{"id":294462,"date":"2025-06-15T07:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T07:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/encountering-an-unique-form-of-vishnu-and-sant-jnaneshwar\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T07:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T07:26:29","slug":"encountering-an-unique-form-of-vishnu-and-sant-jnaneshwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=294462","title":{"rendered":"Encountering an unique form of Vishnu, and Sant Jnaneshwar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgr9Pis57F6N7Tmk0NmgOxrqXSWur49mFSwq7Qxfp6OYmjaIuBoBx-GcqPqJmFpyx2k-jrX2XHLsyLHKpOnLoM5go958FE_pwJ7nFULx18LQrzBo10Ob9HmBvt59vqyLTlHWpc9cpcq8lY3jRfaiamYF64bApwsR780ZSOcSSUWb3eBBof8Lts7XRwcr15C\/s2828\/Picsart_24-11-04_18-23-49-429.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2828\" data-original-width=\"2828\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgr9Pis57F6N7Tmk0NmgOxrqXSWur49mFSwq7Qxfp6OYmjaIuBoBx-GcqPqJmFpyx2k-jrX2XHLsyLHKpOnLoM5go958FE_pwJ7nFULx18LQrzBo10Ob9HmBvt59vqyLTlHWpc9cpcq8lY3jRfaiamYF64bApwsR780ZSOcSSUWb3eBBof8Lts7XRwcr15C\/w640-h640\/Picsart_24-11-04_18-23-49-429.jpg\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><i><b>The year<br \/>\nwas 1290<\/b>. A crowd had gathered around a clearing, where broken down pillars<br \/>\nmarked the presence of an ancient temple, now long gone. A young boy, just 14<br \/>\nyears old, leaned against one of those pillars, deep in thought. Then, he began<br \/>\nspeaking, and the crowd fell silent, listening to his every word. He spoke without<br \/>\nany notes, translating the Bhagavat Gita, from Sanskrit, which only the pundits<br \/>\nknew, to the language everyone in the village knew and spoke \u2013 a variety of Prakrit<br \/>\nwhich developed into the Marathi language. Even as he spoke, one of the men in<br \/>\nthe audience realized how momentous this event was, and how important this<br \/>\ncomposition would be. He began writing down the words the young boy spoke, and<br \/>\nthis composition was named by its author and composer, the Bhavartha Deepika \u2013<br \/>\nthe enlightening meaning (of the Bhagavat Gita). Now, the ancient, holy text,<br \/>\nwas no longer restricted to the pundits, but accessible to all, understood<br \/>\neasily by them, composed as it was, in their native language.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><i>The young<br \/>\nboy<\/i><\/b> was none other than Sant Jnaneshwar (or Dnyaneshwar), and the text, his<br \/>\nmagnum opus, came to be known as the Jnaneshwari. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><i>The sacred<br \/>\nsite <\/i><\/b>where this event occurred is the present day Newasa, on the banks of the<br \/>\nPravara river, in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><i>I was fortunate<br \/>\nto visit this sacred site<\/i><\/b> over the past weekend, on a trip to Shirdi. It all<br \/>\nbegan a couple of months back, when Shankar\u2019s friends got an opportunity to<br \/>\nsing bhajans in Shirdi, in front of the Lord. They had sung bhajans at Shirdi<br \/>\nbefore, and Shankar had attended a couple of times, but I hadn\u2019t been blessed<br \/>\nenough to join them. This year, despite a number of challenges, I booked the<br \/>\ntickets, and prayed that nothing would come in the way. We planned a relaxed<br \/>\ntrip of three full days, not wanting to strain myself unduly. The first day was<br \/>\nfor our darshan of the Lord, the second for the bhajan. What about the third day<br \/>\nthen? The desire to go somewhere I hadn\u2019t visited earlier, grew in my heart,<br \/>\nand I set to looking around Shirdi for interesting places I could visit. Newasa<br \/>\npropped up quite quickly, as an archaeological site, as well as the site of the<br \/>\ncomposition of the Jnaneshwari, and I was hooked. A little further search<br \/>\nrevealed the presence of an ancient temple there, and that was it. We finalized<br \/>\nthe plan, hunted out a phone number for the temple, made arrangements for a<br \/>\npuja at the temple, and waited for the date of our journey to arrive. