MAHAD - VARADA VINAYAKA MANDIR

BALLALA'S CURSE AND ITS AFTERMATH

The legend of Ballala did not end with Vinayaka's sakshatkara and consequent his release, but it continued further and entwined itself with the characters responsible for Ballala's inhuman treatment. And in this kshetra their misdeeds reach the point of consummation. Ballala continued his stay there meditating on Vinayaka and at the end went to Swarga with his mortal body. He advised his mother to look after his father, who turned blind, deaf, dumb and hunch-back by now. Moreover his misfortune would affect him again in the next life, when he be born as Daksha to King Bhima and his wife Kamala. The curse ran its course; for Daksha was born with wounds all over the body and blood and pus oozing front them. The king drove away Kamala and Daksha from Palace. During their miserable wanderings, it so chanced a sadhu's visit to the temple coincided with the boy's presence there crying in wilderness. Due to his darsan and breeze that blew over him emanating from the sadhus body, the disease was cured. He then had the darsan of Vinayaka and was advised to meet Mudgala Mahamuni, who advised to chant the potent one letter mantra for emancipation. He did.

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