|| Jai Sriman Narayana ||
Varaha Puranam describes the glory of Kamada Ekadashi. Lord
Krishna narrates the significance of Kamada Ekadashi which occurs on the waxing
period of moon to King Yudhishtira which was previously explained by Sage
Vashishta to the King Dilipa who was the great grandfather of Lord Rama .
There was a city named Ratnapur/Bhogipur was ruled by the
Gandharva King Pundarika. His kingdom was one of the favorite places of the
celestial dancers and singers, Kinnaras. There was lived a gorgeous
celestial dancer couple Lalita and her handsome husband, a celestial
singer Lalit. Their love for each other were so intense which made them could
not bear the separation from each other not even for a second. They were
extremely happy together. Once there was a grand entertainment program was organized by King
Pundarika in his assembly, all the celestial dancers and singers were present
except Lalita. Lalit was not at all happy to be there on this grand
occasion without his wife. The program started in a majestic style and went on
with the brilliant performance of the celestial dancers and singers. In the
meantime Lalit found his voice was cracking, it was of out of tune,
miss-spelling the entire lyrics and distracting everyone’s attention.
Soon after, the whole program was ended up in a muddle. There was a
serpent king 'Karkotaka' amongst the audience watching Lalit.
Karkotaka approached the King Pundarika and informed that it was Lalit's
irresponsible act caused for the failure of the grand program. The furious
King Pundarika cursed Lalit to turn into a cannibal for his excessive lust
towards his wife.
Lalit turned out a fierce looking man eater, with long arms, wide
and big mouth which spews out fire, his eyes has the resemblance of sun and moon,
his enormous nostrils had the resemblance of huge hollow, neck appears colossal
Mountain and he had a gigantic body. His
wife Lalita felt deeply depressed at the heinous figure of her husband. They
left the beautiful city and its comforts behind, started living as forest
dwellers. They wandered throughout the dense forest and found the
hermitage of sage Shringi at the Vidhyachal Mountain. Lalita paid
obeisance to Sage Shringi and narrated her painful story. She
earnestly prayed to him to save her husband from the curse. After
listening to her pathetic story, Sage Shringi advised her to observe the Kamada
Ekadashi which falls on the waxing period of moon and instructed her that would
provide her merits, with the merits earned would help her husband to regain his
original form.
Lalitha strictly observed the Kamada Ekadashi, engaged in
worshipping and chanting the names of Lord Hari, fasting, keep awakening the
whole night etc... as per the advises of the sage Shringi. On the
day of Dwadashi, she sincerely prayed to Lord to release her husband from the
curse with the merits she had gained through observing the Kamada Ekadashi.
Soon after her prayers were answered, she turned back and witnessed her
handsome husband once again, their joy had no bounds, and they happily
proceeded to celestial world and lived happily ever after.
Lord Krishna continued whoever listens or narrates the glories of
Kamada Ekadashi and observes the same at one's own capacity would attain
the merits. Whoever observes this Ekadashi with utmost faith and devotion
would attain the highest of merits, virtuous offspring and gets rid of all
the sins including Brahma Hathya.
|| Jai Sriman Narayana ||
