They extolled the power of chastity and purity of Anusuya which vanquished the combined and colossal powers of all three of them. At this the three Gods reverted to their real forms and disclosed the truth. Sage Atri was overjoyed and named them Datta, which means ‘given’. Anusuya said “These children are the gift of God to us who have been childless so far”. Sage Atri on his return to the hermitage saw his wife Anusuya fondling three babies. As they have sought food from my hands, I look upon them as my own children and not as strangers and grown up men!’ Her thoughts – the thoughts of a pious and chaste person – instantly became reality the elderly guests became babies! What harm can the god of lust ever do to me? So I do fear nothing. She smiled to herself and reflected thus: ‘I am totally purified by the long association with the holy sage Atri. In the Indian tradition any ‘ athithi‘ (guest) cannot be turned away, as they are considered to be an aspect of God. They made a strange request the food be prepared and served to them by Anusuya, without clothes.
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Anusuya came out and offered food to them.
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At that time sage Atri was away at the river offering his daily oblations. They transformed themselves into mendicants, approached the hermitage of sage Atri and begged for alms. This pious woman induced jealousy and envy in others, however, and the three Gods decided to prove these doubting elements how wrong they were. Such was her spiritual power that, even hard earth turned soft and smooth for her as she walked about. Anusuya became very famous for her devotion to her husband. Under these heads, illumination of knowledge, vigorosity of action and stringency of penance were represented as three aspects or state of being of the same.īirth: Dattatreya had descended into the realm of world as progeny of Atri and Anusuya, a sage couple of the Vedic age. The three heads signified as Brahma: ‘ Tejas’ personified, Vishnu: ‘ Ojas‘ personified, Shiva: ‘ Tapas’ personified. He was ordained with the three energies He came to have the concentrated wisdom of the three God-heads or symbolically three heads.
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To him was born a son, the product of the Grace or the Divine Will, which was the manifestation of all three Primal Energies of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Seer Atri was one of such Seers who had ‘seen’ and experienced the Brahman, the eternal Wisdom. He had descended on this earth to establish ‘ Satya‘ (the Universal Truth), ‘Rta’ (the Cosmic Order), Dharma‘, (the perennial principles), in all its entirety. Dattatreya – a Universal Guru manifested in the recess of time of ‘Kaliyug’, when humanity had gone far from its pristine state and steeped into threshold of a time when all kinds of vices had already taken root, and the pious souls made fervent appealed for the salvage of the mankind surging forward in manifold way. Shri Dattatreya is a very ancient incarnation, highly venerated through the ages.