Shri Shirdi Sai Speaks for 13th Jan 2010

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Shri Shirdi Sai speaks-13th Jan/Karni MataMandir [Rat Temple]

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After a break of about close to a month, I am back with theteerth Yatra. So lets once again start our journey of visitingall the temples all over the world. Today we will be visiting

an amazing temple of Rats--Yes, you read it right!! RatTemple!!

In Rajasthan state of India, there is a small village knownas Deshnoke, which is 30 miles south of city of Bikaner.There is this temple known as Karni Mata Mandir, worldly

famous as Rat Temple. This is simply the strangesttemples of India because 20,000 rats live in the temple onregular basis making it their home. Not only they live onthe sides of the temple, but everywhere, even inside themain entrance of temple, on steps, in the passage,everywhere.
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In the 14th century, Goddess Karni is said to have livedand performed many miracles during her existence. KarniMata was a mystic, who led a virtuous life committed tothe service of the poor and the oppressed of allcommunities. The goddess is said to have laid thefoundation of Deshnoke.As per the stories, once when her youngest son drowned,Goddess Karni asked Yama (the god of death) to bring him

back to life. Lord Yama replied that he could not returnher son's life. Thus, Karni Mata, being an incarnation ofGoddess Durga, restored the life of her son. At this point oftime, she announced that her family members would dieno longer; in fact they would incarnate in the form of rats
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(kabas) and ultimately, these rats would come back as themembers of her family. In Deshnok, there are around 600families that assert to be the descendants of Karni Mata.

This 600 year old temple is dedicated to Karni Mata, afamous mystic of her times, believed to be an incarnationof goddess Durga.It was built by Maharaja Ganga Singh ofBikaner. The striking faade of the temple is wholly builtin marble. Inside the temple complex, one can see a pair ofsilver doors before the main shrine of the Goddess. Thesesolid silver doors were donated by Maharaja Gaj Singh, onhis visit to this temple.
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[Silver door on right side of main entrance (somewhatdistorted by the lens: the left side should be straight)]

[Karni Mata surrounded by rats and a pigeon,from silverdoors of shrine]
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[Ganesh with rat feeding from dish, from silver doors ofshrine]
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The temple has around 20,000 rats that are fed, protectedand worshipped. Many holes can be seen in the courtyard

of this temple. In the vicinity of these holes, one can seerats engaged in different activities. The Rats can be seenhere eating from huge metal bowls of milk, sweets andgrains. To make the holy rats safe, wires and grills aresited over the courtyard to avoid the birds of prey andother animals.
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Like any other temple in India, all the devotees enteringthis temple have to be barefoot.


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Visitors say that most of the time - in the heat of the day,anyway - the temple compound isn't obviously heavingwith rats, except in the inner courtyard. At first glance yousee only a few: but the more you look the more there are,and every shadow is full of eyes and tails.
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[Charan priest with rat relatives, sitting in the left side ofthe antechamber of the inner shrine]
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It is regarded auspicious, if a rat (kaba) runs across one'sfeet. Even, a glimpse of kaba (white rat) is consideredpromising and fruitful. Twice a year, a festival is celebrated

in the honor of Karni Mata. A grand fair is organizedduring this time and people come here to seek theblessings of the Goddess

Catching a glimpse of a white or pale fawn rat isparticularly prized - said to be a good augury for spiritualprogress, and a promise of life-long luck. Some templeguides say that the white rats are reincarnations of Karniherself. It's difficult to see how this would work, sincethere are several white rats at any one time: perhaps they
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mean only one of these rats is Karni or, conversely, thatsince she is believed to be an aspect of the goddess she canbe in several bodies at once.
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Many devotees go to the temple hoping to see such a whiterat before undertaking some important project - perhaps areference to the rat's association with Ganesh, Lord ofAuspicious Beginnings, even though Lord Ganesh's ownrat-mount is portrayed as dark grey. Even just having anormal-coloured rat scamper across your bare foot isbelieved to be lucky - though some pilgrims get rathermore contact than that, as an on-heat doe and 15 ardent

suitors skid across the marble floor at breakneck speedand swarm up and over them as if they were mobile trees.
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The rats are fed milk and coconut (including the fibroushusk, which they presumably use as bedding), fruit,oatmeal and grain, sugar and Indian sweetmeats.

Pilgrims touch the ground where the rats have walked and

bring them offerings of food: and those whose prayers areanswered bring silver and gold.
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They not only feed the rats, believing it lucky to have a rateat from their hand, but also themselves eat some of thefood which the rats have already nibbled, or sit down andeat with them from the same dish - considering it blessedto share a meal with the "little children" in this way.
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They seem to do so with genuine affection: not justbecause they hope Karni Mata will bless them. After all, ifthe pilgims are from the local area then they believe notonly that the rats are their own dead relatives andneighbours, their ancestors and their own children whodied in infancy, having a "holiday life" between human
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incarnations; but that they themselves were rats beforethey were born, and when they die they will come again tospend a few years as a rat among their past and future

comrades, the "little children" of Shri Karni Mata.

