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Accordingly,
Mother Gouri descended, and with the timely guidance of Narada and
Vinayaka reached Kalahasti. Giving up her divine body, she started
penance as an earthly mortal. Before commencing, she bade her divine
aspect Durga, the most frightful to ward off all the untoward that
might likely visit to frustrate her attempt. Taking her seat on the
mount nearby, she did what was bid. Lord Siva created a big ocean
there at the exact spot of meditation to disturb her penance with
its turbulent tempests and dreadful acquantic animals. Mother Gouri
remained unmoved, but when the trouble shot up to the unbearable
extreme, Durga . drank up the entire jalarasi with animals in it.
Calm returned anon. The tapas thus went on unhindered. Impressed
with the unshakable constancy,
Lord Siva gave darsan on the Pournami day of the Pushya masa falling
in Pushyami Nakshatra and fulfilled her desire of learning the Siva
Panchakshari Mantra from Himself. No sooner did she receive it than
she practised it in strict accordance with it tenets. She. emerged
soon and appeared in her unparalleled physical radiance and
incomparable intellectual effulgence on account of Sivagnana
permeating her entire physical frame. As the Sivagnana flowered in
her to the fullest extent, she was fittingly named Gnana
Prasunambika. Lord Siva pleased at the outcome, remained here with
her eternally as wished.
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