WHY WORSHIP?

Many people wonder why worship, what purpose, and who to worship? The question on worship of variety of prophets, gurus, avatars, angels, demigods, etc., has been dealt with clearly in question-answer conversation (Arjun-Krishna discussion) in Srimad Bhagvad Gita. Cosmic revealation of ONE GOD, Vasudheva Virat Brahman/Supreme Godhead declared : 1. Form worship is easier than worship of Formless God. 2. Devotee reaches the level/stature of the form of god/goddess worshiped in the heaven(s) and comes back to earth through rebirth after devotee’s good deeds are exhausted. (“Jo hai jisko bhavta, so tahi ke pass” understood St Kabir). 3. Demigod worship is meant mainly for worldly wishfulfiment (Ganesha for removing hurdles, Hanumanji and Ma Durga for giving protection against evil, enemy, etc; Maha-Ishwar Shiva fulfills all the wordly wishes and takes the Bhakta to DOOR of Moksha/Mukti-dwar and imparts His bhakta with a Raam or Hari mantra to achieve Moksha if the devotee seeks bliss. For example Lord Shiva gave ‘Hari/Vishnu’ name to His consort Ma Parvati saying “Uma kahun mai anubhav apna, satya HARI bhajan jagat ik sapna - Ramayan”.) All vedic mantras of demigods are empowered by God Almighty’s abstract name i.e., OM (OM Ganeshai namah, OM namah Shivai, OM durga durgarti ..etc). All Hindu/vedic worships first define OM as HARI-hi-OM. This is fully endorsed in Gita, wherein Lord Vishnu’s manifestation declares that ‘I alone materialize all boons given by all gods/goddess as 'I' am OM). Gita asserts that TOTAL SURRENDER of ego only to Perfection/Param-Satya or faultless/nirvikar FORM of Parmeshwar Vishnu ALONE can liberate the bhakta/devotee from un-ending cycles of birth-suffer-death (“Vande Vishnu bhav-bhaya-haram”) because that alone avoids trips to heaven-earth-hell through an infininte leap of the bhakta to the greatest destination (state of eternal bliss) in Vaikuntha-Param Dhaam by achieving Param Sidha state of existence.

BEAUTY ESTABLISHES JUSTICE WITH EASE

Sri Hari-Har is son of Lord Shiva and Vishva Mohini (most beautiful woman of the world) - an Avatar of Lord Vishnu, who took form to render the devs/gods immortal with amrit obtained from samudra manthan (churning of ocean). Samudra manthan did happen perhaps millions of year ago as per the ‘continent drift theory’ of science, wherein present continents and the Himalyan mountain range were formed with shells and other ocean things being splashed out (available as ‘fossils’ even now in Nepal). In this mega project of Sagar manthan, Lord Vishnu inspired both the disciplined beings (Devs/Surs/gods) and the indisciplined deviants or asurs/rakshasas to team up in search of sharing ocean wealth and amrit (nectar of immortality). When gods/surs and demons/asurs had an un-ending fight to snatch the amrit to become immortal, Lord Vishnu took incarnation of the most irresistable beautiful woman (Mohini) to draw total attention of surs/asurs away from amrit contention. When Lord Brahmaji could not resist admiring Mohinl’s beauty with his five faces and 10 eyes, Lord Shiva also developed five faces (punch mukhi Shiva) to admire Mohini’s beauty. All gods and rakshasas/asurs, then flatly followed Mohini’s advice of arbiterating between both teams involved in the sagar manthan project. The Dev-Asur battle then came to an end, with Mohini distributing amrit to devs and wine to asurs/rakshasas. As Lord Shiva admired Mohini the most - Mohini married Lord Shiva and gave birth to their son Sri Hari Haran.