Savitri Devi is a manifestation of Goddess
Saraswati the goddess of learning and arts. Savitri Devi is the
consort of Lord Brahma. She herself is
wisdom, intellectual knowledge, fine arts and creativity, She is
believed to inspire speech and the written word. She is the Sakti of
Creation. She is an ocean of mercy. (“Karuna rasa sagara'
reference from Sri Lalitha sahasranamam). She is also the goddess of
the first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise; who drive
away the darkness of ignorance and lights on the Eternal Knowledge.
Goddesses Gayatri, Savitri and Saraswati are three goddesses the
presiding deities of the famous Gayatri mantra. To realize her;
recite the unchanging eternal serenity of the vital Gayatri japam.
Matsya
Purana authentically
proved that only Goddess Saraswathi is authentic
deity, and she has one thousand various names, among them the five
names are powerful; they are Satarupa, Savitri, Sarasvati, Gayatri
and Brahmani are benevolent of her five faces.
The story occurs in Mahabharatha Vanaparvam when
Markandaeya met Ythirstra and he asks Markandeya whether there has
ever been a woman whose devotion matched Draupadi’s, Markandeya
narrates the story of Savitri and
Satyavan. Yet
Sri Davi Bhagavatha
Mahapuranam 9th
skantham 26th
chapter is
elaborately
describing
this story.
There was a king ruled the Badra kingdom his name
is Asvapathy and the queen's name is Malathi. One day the sage
Vasister visited to the kingdom and met the king and queen. The king
greeted the sage and they told their grievances to the sage. the sage
Vasister initiated of Savitri Devi hymn and asked her to perform the
puja regularly. According to sage's advice she performed that puja
for many years but Devi did not appear; so she became so sad and
told this to the king then the king learned the principles of worship
of Devi and he did the puja in 'Pushkara kshetram' for one hundred
years still davi did not appear yet he had hear a voice asked him to
do recitation of the Gayatri hymn for one lakh times. he was
worried and sad At that time sage Parachara came and saw the king
and asked the reason of his sadness and the king told about the
voice that he heard and the detail of his grievances. The sage was
being serene for some time, then he said “O King the voice message
is right; the Gyatri mantra is very powerful if one do Gayatri once
his day and night sin will be vanished, one hundred times if one do
gayatri one month sin will be vanished, in the same way if one do one
lakh times the current birth sins will be vanished but ten lakh times
Japa ones all previous sins will be vanished, therefore
a Man
if he does as it-is
he will get realization also his previous 3 births sins will be
vanished ” O
king this Gayatri
japa if possible should do in the river,or in the temple the
result will be fast.”The sage continued and explained the
procedure “ O king listen I teach you the method of performance,
sit on face to eastern side in the morning and western side in the
evening The reason is always face towards
sun. White
lotus bead or
pure crystal(spatikam)
make as a garland
of beads (108, 54, or 1008 numbers) and
apply with fragrant sandal paste or gorojanai keep it on a lotus
leaf reciting Gayatri Japam anoint with ganga water then take that
malai and do 10 lakh
japam with it, Savitri
Devi will appear. Then the sage initiated
Savitri Devi hymn and
puga rules and regulations blessed
the king and
he took leave.
The king performed the Gayatri hymn as the
voice message
and he performed Sri Savotri devi puja for 14 years as the sage's
advice Devi appeared and said O king during
your puja your wish was a female child but your wife's wish was a
male child however now I grant you
a female child in due-course your wife's wish also fulfilled; soon
the queen conceived and gave birth a
female child and named her Savitri.
Savitri is so beautiful and
piously great devotee of Savitri Devi.
Once she reaches
the age of marriage,her father tells her to find a husband on her
own. She sets out on a pilgrimage for this purpose and finds
Satyavan, the son of a blind king named Dyumatsena, who, has
lost everything including his eye-sight,
lives in exile as a forest-dweller.
Savitri returns home and
told her father that she found a groom; at that time sage Naradha
arrived to the kingdom the king greeted and offered him a seat and
he told about his daughter Savitri's wishful match named Satyavan.
Sage Narada told that Savitri has chosen a bad choice although
perfect in every way, Satyavan's fate he will die in a year, so the
sage Naradha told her to choose another match. The king also insisted
her but Savitri disagreed that she said “I will choose my
husband only once”. Ashwapati also Agreed.
Savitri and Satyavan are married, and she goes to
live in the forest. Immediately after the marriage, Savitri wears the
clothing of a hermit and lives in perfect obedience and respect to
her new parents-in-law and husband. Savitri observe fasting and she
was performing Savitri Devi puja since before the marriage. Her
father-in-law tells her she has taken on too harsh a puja, but
Savitri replies that she has taken an oath to perform these
austerities, yet Dyumatsena offers his support.
One day early in the morning
Savitri felt an
intuition of
Satyavan’s death, she
asks for her father-in-law’s permission to accompany her husband
into the forest. Since she has never asked for anything during the
entire year she has spent at the hermitage, so
Dyumatsena granted
her wish. They went
and while Satyavan is splitting wood, he suddenly becomes weak and
lays his head on
Savitri’s lap. Yama himself, comes to claim the soul of Satyavan.
Savitri follows Yama as he carries the soul away. When he tries to
convince her to turn back, she did pranams
to the Lord and he blessed her then she asks successive
formulas of wisdom.1.
