God Stories

INTRODUCTION : As per Ramayana, Sumantra was the chief minister of King Dasharatha, and also his most favorite person. He was a well-wisher of the Dasharatha family, and participated in all the family functions. He was treated as a family member by Dasharatha, due to his good qualities and kindness. Sumantra is considered as one of the important characters of Ramayana. He also provided sufficient guidance to the king Dasharatha towards administering his kingdom in a proper manner. He has discharged his duties in an efficient and eminent manner. He was a capable person and contains great w..

INTRODUCTION : Neela Devi is one of the consorts of Lord  Vishnu among Sri Devi and Bhu Devi. But she is also given equal status similar to Lord Vishnu’s two other consorts. Her Mantra is very famous, and by reciting the mantra, we would be relieved from all sorts of difficulties and diseases which we are facing in our daily life. “AUM MAHA – DHEVYAI CHA VIDMAHEVISHNU-PATHNYAI CHA DHIMAHEETHANNO NEELA PRACHODAYATH”In the Vaikunta, Sri Devi is seated to the left of the Lord and Bhu Devi and Nila Devi to his right side. All the three consorts of Lord Vishnu are the forms of Mata L..

INTRODUCTION : Arulmigu Adhiparasakthi Temple is situated at Melmaruvathur, Tamilnadu. In the Melmaruvathur Adiparashakti Siddhar Peetam, the divine mother Adhi para sakthi had given great spiritual powers to Sri Arulthiru Bangaru Adigalar, and through that lot of welfare activities are taking place at this temple.In 1966, people began to worship the Swayambu (self-emanated) form of Adhi Parasakthi, and built a small hut in order to cover the Swayambu Amman and conducted regular Pujas to it.This place is known as Siddhar Peetam. In the year 1977, the idol of Mother Adhi para sakthi was in..

INTRODUCTION: Bhakt Prahalad is considered as an ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu, and he is praised for his great bhakti similar to Narada, Dhuruva and other Bhagavathas. He was born in the Krita Yuga also known as Satya Yuga to the demon king, Hiranya Kasipu, and later his father was killed by Lord Narasimha, and he was crowned by Lord Brahma himself and became a king of the entire world. He ruled his kingdom in a proper manner, and done lot of welfare activities for the people, and provided Lord Vishnu’s holy prasad to his people on a daily basis, and developed the “VISHNU BHAKTI SPI..

INTRODUCTION : Sri Ramanuja who was an ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu, once while he was travelling to Melkote at Karnataka, Lord Vishnu, in his dream had appeared and told to him that the utsava-murti  of Sri Cheluva Narayana in Melkote, was stolen by the Moguls, and it was kept in Delhi. Sri Ramanuja immediately went to the palace of sultan and requested him to return the deity. The sultan told to him, that the deity was safely kept by the princess, and in order to test the powers of Ramanuja, he further told to him, that if he wanted to take the deity, the deity must automatically ..

INTRODUCTION : Gandhari plays an important role in the Mahabharata. She was a princess of Gandhara and the wife of Dhritrashtra, the blind king of Hastinapura, and the mother of the Kauravas. She was well known for her chastity, purity and holiness, and praised as a pious woman among the three worlds in the heaven as well as in the earth.She acts as an example for others, which in this modern day life, we can’t even imagine such a great sacrifice which she has done that after marrying the blind king Dhristrashtra, she also remained as a blind woman by tying her eyes in a cloth in order to..

INTRODUCTION : Anjana is the mother of Lord Hanuman, and lived during the Treta yuga.According to ancient legend, Anjana in her previous birth was a celestial dancer in the heaven, and due to a curse she was born on earth as a pious vanara lady and married Kesari, a vanara king. Vayu Bhagawan, the wind god, carried the spiritual powers of Lord Shiva to Anjana's womb, and thus Hanuman was born as an avatar of Lord Shiva. The Anjaneyadri hill in Karnataka is believed to be the birthplace of Lord Hanuman.In Himachal Pradesh, Goddess Anjana is worshiped as a family deity and a temple is dedic..

INTRODUCTION : As per Ramayana, Nala  was the son of Vishwakarma and is a vanara, and he is considered to be the ancient civil engineer towards building the Rama Setu, a bridge across the ocean between Rameswaram  and Lanka, in order to make the forces of Rama to easily reach to Lanka. The bridge is also called as Nala Setu, the bridge of Nala. He also took the help of another vanara Nila in building the bridge. Nala is mentioned as the great architect of the vanaras. Nala is also said to have fought with the army troops and killed many warriors of the Ravana’s army.The Ananda R..

INTRODUCTION : Revati, is the daughter of King Kakudmi and the wife of Lord Balarama, the elder brother of Krishna. She is mentioned in the Mahabharata and Bhagavata Purana.Revati was the only daughter of King Kakudmi, a ruler of Kusasthali kingdom. In order to find a proper match for his daughter, Kakudmi took Revati with him to Brahmaloka to seek Lord Brahma’s advice for finding a suitable husband for Revati.When they arrived at the brahma’s abode, Brahma was watching the performance of the celestial musicians, and hence they waited patiently until the performance was finished. Then, Ka..

INTRODUCTIONGuru Dhakshinamurthy is a divine form of Lord Shiva and is the universal guru. He is worshiped as the god of knowledge and the giver of all the boons to us. He is the god of yoga and meditation. Apart from worshiping several other Guru’s like Ramakrishna, Raghavendra Swamy and Shirdi Sai Baba, Dakshinamurthy must also be worshiped as a holy guru, and must be specifically worshiped on Thursdays by offering chickpeas as neivedyam (Holy Prasad) to him.He is a supreme teacher who gives good knowledge, wisdom and Salvation to his sincere devotees.  In most of the Shiva temples, a s..