Durvaasaa's Curse to Saraswatee
Once Durvaasaa Rishi thought that when he does Tap the whole Tri-Lok gets worried, so why not he should go to Brahm Lok and study Ved from Brahmaa Jee. So he went there to study Ved. Brahmaa Jee welcomed him as his grandson and made the arrangement of learning Ved for him. As he was studying Ved there, Saraswatee Jee started laughing at him. When she could not stop her laugh, Durvaasaa asked her why she was laughing. She replied that she was laughing at his Swar (tone). He said - "So do you think that only you have good tone in the whole Tri-Lok? You are very proud of that. I curse you that you fall from Brahm Lok to destroy your pride."
Brahmaa Jee said - "What did you do this, O Durvaasaa? If Saraswatee will not live here who will teach Ved Richaa? Who will teach Swar here? How the Gyaan will be distributed here?" Durvaasaa Jee said - "Her singing will be in Gandharv Lok where she will take birth." Brahmaa Jee said - "By cursing my consort Saraswatee you have proved yourself incapable of living in Brahm Lok. You leave this Brahm Lok."
Meanwhile Gandharv Raaj Vishwaavasu was doing Tapasyaa for Dattaatreya to get a child. Pleased from his Tap Dattaatreya Jee appeared before him and asked him to ask for a boon. Vishwaavasu asked him to give him a child. Dattaatreya Jee said - "This whole universe is born from a Yagya. When some act is done with full devotion it becomes a Yagya, you also do a Yagya, you will surely get a child." So Vishwaavasu started a Yagya with his wife Chitralekhaa.
In the meantime, Daitya Vajraketu came to destroy his Yagya. He did not want that anybody should do any Yagya. Dattaatreya protected his Yagya. Vajraketu tried his best to destroy that Yagya but could not harm it, so he himself went there and got burnt. Thus he was killed there. Yagya was completed. At the end of the Yagya, Yagya Dev appeared from that Yagya and gave them a pot and asked them to take the Prasaad in it. They took it with great Bhakti. As a result they had daughter. This daughter was Saraswatee herself who was born as a result of Durvaasaa's curse. Vishwaavasu named her Madaalasaa.
As the girl was born, Naarad Jee came there and congratulated the Gandharv Raaj on the birth of his daughter. Vishwaavasu asked Naarad Jee about her future. Naarad Jee ignored this and blessed her. Chitralekhaa said - "Devarshi, We have a desire that we want the blessings of Dattaatreya who is born on Prithvi." Naarad Jee suggested them to meditate on Dattaatreya, so they did and Dattaatreya Jee appeared before them and asked their desire. Vishwaavasu said - "Our all desires are related to our daughter. We want that she should always be happy and comfortable." Dattaatreya Jee said - "Raajan, Your daughter is not an ordinary girl, she is the incarnation of Saraswatee Devee. She will attain Brahm Gyaan, and her son will also be Brahm Gyaanee. My blessings are always with you." Time flew and Madaalasaa grew in a fine young woman.
Paataalketu
At the same time, after the killing of Vajraketu, his son Paataalketu was crowned as the king of Paataal. Now he wanted to know how his father was killed. His Kul Guru said - "He was not killed but he died in the battlefield." "In which battle?" "He was killed in the battle with Vishwaavasu." "Oh, So my father was killed by Vishwaavasu. I am going to kill him." So they came on prithvi and Paataalketu commanded his brother Kaalketu to be disguised in a Saadhu and stay there and he himself went to Gandharv Lok.
There Paataalketu saw Madaalasaa and got attracted to her. [Now Madaalasaa was the incarnation of Saraswatee Jee and the result of Durvasaa's curse. So both had some meaning - Bhagavaan has to do all these Leelaa to set the situation of duties and actions.] So he proposed to Gandharv Raaj for his daughter, but Gandharv Raaj did not agree for this and got ready for fight. But Paataalketu abducted Madaalasaa to Paataal Lok.
