Massi Magha

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Annihilate your Ego and Emancipate your Soulon this coming Massi MaghaFriday, March 2nd, 2007 This Massi Magha, when the birthstar of Kings and Ancestors (Pitrus) conjuncts the Full Moon, is one of the most auspicious times for spiritual purification. During this Massi Magha Astroved will be partaking in rituals at a secretive, yet powerful temple near Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu, India. At this temple, the siddhas and saints worshiped Siva to seek the inner foot Darshan of Lord Siva that wipes out the entire Ego completely. Siva at this temple is called "Gaja Samhara Murthi" meaning removing and wearing the skin of the elephant. In another time, there were a group of saints who began to neglect God because their egos became large with knowledge. They thought their knowledge was supreme in guiding humans. To teach a lesson to these learned saints, Lord Siva took the form of a haggard beggar. When he appeared to the saints, they did not recognize his true self and assumed that he was the devil who has come to kill the human beings. They started misusing their mantras to attack Siva by sending many forms of fierce animals and finally the form of a mad elephant. Lord Siva disappeared when the Elephant started to attack him. Goddess Parvati was concerned that since Lord Siva had disappeared, the whole world was going to come to an end. The elephant was no match for Siva. He killed the elephant sent to attack him and Siva emerged attiring himself with the elephants skin.

This is known as Gaja Samhara. Thus Siva started removing the pride, arrogance, ego and haughtiness of the sages. The same pride, arrogance, ego and haughtiness appear continually in our modern times, be it in family life, at the office, in politics or in government. It is the most appropriate time to shun our ego, pride, arrogance and surrender ourselves at the divine's feet. Special abishekam and archanas will be performed at the Vazhuvoor temple near Kumbakkonam. The rituals will begin from the night of March 2nd and will go on upto midmorning of March 3rd (Indian timings).

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