SRIKALAHASTI

It begins in Kailas and ends on earth here. Among the seven crores of mantras, Sivapanchakshari - OM NAMASIVAYA - an integral part of Yajurveda is supreme and the most potent. And everything becomes vunerable to this. It confers all siddhis including the knowledge of sat, knowing of which, there is nothing further to aspire for. Knowing its efficacy, Mother Gouri desired to learn it from her Lord itself. But she forgot that all are not fit to receive, much less aspire or practise it; only those endowed with Sattvic nature are eligible, and they alone can practise - repeating it fifty lacs of times with utmost concentration. Lord Siva tried to convince of her ineligibility as she was of Rajasic nature out and out, and proud of her blooming beauty and transitory charms. So undeserving. When her adamancy reached the peak. Lord Siva cursed her to turn ugly and wander on earth with every conceivable misery attending on her. Her tearful prayers for redemption melted the All-merciful Lord and directed her to go to Kalahasti for doing penance, and only then she would be fit to receive that all potent mantra.

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