#narada

[vishnu-art]

☀ SRILA NARADA MUNI ॐ ☀

[h0bg0blin-meat]

@blue-lotus333 inspired me to do this

Hindu deity blinkies Pt. 1

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[jeyaam]

narada when he prays to be handsome but remembered what happened the last time he prayed for that (monkey face)

[mahgnib]

Identified on “Wikimedia Commons” as “Lord Vishnu with vina, Narada (the first musician) imploring his forgiveness. Illustration to the musical mode Varari Ragini from a Ragamala series, Central India or Rajasthan, ca. 1680”

[grayrazor]

Serris from Galaxy Quest was kind of making fun of a specific genre of villain before it even became the standard type for Star Trek villains.

Charismatic warlord with a loyal army of minions and a gigantic scary spiky evil ship of doom.

[jayshrisitaram108]

श्रीमन् नारायण नारायण हरि हरि🙏☺️ भगवान के परम भक्त देवर्षि श्रीनारदमुनि जी के चरण कमलो में मेरा कोटि कोटि नमन🙏

मुझ अधम पर अपनी कृपा दृष्टि बनाये रखिये प्रभु🙏😌

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From June 14, 2023.

Song is: "The Scientist," by Coldplay.

[sambhavami]

Hi hope you are doing good.

I have a couple of interesting questions ❓

1.Tell us about Lord Shiva in Mbh.

Did those ppl actually talk to Shiva directly?

2. Tell us more about Narada and Krishna friendship.Throughout the epic the sage comes and goes as he likes creates troubles for Krishna starting from Kansa sending Pootana etc

He does the role of matchmaker too in times ,plays the role of messenger etc.

Say us more about Narada in mbh/Krishna's life.

For #1, most of people's encounters with Shiva have come to us second or third-hand. Only Arjuna and Ashwatthama meet Shiva face-to-face 'onscreen'. Even among them, Arjuna meeting Kirata-Shiva points to him being maybe an exceptionally knowledgeable leader of the Kiratas themselves (much in the image of the Meluha series) who helped both the men who approached him. This would explain Krishna's apparent friendship with him too. Here are all the mentions of Shiva I could find in MB, there could be more.

Kripa is an incarnation of the Ekadasha Rudras combined.

Ashwatthama is an incarnation of these four together: {Mahadeva, Yama, Kama, Krodha}

Gandhari worshipped Shiva and obtained a boon to have 100 sons.

Shiva meets Agni’s son Kartikeya, and worships him with Parvati, and Kartikeya comes to be known as his son as well.

Arjuna meets Kirata-Shiva, Parvati, surrounded by many other women, receives Pashupataastra. During Kurukshetra, Arjuna dreams that Krishna is taking him to Kailasha where he meets Shiva again and get a few more weapons.

Bhagiratha pleases Shiva and convinces him to hold Ganga in his locks.

Rishi Mankanaka meets Shiva, who stops him from dancing out of joy for a simple magic.

Shiva intervened to support Indra when he went to war against Chandra to have him return Tara, and Brahma told him and Shukra to stop warmongering. His bow used to be called Ajagava then, not Pinaaka. Shiva used to be a student of Vrihaspati’s father in this timeline.

Shiva gives Amba a boon to let her help with killing Bheeshma as Shikhandi.

When Brahma first created the world, he was tense about it not being destroyed to make space for new stuff, so he became angry, which created a fire that burned everything, and from this fire emerged Shiva.

Shiva possessed Ashwatthama and gave him his khadga so he could go on his last murder spree.

Here, we get another story of Shiva’s early life, where Brahma had asked him to create something. While Shiva did tapasya underwater, Brahma created the universe. Later, when Shiva found out, he became angry and left to Munjamana hills, only informing Brahma that he has created the food for us living beings (who staged a riot, nearly consuming Brahma himself out of anger), which will self-replicate so Brahma doesn’t need to worry (very passive-aggressive).

Shiva destroys a yajna of the Devas (notably, an earlier version of Sati’s story), because they refused to count him as a benefactor of it. It’s honestly a wonderful collection of metaphors of the changing religion, within Sauptika.

Then, Daksha-yajna is retold, but Parvati is maintained as a non-daughter character. Here, instead of Veerabhadra, Shiva creates Fever, personified. In the next chapter though, when the story is retold again, this time it’s Veerabhadra and Kaali (born of Parvati), and on the other side, still Parvati.

Krishna gets a lot of boons from both Shiva and Parvati (the Samba one).

For #2, Narada seems more like an institution than a single person, given how often he turns up in the story. His narrative purpose is to hurry up the inevitable a bit. As you said, creating 'havoc' in people's lives, but only for an entertainment value for all the sideliners. :) Like, instead of waiting for Kamsa to first track down, then send someone after Krishna, Narada informs him what's what and tells him to get a move on, because the observers are getting bored.

However, he is one of the foremost political scientists of his time. Even Chanakya, in Arthashastra refers to Narada and his policies as Pishuna (cunning; and Bheeshma is noted as Kaunapadanta or serpernt's tooth).

In MB, the Narada-prashna (to Yudhishthira before rajasuya), is a fantastic questionnaire on dharma-artha-kaama and their balance in a bureaucracy that even modern governments should be checking their policies against (they'll find themselves wanting in 90% of it but I digress), and even for us common folks, it seems very, very important to at least read this part and know what questions to ask, especially in light of recent unfortunate events.

He also appears after Kurukshetra, and tells Yudhishthira the story of the deaths of 16 great kings, in an effort to assuage his grief and prepare him to take the throne. He also tries to caution Duryodhana against the war before it starts.

Krishna and Narada are friends, basically, because they are both political stalwarts, they really speak the same language. Sometimes, with Vishnu primarily, Narada runs into trouble, as the both of them keep trying to out-prank each other (most of them seem to feature a face-distortion, sometimes with other people like Parvata, his nephew).

Other appearances of him you can check once here, this list seems to be comprehensive enough: (x)