Part 6 – Understanding the story of Churning the Milk(y) Ocean (క్షీరసాగర మధనం, क्षीरसागर मधन)

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While the demons are running away with the vessel of Amrit, fighting with each other, they saw Mohini who was creating a magic with her beauty. She used to slowly drop her transparent white saree from her chest and made it right again. She used to put her hands near her cheeks and remove again. She used to twist her red lip with a smile. With illusions/maya like this, she used to move here and there in the bushes while the demons forgot about fighting and started starting at her. Lord Vishnu, in her, created a “maaya” called desire in them. They started asking her “Oh beauty! Who are you? What do you need? What is your name? Your beauty is no match to the most beautiful gods, Gandharvas and Siddahs. Probably, Lord Brahma created you with all fullness when he was most happy.”

Notice the flirting done by the demons. Throughout the story, notice the various characteristics and acts of demons and check if any of them are with you. Lesson learnt, it’s up to you if you want to be a demon or a god. Read further to understand how Gods behaved.

Demons further said “We are children of Kashyapa Prajapati and siblings of the gods. We came here on purpose and could you please help us distributing this item among us? We both parties (demons and gods) sit in lines. Can you please distribute Amrit to us?”

Those people who never wanted to tell their family names and those who always fight with their siblings for power, are now using their credentials for flirting her and create a good impression about them. They actually went to the stage that they wanted to take her help for the Amrit distribution. Why didn’t they have this discipline before? One of them could voluntarily distribute it but they didn’t do it. This is the illusion or maaya.

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Now Mohini said “Oh demons! I am a lady who falls for handsome men. Do you believe in me? Great people do not believe in enchantresses. The words of enchantresses are made of honey but their thoughts are forest fires. Their friendship is doing friendship with wolves and Vedas do no suggest in believing them. Ok, I will distribute it, leave the doubts in your mind.”

Clearly, she told them not to believe in her.  No mistake from her frontJ. It’s the demons who did not listen to her but gave that vessel to her. This story explains the irreparable loss that happens when there is loss of control over mind. All the Indian ancient texts ascertain the damage that happens when people crave behind a woman, be it Ramayana or Mahabharata or Bhagavata. There were gods sitting on the other side, they did not see her in the same way as the demons. The secret that was explained here – she appeared as mother of worlds to Gods and they had parental feeling about her while the demons had completely opposite opinion. Lesson to be learnt here is obvious. In one line, one who craves for a woman on seeing her is a demon and will suffer.

She requested Gods to sit in one row and demons in another row. She started distributing Amrit with gods. She would pour it in god’s hands and turned back to show her assets to demons, slipped her saree, smiled at them and served the Amrit to the next god. No demon talked. Many thoughts were running in their mind. They thought she came here for distributing Amrit and she would not leave without doing it. So let us not call her to server here or else she would go away disappointing us. She might ignore us. She might get angry on us or do not believe us. She should be pleased with us to take the relationship to next level. In these ways, they were thinking and were just staring at her.

This shows the psychological situation they were in to win her.

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One demon named Rahu, came and sat in the row of gods in their disguise. He sat in between the sun god and moon god. Mohini served Amrit to him as well but did not ask him to stand up from the line and sit in another row. Moon and Sun gods also sighed Mohini that he was a demon in the disguise of gods. She still served him Amrit. However, Lord Vishnu in her, cut Rahu’s throat with his weapon, the Sudarsan chakra. His head remained alive because he already took the Amrit but his body was dead.  Lord Brahma ordered him to be a planet in the solar system. Rahu still takes revenge on the sun and moon in the form of full and no moon days and eclipses.

Lesson learnt - Never ever, I repeat, Never ever, request someone who already sat in a meal row to change his place or wake him up to sit in next round. If a person sits in a meal row for a meal, he should be served. Lord Vishnu didn’t do it to a demon, we should not.

Amrit got over after serving the gods and nothing was left for demons. Mohini disappeared. Frustrated, there was a war lasting days between the gods and demons. Goddess Lakshmi’s blessing were there with the gods all the way from her marriage, they got Amrit and they won the war too.

In the next episode, Lord Siva who went to Mt Kailash after taking the Haalahal, listened to the story that Lord Vishnu took the incarnation of Mohini and distributed Amrit to gods. He immediately went to Vaikunta, the home of Lord Vishnu, along with his wife Parvati and the ganas, His servants. Both Lord Vishnu and Lord Siva wished each other. Siva praised Vishnu that you are the Brahman and you are there everywhere. You are ever there with no changes and reason behind all creation, life and destruction of beings.  In their talks, Siva told Vishnu that he was surprised on listening to the story of Mohini and he expressed his wish to see Mohini incarnation of Vishnu again. You did lot of things as a male but wanted to see how you achieved it as a female.

Lord Vishnu said “Oh brother-in-law. Don’t hurry. I will show you and make you happy” and disappeared. While Parvati and Siva were thinking about his disappearance and were looking in all directions. Siva saw a lady in the nearby garden sitting under the shade of a tree with slipped transparent saree on her body. He was instantly attracted by her.

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One who gave half of his body already to her wife, now started walking towards that lady thinking who she was and never seen a beautiful lady like her in past? Parvati and the Ganas, were watching all this and Siva ran behind her. She was going away and Siva was following her losing his control. She threw a ball in the air and it slipped through her hand as she couldn’t catch it. She bent down to take it and because of the wind, her saree knot loosened completely. She covered her assets with her hands and started running with shy. Lord Siva ran behind her. The crossed forests and lakes and Siva’s sperm fell on the ground. Wherever it fell, that place turned into silver and gold. He observed the magic and controlled himself. Lord Vishnu appeared back converting himself to male form. He respected Siva and said “Oh brother in law, you are the only person who observed and won my illusion/maaya. No one can ever do that”. Siva came back home with his wife Parvati and the Ganas.

Listening to these paragraphs, lot of question come up. What? Lord Siva, who killed the god of romance, Manmadha and who is above all the qualities has fallen behind a lady? That too in front of her wife? He left his sperm and came back without any further actions? Parvati accepted him? No one lost respect over Siva? The answer is interesting. Like I mentioned before, there is no difference between Siva and Vishnu at heart although their appearance is different. All this story happened for a cause – to kill Mahishi, the lady demon and sister of Mahishasura, who got boon from Lord Brahma that only the son born to Lord Siva and Lord Vishnu could kill her, which she thought was impossible as two males cannot give birth. However it’s now the right time and the both Siva, Vishnu know their responsibilities to give birth to Ayyappa who killed Mahishi later. Still one would ask, how Siva, another form of the Brahman, could leave his sperm to a lady other than his wife. The secret lies in the fact that Parvati is sister to Vishnu and Siva saw her in Mohini before he left his sperm. The fact that only Parvati can excite Lord Siva is always true and no doubts in it.

This concludes the story. However there are few other observations/learnings when we see the story as a whole which is the content in the next and last part of this series.

……….. [Watch out for Part 7 for interesting correlationsand observations from the whole story]