Paataalketu and Madaalasaa
Madaalasaa prayed Bhagavaan Dattaatreya for her protection, and he protected her from Paataalketu. Later Paataalketu called his maids and said to them - "Change Madaalasaa's mind towards me. I will marry her on the coming Trayodashee." and went away. Madaalasaa again prayed Dattaatreya with the intention of committing suicide, so he appeared before her and told her that she was the incarnation of Saraswatee and for whatever purpose she had come on Prithvi she cannot die without completing it. She asked what was the purpose of her life. Dattaatreya Jee said - "To kill Paataalketu and producing a child who will also a Brahm Gyaanee. Vishwaavasu and his wife Chitralekhaa also prayed Brahmaa Jee to protect their daughter. Brahmaa Jee assured them for their daughter.
Paataalketu went to Rishi Gaalav so that he could perform the ceremony of his marriage to Madaalasaa. Gaalav said - "If Madaalasaa has not agreed for this marriage, he would not perform this marriage ceremony, because it is A-Dharm." At this Paataalketu started destroying his Yagya and Aashram. Seeing this Gaalav Muni cursed him - "If you will marry Madaalasaa without her consent, you will be burnt to ashes."
When Paataalketu went to marry Madaalasaa, he remembered Gaalav Muni's curse so he talked to her politely. Madaalasaa said that her marriage depended on Bhagavaan Dattaatreya, so Paataalketu proceeded to meet Dattaatreya. Dattaatreya Jee appeared before him and preached him the sermon of Satya and Gyaan. Paramaatmaa has four names - Satya, Gyaan, Anant and Brahm. And asked him to love Paramaatmaa.
Naarad Jee could not understand that why Dattaatreya did not preach some Saadhu and bestowed boons to Kaartveerya Arjun and preached Paramaatmaa to Paataalketu. Dattaatreya Jee said - "Since those Saadhu did not have devotion and love in me that is why I did not teach them, Arjun had both love and devotion in me that is why I granted him boon; and I preached Paataalketu because he did lots of Tapasyaa for all the three, Brahmaa, Vishnu and Mahesh, in his previous life. Brahmaa Jee granted him the boon to have Darshan of all the three (Brahmaa, Vishnu and Mahesh) together. We all will incarnate in the form of Dattaatreya and you will see his Viraat Roop which is not in everybody's fate." That is why I showed him my Vraat Roop."
Paataalketu came back to Madaalasaa and said to her - "If somebody becomes god by taking Viraat Roop then see it." and he showed her his Viraat Roop. Still Madaalasaa did not get ready to marry him. Paataalketu said - "I can marry you any time but I will not marry you until you will marry me with your own will." Madaalasaa said - "I will never marry you will my own will." Paataalketu said - "If this is so, then my anger will burn all the three Lok. I will start killing people everywhere, and all this will be because of you."
Paataalketu started destroying Tri-Lok. Madaalasaa tried to stop this but he did not stop until she got agree to marry him willingly. Paataalketu threatened her to kill her parents, so she had to agree to marry him. Paataalketu declared this in the whole Paataal Lok and went to to Muni Gaalav again and asked him to be the Pandit to perform his marriage to Madaalasaa. He told him that he would send his Minister to bring him to Paataal Lok.
Gaalav Muni prayed Dattaatreya to guide him. Dattaatreya appeared before him and said - "Satya is Satya, it cannot be destroyed by A-Satya." Gaalav Jee asked - "How Madaalsasaa will marry him? She got ready to marry him only to protect Tri-Lok. But will she marry him?" "No she will not be able to marry him. The son of Shatrujit, Ritudhwaj will not let this marriage happen and the same will kill Paataalketu too." "But who could not be killed even by others, how Ritudhwaj will kill him?" Dattaatreya gave him a horse and said to him - "This Kuvalaashwa named divine horse, it can go anywhere - in sky, on water, on Prithvi or Paatal. It is immune to any kind of weapon. Only Ritudhwaj can ride on this horse. Take this horse to him and tell him that he should go to Paataal Lok on this horse, kill Paataalketu and marry Madaalasaa."
