srividya upasana

[Guest guest]

Dear Sanjay,

may i continue the story as mentioned in the previous

posting? once there was a minister pious and loyal to

the core and deeply devoted. he was a very good astro-

loger and he could correctly predict the date from

which he would come under the influence of seven

and half years Saturn.He prayed sincerely to the Lord

Saturn and had his darshan,immediately the Lord

asked the minister to seek a boon.at once the minister

said he should be freed from the clutches of his period

of influence and grant him exemption.but the Lord

replied in negative and said none on the universe can

escape from his eyes during the period. but he can

reduce the duration to seven and half months for

which the minister did not agree.on persistance, he

reduced it to seven and half hours which was also

reduced to three hours.the Lord informed him the

correct time of his attachment.the minister requested

kings permission and ordered his servants not to

disturb him during that period. the minister went

to his room andshut the door,locked it and sat for

prayers.

In the meantime suddenly the king's child which

went for playing was missing. repeated search at

all places proved vain.one of the attendant said

that he saw the minister with that child and he feared

that the child was taken to offer as bali to the lord.

the king immediately rushed with his soldiers to

the minister's room broke the lockand arrested the

minister and ordered to hang him or cut his head.....