొరకంటి మధిక హేళనశైలిలో
| Why we started this work with illusion?
న్మూలనము వేసి తెచ్చితి | Why
we plucked this mountain and brought it?
మేలా పెక్కండ్రు మడిసిరేలా నడుమన్
| Why so many died?
ఏటికి మము బని బంచెను | Why
He appointed us for this work?
నేటికి మనబోటి వారికికింతలు పను
లిం | Is this possible for people like us?
కేటికి రాడు రామేశ్వరు | Why He
didn’t come and neglected us?
డేటికి ఉపేక్షించే మఱవనేటికి మనలన్
| Why He forgot us?
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Just read the poems
and correlate with our daily life. Didn’t you ever asked this question to
yourself at least once in your life? This is true with almost every one of us
to go to depressed state when we start something and it starts back firing.
In such scenario, they thought of Lord Vishnu and immediately he came to the
rescue on his Garuda, the eagle. He didn’t ask anything to anyone, lifted the
mountain off the ground with so much ease (remember Govardhanodharana?), placed
it on Garuda and ordered Garuda to drop it on the shores of the Ocean. Adding
to this, those who died came alive, those who got injured got healed and those
who ran away, came back. This is all the empathy of Him. This is why, when we
start try doing something and face difficulty in doing it and get depressed, we
should practice to say “Narayana”.
Now, the Gods and
demons were happy, called up on Vasuki, the serpent king and talked to him so
that he turned pleasant and agree to get tied around the mountain. They gently
soothed the skin of the serpant, praised him saying there was no one capable to
do it and finally tied him around the mountain. Looks like, the concept of
appeasing others to get the work done is there from long time J. Now the Milky Ocean
was made like a pot with milk in to which the Mt. Mandara was put as a churning stick
with Vasuki as the thread. See the images to get the idea.
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| Source : krishna.com |
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| Source : krishna.com |
Let’s move on to next episode. As soon as the churning
started, since there was no base, Vasuki couldn’t hold the mountain and it slipped
off into the ocean. Everyone were disappointed again and they felt ashamed. Its
impossible to go against fate. Immediately, on the other side, Lord Vishnu
dived into the ocean, incarnate into a Tortoise which is called Kurma Avatar.
It was a gigantic tortoise with area of its back about few hundred acres, a big
mouth enough to drink an ocean’s water and stomach enough to keep all the life,
a mouth which moved inside and outside and eyes as good as lotus. On seeing
this, everyone praised Lord Vishnu, “Hail Srihari, Hail Srihari”, just like how
people praise their favorite leader. He put his back under the drowning
mountain and brought it back to top of ocean. It formed as a base to the
mountain.
తరిగాండ్ర లోన ఒకడట | He is
one among the people standing on the shores
తరికడవకు కుదురు నాక త్రాడట చేరుల్
| He is the One forming the base of mountain and as rope
తరి గవ్వంబును తానట | He is
acting as the churning stick and the pot (Vasuki, the mountain and Ocean)
హరి హరి ! హరి చిత్ర లీల హరియే
ఎరుగన్ | Oh Hari, only you can know your magic. (Remember this line, it comes useful later)
There are lot of
padyams (poems) like this which determine the quality of the Brahman, who/which
primarily got divided into the Creator, the Maintainer, the Destroyer and the
Energy behind all these.
So the Gods and demons took the sides of Vasuki again and
started churning it. They were churning it with their full power that the
sounds of churning reached the higher worlds where Lord Brahma stayed. Everyone
showed their power as the mountain was quickly rotating clockwise and
anticlockwise while churning. All the ocean life was scared and got scattered
as they reached the shore for safety. It had been written that the itching of
the tortoise’s back has not been soothed because of the churning.
Because of this heavy churning, a dangerous venom got
generated from the ocean. It was so mighty than the fire that gets generated
after the end of a Kalpa (a Hindu
chronology time unit) when all life comes to an end. It set fire everywhere
from all high worlds to lower worlds in the universe. This was the HalaHal.
Some were burnt to ash, some were poisoned, some got disappeared, and some fell
on the ground. It looked like the mistimed apocalypse.
This time, they went to Lord Siva for rescuing them.If something goes out
of hands, who can give the direction and help us out? The Brahman himself. Till now, if they got a problem, every time, they went to Lord Vishnu.
This time everyone including Lord Vishnu, went to Lord Siva. Initially in the story,
everyone including Lord Brahma and Lord Siva, went and prayed Lord Vishnu as
the rescuer. Why? What made them choose? Things to note here are that, whether
they go to Lord Brahma or Vishnu or Siva (Creator, Maintainer and Destroyer),
it is equivalent to going to the Brahman. By the virtue of responsibility, they
might be different but by the virtue of mind they are all same. They chose Lord
Siva here because they might have thought that the Destroyer had some plans of
partial Apocalypse with the venom that got generated, although Lord Siva had no
plans about it. Also they might have thought that, he is the One who wore
snakes and should have ideas to deal with poison.
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