Do you know when Lord Shiva was a servant of his disciple

This interesting story is found here. Bhole baba gives everything to his disciples.

Lord Shiva as a servant of Poet Vidyapati in form of Ugna

The holy month of Shravan is has arrived. In this month, Lord Shiva is worshipped in various parts of country. Here are some stories on Lord Shiva and on the month of Shravan.

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Lord Ayappa – son of Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva

Very few people know that Lord Ayappa was born to Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu. He is also called as Hariharputra  “the son of Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara)”.

Lord Shiva and Mohini

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Lord Shiva’s blue throat

The Neelkantha

Lord Shiva is also known by the name of “Nilakaṇtha”, which literally means the blue-throated. Once Goddess Parvati learnt that Lord Shiva had swallowed poison, he rushed to hold his neck, so that the poison would not travel neck downwards. That’s how his neck became a deep blue.

Lord Shiva is known as Neelkanth

Lord Shiva is known as Neelkanth

 

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Lord Rama, Sita and Lord Hanumana

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Shri Krishna became daughter in law of Arjuna

Sounds strange, but this is for real. This too was done for ensuring victory to Pandavas. Arjuna’s son Iravan sacrificed himself before Kurukshetra war.

Iravan, was the son of Arjuna from princess Uloopi. Before the start of the Mahabharata war, he agreed to be sacrificed to Goddess Kali to ensure victory for Pandavas. But he had a wish to be married before he died and this created a problem.
There was no girl who would be willingly married to a person who was about to die. Enter Shri Krishna. He became Mohini and married Iravan thus fulfilling his last wish. Not only this, after the death of Iravan, Mohini wept and was sorrowful like a widow.

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Shri Krishna as a wife to Iravan - Arjuna' son

Shri Krishna as a wife to Iravan – Arjuna’ son

 

Guru poornima is also known as Vyasa Poornima – Why?

Vyasa Poornima

Vedvyasa – It is said that Vyasa have been born on Guru Poornima day, but also to have started writing the Brahma Sutras on ashadha sudha padyami, which ends on this day. This great sage also wrote Mahabharata. This was the day, when Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa – author of the Mahabharata – was born to sage Parashara and a fisherman’s daughter Satyavati, thus this day is also celebrated as Vyasa Purnima.

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Draupadi had a secret wish for Karna as her husband

Though she was happily married to Pandavas, there were times when She wished Karna as her husband. This famous episode is known as Jambul episode.

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Draupadi wanted someone else as her husband

 

Radha – was she for real?

The reason for above question is that there is no mention of Radha in scriptures. Neither Mahabharata, Nor Shrimad Bhagwat mention this. This fact is too important to missed by greats like Ved Vyasa. Probably, this was included by Jayadev and became famous from there.

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When Bhishma matched his Guru

We all know stories about Bhishma pratigya, but little do we know about him holding his Guru, bhagwan Parshurama for twenty two days. Yes, this is true, there was a battle between these great warriors that ended in a stalemate.

The story goes like this, after rejected by her lover, Amba reached to Parshurama and requested him to teach Bhishma a lesson. Parshurama, who also was the teacher of Bhishma, decided to fight him in order to have justice for Amba. The fight ensued for a long time and nobody could be beaten. Reason, Parshurama was akhand chiranjeevi, means one who could not die and Bhishma had a boon from his father, Shantanu, that he would be able to choose the time of his death.

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Enjoy the story on Mata Yashoda on mother’s day

Know about Mata Yashoda, perhaps the most popular mother in Indian texts. There were known and unknown facts about her, such as how Lord Krishna made her forget his virat roop so that he gets her love as before. Read more about this here.

Mata Yashoda story