Raghavendra Swamy Lord Krishna
While worshipping Raghavendra, we must also worship Brahma Deva… While worshipping Guru Raghavendra, we must necessarily worship Lord Brahma Deva also, since both the guru and god cannot be separated from each other, since once, Guru Raghavendra had sincerely served under Lord Brahma Deva as his divine attendant in the name of ShankuKarna, in the SatyaLoka. ShankuKarna while he has taken the birth as Prahalada, along with Lord Vishnu, he worshipped Lord Brahma Dev also, but most of us are not aware about it. Lord Brahma Dev has purposefully cursed ShankuKarna in order to serve in the earth as Bhagavatha and also as a great saint.
Bhakta Prahalada is still praised for his good qualities and also for his staunch bhakti on Lord Vishnu, and that’s why, his name is mentioned first in the Bhagavatha Purana among the various Bhagavathas like Narada, Tumbura and Dhruva. In ancient divine language, the meaning for the name of Prahalada, is Divine honey, also known as Amirtha. Since Lord Vishnu dwells on the soul and also on the entire body of Prahalada, he has been given the beautiful name “PRAHALADA”. At the time of naming function of child Prahalada, Deva Rishi Narada was also present there, and as per his advice, the wonderful name Prahalada was given to the divine child.
Similar to Prahalada who has been safeguarded by Lord Vishnu, when he has suffered from the hands of Hiranyakasipu, his incarnation, our great Guru Raghavendra, is also safeguarding us from enemy and black magic problems, problems from evil spirits, dreaded diseases and from our bad karmas etc. Still our Guru Raghavendra used to bear our own Karmas on his body in order to make us to lead a happy life. But even if he borne our bad karmas, he would not get affected with that, since on his soul, his beloved deity Lord Srirama is permanently residing.
Whenever we visit temples, first we used to worship Lord Vinayaka, and then only, we would worship other deities. Likewise, before worshipping our holy Guru Raghavendra, we have to first offer our worship, to his first and foremost master, Lord Brahma Dev, and then only we must have to worship Guru Raghavendra.
Guru Raghavendra has been gifted good knowledge only by Ma Saraswati, the Vedic and Holy goddess, and the pious consort of Lord Brahma. Only through the orders of Lord Brahma Dev, Ma Saraswati had appeared before him, and gave him lot of spiritual powers. Hence let us add the name of Brahma and Saraswati before the name of Guru Raghavendra, during the time of our worship, in order to make our worship into more meaningful and useful.
Nowadays due to the evil influence of Kali Purusha, for the sake of gaining wealth easily from the innocent people, some bad minded people might invoke black magic on to those people, and, in order to escape from such kind of problems, we have to worship our Holy Guru Raghavendra on a regular basis.
No tension, due to our Guru’s Great protection!
“OM SRI BRAHMAVIDYA GURU RAJAYA NAMAHA”
WRITTEN BY
R.HARISHANKAR