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దేశ భాషలందు లెస్స తెలుగు భాష..

Yes!!!!! or no!!!!!

Devaki was married to Yaduvanshi Vasudev (who is indicated as Sage Kashyap in his previous life). Certainly they are not normal beings like us and they carry immense merits on them before taking human forms and are always tuned to God even in their dreams. Such beings cannot be placed in today's human forms.

Raksha Bandhan is a popular, traditionally Hindu, annual rite or ceremony which is central to a festival of the same name celebrated in South Asia, and in other parts of the world significantly influenced by Hindu culture.

After saving mother Earth from the clutches of the cruel asura Hiranyaksha, Lord Vishnu, as Narasimha ,kills his vicious brother Hiranyakasipu and showers his grace on the great child devotee Prahlada! That was in Krutha Yuga and the first part of the boon granted to his dwarapalakas Jaya and Vijaya who attained salvation.

In their second birth as Ravana and Kumbhakarna the Lord descended as Sri Rama and saved the Devas by Killing them. That was in Tretha Yuga

The last and final birth of the dwarapalakas was that of Sisupala and Dantavaktra the personification of evil and terror!

Lord Krishna’s avatar, thus comes in Dwapara Yuga that became notorious for the evil and unrighteous acts of kings like Kamsa, Jarasandha and Sisupala. True to the saying ‘ yadayadahi dharmasya glanirbhavathi Bharatha abhyutthana madharmasya thadatmanam srujamyaham’ the Lord took avatar as Krishna in the Yadava community.

Sri Rama chose Kausalya as his mother while Krishna chose Devaki and Vasdeva as his parents. While Sri Rams totally compressed his divinity and exhibited the qualities of an ordinary mortal and suffered all the vicissitudes of royal and family life, it was not so with Krishna. Adi kavi Valmiki praises Sri Rama as “Ramo vigrahavan dhamaha”.

Krishna was born in the prison to Devaki in his original resplendent form with four hands, the conch and the disc! The parents were overwhelmed with excitement and indescribable joy. Soon the child transformed itself into an ordinary baby! From the beginning Krishna exhibited his divinity and celestial powers! The prison doors open by themselves, the Yamuna cleaves to allow Vasudeva to take the child to Gokulam and in the terrible downpour Adisesha becomes the umbrella to protect the child!

Who were those 7 sons of Devki and Vasudev killed by Kans, the king of Mathura before the birth of Krishna?

In the book Sri Hari-vamsa (2nd chapter of the Visnu-parva) it is written that Hamsa, Suvikrama, Kratha, Damana, Ripu-mardana and Krodha-hanta, who are known as the sad-garbha (six unborn children), are the sons of the demon Kalanemi. They performed intense austerities to worship the universal grandsire Brahma, unbeknown to their own grandfather Hiranyakasipu. Brahma, being satisfied with their extreme penances, granted them the boon of protection from death according to their prayers. Later, when Hiranyakasipu heard about this incident, he became enraged and said, “You have worshipped Brahma without letting me know, thus I have no affection for impudent people such as you. Your father himself will kill all of you. In your next life all six of you will take birth in the womb of Devaki and your father Kalanemi will be born as Kamsa. That very Kamsa will be your murderer.” Due to this curse of Hiranyakasipu they took birth in the womb of Devaki and were killed by Kamsa, the incarnation of Kalanemi.

Prior to this, they were well known by the names Smara etc. and were the sons of Marici Muni. They laughed after seeing the universal grandsire Brahma running after his own daughter. Due to this offence of looking down on a great personality, they had to take birth as demons.

In the Srimad Bhagavata (10.85.47-57) it is mentioned that due to the prayer of Mother Devaki, Sri Rama and Sri Krsna brought back her six dead sons from Sri Baliraja’s Sutala-puri:

marice sat putra urnayam prathame’ntare

devah kam jahasur viksya sutam yabhitum udyatam

tenasurim agan yonim adhunavadya-karmana

hiranyakasipor jata nitas te yoga-mayaya

devakya udare jata rajan kamsa-vihimsitah

sa tan socaty atmajan svams ta ime’dhyasate’ntike

itah etan pranesyamah matri soka apanuttaye

tatah sapat vinirmuktah lokam yasyanti vijjvarah

smarah udgithah parisvangah patangah ksudrabhrt ghrni

sadime mat prasadena punah yasyanti sat gatim

This means that after going to Sutala-puri Sri Krsna told Bali, the king of the Daityas, “O lord of the Daityas, during the manvantara of Svayambhuva, six demigod-like sons were born in the womb of Urna-devi, the wife of Maharsi Marici. Seeing Brahma running after his own daughter (namely Sarasvati) they mocked him. As a result of this sin – hiranyakasipu saksat kalanemi-ksetre – they took demoniac births as the sons of Kalanemi who was the son of Hiranyakasipu. Again from there they were forced to take birth in the womb of Devaki through Yogamaya and killed by Kamsa. Mother Devaki is mourning for them, considering them to be her own sons. Presently they are residing in your abode. To alleviate her maternal sorrow I will take them away from this place to meet their mother. Finally, they will go back to the planets of the demigods having been freed from their curse and from lamentation. These six sons of Marici namely Smara, Udgitha, Parisvanga, Patanga, Ksudrabhrta and Ghrni will eventually attain the Supreme Abode by My mercy.”

The seventh child of Devaki and Vasudeva was Balram, who was the incarnation of Sheshnag. Vasudeva prayed hard to Lord Vishnu to save this child. Then, by the power of Lord Vishnu's Yoga Maya, the child was secretly transformed into the womb of Rohini, another wife of Vasudeva (she lived in Vrindavan), while everyone thought that she had lost that child due to miscarriage. Soon Rohini gave birth to the child and it was grown in the village of Vrindavan.

Devaki and Vasudeva were imprisoned by Kamsa due to the paranoia that had taken root in the tyrant's mind. Her six children were killed, while the seventh Balarama survived after being transferred by divine will into the uterus of Rohini, one of the other wives of Vasudeva.

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International Day of Yoga and World Music Day come together on June 21. I think, this unison fits absolutely in this time, as we all need to sense about ways to improve our health, and a life of melody on this very special occasion.