Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 17 : When They Are Beset With Troubles Caused By Their Own Karma, Begin Studying The Guru Gita
🌹 Guru Geeta - Datta Vaakya - 17 🌹
✍️. Sri GS Swami ji
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
🌻 When they are beset with troubles caused by their own karma, begin studying the Guru Gita 🌻
Because of the insistence of his mother, Viswaroopa secretly began distributing a portion of the fruits of the sacrificial rituals (yajnas) to the demons, while outwardly having the gods perform the rituals for their own benefit.
The performance of so many wonderful yajnas by the celestials made Viswaroopa famous amongst them.
Indra, on one hand began to resent the popularity that his Guru was enjoying amongst gods, demons, and humans, whom he had brought into limelight from obscurity. On the other hand he was unaware of Viswaroopa’s deception.
One day, by the help of Narada, Indra learned of the secret goings on and understood the reason for his guru’s fame. By receiving the fruits of the rituals, the demons were now gaining strength.
In a fit of rage Indra cut off the three heads of Viswaroopa as if he were swatting mosquitoes, without any consideration that he happened to be his Guru. Will the sin of killing Guru spare Indra? Guru was also a brahmin.
The sin of killing a brahmin also accrued to him. In the meantime the demon Vritrasura began harassing Indra. Indra, who now lacked the support of Guru, was unable to withstand the attacks. One Guru he dismissed.
Another Guru he slaughtered. Now he had no help. Under dire circumstances, he somehow managed to obtain the Vajra weapon by the grace of Sage Dadheechi and managed to kill Vritrasura. That is a very big story; a beautiful story.
The sin of killing yet another brahmin befell him. Chased by the effects of these atrocious sins, in fright, Indra ran away from heaven and took shelter inside a lotus stalk within a pond.
Like a small insect he remained hidden inside that narrow stem for ten thousand years. Nahusha, in the meantime became the new Indra. While hiding inside the stalk, Indra spent his time in intense prayer.
Perhaps misfortune has its benefits. Many people, when they are beset with troubles caused by their own karma, out of desperation begin studying the Guru Gita, and the Bhagavatam. They memorize them.
They chant the Sri Vishnu Sahasranama, Sri Lalita Sahasranama, Sri Lalitha Trisati, and they try to learn the meaning of these prayers. Let us also study one more time, the meaning of Sri Lalita Trisati that we had learned earlier. During that time Indra composed several Indra Kavachas.
He composed prayers addressed to Goddess Lakshmi, and Lord Dattatreya also. Let us once again chant the Lakshmi Kavacham. Like this, many wonderful prayers came into existence while Indra remained inside the lotus stalk.
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