Story of Lord Shiva and Goddess Ganga

In most of images and sculpt of Lord Shiva have the matted hair inside Goddess Ganga. The Indian King Sagar who is believed as a Powerful King, has decided to perform Ashwamedha Yagna. In this Yagna, he decided to sacrifice a horse to his supreme God. By seeing this, King Indra who is known as King of Heaven became jealous of this powerful king Sagar and he steals the sacrificial horse and keeps it in Ashramam where a sage name Kapil is there, who is meditating for many years silently. Therefore, King Sagar made his 60000 sons to search the ritual horse and finally they could find it in the sage ashramam and they even took sage. As sage meditation has got disturbed so he is in angry and started destroying all the sons of King Sagar. The grandson name Anshuman has requested him to forgive.

                Sage even suggested making their souls purify and nivarana, they need to get Goddess Ganga from heaven on to the earth. Therefore, the souls of him and ancestors will get purified. Anshuman’s son, King Dilip requested Lord Brahma to help them in bringing Ganga on to the earth from heaven. But he was failing and therefore, this responsibility has been given to his son Bhagirathi and Bhagirathi pleased Lord Brahma to order Ganga to come on to the earth. Finally, this created an insulting feeling in the Ganga and she started flowing very force to wash and destroy complete earth.

             

                  By seeing it, Lord Brahma has warned Bhagirathi to pray Lord Shiva, as Ganga cannot be hold by earth and Shiva can hold her by his matted hair. She was very much anger and tried to drown and destroy even lord Shiva but He tied her so strongly that she could not come out. Hence, she became helpless.

              

               

Actually, Lord Shiva Want to teach her a nice lesson, but as Bhagirathi has prayed to Shiva, so he releases Ganga as 7 streams. That are Bhagirathi, Mandakini, Jahnavi, Bhilangana , Alakananda, Bhilangana, Rishiganga and Saraswati. Therefore, the souls of Bhagirathi’s ancestor’s souls released with her purity.

Story Behind Lord Shiva Wearing Crescent Moon on his Head

Actually, Chandra (Moon) is the main cause behind it. Chandra was married to 27 wives and One of the wives is Dakha’s daughter. But Chandra loves Rohini who is one among those 27 wives. Daksha has warned him once to see 27 wives equally, but Chandra couldn’t follow his words. Then Daksha has cursed Chandra get faded up. At that time what to do Chandra didn’t understand and later he seek advice from Lord Brahma, that to pray Lord Shiva for 6 months at the bank of river Saraswati by making linga. Chandra Prayed and Lord Shiva appeared infront of him and offer to give a boon to Chandra. Chandra explained his problem to Lord Shiva. But Even Lord Shiva has no complete power to get Chandra out of the curse. So Lord Shiva said Chandra to compromise and he declared to him that in Krishnapaksha, Chandra will wane and in Shukla paksha it gets brighten in lunar fortnight. This should be satisfy everyone.

     

                Therefore, Shiva has worn Chandra on his head and let him grow for only 15 days and other 15 days it won’t. The linga which was made by Chandra and prayer is known as Somanatha Linga and among all jyothirlinga it is the first one.

Birth Secret of Lord Shiva

According to the Indian Mythology of Hindus, it is believed that there are 3 supreme gods. Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva. Lord Brahma is known for the creation, Vishnu ruling and Shiva for destruction with positive side.

                On one day, Lord Brahma and Vishnu were arguing each that regarding who is more powerful. Then suddenly a big pillar with endless roots and branches appeared. They stopped their arguments and starred at the pillar. Immediately Lord Brahma went up side to see the starting of the pillar and later Lord Vishnu went to see the root of the pillar by digging. But both of them could not find the end. In the meanwhile, Lord Shiva came out from an opening in the middle of the pillar. Then Lord Vishnu and Brahma decided that Lord Shiva is much powerful than them and he is the supreme god.

From then, it is believed and knows that Lord Shiva is the Supreme of this world and he rules it.