Muni Gaalav took that horse to Ritudhwaj and told everything Shatrujit. He asked him to send his son to kill Paataalketu and bring Madaalasaa from there. Ritudhwaj rode that horse and set off to his journey to Paataal Lok.
Ritudhwaj and Madaalasaa
In Paataal Lok Madaalasaa was getting ready to be married to Paataalketu. At the same time Ritudhwaj came there and Madaalasaa got very happy to see him there. Paataalketu commanded his people to kill Ritudhwaj, but Ritudhwaj killed all of them. Pariprakaash and Naagpaal, Ritudhwaj's childhood friends of Naag Lok, welcomed them in Naag Lok and said - "Ashwatar is waiting for you."
Paataalketu's some remaining people informed his brother Taalketu that Ritudhwaj had killed his brother Paataalketu. So he came to Naag Lok in search of Ritudhwaj and started destroying Naag Lok. Ashwatar came out and asked him why was he doing that? He said that I am looking for Ritudhwaj because he has killed my brothers Paataalketu." Ritudhwaj and other Naag Lok dwellers came out to fight with Taalketu and Ritudhwaj defeated him the battle thus he protected Naag lok also from Taalketu. Then Taalketu went away challenging Ritudhwaj that one day hw would surely take Madaalasaa from him. Ritudhwaj then went away from there with Madaalasaa and came to his kingdom. There he was welcomed by his father.
Dattaatreya Jee appeared there and commanded Madalasaa to Gyaan and Ritudhwaj to protect Saadhu, Rishi, Muni from Raakshas. So he started doing that. Wandering around, once he came on Yamunaa's banks. Taalketu was doing Yagya there in the guise of a Rishi. he recognized Ritudhwaj so he planned for a trick. He saw a garland in his neck. He said to him - "I am doing a Yagya for which I need to give Dakshinaa. Can I get some money for giving Dakshinaa?" After a moment he took out his garland and gave it to him. Taalketu who was in the guise of a Rishi, thanked him and said - "I am going inside water to worship Jal Devtaa, so please protect my Aashram till then."
Taalketu then came to Ritudhwaj's father, gave that garland to him and told him that he was killed by Daitya. He gave me this garland before dying and asked me to give it to you." Hearing this Madaalasaa died. Shatrujit performed her last rites very sadly. On the other hand, Ritudhwaj continued to protect Rishi's Aashram but when he did not return for quite some time, he got worried and came to his kingdom. He met there everybody but not Madaalasaa. Hearing about her death he got very sad. Maniprakaash Naag could not tolerate his condition, so he requested his father to bring Madaalasaa to life for his friend. Hearing this Ashwatar said - "Let me go to my elder brother Shesh Naag."
Ashwatar went to Shesh Naag and requested him to give Madaalasaa back to Ritudhwaj in the same form and body. Shesh Naag said - "You know everything, you are Gyaanee. Once one has died, he cannot get the same body again." "But like this Ritudhwaj will die." Shesh Naag said - "If you have learnt music from Saraswatee Jee and please Kaal Mahaakaal Shiv Jee then your wish can be fulfilled because only he can do this." So Maniprakaash went to Saraswatee Jee and got the boon of music and dance and then pleased Shiv Jee by that music and dance. Shiv Jee got pleased and granted him the boon that if he offer Prasaad to Vishnu in front of Shesh Naag then only Madaalasaa will be able to relive again. Maniprakaash did the same and Madaalasaa took rebirth in her same body by the grace of Shiv Jee. Maniprakaaash took her to Ritudhwaj and gave her to him. Ritudhwaj got very happy to see her alive.
Later Madaalasaa gave birth to a son who was named as Alark. When he became young, Madaalasaa went to Dattaatreya to give him good education.
