Thursday, February 19, 2009

Adi Parvamu- SamudraMadanamu

All the Gods and Demons had a meeting on MeruParvatam to churn out Amrutham. Lord Indra was assigned as the chief for the operation. " How do we churn the ocean of milk? Where do we get the dasher(churning tool)? How can we make the dasher stand? what do we use as a rope for the dasher? what is that we do now?" All these were the question arising among the demons and gods. Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu took the responsibility of finding the appropriate apparatus for churning the Ocean of Milk.

They thought that an appropriate churning tool would be Mount Mandara. To fetch that Mount they sent AdiSesha. He being extremely strong could bring the Huge mountain which was eleven thousand Yojanas in height and eleven thousand Yojanas wide in no time. They made the Mount a dasher. AdiKurma was placed under the Mount for support so that it does not submerge. Serpent Vasuki was used as a rope for the dasher. The Demons and the Gods were extremely happy with the decisions of the apparatus. Gods held the tail of Vasuki and Demons held his head. Both of them started churning with great enthusiasm and energy. Lord Vishnu was cheering both the groups in to churning, they were all excited and started shouting happily and churned with energy. There was echoing in all directions. The earth was shook by this event. Vasuki started spitting out Poison. Clouds out of poisonous flames filled the sky. It was dark all over.

The first thing that came out was Halahala(poison). The flames coming out of it were so fierce, it would destroy all Worlds. Everyone was frightened. Lord Shiva immediately placed it in his neck instead of swallowing it. That is the reason he is called GaralaKantha (neck filled with poison). The next thing that came our was Amrutham. After that Goddess Lakshmi, Dhanvantari, Uchhaishravas, KaustubhaMani and many other valuable things emerged. Lord Vishnu acquired Lakshmi and KaustubhaMani and kept them against his chest. Lord Indra acquired Uchhaishravas. In all this commotion the Demons stole Amrutham. All their effort went in vain for Gods.

Lord Vishnu took the form of Mohini and tried to seduce the Demons. He took the Amrutham from them with deceit and gave it to the Gods. The Gods started to share it among themselves. In the meantime a Demon named Rahu came in the disguise of God and had his share of Amrutham, just before he was about to gulp it all up Lord Surya and Lord Chandra found out who he was and hinted Lord Vishnu. Just before Amrutham could go down his throat, Lord Vishnu beheaded Rahu . Since the Amrutham went past his mouth, his head became immortal. Since then he despises Lord Surya and Lord Chandra.

Since the Gods deceived them by taking away Amrutham, All the Demons went to King Mahabali. There was a very big conference and they decided that they will not have any relations with Gods anymore. They started a big war against Gods. The Gods were surrounded with the army of Demons. Lord Indra was shook by this incident. In the mean time the twins Nara-Narayana appeared. They defended the Gods and fought with Demons fiercely. Nara raised his Bow and arrow pointing towards the Demons and killed many. Narayana released his Chakra and beheaded many Demons. The land was filled with corpses of Demons. No one could stand the fight with Nara-Narayana. the rest of the Demons fell in to the Ocean to save themselves. Gods celebrated the Victory, Mount Mandara was restored to it initial location. Lord Indra was given the responsibility to safeguard Amrutham, he took it to Amaravati(the capital of Svarga).

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