Amrita Kalasha
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The vessel of divine nectar (Amrita) capable of reviving the dead — in the Sokha Baba legend, obtained by Virabhadra from Indra to restore his devotee Madhava to life, with a residual portion said to remain in Madhava's little finger.
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Amrita Kalasha from Indra: Madhava revived, a second son Sadhak Ji, the Brahmani made young in the Ganga
The speaker says Virabhadra, though all-capable, in the lila ran to Indra and begged the Amrita Kalasha. Meanwhile cowherds who had seen it told the old Brahmani that her son had burnt himself on the pyre, and she resolved to die too, saying she had feared from the start that so fierce a god could never be worshipped. Virabhadra appeared, promised to revive her son and give her two sons instead of one, and told her to enter the Ganga, where her old age would leave and her eyesight and youth return. She refused at first; after he pleaded repeatedly he made a Sankalpa over the ashes and rained amrita on them. Madhava came back to life, a second son named Sadhak Ji appeared as his brother, and when the Brahmani entered the Ganga she got back her youthful body.
Amrita left in Madhava Bhagat's little finger
The speaker says the story about the Amrita Kalasha is that Madhava took it and began bringing many other people back to life with it. Virabhadra then reasoned with him and took the pot back, but by his grace placed a small portion of the amrita in Madhava Bhagat's kanishthika, the little finger. From here, the speaker says, the first worship of Virabhadra begins.
What is done with kheer on Sharad Purnima?
Since amrit varsha takes place, he says, we make kheer, keep it in a clay vessel covered with a red cloth, and place it on the roof where the light of the moon falls — that certainly has to be kept, before the rays of the moon. In the morning, after performing pujan and the rest, it is also eaten; in some places it is to be eaten on an unwashed mouth. Do according to whatever the rule is in your own region.
What does the Mohini avatar episode show about Rahu?
When he took the Mohini form and was giving the devatas amrit to drink, could he not recognise him, the speaker asks — is that possible? To one who is trikalagya, who knows everything, it was not known that this one seated here is a danav? Yet he had him drink the amrit, until Surya dev and Chandra dev said, O Lord, this one is a rakshasa, a daitya. Only when the secret was out did he cut off the head.
Does Baglamukhi sadhana dry up the Tulsi plant?
He says that is not possible. Bhagavati Baglamukhi is Pran Toshani vidya, Amriteshwari vidya, whose Bhairav is Mahamrityunjay himself. For one who has gone into the mouth of death, we perform an anushthan of Amriteshwari and Mahamrityunjay, by whose mantra alone all these awaken; that Mahamrityunjay in whose hands is a kalash, and in that kalash Amriteshwari Devi abides in the form of amrit — from her, how would the Tulsi plants dry?
Shri Hari knowingly gave the amrit to the danava
Go to the root, he says: did Bhagavan Shri Hari Narayan not know that the one sitting there was a danava named Vyaprachitta, that he was not a devata but a rakshasa? Did that antaryami not know when he made him drink the amrit in the Mohini form? He must have known — you should all have at least this much common sense and intelligence, that he must have known.
What follows from the Vedas being present in the water of Kartik?
Because of this, the presence of all the Veda mantras in water has been accepted during Kartik; and the Veda is the Lord himself, the Veda is Narayan himself, so Narayan is present in the form of water. Hence bathing in water, and that before sunrise, is held most excellent and greatly meritorious in Kartik. It is also held that by the coolness of the night-time moon, amrit comes to be present in the water, so many kinds of doshas are pacified.
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