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Shraavan Shukla 11 - Pavitra Ekadashi (Prardurbhav of Pushti Sampraday) - Putrada Ekadashi
Importance of the day:
Today, Jagadguru Shreemad Vallabhacharya Mahaprabhu obtained
Brahmasambandha Mantra from Bhagwan Shree Krishna. On obtaining this
Diksha (Initiation) Mantra, apshri brought in order the system of
initiation and the spiritual course for the disciples for Pushti Bhakti.
Lord Shree krishna saw that the life of beings whom he had created for
performing his pushti bhakti was wasted away. So he ordained Shreemad
Vallabhacharya Mahaprabhu (Shree Krishnasya, Vadananavtaar of Lord Shree
krishna) to manifest the sampraday i.e. sect of his pushti bhakti and
to uplift Pushti beings who were down away in the flow of the time. The
Path of devotion and resort of Shree Krishna which Shree Vallabhacharya
proclaimed is known as Pushti Bhakti Sampraday - the devotional path of
'Pushti' i.e. Lord's grace.
Shreemad Vallabhacharyaji, in one
of apshri's granthas, named "Siddhant Rahasya", discloses this secret
that how he got order to proclaim Pushti Sampraday by Shree Krishna. It
was on this day in A.D.1492 at mid-night on the eleventh day of bright
half of the month of Shravana that command of Lord came to him to give
the initiation to people into the new way, Lord had revealed to him.
During the course of his pilgrimage round india, he had come to realise
something of the chaos that prevailed in the religious life of the
country. Everywhere the people practised a type of religion, which had
become altogether formal and lifeless. They followed more rituals and
ceremonies which had lost their meaning and lost the sanctity with the
consequence that there was no spiritual life amongst them worth the
name. The situation is very well narrated by apshri in one of apshri's
granthas i.e. 'Shree Krishnashraya'. Shree Vallabh felt this loss very
much. What apshri saw in various places of pilgrimage he visited, had
confirmed the above situation. Apshri came to realise that nothing less
then a new revelation of Lord Shree Krishna could meet the situation.
Seeing the plight of daivi jeevas in the bhutal and inability of daivi
jeevas to reach to their primary goal to attain Lord Shree Krishna,
Shree Vallabhcharya became worried. Since the primary goal of apshri's
pragatya in butal was to guide Daivi Jeevas to attain their primary goal
to attain Lord Shree krishna, apshri was worried about how will the
daivi jeevas, who are filled with infinite doshas, can re-establish the
relation with Lord Shree Krishna, who is completely void of doshas. This
'Viraha' of Vadanalavtar of Lord Shree Krishna i.e. Shree
Vallabhacharyaji culminated in bhagwad pragatya in Shreemad Gokul near
Govindghat. Lord Shree Krishna himself appreared before Shree
Vallabhacharyaji in the swaroop of Shree Gokulchandramaji wearing White
Paagh, Chandrika, Pichoda. Shreemad Vallabhacharyaji became so much
excited and happy that apshri by having darshan of apshri entire
shreeang, created a very famous ashtak in praise of Shree prabhu known
as 'Madhurashtakam'. Shree Vallabh at that time, had a Pavitra made from
cotton(Pavitra is a cotton mala made up of 360 cotton threads knotted
together) already ready to offer to lord on dwadashi. But as Shree
Prabhu appeared before apshri on Ekadashi, it was not proper to miss
this opportunity and offer on dwadashi. Thus, Shree Vallabh immediately
offered the Pavitra made from cotton and also offered the kesar mixed
mishri to Lord. After that, Lord ordered apshri to re-establish the lost
bhavna of 'Viraha' of daivi jeevas for him by initiating daivi jeevas
with 84 lettered sanskrit mantra called as 'Brahmsambandha Mantra' and
thus today is the prardhurbhavotsav of Pushti Sampraday. Pushtimarg is
an eternal path of grace of Lord Shree krishna, which is eternal, but
today Pushtimarg was also rendered as a Sampraday i.e. a sect by Lord
himself and proclaimed by Shreemad Vallabhacharyaji.
Each year
all the vaishnavs around the world adorn their Thakurjis with pavitra on
this day. The reason behind the figure 360 is simple.Shrinathji has
said that whoever adorns me with a pavitra on pavitra ekadashi gets the
'laabh' of doing the seva of 365 days of the year.Each thread in a
pavitra
signifies one day's seva.So no matter if you are unable to
do seva round the year. Experienced vaishnavas prepare pavitra at home.
In A.D.1492 on the next day (i.e. Pavitra Baaras) Shree Damodardas
Harsaniji adorned his Guru Shree Vallabhacharyaji with a pavitra. Thus
its a tradition that today all vaishnavs adorn their Guru with a pavitra
before taking prasad.
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