Devon Ke Dev…Mahadev 13th August 2012 Written Update

The divine couple complete their pheras.
Now, both the bride and the groom will exchange their 7 vows (Saptapadi) says the pandit.
Mahadev takes Parvati’s hand in his…

Parvati “My good fortune lies with you ; its because of good karma from my previous birth that today you are mu husband and I’m your wife.”

Shiva “I will look after you with love- be at ease. I will be with you in happiness and grief.”

Parvati “I’ll be satisfied with whatever I get, and will look after the family from start to the end.”

Shiva “You will be free to choose any kind clothing, jewellery or be any kind of dressing. I will try to fulfill all your needs justly”

Parvati “I will always obey your order and will make sweets and food for you.”

Shiva “I’ll never desire for another women; ”

Parvati “Adorning myself with purest the form of shringar (make up); Vaani (speech), mann (mind), shareer(body) will conduct any work with along with you. ”

Shiva “I’ll go to any teerth (Spiritual visit) or bhraman (travel) only with you by my side”

Parvati “I’ll stay strong in the times of grief and be gladsome in the times of happiness; and will always be their for you in your good and bad times ; And will never go near another man.”

Shiva “We will be always visit any garden or any place of entertainment together. You have freedom to make food depending on your tastes ”

Parvati “I will live contently in your house; Serve the In-laws and will honor the relatives. I will live where ever you stay, I’ll never forget people close to us.”

Shiva ” I will never abandon you from your right of being my other half; I’ll never disown you from my heart. I hope that you bring of great contentment to me.”

Parvati “I’ll help you in Hoam, Yagy etc… I’ll go by your way in things of Dharma(righteousness), Arth, karm (work). Everybody present here stand as a witness that you have become my husband and I have surrendered myself to you. ”

Now The bride and the groom will perform the ritual of
‘Hriday sparsh’ (Feel each others heart)

Wao such a heart warming (literally) ritual this is…beautiful

Mahadev then puts his hand on Parvati’s heart and utters ” I’ll contain your heart into my soul; Your heart follows mine. You reside in my speech with oneness. ”

Now the Pandit asks Mahadev to put Vermilion and Mangalsutr to mata Paravti. And tells its significance -that it symbolizes that the lady has become a married women (Lolz…reminds me of my sister ; whom we taunt saying this ver word- Married Women)

Himvan hands over the plate which holds both Vermilion and Mangalsutr
Mahadev ties the Mangalsutra to devi Parvati and also puts the vermilion on to her forehead.. Rohini gives a helping hand (Again reminds me of my sisters wedding where my other sister n I did something similar to Rohini)

Oh yeh, Shiva has a good stare at his wife.
Now Mahadev takes a coin and dips it into the box containing vermilion and applies it to Paravt dev’s forehead making her his forever.

The parents, Family, Rishis, Devas,Nandi, Ganas all are very happy to see this wedding end peacefully and joyfully.

Panditji asks them to take the blessings of their elders.. Shiva guestures her to do so.
The parents feel emotional and embrace their newly wed daughter.

BG could have been a little more happy…or could have even added Karpura gauram!

Panditji then announces that -Mahadev and Mata Parvati on this day have become ONE. And the process of betterment has begun- not only for Shiv n Parvati but also the world .

Its a great honor to be that great people have made themselves as a part of this wedding.

Panditji announces that Gover grah ritual is gonna be the next.

Then the whole venue is echoed with praises to Mahadev..

Har har Mahadev
Har har Mahadev
Har har Mahadev

Now the bride and the groom are again welcomed by an arti into the house.

Rohini does the arti and gestures them to come in… only to be stopped by immature Jaya n Vijaya. They demand to Maadev that this time if he wants to come inside he has to give them what they wish for.

Rohini shuts them up by saying that its not right to ask something so materialistic to a great viragi like Mahadev.

Instead his interest lies in art, music n dance..therefore today he has to dedicate a love poetry to Parvati.

Everyone request Mahadev to say a few lines of poetry..

Poorn hai Shiv, poorn main adhik kuch hota nahi
Poorn na badhta na ghatta- pata nahi khota nahi
Shiv nivasit akeleho
Nakshatr tarak shashtum
Iss poorn ko adhik poorn tumne kiya hai Shambahvi

Shivasrit hai ved gyaan, vagmay kala , sangeet swar
Shiv mayee hai loktray , guntray, srishtisarach
Shiv hee hai paravharm saar.. laksh vyanjana
Iss poorn ko bhi adhik poorn tumne kiya hai Niranjana

(Sorry couldn’t get what exactly he said hope the above lines are right)
Everyone is supper impressed hearing this bit of excellence from the Lord himself!

Jaya -Vijaya are like awww… so romantic wala expression!

Parvati mata is over whelmed seeing his love for her.

At last they get entry into the palace.

Noe the ceremony starts.. With Rohini getting a plate filled with flowers and on the top of it resides this ring.. which the newly wedded has to find from the bowl filled with milk and a few petals of flowers.

She shows them both the ring which they have to find…and then moving her hand with the ring in circles into the milk, she leaves it. Here Mahadev n Parvati steal glances

Mahadev gestures like a perfect gentlemen to his wife to began.
Now the game begins!!!

Parvati starts to find the ring… as she does that Mahadev, after a while puts his hand into the milk trough to find the ring.

In the process they touch each others hand…only to see Parvati ma blushing on Mahadev’s stair!!

It was like both of them wanted the other to find it.
At last Mahadev finds it.. as he picks it up.. he stops and sees his wife still searching for it… then he puts it down and pretends to find it.

Then Parvati ma finds the ring and gets it out of the milk…

She feels happy to find it first…
(Again reminds me of my sisters marriage which very recently happened and this very ritual took place… Panditji explained the significance of this ritual that- Either f them sometimes in life has to lose in-order to make the other win… one should see their win in the others )

Shiva does this silent convo with his wife that ” I’m ready to lose from you forever.. You have already bowled me over! Cause each win of yours is in my benefit. ”

Anusaya devi asks them to get ready for the ‘agami riti’

Shiv n Parvati are taken to a place having these huge diyas -which they have to light.

Both take a diya and light the bigger one’s at a time.

Devi Anusaya shares the importance of the ritual is that it helps you maintain the light/brightness and juncture of you both in life.

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Precap:
Shiva feels for his wife that al her life she has been there with her parents and all of a sudden she has to leave them. Thus he decides that he would leave Kailash for Parvati’s sake and stay back at Himvan’s place.
But, Gangas n Prayts are too naive and kin fulfilled gang.. they play around and spoil all the decor of Himvan’s palace; so Nani ma feels vexed up with this behavior of them and literally shouts that Shiva wont be staying at their place like a Ghar Jamanyee.!