Part-4

Birth Of Lord Kartikeya

             

       The evilness of tarakasura increased day by day. Trimurti got gathered and told Lord Shiva that it is the time for the birth of your child.Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati by their energy form a huge energy ball(power). As their energy of both got increased the vital fluid fall on the ground and tremendous amount of heat began emanating from it and it threatened to engulf the entire world in the flames.

              Acting on the advice of Brahma and Vishnu ,Agni dev went there in the guise of  a mendicant and took the energy ball and started running. Just cannot tolerate the energy and runs to the forest to save his life. Seeing this, Parvati in the guise of Aadishakti curses the Agni dev for taking her child away. Agni Dev cannot tolerate the heat and transfers the power to Ganga who decides to nourish the child. Ganga overwhelm with the child and gave a boon to the child now onwards the child will be known as Ganga putra ,when Parvati gets to know of this, she curses Ganga that she will forever be impure. With this curse, Ganga got weak and as advised by Lord Shiva(Mahadev), transfers the energy ball(power) to earth(Dhartimata). The ball breaks into six pieces and Lord Shiva tells Parvati that Dhartimata will nourish their child. The six energy balls transforms into six kids. Tarakasur  is relaxed that since six kids are born, he is safe as the energy was divided all six has to come at a time to destroy him. Six Krittikas finds the six children in a pond and decided to nourish them. When Lord Shiva and Parvati get to know of this, they come to see their kids. Meanwhile, Ganga and Dhartimata also enter claiming that they are the mothers of the kids as they are overwhelm with the Child. Lord Shiva explains the importance of the real mother and foster mother , Parvati gets angry when he says that the foster mother has more rights on the kids than the real mother. However, the Krittikas told Parvati  that she is the real mother and has all  rights on the kids. Lord Shiva declares that even though there are 6 kids, there is actually only one kid and names him as Guhu, Skand, Kumar, Karthikeya. All got well with Parvati apologizing to Ganga. Lord Shiva told  Ganga that in future she will have a daughter Narmada which will make her pure again. Lord Shiva tells that Karthikeya needs to stay back in Kritika Lok for some years as Karthikeya needs love.