Om Hrisheekeshaya Namaha

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Jai-Srimannarayana, "Snigdha Reddy"

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             ULTIMATE LORD OF THE ORGANS OF SENSES

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It is well known that when the Devas and Asuras joined together to 

churn the milky ocean, the first thing that emanated from the milky 

ocean was the deadly poison, "Halahala". Lord Paramasiva came to the 

rescue of the Devas and Asuras by consuming the poison and became 

Neelakanta (Blue-necked)

The saints who were present there wondered. "How could Lord 

Paramasiva consume the poison and survive unaffected?"

Some saints felt that Lord Paramasiva had acquired this power

because 

of his control over his sense organs. He is called the conqueror of 

Cupid. He burnt the body of cupid into ashes when cupid aimed his 

arrows at Lord Paramasiva, forcing Siva to look at Parvathi, with 

passion while she was doing service to him during his penance.

They hailed Lord Paramasiva. "Rightly, you are the conqueror of 

poison because you are the only person who could conquer Manmadha." 

For a moment, Paramasiva was flattered. He felt that he was

`growing-

oversize' before the Saints.

He prayed to Lord Narayana to bring the truth to the world. In his 

opinion, his conquering Manmadha and surviving the poison – both

were 

possible because of the grace of Lord Narayana.

Lord Narayana decided to answer the prayers of his dearest devotee 

Lord Paramasiva.

The drama unfolded when nectar emanated from the milky ocean. The 

thirty-three crores of Devas and sixty-six crores of Asuras, who

were 

orderly till then, forgot that discipline is essential. Both wanted 

to grab the pot of nectar carried by Dhanvantari.

In the process, the Asuras overpowered the Devas and snatched away 

the pot. Helpless Devas, took refuge at the feet of Lord Narayana.

The merciful Lord Vishnu took the form of a beautiful damsel, 

popularly known as "Mohini" and went to the Asuras. Enchanted by her 

beauty, the Asuras were ready to do whatever Mohini would desire

them 

to do. "I will distribute this nectar to you but the most effective 

concentrated portion will be in the bottom of the container. Please 

bear with me till I distribute the diluted top layer to the Devas

and 

come to you to distribute the concentrated portion."

So saying, she made Devas and Asuras sit in rows and began 

distributing the nectar to Devas. Because of the elixir, Devas

became 

strong. By the time the Asuras could realize that Mohini was none 

other than Lord Vishnu, who had again shown his favour to Devas, it 

was too late. The Devas had become powerful. They conquered the 

Asuras and possessed the Amritha handed over to them by Mohini.

When the whole scene was being enacted, Lord Paramasiva was not

there 

as he had retired to Kailash with Parvati for he needed rest after 

consuming the poison.

News reached him through Narada that Lord Narayana took the form of

a 

beautiful damsel to ensure Asuras did not get the nectar and only 

Devas got it. Lord Paramasiva with Parvati then went to Vaikuntaloka 

of Lord Vishnu.

Lord Narayana welcomed Paramasiva with his beatifying smile. "What 

can I do for you?" He asked Paramasiva.

"I am informed by Narada that you took incarnation as Mohini; I 

missed sight of it. I would be grateful if for my sake, you again 

take the Mohini Rupa and give me Darshan." 

"No", says Lord Narayana. "That was only to confuse the Asuras. Why 

should you be interested in seeing that Rupa?"

"No, My Lord, I should not be deprived of this Darshan", insisted 

Paramasiva.

Then, Lord Narayana appeared before him in the form of Mohini, with 

Parvati watching the entire scene. Lord Paramasiva could not control 

his passion to possess Mohini, though he surely knew that she was 

Lord Vishnu made up as a damsel.

It is described in some puranas that Lord Iyappa was the outcome of 

this love affair of Lord Paramasiva with Lord Hari in the form of 

Mohini.

At the end Paramasiva with his head down was standing before Lord 

Narayana who was smiling at him. Parvati smiled and said, "I can 

never visualize you, the conqueror of cupid, falling prey to your 

sense organs, that too, knowing pretty well that Mohini was an 

artificial beauty."

Lord Narayana consoled Paramasiva and Parvati and said, "This scene 

is only in reponse to the internal desire of Lord Paramasiva who had 

been praying to me to show the world that his conquering the sense 

organs and reducing cupid to carbon was because of my

sankalpa-grace. 

Today he has fallen prey to passion again because of my Sankalpa-

grace!"

"I am grateful to you, Lod Vishnu!" says Paramasiva. "You are the 

ultimate controller of all the sense organs. You are therefore

called 

Hrisheekesha, which means the controller of sense organs. You derive 

joy (harsha) by protecting your devotees and enjoy comforts (soukya) 

and you achieve all these with effortless rulership (aishwarya). You 

are therefore aptly called Hrisheekesha. You are the controller of 

the sense organs of all inclusing super human beings like Brahma and 

me," so saying Paramasiva returned to Kailash with Parvati.

Dear readers, please appreciate that our sense organs cannot be

under 

our control without the grace of His blessings – the ruler of

organs, 

the Hrisheekesha.

Let us pray   "Om Hrisheekeshaya Namaha"

Source: VAK, Oct 04.