Sri Satya Narayan Bhagwan ki Katha

Story of Lord Satya Narayan

Before telling about the Sri Satya Narayan Bhagwan’s story, let me tell you one interesting story related to it.

In our side when anything is getting delayed due to some repeating task, people say in Bhojpuri “Satya Narayan Bhagwan ke katha banawale baada kaa” (Have you made it story of Lord Sata Narayan.). This is due to a real incident which happened in a village “Reotipur” of Ghazipur District, coincidently Reotipur is the second largest village in Asia in population, the largest one is also in Ghazipur only.

So when the prist started the story of Lord Satyanarayan in house of his one Yajman (devotee). He hardly reached at chapter two then one more person came and said “Pundit jee, humara khaatir phir se shuru kari” (Please, start it again for me). and this chain was happening till the evening.

And now here is the story…

The Most famous Story

Once Naradji went to the Lord to ask Him for a panacea for the miseries of the world. Sri Satyanarayan told Naradji that there is a fast which can be performed by anyone. The fast would result in the fulfillment of his desires and also liberation from the cycle of birth and death. He told several stories about Satyanarayan Katha.

1) Sri Narayana told Naradji how a poor, old and ailing Brahmin as well as an impoverished woodcutter, had all their wishes fulfilled, became prosperous, and ultimately attained salvation by the correct and devotional performance of the Sri Satyanarayan fast and puja.

2) The second story consists of a childless merchant who asked a king the correct procedure of the Satyanarayan fast. This story is roller coaster ride of story telling. Sadhu the merchant make a wish that if he and his wife get a child they will keep fast and do Satyanarayan Puja. By grace of Lord Satyanarayan they got a daughter named Kalavati. Satyanarayan Puja is still due for Sadhu which he postpones it till the wedding of Kalavati. Even after her wedding he does not do so. Then Lord decided to remind Sadhu what he has promised.

Sadhu and his son in law are arrested in a city where they go for business as they are taken as two thieves. Sadhu’s wife and her daughter both lost everything and have to feed themselves as beggar. While begging and trying to get some food Kalavati saw a Satyanarayan puja being performed and told her mother about it. Lilavati remembered that she had not performed the promised puja and hence she was facing all these difficulties. She decided to perform the fast and the Puja. The king was informed in a dream, that the merchants were innocent so he released them after compensating them with a lot of wealth.

I am not telling this story in full.. but Sadhu as it is forgets to do the Satyanarayan fast and puja and keep facing the music of not doing so… untill he does the fast and Puja. and every thing is fine in the end of this story…

3) Once, as King Angadwaja was returning from a hunting expedition, he stopped to rest under a tree for a while. Nearby a small group of cowherd boys were playing the game of doing puja. They offered their humble parsad to the king, who out of pride left it untouched. Subsequently the king suffered great losses and realised that that was due to the contempt he had shown for those children’s puja. The king returned to the spot where he had met the cowherds, and with great faith performed the puja with them. The king regained all that he had lost.

All those who have followed this story and fast, and also those who read at least part of this message with reverence, have all their wishes fulfilled and meet up in Satyaloka (Heaven) as is the promise, assured by the Satyanarayan katha.

It is told that the Satyanarayan fast was very effective during Kaliyuga (Age of Machines) and that whoever read or heard this story would be rid of all sorrows and difficulties.

Post Script

Any way this Katha and fast is too much popular in Northern India that I guess every six month every devotee listen it 12 times and in that two times in his home while fasting.

Even I have heard it several times due to my Grand mother’s pressure. but I never understood why people listen the same story again and again with so much interest. I never found this story of Lord Satya Narayan, but story of a merchant who did not listen Lord Satya Narayan story and then listened it.

I asked my priest that where is now story of Lord Satya Narayan, he said this is the only story. I replied, how it can be.. it was story Of Sadhu the Merchant. You never told us story of Lord Satya Narayan. He declared me Nastik (Non Believer) and said I argue too much.

In fact, that priest and others also don’t even know what’s the true story of Lord Satya Narayan. Long ago someone wrote this story as story teller and it became so much popular in Northern India, like Tulsi Das’s “Shri Ram Charit Manas” took the place of original “Ramayana” and most of us take that book as the most holy book even holier than Gita.

But its true that this religious story like all other religious stories fails on argument.

Now, as it’s declared that this story will be rid of all sorrows and difficulties, I never found anyone became happy or rich or even a single issue of that person is solved after hearing this story.

I am still searching for the Truth to get Nirvana and meet up with Lord Satya Narayan in Satyaloka (Heaven) as is the promise.

Every Blog has it’s day

Well there is a secret behind it that‘s why did I not start the topic with the name like ‘Every dog has it’s day’. No, I am not talking in scenario of my very good friend Adeel Masood, who recently (almost 2 months back a new profile at a very popular social network with the name of ‘Lone Dog’ after getting pissed off with one or some great real time Geek/s.

