Write up about 108 Shivas          

17. BIKSHADHANA MOORTHY

 A Poem in sanskrit defines

"SWAYAM MAHESHA SWASURO NAGESHA

SAKA DHANESAHA SUTHO GANESHA THAVAAPI BIKSHADHANA SEVA SAMBO

BAREE YASI KEVALAM EASWARA KHAHA".

             Once, long back, there held a argument between the Rishis and their wives. Rishis were on firm faith on meditation and declared that the meditation was the best one. But the wives of Rishis and Brahmins strongly objected and expressed that it was chastity that alone could prove best among all. The chastity could be maintained with the base of discipline where one could find the neatness and chastity and that place would be full of Godliness. The chastity explained further, one should live with pure love with only one person as a husband or wife till to the end of life.

           When the argument was going endless, there a “young beautiful man" appeared with all the charming. He was having a "Thiruvoodu" a earthen vessel to collect food. All the wives of Brahmins and Rishis were attracted by his beauty and lost their chastity on the act of admiring a stranger.Purity in heart was spoiled since the thought of love with the stranger considered sinful.

           The Brahmins and Rishis by virtue of their rituals, wanted to destroy the young man. They sent a venomous serpent to kill him. But the serpent did not do any harm to the young man who took the snake and garlanded himself on his neck. The young man was Lord Shiva the Almighty who taught the lessons to the Rishis and their wives. All of them fell at the feet of Lord Shiva and got the blessings. The meditation is the best for ever. 

           This facet is called "BIKSHADHANA MOORTHY”. Lord came as a man for Biksha (food) and gave the blessings to his devotees.