Showing posts with label The legend of Parashurama. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020




||Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya ||

Chapter – 139 – The legend of Parashurama-3

Bhargava Rama/Parashurama was born as the fourth son of Sage Jamadagni and Devi Renuka.  King Karthyaveerarjuna of Kingdom of Hyheya was a disciple Maharishi Dhaththathreya had attained several boons pleasing his preceptor.  Once, he undertook hunting expedition through the dense wood followed by his men, after long hours of amusements in the woods, the King and his men were tired of hunger.  They went to the hermitage of Sage Jamadhagni and requested for the meal.  The king and his men were reverentially greeted by the Sage and revealed his pleasure to serve them with a sumptuous meal.  Soon after, a lavish meal was offered to the King and his men; they were served in various sweets and savories, Karththaveeryarjuna was awestruck at the hospitality of the Sage, came to know about the divine cow Kamadhenu who is the source of it.  Karththveeryarjuna had a desire to get hold of the cow under his custodian so that it will be helpful to serve the people in his assembly was flatly refused by the Sage.  But Karththaveeryarjuna forcibly took hold of the divine cow, was intervened by Sage Jamadagni and explained the reason for the possession of the cow for performing various Yagna and Yaga, serving the saintly men, ascetic, family and performing his daily rites.  But Karththaveeryarjuna was not willing to listen to any of the pleas of Sage Jamadagni, finally, he seized the cow from Sage and left the place.  Soon after, Bhargava Rama entered the hermitage and saw his father in extreme agony, informed his son about the visit of King Karththaveeryarjuna and his men who snatched away the divine cow Kamadhenu.  Bhargava Rama was enraged, took his powerful bow and arrived at the assembly of King Karththaverryarjuna, a fierce battle took place, Bhargava Rama sieved the head of Karththaveeryarjuna and brought back the cow.  It was the beginning of the repeated enmity of Kshatriyas and Bhargava Rama.



Once, Devi Renuka was gone to fetch water in Ganga.  There arrived the King of Gandharva Chinthrangadha with several Apsaras, they were having pleasing times in water sport.  Devi Renuka watched at them in surprise and did not notice the time.  When she came back, she found it was already too late to bring water for ablution for Sage Jamadagni who was extremely angered by her behavior, shrieked at her “Oh! Children, kill your mother, she has lost her chastity.”  None of the children were dared to kill Devi Renuka, but Bhargava Rama who was extremely fearless approached his mother and sieved her head off from the shoulder.  Sage Jamadagni was highly pleased with Rama who sincerely followed father’s command, revealed his willingness to give boon, Rama said “Oh! Sathyavathisutha/Father, I would like to have two boons from you.  Kindly restore the life of my mother, and she should not aware of the fact that I have severed her head.”  Thus, Bhargava Rama got rid of the sin of killing his own mother.



Years passed, once Sage Jamadagni was in deep meditation, there arrived the sons of King Heyheya with his men.  They severed the head of Sage Jamadagni and left the hermitage.  When Rama returned to the hermitage saw his mother and utterly shocked, she was sitting near the headless corpse of his father, beating her chest for twenty-one times and lamenting over the death of his father.  At that moment he took a vow to reduce the burden of Earth by killing the wicked Kshatriyas and performed final rites of his father in the pool of blood.  Bhargava Rama surrendered all his brilliance to Sri Rama during Lord Vishnu’s incarnation as the son of King Dasaratha and returned to Mount Mahendragiri for penance.  Thus,  Lord Parashurama put an end to those wicked Kshatriyas who were completely drenched in the material world and committed various crimes, and reinstated the twice-borns who were proficient in Vedic knowledge and knowledge of Bhramam  to elevate the souls to supreme Lord.





||Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya ||

Chapter – 138 – The legend of Parashurama-2


The state of renunciation 'Kaivalya' can be achieved with the supreme wisdom and knowledge, development in any field is possible through performing duties and responsibilities /Karma, and with the supreme wisdom and knowledge as well.  Any  development of duty-bound would face the constant threat of destruction.    Kaivalya can be attained only with supreme wisdom,  association with the saintly men,   meditation, reading scriptures, recitation of sacred names of Lord, and the constant remembrance of Lord with the knowledge about the mind and intellect that are originated from the supreme soul, and therefore it should merge with the supreme Lord who has all-pervading blissful nature, it is changeless, and has neither beginning nor end.  The lack of knowledge of the Supreme Lord who resides as a soul would cause  the soul to hold on to the worldly matters, eventually transform the souls as selfish, finds immense pleasure in conflicts, wickedness, cruelty, mercilessness, jealousy, pride, etc…  The ultimate object of  the incarnation of Lord Vishnu as Parashurama was put an end to the wicked Kshatriyas who were immersed in the material world.   Further, Bhargavarama reinstated the glories of twice-born who are well versed in Vedic culture and the knowledge of supreme Bhramam.  Hence, Karma/duties and responsibilities followed with the wisdom are considered as supreme, any Karma without the knowledge of the nature of the Supreme Lord is worthless.  The human intellect and mind is too complex,  it is completely under the influence of Maya/ illusion,  it gets easily attracted to the pleasure in the material world, outward appearances, senses, and objects, without the knowledge that all those material pleasures are short living nature, therefore it keeps searching for numerous ways to please the senses and its journey goes on and on by taking several births.  Therefore a multifaceted mind and intellect can be put into practice of the permanent nature of the supreme Lord who is bliss; this is possible only through wisdom/Vedanta Vignana, association with the ascetics and saintly people.






||Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya ||

Chapter – 137 – The legend of Parashurama


King Gathi’s daughter Sathyavathi was born in the clan of the Ikshuvaku dynasty.   Once a Bhramin Rijika expressed his desire to the King Gathi to marry his daughter Sathyavathi.  The King could not accept the proposal of the Bhramin, he put forward a condition that the Bhramin should produce thousands of horses before the assembly,  moreover the horses should have ears white and black respectively.  The intelligent Bhramin received thousands of horses as a charity and produced before the King.  Thus the Bhramin married Sathyavathi, unfortunately, this couple had no offspring.  Once, Sathyavathi made a visit to the Palace and passed on a message to her mother about her husband’s desire to perform a Yajja for the offspring.  The mother of Sathyavathi expressed her desire to have a child of her own.  Thus, the proceedings of the Yajja has begun, two vessels were prepared with ingredients/Manthra Pinda/ after invoking deities to get offspring, Bhramin left the place to make arrangements for the remaining proceedings of the Yajja.  The mother of Sathyavathi insisted her daughter to swap the vessels to get a superior child for her, eventually, the mother and daughter consumed the Manthra Pinda form the vessel.    Later, Satyavati told the truth to her husband Rijika about the swop of vessels with her mother.  The Brahmin felt infuriated and revealed the truth that her wife would give birth to a valorous and cruel Kshatriya, different from his desire to have a virtuous child who is proficient in Veda and Shastra. Thus Sathyavathi gave birth to Jamadhagni and her mother gave birth to Vishwamithra.  Sathyavathi, who did not follow the command of her husband, became the river Kaushiki.


Sage Jamadhagni was married to Devi Renuka, this couple had Vasus and Rama who has charming appearance considered as the incarnation of Lord Vasudeva.  Rama destroyed the wicked Kshatriyas of Heheya clan and numerous unruly Kings, in this way he reduced the burden of Mother Earth.


Maharaja Pareekshith spoke “ Oh! Bhraman, Munishreshta, why did Parashurama kill the Kshatriyas?”  Kindly narrate to me in detail.”