I am not even talking about the puppy of popular Hutch ad, which is now searching for that person who changed his home from Hutch to Vodafone.Why Red, why not Pink? Might be he was happy with his old master. But who cares of a dog’s feeling. A dog is dog at end of day.

Ladies and Gentleman, I was talking about Blog. So leave the Dogs. BLOGGISM™ did a recent study and found that everyone must start blogging. Sooner or later your blog (or say you) will be recognized by the masses. And who knows when you will be nominated for the next Nobel for your services to Literature, or Booker (for your service to Great English Language through your Blog).

Even you don’t get any award, you did not loose anything. You did your Karma you wrote Blog. Like as Gita says “You are only liable to do your Karma, not in the result of that”. So Don’t worry if people just Blog away!

9 Tenets of BLOGGISM™

1. Write a Blog.

2. Write a Blog if you have any idea what you are writing.

3. Write a Blog if you don’t have any idea what you are writing.

4. Write a Blog, if you think that anyone would read it.

5. Write a Blog if you know that no one will read it.

6. Force your friends to read your Blog.

7. Make it sure that they make positive comments on your Blog.

8. Believe in this Prophecy – ‘Comments on your Blog are your testimonial.’

9. Feel proud that you write a Blog.

What is BLOGGISM™? Version 1.0.1

BLOGGISM™ is a new religious movement that has been created from the impacts of Blogs in our daily life. It might sound silly to base a religion on a modern www concept but it goes deeper than that. If a person takes the time to read the whole (Here I want to say allmost all the blogs which we go through) of the Blogs website it starts to make sense.

Blog is the first basic thing of BLOGGISM™. A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. (Thanks a lot to Wikipedia for giving exact definition, otherwise I was thinking from what hell this Blog term came.)

There are several different kinds of Blog, We can read about them on Wikipedia. (Click on the link if you are really interested to read.)

And in case wikipedia has not included some kind of Blogs, I will introduce it here and anyone can edit Wikipedia to introduce these new categories of Blogs in Wikipedia to serve humanity.

Next comes Blogger. Blogger is that great or poor and/or stupid person who writes/maintain blogs. Like Blogs there are several kind of Bloggers, whom I would like to mention here.

First major kind of Bloggers are those poor entities who write some serious kind of blogs and think that they are going to change the World and thinking of the people by this. They write on Politics, sports, Social issues. They bring tears in the eyes of readers. Most of time they write such a long Blog articles that people feel sleepy while reading the Blog (Atleast I do).

Next are those bloggers like me who have no ideas what they are writing and even that anyone would read their blog or not. They write blog either they have nothing to do in their life or(and) they think they should also write Blog because now a days every second person is writing a blog. We can call them Nonsense/insane Bloggers.

Now are the celebrity bloggers the ‘Page3′ and sometimes ‘Page1′ people. At first place they are not bloggers. They hire other unknown/known Bloggers/writers to write the blog on their name. Remember famous American proverb of 60s- ‘If you can’t make it then fake it’.

In last few days I have seen a new breed of Bloggers, who writes Testimonial Blogs for their friends whom they never met in their real life and infact they don’t know what the real life is. These are those great souls for whom Internet and WWW is everything. They eat, sleep, drink and talk only Internet and various online communities. They even love on internet and make Love here only. I love these people very much. Infact I am fan of these serious kind of People. They have taken Blogging to a new height. ‘Where Sun can’t reach and shine there Bloggers can.’ I bow to these bloggers. For these kind of Bloggers I coin a new term BLOGGISTS. BLOGGISTS are the only true followers of BLOGGISM™.

Here I proclaim that the whole idea and philosophy of BLOGGISM™ is given by me. BLOGGISM™ has nothing to do with www.bloggism.net. As I said in the first Paragraph of this Blog that BLOGGISM™ is a separate religious Movement, which is being followed by BLOGGERs and BLOGGISTs in their BLOGs. So I have put Trade Mark Symbol (™) here. This ™ idea I got from a very good friend of mine, who uses this symbol everywhere in this Real Virtual World. So BLOGGISM™ is copyrighted, but anyone can use it freely. Free as in Freedom and as in Free Beer Also. I owe to him but not going to pay a single penny.

Now I am in Writer’s block, so I am stopping here. Whenever I will be back from this to normal, I will write more on BLOGGISM™ and BLOGGISTS.

May be one day Wikipedia (which is the Second best thing after GOOGLE on Internet, even GOOGLE proclaims it by spamming every 2nd or 3rd or 4th etc.. but in top 10 links from Wikipedia in 99.99% case.s) includes an article on BLOGGISM™ and me.

Hail BLOGGISM™. Long Live BLOGGISTS.

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