Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Origin Of Laxmi, Goddess Of Wealth

Once an oracle from the sky all of sudden ordered God’s and Demons to churn the ocean to get wealth, riches from the sea and make use of the mountain Mandrachal as churning pillar and Vasuki King of Nagas Serpents as the robe of Gods and Demons arrived, Lord Vishnu carried mountain Mandrachal to the coast of sea and placed in the middle of ocean.
After that Gods and Demons began to churn the ocean by making the Mountain Mandrachal as a pillar and Vasuki Nag as the robe. Beside other things that came out of the ocean as a result of churning. The gods and demons saw Goddess Laxmi, the goddess of fortune .
Goddess Laxmi become Wife of lord Vishnu with a flower garland in her hand and went toward Lord Vishnu, put in round neck of Vishnu and select Lord Vishnu as her husband from the group of God. After that they got lots of wealth riches lying inside the ocean with Laxmi.
Once Goddess Laxmi in the disguise of a child girl presented grains to the farmer and said to the farmers of plant it in their field and see what comes up, “and so saying she disappeared, The farmer were very much surprised at hearing the small child girls speak and they thought to themselves, and thy decided to plant the grains in their field as it directed.”
A month or two month latter the grain grew, and soon attained its full height and one day the former going to look at it was astonished to find that instead of grain each ear of corn contained a valuable jewel. They were Very much delighted at this discovery and having collected all the jewel, they carried them away to the town, Where the were able to sell them for a large sum of money and thus found themselves in a condition of great comfort and prosperity. The build houses and established a new town and celebrated festival of light and worshipped Goddess Laxmi to please Goddess of Wealth.

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