India assumes the role as world’s biggest spiritual land entrenched in whose roots are boundless and multidimensional divine authorities, who respectively individualize their prominence, reverence, authority, relevance, and dominance; and also with whom dedication, the life of devout followers gets blessed with peace, happiness, joviality, constructive solutions for sufferings on emotional and physical fronts, and incessant prosperity. Among such innumerable counts of divine manifestations in the spiritual land of India also comes one deity, whose supreme authority as the divine almighty is hailed, not only in deep regards but also in practice by numerous devotees from all over India, and that divine being is HANUMAN, also known as Bajrangbali, Chiranjeevi, Pavanputra, Vayuputraya, Viraya, Mangalmurti, Maruti and other names, including divine monkey.
Birth of Lord Hanuman
The birth of Lord Hanuman dates back to the era when Kesari and Anjana used to live in a thatched ashram located adjacent to the mountain Meru. Mata Anjana was once a heavenly elf (apsara) but took the form of a she-monkey due to a curse she condemned to, following her unintentional offense to a sage monkey sat on meditation in a forest. She mocked the meditative monkey by laughing out at him and continued showing derision until her blasphemous chortles drained the patience of the sage monkey who, in rage, cursed her. According to the curse, Anjana was to bear the form of a monkey and will be absolved of the curse after bearing a mighty baby boy, an incarnation of Lord Shiva himself. Both Kesari and Anjana observed meditation to Lord Shiva for eons without the support of foods and water, until Lord Shiva became pleased and granted the boon to Anjana to conceive an immortal child, later known as Hanuman.
Besides, Hanuman is also said to be the son of Vayudevta (The Lord of Wind) for his alleged role, according to a mythological story, in the birth of Hanuman. Another story reveals that when Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya kingdom, was performing Putrakameshti ritual for having sons to three of his queens, he received a bowl of pudding in return for the ritual by fire God. The pudding was to be shared with his three queens who later gave birth to sons, Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata, and Shatrughna, respectively. As the divine cycle had it, a kite hovering nearby snatched some fragments of the pudding and flew down to a jungle. While the bird was flying over the place where Anjana sat on meditation, it dropped the fragments of the pudding. Vayu later delivered the pudding to Anjana’s (in meditation then)outstretched hands. Anjana, thinking that the pudding was of a gift from God, consumed it, leading to the birth of Hanuman.