Sripada Srivallabha Charithamrutham - 260
🌹 Sripada Srivallabha Charithamrutham - 260 🌹
✍️ Satya prasad
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
Chapter 31
🌴 Description of ‘Dasa Maha Vidyas’ (Ten aspects of Sri Devi) - 1 🌴
We were daily coming to this side of Krishna taking Sripada’s permission.
Again we were reaching there in the mornings. As Sripada’s ‘prasad’, we were learning new ‘yoga’ techniques and many divine secrets.
I have heard that Sri Devi tatwam is being worshipped in the form of ten ‘Maha Vidyas’. I prayed Sri Charana to tell us the nature of those ‘Dasa Maha Vidyas’. Sri Guru Sarvabhouma explained like this.
My Dear! Upasana of Sri Vidya is highly superior. In previous times, Agastya learnt Sri Vidya by the grace of Hayagriva. He taught it to his wife Lopamudra Devi. She taught Agastya the inner meanings related to Sri Vidya.
In one way, Agastya was the ‘Guru’ of Lopamudra. In another way, Lopamudra became the Guru of Agastya. This is extremely wonderful.
🌻 The story of Lopamudra and Agastya 🌻
Because of Agastya’s power of Tapas, Vidarbha King had a daughter. She was named Lopamudra. Agastya wanted to marry her. Vidarbha King faced a distressing situation.
He was afraid that the old ‘Tapaswi’ might curse him if he did not give his daughter. He was in a dilemma whether to perform the marriage of this ‘unmatching’ alliance.
When the King consulted his daughter, she said that she was born only for the sake of Agastya and she would marry him only. After marriage, that royal girl wore jute clothes and followed her husband to ‘tapo bhumi’.
Agastya taught Sri Vidya to Lopamudra. After sometime, he wanted to have physical union with her. She told him ‘Nadha! After worshipping Lalitha swaroopam, I became Lalitha myself.
Unless you become Siva, it is not possible to have physical union with you.’ Agastya did intense penance and became Siva swaroopa and again asked for physical union with her. She said, ‘Nadha! I was born in a royal family.
It is not possible to have physical union with you, unless I have silk clothes, ornaments and all kinds of wealth required for a Kshatriya woman. It is not ‘dharma’ to have family pleasure with me unless all those material things are acquired. Not only that.
You also have to wear silk clothes, ornamnents and sprinkling of fragrant water. It is not proper to have physical union with me unless you have all those things.’
To acquire money he went to a demon ‘Ilvala’, and digested his brother ‘Vatapi’ by a trick, got great wealth from him and fulfilled his wife’s desires and got children.
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28 Aug 2020