Once Durvaasaa Rishi thought that when he does Tap the whole Tri-Lok gets worried, so why not he should go to Brahm Lok and study Ved from Brahmaa Jee. So he went there to study Ved. Brahmaa Jee welcomed him as his grandson and made the arrangement of learning Ved for him. As he was studying Ved there, Saraswatee Jee started laughing at him. When she could not stop her laugh, Durvaasaa asked her why she was laughing. She replied that she was laughing at his Swar (tone). He said - "So do you think that only you have good tone in the whole Tri-Lok? You are very proud of that. I curse you that you fall from Brahm Lok to destroy your pride."
Brahmaa Jee said - "What did you do this, O Durvaasaa? If Saraswatee will not live here who will teach Ved Richaa? Who will teach Swar here? How the Gyaan will be distributed here?" Durvaasaa Jee said - "Her singing will be in Gandharv Lok where she will take birth." Brahmaa Jee said - "By cursing my consort Saraswatee you have proved yourself incapable of living in Brahm Lok. You leave this Brahm Lok."
Meanwhile Gandharv Raaj Vishwaavasu was doing Tapasyaa for Dattaatreya to get a child. Pleased from his Tap Dattaatreya Jee appeared before him and asked him to ask for a boon. Vishwaavasu asked him to give him a child. Dattaatreya Jee said - "This whole universe is born from a Yagya. When some act is done with full devotion it becomes a Yagya, you also do a Yagya, you will surely get a child." So Vishwaavasu started a Yagya with his wife Chitralekhaa.
In the meantime, Daitya Vajraketu came to destroy his Yagya. He did not want that anybody should do any Yagya. Dattaatreya protected his Yagya. Vajraketu tried his best to destroy that Yagya but could not harm it, so he himself went there and got burnt. Thus he was killed there. Yagya was completed. At the end of the Yagya, Yagya Dev appeared from that Yagya and gave them a pot and asked them to take the Prasaad in it. They took it with great Bhakti. As a result they had daughter. This daughter was Saraswatee herself who was born as a result of Durvaasaa's curse. Vishwaavasu named her Madaalasaa.
As the girl was born, Naarad Jee came there and congratulated the Gandharv Raaj on the birth of his daughter. Vishwaavasu asked Naarad Jee about her future. Naarad Jee ignored this and blessed her. Chitralekhaa said - "Devarshi, We have a desire that we want the blessings of Dattaatreya who is born on Prithvi." Naarad Jee suggested them to meditate on Dattaatreya, so they did and Dattaatreya Jee appeared before them and asked their desire. Vishwaavasu said - "Our all desires are related to our daughter. We want that she should always be happy and comfortable." Dattaatreya Jee said - "Raajan, Your daughter is not an ordinary girl, she is the incarnation of Saraswatee Devee. She will attain Brahm Gyaan, and her son will also be Brahm Gyaanee. My blessings are always with you." Time flew and Madaalasaa grew in a fine young woman.
Paataalketu
At the same time, after the killing of Vajraketu, his son Paataalketu was crowned as the king of Paataal. Now he wanted to know how his father was killed. His Kul Guru said - "He was not killed but he died in the battlefield." "In which battle?" "He was killed in the battle with Vishwaavasu." "Oh, So my father was killed by Vishwaavasu. I am going to kill him." So they came on prithvi and Paataalketu commanded his brother Kaalketu to be disguised in a Saadhu and stay there and he himself went to Gandharv Lok.
There Paataalketu saw Madaalasaa and got attracted to her. [Now Madaalasaa was the incarnation of Saraswatee Jee and the result of Durvasaa's curse. So both had some meaning - Bhagavaan has to do all these Leelaa to set the situation of duties and actions.] So he proposed to Gandharv Raaj for his daughter, but Gandharv Raaj did not agree for this and got ready for fight. But Paataalketu abducted Madaalasaa to Paataal Lok.