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><i>We travelled<br \/>\nto Shirdi<\/i><\/b> by the Vande Bharat train, checked into our hotel, and proceeded to<br \/>\nset our travel plan into action. One darshan in the early evening, followed by<br \/>\nthe Shej aarti at night, and then the Kakad aarti the next morning \u2013 we were in<br \/>\nbliss, especially since crowds weren\u2019t as heavy as we had expected. We had the<br \/>\nentire Saturday afternoon to rest and catch up on our sleep, before heading back<br \/>\nto the temple for the bhajans. This was simply two hours in heaven, sunk as we<br \/>\nwere in the name of the Lord. The experience of sitting in the enclosure right<br \/>\nopposite the Lord, listening to, and singing along with, the group, the<br \/>\nvisiting devotees joining in, repeating and clapping in tune with the bhajans,<br \/>\nwill remain one of my happiest memories forever. This is the same group that I travelled<br \/>\nwith, to Pandharpur and Vaishnodevi, so I already knew they were great singers,<br \/>\nbut they surpassed themselves this time. Bhajans were followed by darshan once<br \/>\nagain, and the memorable day ended on a high note. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><i>On Sunday morning<\/i><\/b>,<br \/>\nwe headed out to Newasa after breakfast. Our first halt was at the temple, which<br \/>\nis dedicated to a unique form of Lord Vishnu \u2013 Mohini. The Lord is said to have<br \/>\ntaken the form of Mohini \u2013 the enchantress, at the time of the churning of the<br \/>\nocean (Sagar Manthan), to ensure that the gods got their share of the nectar<br \/>\n(amrit) which came out of the ocean. The legend goes on to say that two demons,<br \/>\nRahu and Ketu tried to get their hands on the nectar, and were killed by<br \/>\nMohini. It is believed that this is the site where Mohini killed Rahu with the<br \/>\nSudarshana Chakra, and hence the Lord is seen here in an enchanting feminine<br \/>\nform, with Rahu by his feet. <\/span><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgxqt7C4J7GF8VBtbOKWZiwtpifevQnVl25LPBkNFMqd3-OEwIBTliRBx2dLzj1E5o6d-jddOVQ6ZFc1VGnT629Yc7bfppSN2g2EI-w6_Pq46ckajohsZQ6xjIHpvwk7B2Yum2JMWiMniBgOzT4oXAUl1rOibKl-SjyU50r8onaJTA6vgKUYLHMk5cUB2r-\/s1156\/IMG-20241027-WA0093.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1156\" data-original-width=\"868\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgxqt7C4J7GF8VBtbOKWZiwtpifevQnVl25LPBkNFMqd3-OEwIBTliRBx2dLzj1E5o6d-jddOVQ6ZFc1VGnT629Yc7bfppSN2g2EI-w6_Pq46ckajohsZQ6xjIHpvwk7B2Yum2JMWiMniBgOzT4oXAUl1rOibKl-SjyU50r8onaJTA6vgKUYLHMk5cUB2r-\/w480-h640\/IMG-20241027-WA0093.jpg\" width=\"480\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>The Mohiniraj Temple, Newasa<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiB-hb_BJe9p2Gh933BT0V1ptBOOH8Lj6uWz0dbFUcOBW3Pb0eZBzAc5buKze2a6uTRToyLPtp5Ovar4_Z4904kpSp8UJJ0om4SsEmm_JD2tyfbXmAhdQnzEmKegjBzeNpHpmPcy1DHk721V49V7UZSJ3tQG7pCh98qpsp14ZCkTm9Ih8uNBOm1jGbld1Rr\/s1156\/IMG-20241027-WA0111.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1156\" data-original-width=\"868\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiB-hb_BJe9p2Gh933BT0V1ptBOOH8Lj6uWz0dbFUcOBW3Pb0eZBzAc5buKze2a6uTRToyLPtp5Ovar4_Z4904kpSp8UJJ0om4SsEmm_JD2tyfbXmAhdQnzEmKegjBzeNpHpmPcy1DHk721V49V7UZSJ3tQG7pCh98qpsp14ZCkTm9Ih8uNBOm1jGbld1Rr\/w480-h640\/IMG-20241027-WA0111.jpg\" width=\"480\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Lord Vishnu as Mohini (left) and Lakshmi (right) in the sanctum<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><i>I was<br \/>\nintrigued by this,<\/i><\/b> and very curious to see the idol, which, as I anticipated, was covered<br \/>\nby clothes and flowers, no detail visible. Hence, I had planned to attend the<br \/>\ntemple at the time of the abhishek, which, I thought