Suryakshetra

SURYAKSHETRA (54)


What this little man speaks………………………………………………..

Quote: Circumstances are beyond the control of a human being, but CONDUCT is certainly in his own powers.

MERA BHARAT MAHAAN: I really feel proud to write a few lines about a few places of historical and religious excellencies in our country. For that matter, when I visit nooks and corners I found something and something really interesting in each place of my visit. As every human being is great in certain aspects, like so every place. I consider that it is my fortune to have such experiences in this very very short span of life. Added to that it is really my fortune to come to highly educated and intellectual group of persons like you with my experiences.

A few days ago I had an opportunity of visiting UJJAIN in Madhya Pradesh. Like any other towns and cities it is also one in the country. Well, all that depends on the perception. If I start seeing something great, I find something really great and similarly if I do not see any value even in gold, I consider it as a worthless metal. In other words if mind set is made to analyze it will analyze. Alternatively even great events are ignored. In vedic order of life it is said –YAD BHAVAM TAD BHAVATHI- if you desire to do something , you will do it and if not , you ignore.

Ujjain is otherwise known as AVANTHIKA. There are seven cities on the earth which are capable of granting MOKSHA. These cities are said to be so sacred, they are capable of granting JEEVANMUKTI. Of the seven, Ujjain is said to be most reverred place for MANTRA POWER AND TANTRA SAKTI. During Mahaabharata times, Lord Krishna studied as a disciple at the Ashram of Great sage Saandipani. Balarama and Sudhaama were his co students. The great sage Samadhi is on the banks of KSHIPRA RIVER. Of the twelve Jyothirlingaas, Ujjain Mahaakaleswar Linga is one. Lakhs of people daily receive blessings of the Holy shrine. Kaala Bhairava daily takes liquor even today and the offering of only liquor to the deity is something really wonderful. Paatal Bhairav shrine is in a cave close to the Kaala Bhairav temple. Since the way is very congestive it is risky to enter the cave. I could not find any other place as sacred as that of Mangalnaath – a temple for MARS – one of the nine planets, excepting in Ujjain. Mahaakaali temple is one of the ASTA DASA SAKTI PEETHAS in the country. The Holy mother –MAHAAKALI granted unusual vision and knowledge to a layman who subsequently named as MAHAA KAVI KAALIDAS. This great poet has written UTTARA KAALAMRUTHAM at Ujjain - highly respectable book for astrologers for RAHU planet.

Raaja Bhartruhari has written his SUBHASHITAM sitting in a cave near Ujjain. It is open for the visitors even today. Raaja Vikramaarka ruled the country retaining Ujjain as his capital. There are thousands and thousands of caves which we dare not to enter. It is really a capital of treasure for those who visualise the importance. Well, if I start writing on each item from and of Ujjain, perhaps, this small little paper may object.

Kaal - in other words is TIME – and Mahaakaaleswar is none else than the LORD OF TIME. I have been repeatedly writing that TIME ELEMENT is the main element which keep the living beings and non living beings in the frame work of a rhythm or say a disciplined cycle. What else can be a greater achievement than obtaining blessings of the LORD OF TIME?. I strongly felt that a life cycle of nearly 70 years is too small to understand, realise, analyze a small area like Ujjain in India. Will the LORD OF TIME allow us to see many more sacred places like Ujjain in our life time or not is a matter of every individual . Can we now stop thinking that MERA BHARAT is really a MAHAAN . It is certainly our fortune, we are born in India- the land of spiritual, material, eternal excellency. Only prayer to the Lord is to grant us many more opportunities to re –born on this Holy land, if we are destined to take birth once again.
Quote: 1) The BUSY has no time for the tears.
2) It is necessary to have faith in ourselves for the reason that great convictions are the mothers of great deeds.

I shall be back again soon.

Hara Hara Mahadeva
Vedanta Visarada
Dr P V Sesha Sai M.Com., CAIIB., B.L., Dip UNIU., AMIMA.,