Paataalketu and Madaalasaa
Madaalasaa prayed Bhagavaan Dattaatreya for her protection, and he protected her from Paataalketu. Later Paataalketu called his maids and said to them - "Change Madaalasaa's mind towards me. I will marry her on the coming Trayodashee." and went away. Madaalasaa again prayed Dattaatreya with the intention of committing suicide, so he appeared before her and told her that she was the incarnation of Saraswatee and for whatever purpose she had come on Prithvi she cannot die without completing it. She asked what was the purpose of her life. Dattaatreya Jee said - "To kill Paataalketu and producing a child who will also a Brahm Gyaanee. Vishwaavasu and his wife Chitralekhaa also prayed Brahmaa Jee to protect their daughter. Brahmaa Jee assured them for their daughter.
Paataalketu went to Rishi Gaalav so that he could perform the ceremony of his marriage to Madaalasaa. Gaalav said - "If Madaalasaa has not agreed for this marriage, he would not perform this marriage ceremony, because it is A-Dharm." At this Paataalketu started destroying his Yagya and Aashram. Seeing this Gaalav Muni cursed him - "If you will marry Madaalasaa without her consent, you will be burnt to ashes."
When Paataalketu went to marry Madaalasaa, he remembered Gaalav Muni's curse so he talked to her politely. Madaalasaa said that her marriage depended on Bhagavaan Dattaatreya, so Paataalketu proceeded to meet Dattaatreya. Dattaatreya Jee appeared before him and preached him the sermon of Satya and Gyaan. Paramaatmaa has four names - Satya, Gyaan, Anant and Brahm. And asked him to love Paramaatmaa.
Naarad Jee could not understand that why Dattaatreya did not preach some Saadhu and bestowed boons to Kaartveerya Arjun and preached Paramaatmaa to Paataalketu. Dattaatreya Jee said - "Since those Saadhu did not have devotion and love in me that is why I did not teach them, Arjun had both love and devotion in me that is why I granted him boon; and I preached Paataalketu because he did lots of Tapasyaa for all the three, Brahmaa, Vishnu and Mahesh, in his previous life. Brahmaa Jee granted him the boon to have Darshan of all the three (Brahmaa, Vishnu and Mahesh) together. We all will incarnate in the form of Dattaatreya and you will see his Viraat Roop which is not in everybody's fate." That is why I showed him my Vraat Roop."
Paataalketu came back to Madaalasaa and said to her - "If somebody becomes god by taking Viraat Roop then see it." and he showed her his Viraat Roop. Still Madaalasaa did not get ready to marry him. Paataalketu said - "I can marry you any time but I will not marry you until you will marry me with your own will." Madaalasaa said - "I will never marry you will my own will." Paataalketu said - "If this is so, then my anger will burn all the three Lok. I will start killing people everywhere, and all this will be because of you."
Paataalketu started destroying Tri-Lok. Madaalasaa tried to stop this but he did not stop until she got agree to marry him willingly. Paataalketu threatened her to kill her parents, so she had to agree to marry him. Paataalketu declared this in the whole Paataal Lok and went to to Muni Gaalav again and asked him to be the Pandit to perform his marriage to Madaalasaa. He told him that he would send his Minister to bring him to Paataal Lok.
Gaalav Muni prayed Dattaatreya to guide him. Dattaatreya appeared before him and said - "Satya is Satya, it cannot be destroyed by A-Satya." Gaalav Jee asked - "How Madaalsasaa will marry him? She got ready to marry him only to protect Tri-Lok. But will she marry him?" "No she will not be able to marry him. The son of Shatrujit, Ritudhwaj will not let this marriage happen and the same will kill Paataalketu too." "But who could not be killed even by others, how Ritudhwaj will kill him?" Dattaatreya gave him a horse and said to him - "This Kuvalaashwa named divine horse, it can go anywhere - in sky, on water, on Prithvi or Paatal. It is immune to any kind of weapon. Only Ritudhwaj can ride on this horse. Take this horse to him and tell him that he should go to Paataal Lok on this horse, kill Paataalketu and marry Madaalasaa."
