Reasons to celebrate Hanuman Jayanti- Erakina

You will be surprised to understand that Lord Hanuman also had five real brothers and everyone was married. It’s mentioned in “Brahmanda Purana”. Purana contains an outline of Lord Hanuman’s father Kesari and his dynasty. It was also mentioned that Vanar Raj Kesari had 6 sons; the eldest son was Lord Hanuman. The names of Lord Hanuman’s brothers were Matiman, Shrutiman, Ketuman, Gatiman and Dhritiman respectively and have their own families. Therefore, their dynasty was several years old

Apsara “Anjana”, who once lived in heaven, was cursed by a sage that when she loves someone, her face will become sort of a monkey. So she pleaded with Lord Brahma for help. By the grace of Lord Brahma, she took birth on earth as an individual. Anjana was later infatuated with Kesari, the king of the apes, and they both got married. Anjana was an avid devotee of Lord Shiva and performed hard penance to please him. She wanted a son like God Shiva in qualities further as strengths, so she asked for a boon. God Shiva accepted it.

A few days later, when King Dasaratha was performing the Putrakameshti Yagna, after which the sage offered him a bowl of kheer to feed all his wives. Some Kheer of Rani Kaushalya’s part was taken away by an eagle. When that eagle was flying with Kheer, Vayu Dev, at the signal of Lord Shiva, dropped some portion of that Kheer on the hands of Anjana while meditating. Anjana gave it to Lord Shiva. Considered to have eaten the Prasad, as a result of which Anjana gave birth to Pawan Putra Hanuman, who is an incarnation of Lord Shiva.

Once upon seeing Goddess Sita applying sindoor on her forehead, Lord Hanuman asked out of curiosity to her “Why does she apply it on her forehead?”. To which the Goddess replied, “Since Shri Ram is her husband, I apply sindoor to wish him a long life.” Lord Hanuman thought that if Goddess Sita applied a bit of sindoor on her forehead, the age of Sri Ram is prolonged, then if she applied it on the full-body, the lifetime of Shri Ram will increase manifold. Thinking this, he applied sindoor everywhere on his body. As sindoor is commonly called “Bajrang”. From that day onwards Lord Hanuman came to be known as “Bajrangbali” which is why whenever he’s worshipped, sindoor is obtainable to him.

In Sanskrit, the word “Hanu” means “jaw” and “mana” means “disfigured”. Once in childhood, Maruti ate Lord Surya like a fruit. It caused darkness within the entire world. Lord Indra became angry by the incident, he struck the kid Maruti with a thunderbolt that broke his jaw and he became unconscious. After this incident, Hanuman lost his jaw forever.

You will be surprised to understand that despite being a Brahmachari, Lord Hanuman was the daddy of a son. The name of Lord Hanuman’s son was “Makardhwaja”. After burning the full Lanka along with his tail, Hanuman dipped within the sea to cool down off his body. It’s said that his sweat was swallowed by the fish and thus Makardhwaja was conceived and born to a mighty fish of the identical name.

You will be surprised to understand that despite being a Brahmachari, Lord Hanuman was the daddy of a son. The name of Lord Hanuman’s son was “Makardhwaja”. After burning the full Lanka along with his tail, Hanuman dipped within the sea to cool down off his body. It’s said that his sweat was swallowed by the fish and thus Makardhwaja was conceived and born to a mighty fish of the identical name.

Lord Hanuman was born by the grace of Pawan Dev on Anjana. But has anyone any knowledge that the great “Bhima” was also born by the grace of Pawan Dev? When Maharaja Pandu was living within the forest along with his wife Kunti and Madri, at the same time, Queen Kunti worshipped Pawan Dev with the need to possess a son, which resulted in the birth of “Bhima”. Thus both Lord Hanuman and “Bhima” were brothers.