In the
celestial wedding of Sital Sasthi, Lord Shiva donot have any parents since he
is the Lord of the Universe. Nruparaj Club takes the responsibility to act as
the parents of the Lord Shiva. On the other hand a chosen civilian couple of
Barpali acts as the parents of Ma Parvati. In the year 2015 Shri Makardwaj Meher and his wife Smt.Sukanti Meher are
being shortlisted by the Sital Sasthi Jatra Committee to be the parents of
Jagat Janani Ma Parvati. It is to be noted that, it’s a life time opportunity,
which only a chosen few are being blessed with.
Makardwaj
Meher is an ikat weaver and belongs to the Bhulia community of Barpali. He and
his wife Sukanti Meher are living a discipline life in conjunction with the
society. Their only objective in the life is to see his two sons get settled in
life properly, who are in fact now attending colleges at Bhubaneswar.
Because of
their upbringing both husband Makardhwaj and his wife Sukanti have got
religious bent of mind ever since their childhood. In her life Sukanti had done
Chandi Paath for fourteen long years, which is considered to be of stringent
religious penance. She never knew that Ma Shakti would someday take the
position of her daughter. Since she got blessed with only two sons, she always
felt the need of a daughter. Sukanti Meher was born at Binka of Sonepur
District. At the tender age of fifteen
years she was going to attend the Lord Shiva temple unfailingly every Monday. But
was never knew, someday she would be the mother-in-law of Lord Shiva.
There were a
series of events which forecasted the arrival of Ma Parvati to the home of
weaver Makardhwaj Meher. But both the couple were clueless about it. Way back
in the year 2010 during the most turbulent years of Makardhwaj Meher, one night
he had a dream. In the dream he saw Ma Parvati adorned in a white saree appear
before him. She appeared absolutely gracious with sindoor (vermicelli)
on the head. And a diamond was glowing on her forehead. In the dream Ma Parvati
told Makardhwaj, “Very soon I would come to your home”. On the other hand their
younger son Pratap Meher had a dream where he saw the Goddess entering their home
and went to merge in the photo frame of Godess Durga.
After the
declaration of nomenclature of parenthood of Ma Parvati at two different
occasions two baby cobra snakes roamed inside the main gate of their house. But
Makardhwaj whisked them away unhurt since cobra is associated with Lord Shiva. The family of Makardhwaj witnessed a spurt in
the material achievement since the arrival of Mother in their home. During the
year 2010 Makardhwaj Meher got the National Merit Certificate. But for the
following year 2011 his wife Sukanti Meher got the National Award for handlooms
from the hands of President of India Pranab Mukherjee.
If you got a
son-in-law who either is a doctor or an engineer think how proud you feel for
him in the society. But when the son-in-law is dev-adi-deva (Lord of the
Lords) Shiva what else one need to have in life.
E.Kiran
Mohan
C/o.Dr.E.R.Rao
(MD)
Tehsil
Chowk,
At/PO.
BARPALI – 768 029
Dist.
Bargarh, Orissa, India
Cell #
91-99-371-20565
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