Obeisance to Shiva and Uma, the eternally young pair who hold each other body in eternal embrace. I offer again my obeisance again and again to Shankar and Parvati the one with the bull and banner and the other, the beloved daughter of king of Himalayas (Himwan).
Once Goddess Parvati pleased Lord Shiva and Lord Shiva agreed to marry her, She made a wish. The wish was, “I want you to come to my father and ask him for me in alms. Last time you sent Brahma to Daksha to do the same, and so this time, I want it to be you”.
As well known, the innocent Lord Shiva is unknown of the wordly ways. Thus, he had a unique method of asking to Mother Parvati’s parents to let her marry him. Lord Shiva took the form of Sunartaka, the Dancer. A dancer came with an intention to perform dance in the palace of Himavan. Since Himavan had gone to take bath in Ganga, Mena invited the dancer to perform the dance in the wide court room.
He had a blowing trumpet horn and a rattle drum in his hands. Draped in red dhoti, he danced elegantly in the room, attracting praises of all ministers and the queen Mena herself. He sang melodious songs and blew his horn merrily. Even Mother Parvati heard the song while resting in her room and was filled with ecstasy. She wondered why the voice sounded so familiar. She went into slumber by the smooth melodious voice of dancer. Shiva came in her dreams.
“Ask for anything. Don’t hesitate. Your dance and song has amplified my happiness on the return of my daughter after a long penance” said Mena. “I want to marry your daughter” said the dancer.
These words were a thunderclap to Mena. She screamed and scolded the dancer. But to her horror, the dancer was dancing and singing gleefully. When Himavan came back, he ordered his soldiers to throw out the dancer on knowing his demand. The soldiers caught him but were unable to move him by an inch.
Himavan was agitated. He glared at the dancer and paced towards him, however, he stopped in the mid-way. To his astonishment, the dancer had transformed into four armed Lord Vishnu , wearing a garland made of fragrant flowers. Himavan was stunned. He vividly remembered that it was the same garland that he had offered to Vishnu while worshipping him after taking a bath in Ganga. He was deeply engrossed into his thoughts when he saw the dancer suddenly getting transformed into Lord Vishnu?
In a second blink, the dancer had now transformed into four faced Brahma. Himavan was amazed with all this. He looked around and saw people behaving normally and thus concluded that he was the only one who was watching these transformations of the dancer. The dancer further changed into Indra, Agni, Soma, etc. And at last, he saw Shiva standing infront of himself. He was not alone. Mother Parvati was also standing besides him, both of them smiling at Himavan.
As Himavan was a learned man, he was able to conclude what was happening, the two forms of Shiva and Mother Parvati merged into one and dissolved into a formless entity, oozing divine waves around Himavan. A loud cracking sound brought Himavan to present. He paced back and sinked on his throne. Magically, the dancer had vanished. When Mena looked at him with worried expression, he waved at her and said “Oh Mena. Worry not. He was Shiva himself, who had come here to ask for Goddess Parvati’s hand in marriage. He was playing his divine sport with us”. Mena was relieved and much joyful on listening this.
Together, the couple reached the temple of Shiva and offered him prayers. Shiva smiled at Himawan and spoke “As per Parvati’s wish, I have gone and asked for her hand from her father”. When Goddess Parvati came to know about it, she shook her head and said to herself, “He still doesn’t know the ways of culture, about how a bridegroom comes and asks for someone’s daughter for marriage”. Thinking so, she smiled at Lord Shiva’s innocent attempt to fulfil her wish of visiting Himavan to ask for her hand in marriage.
Lord Shiva & Goddess Parvati are said to have the perfect household life. They have what all one wishes in life – name, fame, love, children, grandchildren, harmony etc. However, if one looks closely, there is a lot of trouble in their home only. Lord Shiva’s vehicle is Nandi, an ox. Goddess Parvati’s vehicle is Lion, an enemy to ox. Lord Ganesha’s vehicle is mouse and Lord Shiva wears snakes like garland, again enemy of one another. Then, Lord Kartikeya’s vehicle is a peacock which is an enemy of snakes. Thus in a nutshell, their household life too has a lot of quarrels and challenges, yet they live a blessed life.
It is thus extremely important to get the grace of the duo for a blessed life. Only the person who is capable to doing something, can help others attain the same. If someone doesn’t have water, can he or she offer it to someone? Thus, it only Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati who can grant a blessed married life. We all want good health, wealth, name, fame, prosperity and wellbeing of our partner.
Without any doubt, our counterpart brings completeness in our life. If any aspect of life is left unbalanced, the life gets completely destroyed. What’s important is to live a contended life. It doesn’t matter how long we lived in our life, what matters is how much we really lived in our life.
There might be no control on what sort of life partner we got in our life, it might be possible that your married life is going through the worst possible time and there are chances that a bitter relationship has built up in between the two of you. We all wish to live a life where there is peace, harmony and happiness in our life. A couple can have the best time if they happily live a major part of their life together.
UmaMaheshwar Saubhagya Diksha is the means by which such a state becomes possible in life. On one hand where this Diksha which brings peace and harmony in between the couples, removes their quarrels and makes the life a blessed journey it also blesses the couple with children, prosperity, name, fame and wealth in life. Similar to Lord Shiva-Goddess Parvati’s household, a couple is blessed with all the positivity in life like obedient children, love among the family members, peace, harmony and growth in all the aspects of life.
Gurudev will be granting this divine diksha on the day of Maha ShivRatri to all his loving disciples and Sadhaks.
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