Shree ChaaganTi sathguru gaaru, in his GajendraMokshaStotram Pravachanams, has explained how the narrow-minded and crooked activities of a Gandharva named Hu-Hu lead him to his cursed next birth as a crooked crocodile that scuffles with the elephant in order to have it as it's prey..
A sathpurusha / Maharshi was doing his regular Sandhyaavandanam / SooryaNamaskaaram and Hu-Hu made him to fall off in to the waters by going under the water like a crocodile to pull his leg just to have some fun and to please his girlfriends with whom he was having bath...
Maharshi got up and realized this arrogant, crooked act of that Gandharva and cursed him to take birth as a crocodile that does such crooked activities to satiate it's appetite...
Look at the way a Gandharva, who can reach that status/Jeevaupaadhi only after a lot of merit gained across several lives to be able to join those supreme species that serve various supreme deities with their unfathomably captivating singing skills...
[ Singing devotional Hymns / songs is one of the Rajopaachaarams performed to the deities as one of the rituals in their worship. One might have heard the phrase while people generally joke with their friends..... " Abbo vacchaaDanDi gaana gandharvuDu...."
and in general it is attributed as a mark of respect to those who earn several accolades in their singing journey...
" We here by welcome GaanaGandharva Shree S.P.Baalu gaaru on to the dias...."
and so on....
A person who is unaware of the greatness of the unique and unparalleled Bhaarateeya Samskruthi flourished on this land since times immemorial, all these things may sound Greek and Latin and at times some uncomprehendable weird stuff that is commonly not seen by them in most of the places...
Because, for them 'PanchekaTTu sampradaayam' is some kind of fancy dress show...
'Aachamanam' is some sort of sipping water via palm because straws are not readily available.....
Doing 'sandhyavandanam' is some kind of rotating around oneself to look at the 8 cardinal directions as if they forgot which way is east and which way is north to wave their hands in the air as if some birds flying around are being driven away....
Offering 'SuryaNamaskaaram' and 'Arghyam' is something like asking Sun to have some water to quench his thirst...
and so on....
When one talks about various kinds of Gaayathri worship, like BraahmanaGaayathri,
KshatriyaGaayathri, etc....
they think that some caste related religious stuff is being mentioned, which needs to be searched in the Indian constitutional articles to know what does that mean...
When one talks about 'nithya pooja', they think that instead of leaving the flowers on the plants to get dried up and fall off in a couple of days, they are unnecessarily plucked and collected to offer them to some idols in their home as some kind of decoration....
When one talks about visiting a temple for 'DaivadarShanam', they think that people are unable to see the all pervading invisible almighty and thus are trying their best to confine something called God to some statue inside a dome like good looking edifice / prayer hall where some songs are chanted so that everyone can have some snacks / eatables in the name of something called 'eeShwara prasaadam'....
There's no point in talking about the sine and cosine values and other Trigonometric terminologies with a primary school child who will only rhetorically ask in return....
"Don't you know the numbers from 15 to 41..?
Then why are you asking about some weird stuff that isn't present in our books....??"
Because their life is completely materialistic devoid of any cultural and spiritual know how hence such things are of hardly any value and respect for them....
Their only goal is to accumulate 1000 crores or so, so that their children can lead an affluent life for a similar accumulation by their grand children so that their golden coffins are decked up with precious stones to earn some Guinness records for having such an affluent end...
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Anyways, now back to the actual topic.....
The Hu-Hu Gandharva and the elephant Gajendra ( who was Indradyumna Mahaaraaju in his past birth, born as an elephant out of a Maharshi's curse for disrespecting the latter on his visit by being immersed in his Vishnwaaraadhana and forgetting to offer namaskaaram to the Maharshi upon his arrival...) are the key role players in the legend of GajendraMoksham.....
Most of us might have heard or listened to this magnanimous legend from the AshtamaSkandam of ShreeVyaasaMaharshi praneeta ShreemadBhaagawatam...
Here I specifically want to emphasize on a dharmasookshmam explained by sathguru Shree Chaaganti gaaru.....
In that ferocious battle that went on for almost a 1000 years, after Gajendra's sincere plea and Sharanaagati, Lord Shree MahaaVishnu has finally descended from the holy abodes of Shree VaikunTham and immediately used his SudarshanaChakram to relieve the elephant from the clutches of the crooked crocodile...
With the lord's intervention, that long fight has finally ended giving peace to both of them....
However, the most sought after liberation was granted by lord only to IndradyumnaMahaaraaju and not to the Gandharva named Hu-Hu....
When both of them were cursed beings born as animals then why only to the elephant and not to the crocodile despite the latter having SudarshanaChakra pratyakSha sparsha .... ?
As a matter of fact, the crocodile, Hu-Hu's Gandharva Upaadhi, is much supreme to that of the IndradyumnaMahaaraaju's human king upaadhi....
So, inspite of being much ahead of a ManushyaUpaadhi, Hu-Hu wasn't granted salvation and was only sent back to his original GadharvaUpaadhi to continue with his destined Jeevaparampara where as IndradyumnaMahaaraaju has been instantly accorded with the Vishnusaayujyam...
Both of those Maharshis who cursed them have only stated that they would be relieved of their curse upon ShreeMahaaVishnu's direct intervention and none of them stated anything about their salvation attainment....
Hence, it is indeed very clear that, irrespective of how high we think our social strata is, it is our sincere worship and affinity towards Lord that will get us to those supreme destinations much ahead of others who take pride in their societal materialistic affluence and authority only to disrespect / harm / hurt other mediocre human beings with their actions filled with arrogance and jealousy....
You have donated for correcting a situational crisis having your involvement...
Not for it's complete collection back in to your affluent closets...
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