Dear sri vaishNava perunthagaiyeer,
We saw how gold came into existence or being. And we also saw its superiority as a gift. But 'how it got distributed in various parts of the world?' Just recollect that question in general knowledge, and associated question rose 'is there any reference in puraaNams'.
We also saw an interesting story of a lady dancer, which led to following questions –[those were raised in post 2]. The questions were --
Now we will see the answers for these questions.
That story we saw in post 1 is the famous "amrutha mathanam" in sreemadh bhaagavatham.
Ans: The dancing lady is sreeman naaraayaNan, in and as 'mohini'
Ans: The two warring groups were the favoured dhEvaas and deceived asuraas by that mohini, the dancer while distributing the amrutham.
Ans: they were fighting to get a share of the celestial nectar, which came out of the 'amrutha mathanam' done jointly by both of them in that 'ksheera abdhi – paarkadal' – milky ocean.
Ans: No, not straight away, but when the asuraas saw her dance, each had a desire to possess her.
Ans: each of the asuraas not only lost the amrutham but also lost possession of that dancer lady.
Ans: Lord siva is the person who always remaining yoga nishtai – doing raama naama japam. He is the person suddenly became kaama rahitha.
Ans: paarvathi – himavaan's daughter is the wife of siva – she was by his side always.
Ans: he went after that dancer lady – mohini- she was moving here and there.
Ans: he could not get her.
Ans: yes to some extent.
Ans: when siva went after that lady at one stage, due to the kaama of siva, and maaya of that mohini of luring siva into kaama- lust, siva dropped his bindhu,
– like the earlier instance when he dropped his bhindhu, it became the cause for creation of gold
– this time since the lady mohini was running hither and tither, siva was chasing her all over,
– so in all places where all he dropped his bhindhu, those places became the great grand mines - the storage places where these precious metals – gold and silver are available for us.
Dear sirs and madams, it is not my imagination – all are as stated in chapter 12, 8th skandham, sreemadh bhaagavatham [of sukha brahma rishi].
Now, dear readers, you got it - why these questions and answers.
Of course the intention of me taking up this topic is to bring out another aspect also besides the puraanic evidence in creation of gold and its places of distribution. That is to highlight a comparison between Siva and krishNa in 'yogic' prowess.
See how Siva, a person who is always in 'yoga nishta' loses his self-control and goes in for sambhOgam when he sees a beautiful lady
– let it be paarvathi – his own wife
– or mohini, the other lady.
– [the end result is good for we, people, - but that is a different aspect]
See on the other side- a contrast – krishNa who is always surrounded by ladies, either they come to him or he goes to them -
a. let it be the 'raasa leela' scene in his 'baalyam' – young days
– when Krishna did raasa leelaa he was 8 years old
– when he left for mathura he was 11 years old as per bhaagavatham.
b. Or Later he married 16008 ladies and produced 10 sons and daughters with each wife. ['ten each' is as stated in bhaagavatham] - still HE IS A BRAHMACHARI and YOGESWARA.
Just recall that famous slokam of sanjaya in bhagavadh geethaa
yathra yOgEswara krishNO yathra paarthO dhhanurdhhara |
thathra sreer vijayO bhioothir dhruvaa neethir mathir mama ||
krishNa is the YOGESWARA – lord of the yOga.
Hey folks, don't suddenly jump to the conclusion I am trying to insult siva, NO sirs, NOT AT ALL, I am just giving a comparison. [Again there is a specific slokam said by Krishna himself on siva about his yogic powers].
By that 'leelaas' - exhibition of 'kaama' – that play of siva, we, today in this world have those precious metals. Otherwise, perhaps, we, men folk and our ladies, in particular have to go without those glitterati named gold, articles produced out of it.
In next post we will see how the bhaagavatha puraaNam explains this distribution of gold.
Dhasan
Vasudevan MG
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