Digest Number 322

[Guest guest]

Jai SrimanNarayana,

Satday 23rd Feb is Bheeshma

Ekadasi Day. Pl enlighten me abt the significance of

this day, whether the day is in observation of Bhishma

Jayanthi (Birth) or the day when he attained Moksha

from the battle field of Kurukshethra? Because we also

recite Sri Visnu sahasranaamams on this day in memory

of this great soul who recited this to Yudishtara

before shedding his mortal body. Kindly clarify, With

my humble pranaams at your lotus feer,

Balakrishna Abburi

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[Guest guest]

Priya SRiman Balakrishnaj

Jai Srimannarayana!

 

We are sure that you have performed the Parayana on Bheeshma Ekadasi day with

good spiritual fervour. This day is renowned for the ultimate journey of the

Great Grandsire of Kurus Bhishmacharya. He attained moksham after giving this

sthothram to Pandavas. He gave this sthothram to his grand-children as a divine

wealth, he procured for them since a long time. Now a days, our people are

procuring money in different forms and handing over it to their children, who

may not even know how to use it. Ultimately those children push the parents out

of the house and might at times put them in old-age-homes for safe custody.

STill, we do so, out of love and concern we have for our children. Sri

Bhishmacharya on the other hand, handed over the divine sthothram, to his

grand-children also, as if it was the only wealth, he acqauired and could

donateto them and thus to the whole world at large. In fact, because of this

sthothram only, he became, Great Vedic and more powerful, so that he can stop

even the God of Death and Lord Krishna also.

=chinnajeeyar=