God Stories

INTRODUCTION :Chitrangada was an ancient king and lived during the Dwapara Yuga. According to Mahabharata, he is the elder son of Shantanu and Satyavati.Chitrangada had become the Kuru king after Shantanu's death. Chitrangada was an excellent warrior and contains very good qualities. Once he was killed in a battle held between him and the Gandharvas. After his death, his younger brother, Vichitravirya become the ruler of the Kuru dynasty.After attaining teenage he got married to Ambika and Ambalika, the daughters of Kasi king. But after pleasantly living with his wives for some years, he fell ..

INTRODUCTION :Bhanumati is a noble character in Mahabharata. She was the daughter of king Chitrangada and Queen Chandramudra, and she was the wife of Duryodhana. Though her consort Duryadhana contains bad behaviour, she was a chaste and a worshipful lady and a dutiful wife. She had given proper suggestions to her consort Duryodhana to avoid enmity with Pandavas, but he didn’t accept her suggestion. She looks very beautiful and was very calm and intelligent lady. She treated Karna as her own brother and used to play dice with him. Karna’s wife and Bhanumati were very good friends, and they main..

INTRODUCTION :As per Shiva Puran, during the Dwapara Yuga, there lived a pious Brahmin in the city of Varanasi whose name was Shankara, and he was very noble and a religious person. He served as a priest in the Shiva Temple, and he used to wake up early in the morning, finishes his routine works, and fetches water from the temple well, and would start doing Abhishekham and Puja to Lord Shiva. After finishing Puja, he would distribute the temple Prasad to the devotees, and then only he used to take his food. He was well versed in Vedas and Hindu divine texts.In course of time, due to his selfle..

INTRODUCTION :Once there lived a holy priest and served in the Guruvayur Temple to Lord Guruvayurappan. His name was Nenmini. He was very pious and a kind hearted person. He had one young son whose name was Unni, and he used to help his father in his puja activities. Once, since the priest wants to go somewhere urgently, he asked his son to do puja and to offer Prasad to the Lord. The young boy agreed, and done puja in a wonderful manner and decorated the idol of the Lord with various flowers and flower garlands and burnt the agarbathies and camphor, and showed deeparadhana to the Lord, and fi..

INTRODUCTION : Several centuries ago, there lived a Siddhar in Madurai known as Sri Vallaba Siddhar, and he was considered as an incarnation of Lord Shiva. He was an ardent Shiva devotee and contains great spiritual powers. He has healed the people from diseases and spread the bhakti on Lord Shiva among the people. Once, he has helped a Shiva devotee to sculpt an idol of Lord Shiva through his spiritual powers. He also performed Annadanam to lot of Shiva devotees in the Shiva temples. He was good at meditation and yoga. He has renovated many ancient Shiva temples through the donation..

INTRODUCTION : Manjula was a noble girl who lived in a village near Guruvayur. She got the habit of daily submitting beautiful flower garlands to the Lord in the Guruvayur temple at night. One day night, when she arrived near the temple with her garlands, she found that the temple was closed. She was very much worried and began to weep, and she finally placed the garland near the banyan tree, and consoled herself, that the Lord had accepted her offering, since he is everywhere. Next day morning, the temple Priest found one beautiful garland in the neck of the Lord, and it could not b..

INTRODUCTION :According to legend, Karkotaka was an ancient Naga King who lived in a forest near the Nishadha Kingdom. He was a friend of the mighty king Nala, and helped him to join with his wife Dhamayanti.Generally, Karkotaka is believed to be an arrogant snake. But it is not correct. Karkotaka acted arrogantly only with his enemies, and contains very good qualities. He is a friend of Lord Indra, and considered as a great Naga king, and a sincere devotee of Lord Vishnu. Now he is living in the nether world, Naga Lok.He was mentioned in several ancient Hindu and Buddhist texts. He looks very..

INTRODUCTION : According to Ramayana, Kabandha was a demon, who was previously lived as a Gandharva with the name “DANU” in the Gandharva Loka, and used to sing songs in praise of Lord Vishnu. Once he got several boons from Lord Brahma, after performing severe penance. After containing great powers through his boons, he attacked Lord Indra, in order to capture his Indra Loka. Lord Indra was very angry, and cursed him to become an ugly demon. Since he was an ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu, Lord Vishnu fell pity on him, and appeared before him, and informed that during his Rama Avatar, he wo..

INTRODUCTION : Sri Surakkai Siddhar (18th century AD) was born and brought up in Narayanavanam at Andhra Pradesh. It is believed that he would have lived for a few hundred years and blessed his devotees. Even he blessed the British officials and cured their diseases and solved their personal problems. He was a sincere devotee of Lord Shiva, and was very much interested in worshiping him from his childhood onwards. He was a kind hearted saint and loved each and every creation of god, and showed great affection on them. He solved the dreaded diseases of his devotees using bilva leaves ..

INTRODUCTION :Sanjaya is one of the characters in Mahabharata and he was a disciple of Rishi Veda Vyasa and served honestly in the court of the King Dhritarashtra. Sanjaya has got great spiritual powers through the blessings of his guru Sri Veda Vyasa, and he has got the divine vision of seeing the things happening even from distant places, and due to that, he narrated the Kurukshetra battle scenes to Dhritarashtra by sitting in the palace of Dhritarashtra at Hastinapur. He also learned all the Vedas and Hindu scriptures from his guru Veda Vyasa and was a master in all kinds of arts. He was go..