07 Wash off

The frustration and anger of Sarawathi increased with every attempt turning futile to stop the yagam performed by Brahma, who has replaced with his other wife (Saavithri) to initiate the yagam. Instead of relying on yogic powers she took the form of a frightening river (Vegavathi) and started the journey towards the yaga sala.

The ferocious river loosened boulders on the way and traveled at the speed of a whirlwind. The river leveled everything on the way and knocked off peaks of mountains that lay in its path.

Devas reached high grounds to get out of the way of Saraswati and were happy that they could save themselves from her fury. Brahma was stunned at the sight of his angry wife's intent on destruction and stopped the yagam to pray for Lord’s intervention.

Lord took the form of a dam and stopped the flow of Vegavathi river at Thiruvekka.

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Lord pacified Saraswathi and forgave her and told her to join Brahma and continue the aswamedha yagam. A relieved Saraswati joined her husband to conclude the yagam.

02 Brahma's Grief

With Saraswathi having gone out of Brahma logam, Lord Brahma wanted to visualize the Lord in palpable, physical form. His idea was to visualize the Lord with his yogic power. Brahma’s karma’s interfered with his effort to visualize the Lord. His intellect got dulled and he fell down from his yogic stance.

Lord Brahma began to think about the reasons for his failure. He was keen to find out how his yogic attempt failed to visualize the lord. After lot of deliberation, he came to recognize that his unsteady mind was the cause of his failure.

For thousand of yugams, a jeevan performed Aaradhanam (worship) for the Lord with lotuses and received a special boon from the Emperuman to attain the status of Brahma Devan. After attaining the status and power, the ego accompanying that power and status sunk Brahma Devan into murky pond of Ahankaram and Mamakaram and prevented him from visualization of the supreme Lord through yogam and tapas.

Brahma resolved to banish the karma visesham and sought a place where he will be blessed with the dharshan of the supreme lord without fail.

Brahma choose Bhaaratha Varsham (out of the nine varshams) in Jambhu Dhveepam (out of the seven dhveepams) in Bhulokam (out of fourteen lokams), present day India, as this is the ideal place for performing any tapas.

He performed additional tapas and still couldn’t see the Lord and was greatly disturbed. At that time, asariree (divine voice) told him that his mind will become tranquil, to see the Lord, only after performing 1,000 Aswamedha yagams (horse sacrifice). Brahma was worried that it will be very difficult to complete those long yagams and it will take a long, long time for finishing them. At this juncture, Asariree responded and said that a single yagam performed at Satya Vratha Kshethram (Kanchipuram) would yield the benefit / fruit of 1,000 Aswamedha yagam and commanded Brahma to go to Hasthi giri, where the Lord resides permanently.

Lord Brahma was relieved and proceeded towards Hasthi Giri in Satya Vratha Kshethram to perform the Aswamedha yagam.