Muni Gaalav took that horse to Ritudhwaj and told everything Shatrujit. He asked him to send his son to kill Paataalketu and bring Madaalasaa from there. Ritudhwaj rode that horse and set off to his journey to Paataal Lok.
Ritudhwaj and Madaalasaa
In Paataal Lok Madaalasaa was getting ready to be married to Paataalketu. At the same time Ritudhwaj came there and Madaalasaa got very happy to see him there. Paataalketu commanded his people to kill Ritudhwaj, but Ritudhwaj killed all of them. Pariprakaash and Naagpaal, Ritudhwaj's childhood friends of Naag Lok, welcomed them in Naag Lok and said - "Ashwatar is waiting for you."
Paataalketu's some remaining people informed his brother Taalketu that Ritudhwaj had killed his brother Paataalketu. So he came to Naag Lok in search of Ritudhwaj and started destroying Naag Lok. Ashwatar came out and asked him why was he doing that? He said that I am looking for Ritudhwaj because he has killed my brothers Paataalketu." Ritudhwaj and other Naag Lok dwellers came out to fight with Taalketu and Ritudhwaj defeated him the battle thus he protected Naag lok also from Taalketu. Then Taalketu went away challenging Ritudhwaj that one day hw would surely take Madaalasaa from him. Ritudhwaj then went away from there with Madaalasaa and came to his kingdom. There he was welcomed by his father.
Dattaatreya Jee appeared there and commanded Madalasaa to Gyaan and Ritudhwaj to protect Saadhu, Rishi, Muni from Raakshas. So he started doing that. Wandering around, once he came on Yamunaa's banks. Taalketu was doing Yagya there in the guise of a Rishi. he recognized Ritudhwaj so he planned for a trick. He saw a garland in his neck. He said to him - "I am doing a Yagya for which I need to give Dakshinaa. Can I get some money for giving Dakshinaa?" After a moment he took out his garland and gave it to him. Taalketu who was in the guise of a Rishi, thanked him and said - "I am going inside water to worship Jal Devtaa, so please protect my Aashram till then."
Taalketu then came to Ritudhwaj's father, gave that garland to him and told him that he was killed by Daitya. He gave me this garland before dying and asked me to give it to you." Hearing this Madaalasaa died. Shatrujit performed her last rites very sadly. On the other hand, Ritudhwaj continued to protect Rishi's Aashram but when he did not return for quite some time, he got worried and came to his kingdom. He met there everybody but not Madaalasaa. Hearing about her death he got very sad. Maniprakaash Naag could not tolerate his condition, so he requested his father to bring Madaalasaa to life for his friend. Hearing this Ashwatar said - "Let me go to my elder brother Shesh Naag."
Ashwatar went to Shesh Naag and requested him to give Madaalasaa back to Ritudhwaj in the same form and body. Shesh Naag said - "You know everything, you are Gyaanee. Once one has died, he cannot get the same body again." "But like this Ritudhwaj will die." Shesh Naag said - "If you have learnt music from Saraswatee Jee and please Kaal Mahaakaal Shiv Jee then your wish can be fulfilled because only he can do this." So Maniprakaash went to Saraswatee Jee and got the boon of music and dance and then pleased Shiv Jee by that music and dance. Shiv Jee got pleased and granted him the boon that if he offer Prasaad to Vishnu in front of Shesh Naag then only Madaalasaa will be able to relive again. Maniprakaash did the same and Madaalasaa took rebirth in her same body by the grace of Shiv Jee. Maniprakaaash took her to Ritudhwaj and gave her to him. Ritudhwaj got very happy to see her alive.
Later Madaalasaa gave birth to a son who was named as Alark. When he became young, Madaalasaa went to Dattaatreya to give him good education.
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