First of all, I would like to thank you for reading all the
posts in the series since you reached here. Maharshi Suka in the story says,
one who reads the Haalahal episode of the story will not face threats from
snakes and scorpions. One who reads the Mohini episode of the story will be out
of the worldly desires and Vishnu blessed him/her with the lights of wisdom.
One who reads the Kurmavatar, the tortoise episode, those people in the ocean
of “family world”, will get “punyam”, sanctitiy and indefinite happiness. No
doubt in it.
The story can be seen in Yogic perspective. Remember the
logos of American Medical Institution or All Indian Institute of Medical
Sciences. See the images below.
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| Source: mentalfloss.com |
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| Source: pmtgurumantra.wordpress.com |
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| source: crystallinks.com |
Correlating further deep, do you remember the Kundalini
chakra of yoga theory, which is where the above logos are derived from? The
churning of ocean represents the same concept with the snake around the mountain
resulting in difficulties like Haalahal first and Amrit in the last which is
equivalent to attaining salvation. The tortoise is the base correlated the
yogic posture, Mt. Mandara is the spine, Vasuki is the kundalini around the
spine, and inhalation and exhalation are the gods and demons. Churning the
yogic ocean first gives difficulties in sitting the posture to start with and
others like not able to concentrate on that similar to Haalahal.
To overcome
the difficulties, we need a teacher. Similar to Lord Siva. That is why the
saying goes as “Sivaya Gurave Namaha”. So when
the yogi (who does yoga) start to cross those chakras in kundalini, he starts
attaining powers like the holy cow, horse, tree etc that came after Haalahal.
The yogi has to leave them and go to next higher chakra like how they continued
to churn till they attain Amrit. The churning results in deeds that satisfies
the soft, reactive and ravaging qualities of the yogi. He should leave them but
not consume them. This is when he reaches the top most chakra and finally
salvation which is Amrit.
In another explanation in spiritual perspective, our mind is a pot of milk. We leave it and always go around the worldly things in search of him. You get peace only when you start going into your own pot of milk. In that trial, we meditate first and pray the goddess with mantra. Start seeing the goddess with the eye of mind from top to bottom with full concentration which is not easy. This is setting up Mt Mandara in the ocean of milk. But the mind doesn’t stay still it goes somewhere like how Mt. Mandara falls in to the ocean. The difficulties in coming to an agreement with the mind and do daily practice to bring the mind and heart to concentrate in the “japa” is haalahal. In this process, we should pray Lord Siva and take his help to overcome such difficulties. By practice, we start getting peace and then powers. But we should be in a position to leave those saying we don’t need them but use them only for the good of worlds. This is similar to getting and distributing the holy things that resulted in churning. Finally, wisdom to see the One in everything will be attained, which is Amrit.
Scientifically, Ok, I will redirect you to these blogs.
People see it differently.
Oh yes, I almost forgot, I had some questions in the previous parts that were unanswered. Why goods like the precious jewel Kousthubh or the moon or the Airavat or Goddess Lakshmi came from the ocean and went to their original positions when they were already there outside the ocean? Were they thrown in to the ocean for some reason as part of another story? Or was there any other reason? To be frank, I could not find the missing links yet. I do not know the answer for this question. I will update this post as soon as I know.
Thanks for being a patient reader and please share your
feedback.
Sarvam
sree parabhramanarpanamasthu
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