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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Vishvaksena

There was a very dear, parama bhagavata devotee of Vishnu names Viswaksena. He was traveling throughout the world. Once, feeling tired, he sat down in a forest. There was a village close by. The son of the village chief happened to come by. Seeing the brahmana Viswaksena, he said, “I am the son of the village chief. I have a very bad headache today so I cannot offer worship to my ista, Shivaji. So I request you, please offer worship to Shivaji today on my behalf.”

Viswaksena said, “I am a Vishnu-bhakta, I am a dear devotee of Vishnu. I offer worship to Krishna and His forms such as Vishnu, Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. I never offer worship to demigods. I never offer worship to anyone else. You may go elsewhere.”

The son of the village chief became angry and drew his sword, “if you do not obey me, if you do not worship my ista, Shiva, on my behalf, then I will cut off your head.”

In order to save himself from death, Viswaksena said, “Yes, yes. I will worship. I will worship.” He thought to himself that Shiva is Rudradev, the incarnation of ignorance, tamo-guna.

Rudra is the incarnation of tamo-guna and Nrisinghadev is the killer of the demons, in whom tamo-guna is predominating. So Viswaksena thought, “I must worship Nrisinghadev in the Shiva murti to kill this person’s tamo-guna.” So uttering the mantra “sri nrsimhaya namah” – “I offer my obeisances to Lord Nrsimhadeva” – he offered flower to the Shiva deity. When the son of the village chief heard him chant the mantra he got angry and drew out his sword to cut off his head, “What are you doing? You are uttering Nrisingha mantra? You are not worshiping my ista, Shiva!” When that person drew his sword to cut off Viswaksena’s head, immediately Nrisinghadev appeared from the Shiva murti and cut off the sword of that person and all of his family members.

So where is the difference between Shiva and Vishnu? This shiva-linga that Nrisingha came out of is still there in South India. It is known as linga-sphota. You may go and see it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishvaksena#Worship
https://www.google.com/search?q=linga+sphota 

Sunday, December 2, 2018

kalas

Sandipani Muni imparted this knowledge to Sri Krishna.

In the scriptures, Chaitanya-Shakti is measured by means of kalas.

According to this:
  1. Rocks, minerals and other inert matter have the lowest Chaitanya-Shakti of 1 kala.
  2. Plants are the next evolution of Chaitanya-Shakti with 2 kalas.
  3. Animals have 3,4 kalas.
  4. Average human beings have 5 kalas.
  5. Human beings with higher spiritual capacities have 6 kalas.
  6. Saints have 7 kalas. 
  7. The most advanced saints and sages have 8 kalas. It is not possible for saints to go beyond 8 kalas. A normal human body cannot sustain greater than 8 kalas. 
Beyond that starts the incarnations (avataras) with special sattva bodies.
  1. Varaha Avatara of Vishnu had special sattva body with 11 kalas.
  2. Sri Ramachandra incarnated with 12 kalas.
  3. When Sandipani Muni was imparting this knowledge to Sri Krishna and Balarama, he did not know that Sri Krishna was an Avatara. He mentioned upto Sri Ramachandra and said that in future other Avataras of Vishnu will incarnate. Sri Krisha incarnated with 16 kalas (Purna-Avatara), the highest possible Chaitanya Shakti. Amsa-Avataras incarnate with lesser kalas
Goddess Uma is also said to have 16 kalas. This is said in Sri Lalita 483:

Om amrtaadi maha sakti samvrtaayai namah: Salutations to Her who is surrounded by sixteen Saktis beginning with Amrta.

As Siva, he is concorporate with Uma.So he is also said to have 16 kalas.

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