would be the perfect opportunity<br \/>\nto see the idol as it was, without the decorations. I had found a number online<br \/>\nand spoken to a priest, who had told me that the abhishek would start around 10<br \/>\nAM. Unfortunately, we got a bit delayed, and reached just after it began. I was<br \/>\ndisappointed to see that there was no sign of abhishek to the main deity, and<br \/>\ninstead people were gathered in the small area just outside the garbagruha (the<br \/>\nmain shrine). Confused, I spoke to the priest whom I had communicated with<br \/>\nearlier, and he explained that the abhishek would be done, not to the main<br \/>\ndeity, but only to a silver replica of the deity. This replica had been made a<br \/>\nfew years back, exactly duplicating the idol, since the ancient idol was<br \/>\ngetting eroded. Further, he said that this was just the first batch, and that<br \/>\nwe could join the second batch of abhishek. However, only gents could do the<br \/>\nabhishek, so only Shankar could go in. Further, he had to take a bath, and wear<br \/>\na dhoti and angavastra, both of which were provided by the temple. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><i>Having done<br \/>\nthe needful<\/i><\/b>, we settled down to wait. The temple was way more crowded than I had<br \/>\nexpected, probably because it was a Sunday. There was a constant stream of<br \/>\nvisitors, from all across the state. We learnt that, for many, this was their<br \/>\nkula deivat, their family deity, and others were drawn here for getting some<br \/>\nrespite from Rahu dosham. We also learnt that special prayers are offered for people<br \/>\nwith the dosham, during the period of Rahu kalam every day (a certain period in<br \/>\nthe day when Rahu is at his peak).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><i>We stayed<br \/>\nat the temple for over two hours<\/i><\/b> \u2013 one hour as the first round of abhishekam took<br \/>\nplace, and then one hour of our round of abhishekam. All through this time, I watched<br \/>\npeople come and go, and offer a variety of pujas and offerings. The temple staff<br \/>\nwere curious about us, since we seemed the only obviously non-Maharashtrian<br \/>\nfamily in attendance. Further, we weren\u2019t there for any respite from Rahu<br \/>\ndosham either. It was obvious that the temple has a steady stream of regular<br \/>\nvisitors and not many explorers like us! It was quite amusing to see the temple<br \/>\nauthorities try to wrap their head around the fact that a strange Tamil<br \/>\nspeaking family would want to come and do an abhishek here for no reason! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><i>Finally,<br \/>\nabhishek completed<\/i><\/b>, we moved on to our next destination in the village \u2013 the site<br \/>\nwhere the Jnaneshwari was composed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><i>The site is<br \/>\na little outside<\/i><\/b> the village, in what seems to be quite a huge clearing. There is<br \/>\na temple built around the pillar that Jnaneshwar leaned against as he composed<br \/>\nhis magnum opus. A board at the site informed us that there was once an ancient<br \/>\ntemple of Karaveereshwar at this site. From the name, it appears that it might<br \/>\nhave been a temple of Shiva. At the time that Jnaneshwar came here, the temple<br \/>\nwas already gone, only a few pillars remained, strewed around the site. Jnaneshwar,<br \/>\nhis brothers and sister came here on their way back from Paithan to Alandi,<br \/>\nhaving convinced the priests of Paithan of their abilities. Their fame spread<br \/>\nas they travelled, and they decided to halt for some time at Newasa. While here,<br \/>\nJnaneshwar performed a miracle, raising a man thought to be dead. While staying<br \/>\nhere, he was inspired to compose the Bhavartha Deepika, his translation of the<br \/>\nBhagavad Gita, at the tender age of 14 years, leaning against one of the pillars<br \/>\nof the ancient temple. It was the man he had raised from the dead, named<br \/>\nSachidananda, who wrote down the composition as he recited it. