Originally posted by: The_Best
I just heard the bgm played in Kyunki. It’s not exactly the same one played in naagin7, but it’s a different version of that same bgm of naagin7. But what does mahisasur mean?
Thank you.
Mahishasur is a demon who was granted a boon by Brahma Dev after he committed a very severe penance. He wanted immortality but it’s never granted so he thought he could outsmart the gods themselves and asked that he could only be slain by a woman as his boon. He assumed women were weak and he was a literal shapeshifting demon so he would easily overpower any woman stupid enough to try and take him on.
After the boon is granted he wrecks havoc across all the known worlds and terrorises humans and gods alike assuming he’s invincible and immortal by extension.
If you know anything about Karma then you’ll understand what I say next easily. Krishna says that Karma is something that decides what happens and becomes of us. Whenever anyone underwent severe penance, enough to merit any form of the divine to appear before them and grant them a boon of their choice, they had accrued enough good Karma that the Supreme Divine had to reward them per their own wishes and desires regardless of which form is invoked be it Shiv, Brahma, Vishnu or any Devi. So long as their good Karma outweighs their sins they will not be punished no matter what because the penance along with any other good deeds they did act as a shield that protects them even from divine retribution, quite literally. But this is where we get to every deed matters part - once the bad karmas outnumber the good ones, then it’s time for the punishment, which in these cases inevitably meant death by some form of divine who would appear.
Mahishasur had himself asked to be slain by a woman so when things got to the point where he could be punished, Durga Maa is said to have been invoked and she slays him. But because before he was about to get killed he called her out as “Maa” and sought her forgiveness she asked him what he wanted as a last wish, as he had addressed her as “Maa”, she wouldn’t spare his life but she would grant him one last wish as he repented in his dying moments and was genuine when he addressed her as “Maa”, and anyone who seeks refuge from her as a child of hers shall never be empty handed.
Mahishasur understood he was going to be killed, he understood it was Moksha for him because Devi herself had appeared to slay him but he wished she be addressed as Mahishasur Mardini for eternity, literally meaning the slayer of Mahishasur. He asked her that whenever people create an idol of hers, he always be placed at her feet as he’s now so he’s never forgotten and so that his arrogance, ignorance and ego serve as a reminder and lesson to men such as him in the future who shall underestimate women. Maa was pleased by what he asked and told him “Tathastu” as in So It Shall Be. Ergo, to this date, Maa is referred to as Mahishasur Mardini and its one of her names. Her idols have his likeness beneath her feet, begging moments before he’s slain.
O Humnava Tum Dena Saath Mera
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