Yavakrita gains knowledge without a guru, Raibhya kills him and Arvavasu saves all
Appropriate intelligence can only be gained by having a guru
in our life. There is no fast or simple way to get it. Only a guru can direct
us to maintain a strategic distance from the wrong way of our life and make us
considerate. Sage Yavakrita had once endeavoured to gain knowledge without
having a guru and he had to confront results for his idiocy afterwards that I
am going to share in this post. Sage Lomasa had told this special story
of Yavakrita to Pandavas amid their journey to Sage Raibhya's (or Raivya) hermitage in
Ushiganga Tirtha.
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Long ago there were two sages named Bharadwaja or Bharadvaja and Raibhya who used to be great companions and remain gentle in their hermitage. Raibhya had two children named Paravasu and Arvavasu and Bharadwaja had one child named Yavakri or Yavakrita. Raibhya and his children grew to be incredible scholars while Bharadwaja practiced austerities only. Yavakrita noticed that all the Brahmins favoured welcoming and respecting Raibhya and his sons rather than his father. Infuriated Yavakrita began meditating in the fire with the intention to acquire total Vedic knowledge without studying it from a guru. Seeing his thorough penance Indra god appeared before him and asked the cause behind it.
Yavakrita told him, "Studying Vedas from a Guru will take a
long time, in this manner I wish to have it within a short period and my strict penance is only meant for 'Svadhyaya' or
self-study by which any Dwijati individuals would become knowledgeable." After hearing this Indra
denied it by saying, "Your way is not a legitimate way to get Vedic knowledge and it would too destroy the way of Svadhyaya." Then Indra left. Yavakrita continued
with his penance. Indra once more showed up before him and denied such boon. He
moreover recommended to Yavakrita that, "it would be idiocy to let all Dwijati
individuals acquire knowledge without a guru. Instead of them, I could let you and your father only acquire it."
But Yavakrita was certain in his rationale. He cautioned Indra that, he would go for extreme penance by relinquishing his body parts within the fire. Finding no way to stop him, Indra himself took a shape of a weak old Brahmin who was having TB disease and went to Ganga where Yavakrita used to take bath always. Regularly The Brahmin used to take a handful of sand and toss it into the water with the purpose to make a bridge on Ganga there. Yavakrita noticed the extraordinary endeavours of that Brahmin and inquired him the reason. Brahmin expressed to him he needed to create the bridge to assist all the individuals who used to face challenges to swim across the sacred river. Yavakrita ceased him by saying that, it was impossible to make a bridge on such the biggest river.
Indra at that point alluded to him, he was doing the unfeasible task in the similar way Yavakrita had begun out thinking to let all Dwijatis acquire entire Vedic knowledge without having a guru. Yavakrita Then asked Indra to bless him and his father to gain knowledge rather than the complete Dwijati individuals and also let both of them have an honourable position over the others. Indra allowed him his wish. After that Yavakrita returned to his hermitage and specified to his father about his boon that was allowed by Indra. Bharadwaja Cautioned his son about his persuaded boon that could make him cruel and thus annihilate him. Sage Bharadwaja too gave his son an instance of an awesome sage named Baladhi or Valadhi whose child was destroyed for his narcissism.
(Sage Baladhi was childless consequently did rigorous penance and was afterwards blessed with a boy by the deities. But that child was not godlike. Subsequently, he persuaded the gods to allow him the wish of making his child stay away from disease or death and have a life as long as the mountain would be there with the reason of giving him life. His wish was fulfilled. His child was subsequently named Medhavi who grew to be angry and egoistic for having a long life. He tormented numerous sages. One day he made sage Dhanupaksha irate with his behaviour, who in return cursed Medhavi to be burnt into ashes. However, Medhavi didn't die. Knowing about his long age by means of the Ascetic power, sage Dhanupaksha let the buffaloes crush that mountain which carried the age of Medhavi and as a result, Medhavi passed on there. The shrewd individuals seeing the devastating sage Baladhi grieving over his dead son stated to him that, 'human beings are mortal and they must never go against the rules of deities. Otherwise, they will confront the same results as Medhavi.')
Likewise, Sage Bharadwaja also cautioned his son about the incredible power of angry sage Raibhya and his sons additionally asked him not to go near sage Raibhya out of arrogancy. Yavakrita concurred with him however went to Raibhya's ashram one day. He noticed Sage's beautiful daughter-in-law there and was consumed by lust. Fearless Yavakrita asked her to serve him. Out of fear, she went near to him and Yavakrita made love with her. When Raibhya sage returned to his hermitage, he noticed his depressed defenceless daughter-in-law. After knowing everything from her, the infuriated sage cut his two dreadlocks, offered it the yajna fire, and created one angry demon and an alluring lady similar to his daughter-in-law out of it. Sage requested both to follow and kill Yavakrita. The woman lured Yavakrita, stole his Kamandalu, and ran away. Without his Kamandalu, Yavakrita got to be unpropitious. That demon chased him by means of holding a Trishul or Sula in his hand. He indeed went to the stream but that got to be dry. Out of fear, Yavakrita went towards the Agnihotra place of his father but he was halted at the entrance by a blind sudra watch who was prior appointed by sage Bharadwaja there to guard the place. The blind man could not recognize Yavakrita but stopped him forcefully. The demon at that time hit Trishul at Yavakrita and slaughtered him.
After knowing everything from the guard, Sage Bharadwaja was
in deep sorrow seeing his only son dead. He mourned for his son, cursed sage
Raibhya that his elder son Paravasu would murder his father, and then jumped
into the fire of his dead son's funeral pyre. During those days, King Brihaddhyumna
was preparing for one great yajna where he welcomed Paravasu and Arvavasu for help. Only Sage
Raibhya and his daughter-in-law remained there in Raibhya's hermitage. During those days,
Paravasu once came back to the hermitage to take care of certain family things and
noticed sage Raibhya wandering in the forest while wearing dark deerskin. It was too dark and He
assumed the sage to be a wild animal and butchered him there to secure himself. Afterwards, he realized that he was accountable to Brahma Hatya
for slaughtering his father. He finished his burial service works and informed
his brother Arvavasu about the evil act that he had done accidentally.
Arvavasu couldn't complete the yajna without his elder brother. Consequently, Paravasu asked his brother to keep Vrat for relieving him from Brahma hatya so that he could solely perform the king's yajna. Paravasu was capable of completing a yajna all by himself. Arvavasu concurred with the Vrat and made his brother sinless. After that when Arvavasu returned to take part in the yajna, his brother falsely blamed Arvavasu before the king for committing Brahma Hatya there. Thus King could not let Arvavasu participate in the yajna considering him to be Blameworthy of Brahma Hatya in spite of the fact that Paravasu had done it.
Yavakrita after being alive inquired the deities that, "Despite being such an effective Ascetic by obtaining all the Vedic knowledge and performing the vrats, how could I be slaughtered in an unseemly way by sage Raibhya?" Deities replied to him, "You gained the knowledge of Vedas without having a legitimate guru whereas sage Raibhya had done it with all his efforts only after pleasing his gurus with his behaviour. Thus he was able to do it. "
Ref: Mahabharata book
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