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1 Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:34:57 -0800 (PST)Jabali Muni Re: Re:

jabala and jabali .Dear Shri Panditarjunji,I am blessed to receive a vivid life

history of Satyakama Jabali from you.I am given this name of Jabalimuni by my

grandfather when I was born many years after my parents lead married life.He

said that he found Jabali ashram on the footpath of Tirumala hills during his

pilgrimage to Tirupathi before my birth.He determined to name the grandchild

after that Muni.My birth occured after a short timeHence I am given the name

Jabalimuni.Thanks & Regards,Jabalimunipanditarjun2004 wrote:dear shiv bhaktsom

namo bhagawate rudrayathis is a good question, for both the

mother jabala and her son satyakama jabali convey several moral lessons to the

humanity. the story of japala also appears in mahabharata. jabala was a shudra

woman soliciting various men in which process she begets a son and names him

satyakama jabali. she teaches him all right values and ask him to always speak

truth. practicing what she preached, when the son asks who is he and what is

his father's name, she tells the truth that she does not know from whom he got

him. when satyakama visits sage haridrumata and request him to accept him as

his disciple and teaches all the shastras, the sage asks for his gothra and

father's name. satyakama tells the truth exactly what her mother tells him. the

sage concludes that only a brahmin can speak truth like this and accepts him as

his disciple.but, instead of teaching the shastras the sage asks satyakama to

take a herd of cows and take care of them. satyakama does not feel

this work as a shame and start helping the cows graze the fodder with love. the

number of cows keep growing in hundreds and the task becomes difficult. at this

point, vayudeva, agnideva and suryadeva enter into the cows and ask him to take

the cows back to the sage. while going back they teach satyakama jabali all

shastras. seeing jabali, the sage appreciates him for illuminating with

brahmajnan and ask him to set up an ashram on his own as he has become a guru

himself. but jabali insists that only a shastra learnt through a guru has value

and requests the sage to teach the shastras. after learning the shastras from

the sage, jabali does a tapas invoking the grace of lord subhrahmanya

(kartikeya) and learn all the secret tatvas. afterwards sage pippalada

approaches jabali and requests him to teach his knolwedge. the lessons that

jabali taught to pippalada is known as "jabalopanishad". jabali emphasised that

shiva is the

lord of all sentient beings including animals and humans. similar to animals

grazing grass and obeying to their master, humans also obey to the pashupati

lord shiva. pippalada asks jabali how to get "gnan" (knoweldge or wisdom) to

which jabali says that by "bhasma dharan". he also elaborates how to pick up

vibhiti with panchabrahma mantras, recite "agniriti bhasma" mantra and then

make it wet with "manastoke tanaye" mantra and smear it on head, forehead,

chest and arms. the top first line represents brahma, middle line vishnu and

the lower line near the eyebrows represent lord shiva. jabali says that

whosoever wears tripundra dharana (three lines bhasma dharana) will attain

salvation and has no rebirth.when rama was in aranyavaas, jabali asks rama to

go back and rule the kingdom (just to test lord rama) to which rama replies

that as the adage goes "yatha raaja tatha praja" he has to stick to the word

given to his

parents and if he does not stick to his word, he loses the right to rule. then

jabali worships lord rama.once rutambhara, king of tejopore was not having a

child despite having several wives. rutambhara prays to jabali and requests for

blessing him to have a child. jabali asks rutambhara to worship a cow saying

that all gods and goddesses dwell in a cow. but that cow was eaten by a lion

and then jabali asks him to worship another cow and donate it to a brahmin.

later rutambhara is blessed with a son named satyavanta.the highlight of jabali

is that he suggested that anyone who worship a cow would get the blessings of

all gods and goddesses. also anyone who beats a cow would get their hands

amputated and consigned to hell.jabali figures in the list of holy 116 sages.in

praise of lord shiva and with best wishesarjun--- In

, Jabali Muni

wrote:>> I come across two names in Upanishads "Jabala "and "Jabali" . Are they

two different persons? I would like to know more about Satyakama Jabali.Can any

of the Shiva bhaktas elucidate me?> regards,> Jabalmuni> > >

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