Monday, July 27, 2015

Tirunavayyur ( plz check name it might be wrong)

After that we went to another temple which also comes under shri sampradaya (line of worship started from goddess lakshmi).
Pastimes related to this place-
1. Similar to markendya rishi one sage named Medhavi also a great devotee of lrd performed austerity to have lakshmi devi as daughter.
He then found Under a tree, very beautiful daughter, named her mannjunavalli, then once she came to marriageable age, lord mahavishnu split himself into 5 forms and came as guests to rishi.
The 5 forms (expansions of mahavishnu):
Sankarsna, pradyumana, sankarsana, vasudeva, purushottama (vishnu).
They all were served feast then as per some tradition they have to go for hand wash which must be done by a lady, since manjanavalli was the only lady there so she was waiting for washing their hands. One among the 5 guests Vasudeva caught her hand, manjunavalli acting as innocent girl, started shouting "leave me".
Brahmana rishi became angry went for cursing but then he saw 5 guests merge into 1 form as vishnu so knowing that he is none other than mavishnu he stopped his curse to happen, then mahavisnu begged for kanyadan to medhavi rishi.
Best opportunity for medhavi to ask for anything before offering his daughter ti lord, so he put 3 conditions-
1. Eternal life for me to glorify you always, free from 4 problems-birth, death,old age,disease.
2. Nature of vaishnava-para dukkha dukkhi..never satisfied for their liberation, so he asked that not only me whoever residing this place also get eternal liberation. People living-were actually disciple of his, they also offered food to lord and rishi's  daughter was like their daughter whom they offered as wife, so they also should recieve this benediction
3. My daughter should be given first priority, you never neglect her after marrying.
Then the lord agreed and fulfilled all the 3 demands.
2. So This temple is known as mahavishnu wife temple, like Madurai temple known as lord shiva's wife , minakshi temple.
In the main temple room where 5 guests are present  with lakshmi and medhavi rishi , Lakshmi is standing  1 step ahead, bcoz 1st priority, mahavisnu 1 step behind-bcoz begging for kanyadan.
3. Also garunadeva (vehicle of vishnu ji) special stone shaped diety -worshipped, it has wings n hairs -so circumblated each month around the temple.special pastime happens that us
Stone deity is carried out along with the lord while leaving rishi ashram after marrying her daughter lakshmi ji (form) then when garuna is carried by devotee on their shoulders
1 step when he comes outside-4 people needed to carry then as he goes more outer suddenly weight is increased and 8 ppl now required to lift, likewise weight goes on increasing and then 16, then 32, then 64 people are required same stone shaped deity of garudadeva.
On the reverse journey, opposite thing happens meana as he enters more inside the temple, the weight keep on decreasing and more closer he comes inside lesser ppl required so reverse order 64-32-16-8-4.
This is personally felt by the devotees who carry garudadeva.
Weight inc. n dec. Happens every-time here..no scientific explanation all lord's pastime.
4. Reason for weight shifts-
Lord sits on garunadeva-who is swift n fast moving.
But Lakshmidevi savari-hansa => who is graceful, beautiful,but slow.
Since lord promised to give lakshmi as first priority So, in order to give lakshmi devi 1st preference, he ordered garunadeva to become heavier n heavier as they proceed so that they can go slow and thus Lakshmi can go ahead on swan.
So, this pastime which happen even today (not any hypothetical story) proves that supreme lord is a person like us, we can have a direct relationship with him if we so desire like both the rishis had (markandeya n medhavi became lord's father-in-law), everything here true story which happened in history.
Ramanujacrya , great acharya of shri sampradaya established personal form of god and dismissed shankrachrya impersonal form.

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