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjNWLbdeYKZ-0_Ow1iJeFyWa2-lZVcjZ11RSvzLUIV0ZewVBKHenYEpZL7cfTnmk8CYTGrsp1kLro0Gl2kFfiQsiT2F-2C-kEQM9DlLlEJkGEB-RsQCOzPQB5F0voR1WcPIzYB3RGe9P_3RZ22TlRjlWpB9cb0w_c_IrfEfmnT7iYYUIxgFVzpbM-gAEDip\/s1156\/IMG-20241027-WA0083.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1156\" data-original-width=\"868\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjNWLbdeYKZ-0_Ow1iJeFyWa2-lZVcjZ11RSvzLUIV0ZewVBKHenYEpZL7cfTnmk8CYTGrsp1kLro0Gl2kFfiQsiT2F-2C-kEQM9DlLlEJkGEB-RsQCOzPQB5F0voR1WcPIzYB3RGe9P_3RZ22TlRjlWpB9cb0w_c_IrfEfmnT7iYYUIxgFVzpbM-gAEDip\/w480-h640\/IMG-20241027-WA0083.jpg\" width=\"480\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i>Today, the<br \/>\ntemple stands<\/i><\/b> in the middle of the huge clearing, part of which has been made<br \/>\ninto a garden with a towering statue of Jnaneshwar composing the Jnaneshwari,<br \/>\nhis disciple writing it down.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj9JD_70rmz_29x8EgSmuHn97IeA9FyRPj_ebLPYfR6hr2kVVf9pT-Onyh2iLKpdcD83YDGM138_9gaazb5kxDDOaTpNiikC0YfEnX0Mb53uWIR6xpuMX6pL5lSId8APVl06bVkxqJWgG1iv2wxQqjWWsm1b1eLFsUitJgxQpmrkGEazb6PSlyRX05yYB33\/s1156\/IMG-20241027-WA0077.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"868\" data-original-width=\"1156\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj9JD_70rmz_29x8EgSmuHn97IeA9FyRPj_ebLPYfR6hr2kVVf9pT-Onyh2iLKpdcD83YDGM138_9gaazb5kxDDOaTpNiikC0YfEnX0Mb53uWIR6xpuMX6pL5lSId8APVl06bVkxqJWgG1iv2wxQqjWWsm1b1eLFsUitJgxQpmrkGEazb6PSlyRX05yYB33\/w640-h480\/IMG-20241027-WA0077.jpg\" width=\"640\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><i>The temple<br \/>\nhas the pillar<\/i><\/b> in the central shrine, along with other shrines, to Jnaneshwar<br \/>\nas well as other deities.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgbK2bE3WZ3ZmWVtr1avZXxHOsT-Zbefg8pZdHA2Y3eAhVylOfgFdpifTuNdv8j5JfvMBp3Mcm06_WNwH_SqUtLLSVH48qpOGLQjVBH3ZoPj26mcCcHEccXAetwk3-ijpa2Nhj08ET99Qs4S51wcC7HHonsUMt7era5xNq57hrKuuec2lLl577ejiPkXNZ6\/s1156\/IMG-20241027-WA0090.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1156\" data-original-width=\"868\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgbK2bE3WZ3ZmWVtr1avZXxHOsT-Zbefg8pZdHA2Y3eAhVylOfgFdpifTuNdv8j5JfvMBp3Mcm06_WNwH_SqUtLLSVH48qpOGLQjVBH3ZoPj26mcCcHEccXAetwk3-ijpa2Nhj08ET99Qs4S51wcC7HHonsUMt7era5xNq57hrKuuec2lLl577ejiPkXNZ6\/w480-h640\/IMG-20241027-WA0090.jpg\" width=\"480\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Copies of<br \/>\nthe Jnaneshwari in Marathi are available for sale here. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><i>It is a peaceful<br \/>\nsite,<\/i><\/b> with few visitors. There is also a temple to Dattatreya, and also a small<br \/>\npathashala, teaching the varkari system to children. As we walked out, seeing<br \/>\nthe children run around and play during their lunch break was a happy sight. It<br \/>\nwas reassuring to see that something that began over 700 years back, was still<br \/>\nkept alive in this tiny corner of Maharashtra. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b><i>We spent a<br \/>\nlittle time,<\/i><\/b> just sitting here, before turning back for Shirdi and home. But I took<br \/>\nback with me, this vivid image in my mind, of the young boy leaning against an<br \/>\nancient pillar and composing what would become one of the greatest literary works<br \/>\nin Marathi, one that endures more than seven centuries after him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year was 1290. A crowd had gathered around a clearing, where broken down pillars marked the presence of an ancient temple, now long gone. A young boy, just 14 years old, leaned against one of those pillars, deep in thought. Then, he began speaking, and the crowd fell silent, listening to his every word. 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