At the shrine itself they are offered grain on the altar and,in front of the altar, a plate of yellow, globular, garlic-podshaped sweets called laddus or modakas, the favouritesweet of Lord Ganesh, and similar sweets made of whitepaste. Rats being rats, they probably supplement thispurely vegetarian diet by knocking off the occasionalpigeon on the sly.
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The sanctum sanctorum of the temple depicts Karni Mataresplendent in her arrogance after slaying the buffalo-demon Mahishasura. Her inverted trident depicts the headof the demon impaled at one end."
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This militant statue is elsewhere described as being thework of a blind sculptor and being 2ft tall or a little over,standing on a 3" platform. Actually a bas relief panel
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rather than a free-standing figure, it is dark orange-redand shows Karni Mata adorned with earrings, with agarland round her neck and wearing a strange tall crown,

narrow at the forehead but with a wide brim around thetop, capped with gold. In her right hand she carries atrident, points upwards, with the severed head of thebuffalo-demon impaled on the butt end; from her left handthe severed head of a manlike demon dangles by the hair.
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IN SHORT , A NORMAL HUMAN BEING WILL BEABSOLUTELY SCARED OVER THE THOUGHT OF THENUMBER OF RATS .(THEY LOOK LIKE A RAT, BUT

ACTUALLY THEY ARE NOT RATS) THAT EXIST BUTTHE OUTSTANDING FACT IS THAT THESE KABASARE HARMLESS AND PLAY AROUND IN THE TEMPLEWITHOUT DISTURBING THE DEVOTEES, RATHERTHEY SIT ON THEIR LAPS, SHOULDERS, HEAD,HANDS WHICH THE DEVOTEES THINK TO BE THEDIVINE SPIRIT AND BLESSINGS OF THEGODDESS.ONE WOULD SURELY WONDER WHEN HE

WILL COME TO KNOW THE FACT THAT WHEN THEKILLER DISEASE PLAGUE SPREAD OUT IN SURAT(GUJRAT) IN MID 90S PEOPLE FROM SURAT ANDOTHER AFFECTED AREAS WENT TO THE TEMPLE TOTAKE THE MILK AND WATER DRUNK BY THESE RATSAS MEDICINES TO GET THEMSELVES CURED.THE BEAUTY ABOUT THESE KABAS IS THAT,

DESPITE BEING INNUMERABLE IN NUMBER, THEYNEVER COME OUT OF THE TEMPLE BOUNDARIES.MOREOVER WITH THE BLESSINGS OF SHRI KARNIMATA THEY GET THEIR FOOD, SHELTER, LODGINGAND THEIR LIFE CYCLE CONTINUES INSIDE THETEMPLE ITSELF.THE MIRACULOUS FACT IS THAT NO DISEASESRELATED TO RATS HAVE BEEN FOUND TILL DATE.

NIETHER THE TEMPLE STINGS OF FOUL SMELLSNOR IT IS DIRTY ANYWHERE. INFACT EVEN THEOFFERINGS LIKE MILK, SWEET, CEREALS, WATERAND GROUNDNUTS ARE FIRST OFFERED TO THESEHOLY KABAS AND THEN DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE


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DEVOTEES, WHICH IS CONSUMED BY THEM AS AHOLY PRASAD. ESPECIALLY, THE WATER WHICHTHESE KABAS DRINK IS CONSIDERED VERY HOLY

AND AUSPICIOUS.THERE HAS BEEN NO TRACE OF HOW THESE KABASARE REPRODUCED, INFACT IT IS BELIEVED THATTHESE RATS HAVE THEIR OWN VIP MATERNITYHOSPITAL WHICH TAKES CARE OF THEIR DELIVERY.MOREOVER THERE HAS NEVER BEING A TRACE OFBABY RATS. ALL THE KABA ARE OF A STANDARD SIZEAND WEIGHT WITHOUT ANY CHANGES DOWN THE

AGES.May Karni Mata bless us all and purify our souls

by showering her grace upon us.
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Baba's Charity of Feeding the HungryWhenever Baba wanted to serve food to others, He himselfused to arrange for everything from the beginning to the

end. He would lit fire in the open space before the Masjidand prepare food. He had two vessels. The bigger one wasmeant for cooking food for a hundred, while the smallvessel was sufficient for fifty persons. Sometimes Babawould cook sweet rice. At times, He would cook muttonbiryani. While preparing soup, He would drop flat bread ofwheat flour into it. He would grind all spicy items wellbefore adding them to food. He would make every effort to

cook and make the food tastier.Sometimes, Baba wouldcook porridge. He would not hesitate to dip His hand intothe boiling cauldron to test whether it was properly cookedor not. There would be no sign of fear in His face or scarsof any burns on His hand. As soon as the food was cooked,Baba would bring it into the Masjid and ask the moulvi tooffer it to God. Only after sending some sanctified food to

Tatya and Mhalspathy, He would distribute the rest to thesatisfaction of the poor and hungry. Baba gets immensepleasure in feeding His children. Those who were fed withthe food cooked and served by Baba's hand were indeedvirtuous and fortunate souls. Let us cherish in our memoryBaba's charity of feeding the hungry and the poor andemulate Baba."Shri SaiSatCharita ---> Leads you in Sai's unique

Path"Shree SatChidananda Sadguru Sainadh MaharajKi Jai

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