Mumba devi -- mahalaksmi temple -- Mumbai

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Sub : Mumba Devi and Mahalakshmi Temples at Mumbai

 

 

 

I had posted in my last mail about Mumba devi and drawn an analogy to Srichakra

the different markets around her . Mumba devi is 'Chandi Devi ' and her three

forms MahaKali -- Mahalaksmi -- Mahasaraswathi has been installed in Mahalaksmi

temple.The place is also called Mahalakshmi like the Kali ghat in Calcutta.

 

 

 

Here is a series of events as to how the temple came into picture -- as reported

in the well known Tamil spiritual daily Gyana Bhumi before 4 years.

 

 

 

Mr X as I do not remember the name of the wealthy Maharashtrian Contractor who

was assigned a job

 

(in late 1800 ) of building a wall ( cornice ) to fence the sea near Mahalakshmi

, by the British raj.

 

He promptly started building the wall and everything was going smoothly as per

the plan until a stretch of wall of about five meters was falling after

competing it. When this happened for 4 times in a row ,he got panicky as the

deadline was nearing and employed the best of the brains available at that time

to evaluate the soil conditions, only to learn that the soil is no different

than that nearby where he had already finished the job.

 

 

 

Encouraged by this report he personally supervised building that particular

stretch by using additional concrete than required and was a satisfied man after

finishing the job. But the satisfaction lasted temporarily, as he found to his

horror on the next day that the entire wall had collapsed.

 

 

 

Agonised and dejected, he couldn't think of any alternatives and spent the

morning there itself. In the mid afternoon sitting near the collapsed wall ,he

fell asleep and had the vision of Devi asking him how he has ventured to build a

wall over her. She also revealed that she is in that part of the sea shore and

asked him to make arrangements to lift her out.

 

 

 

The contractor immediately woke up and couldn't believe what happened but

thought he could give it a try. The next day he had arranged for a gang of

fishermen to net her out. The work started from the morning digging the murky

soil of the sea and removing the mud and searching for any abnormal items which

continued till evening, when suddenly the fishermen felt that they could not

lift the net . After huge efforts they lifted the soil with the net and on a

frantic search of that particular sample revealed three colourful stones of a

medium sizes and this was given to the contractor. He immediately approached the

learned pandits and it was confirmed by the learned that they were a very rare

salagram of Devi.

 

 

 

That night Devi appeared in the contractor's dream again asking him to compete

the wall , further build a temple and install her there ,naming it as mahalaksmi

temple. Pleased by this, he successfully built the wall and dedicates the entire

profit to acquire a piece of land very near the sea.

 

 

 

After this incident he finds that he wins the bigger tenders from British raj,

which normally is not given to Indians because of the imperialistic rule at that

time. He dedicates most of the profit to the temple.

 

 

 

Well devotees that is the history of Mahalaksmi temple and the three deities

installed there are so beautiful in pure gold.( the three salagrams of devi have

been covered with faces of Mahakali -- Mahalaksmi - Mahasaraswathi.)

 

 

 

I would urge every devotee of this group to take time if they are visiting

Mumbai or in transit , to visit both these temples and recite either Devi Saptha

sathi or atleast Lalitha Sahasranama.

 

if possible have a mission in their life time to visit all or most of the

Shakti Peet in India from Sheer Bhawani -- Vaisnavi devi in Jammu Kashmir to

Kanyakumari in the deep south -- Ambaji in the West --to Dakshina kali in the

east. These devies protect India and her great spiritual wealth eternally.

 

 

 

Jai Mahakali -- Mahalakshmi - Mahasaraswathi

 

 

 

 

 

Ganapthy ---- Vijayalakshmi

 

 

R.Ganapathy -- vijaya ganapathy

Muscat -- Oman

 

 

 

 

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