What is 'Karma' 2. Why it occurs; 3. What
is the reason for Karma, 4. who has given 5. what is the body 6.
who makes to do Karma, 7. What is
meditation, 8. What is the talent, 9. What is the soul, 10. What are
the organ of sense, 11. What is their nature, 12. Who is the god and
whom to make feed food to him, 13. What is
senses, 14. What is the pleasure, 15. what
is prachita, 16. What is Jeeva and who is Paramatma. I wish to know
all things in detail, you are dharmaraja
you can only
to make aware
of these things to me.
Yama smiled at her and begin to reply for
her all remarkable questions,”O
Savitri listen whatever the instructions
accepted by Veda, and following
those instructions
are the auspicious
deeds. Otherwise non acceptances by Veda are ungodly deeds. Non
desire worship will lead to be an ardent
devotee
of devotion. The
practitioner will not experience any of deeds and any pleasure or
pain. Furthermore
Veda says
whoever have devotion on brhaman (not creator Brhama)
who has relieved
from Birth,
Death, Oldness,
Disease,Sorrow,
and Fear who is
called Self realized man (Jeevan-mukthar).
Bhakthi
(devotion) is two kinds;
those are called Nirvana
Bhakthi and another is Vishnu roopa bhakthi. The Vishnu roopa bhakthi
is in general for all but Nirvana Bhakthi followers
are Sages,
and Seers. Sri
Parabrahma
Sakthi is the
giver of all
deeds , and
She becomes character of karma holding
the formulate
string in her hand. Then
creates the
physical structure
of man or animal including the five elements (pancha bootham) to the
physical structure with
relevant soul and functioning according to their previous
good or bad knowledge of deeds. She gives
God's realization to
the pious souls without taking birth, otherwise stuck with the birth
death cycle until it become pure. Savitri
listened all care fully and further she asked more questions. “O
Dharma Raja you are superior and
you are only the god to clear my mind kindly answer my following
questions. 1.
Whoever the soul in which
differences of active
deeds giving
devotion on guru
and having stuck with hardship of cycle
2.whichever the deed is changing as devotee or Sick
or diseased 3. whichever deed giving longevity or
insufficient life, and occurring pleasure or pain , handicapped
,blind, deaf , brain disorders, greediness, and stealing. Whichever
the deed offers successive life, philosophy
of bramman , heaven (Salvation),
made like thy
4.There are how many hells and whatever the things are in
it , 5. who is suffering in the hell and
how many years he
should be there ? I wish to know all these
things from you kindly tell me” heard this Ymadharmaraja
astonished and laugh
loudly
and said “O Savitri you are Asvapathi's daughter born
by his austerity and the grace of Sri
Savithri Devi that is the reason why in this very young age asking
all wise questions in
knowledgeable manner. I explicate all your
questions in a short
manner listen.
There are two type of deeds, they are auspicious and inauspicious.
Get involved
people are Suras ,Daityas, Gandharvas,
Thanavars, Rakshasas, and Human-beings,
these peoples are
performing deeds and enjoying good or bad
according to their
deeds. Creating
the deeds in the places. make people
to carry on the
deeds and enjoying rewards or punishment according to the deeds they
made. This is how
Sarveswara is ruling
cosmos method of the world. If one avoid
the heaven or hell experience only the way that previously I
explicated the non desired Nirvana bhakthi otherwise doing all non-
pious deeds should lead to the cycle of birth/death and the hell/
heaven. Finally he explicated all about the
hell and heaven experiences , punishments, the duration of staying.
Then he said O Savitri
ask boons as your wish, she was whiting for
this moment and cheerfully asked that '
O dharmaraja' I need my husband and
he should have longevity of life Yama
replied that O Savitri you live as long
as living Sri Lakshmi devi the place of
Vishnu's heart (Sri
Vishnu's consort)
and in the same
way Devi Parvathi living in the half
physical structure of Lord Parameswara (Parameswara
's consort) and
as other devathi deva consorts likewise,
you will live long with your husband.
Ask some other boons as you wish Savitri
asked Yama “Prabu
one hundred children
to me and one hundred sons for
my parents, my parents in law should regain his eye-sight and his
lost kingdom and the final
boon is I live one lakh
year with my husband and children and at last I should have
realization along with my husband Yama said that O Savitri
I granted all you wished boons apart from these you will have all
other wishes too in your mind. Said this Yama disappeared.
Satyavan awakens as though he has been in a deep
sleep and returns to his parents along with his wife. Meanwhile at
their home, Dyumatsena regains his eyesight before Savitri and
Satyavan return. Since Satyavan still does not know what happened,
Savitri relays the story to her parents-in-law, husband, and the
gathered ascetics. All they praised her, Dyumatsena’s ministers
arrive with news of the death of his rivalry enemy Joyfully, the king
and his entourage return to his kingdom.
Message:-
This story is very good and important to the modern young girls, and
ladies. It has spoken in a specified way. Savitri is a princes
though the king did not do their normal practice to finding match as
Swayam Varam inviting only the kings to their status, but Savitri's
father has given full freedom to select the match according to her
own wish, it shows that his trust on her daughter. Savitri's
Obedience, love, affection, presence of mind, knowledge, devotion,and
Kindness these qualities are necessary to
achieve things and this is very vital lessons to the modern world.
Keeping Savitri as mediator spoken this message to the world. Even
the ancient days given freedom to girls, to act, speak, and think
and also they were leading the life without any hindrance. Feeling
amazed of Vyasa's long range view. No age limit to read Epics and
Myths and
they are very much
need to learn the path of righteous. They
are the great teachers
to a life.
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