Daityas / demons always fight against Devatas to satisfy their ill habits:





The daitya's / demon's Guru is Śukrācārya. He knew the vidya / knowledge of mṛtasanjīvinī, which he obtained through a long tapas for Parameśvara. Using this vidya, Śukrācārya used to bring back the dead daityas to life and save them. However the Devatas neither knew the vidya nor had amṛutam, because this story happened before the Kṣhīra sāgara mathanam (churning of the great ocean Kshira Sagara)).





The Devatas asked their Guru, Bṛhaspati, for help. Bṛhaspati asked his son, Kacha, to become a śiṣhya / student of Śukrācārya, do Guru seva with utmost care, learn all the śāstras etc. and the mṛtasanjīvinī vidya from Sukrācārya.





Kacha immediately followed the instructions of his father and reached the āśrama of Śukrācārya.



He did sāṣhṭāṅga namaskāram to Śukrācārya and said "O Gurudeva! I am from the Āṅgīrasa gotram and the son of Bṛhaspati, the Guru of the Devatas. People call me by the name Kacha. I came to you as a vidyārthi / student".









Śukrācārya had a very beautiful daughter by name Devayānī. She was very young and had a lot of prema / love towards Kacha, she tried to express herself many times to Kacha, but Kacha never had anything in his mind except his vidyābhyāsam. Also since Devayānī was the daughter of his Guru, who is equal to his father, he had sodarī-bhāvam (sister) on Devayānī. Śukrācārya happily agreed to have the son of the great Bṛhaspati as his śiṣhya. Everyday Kacha used to wake up before the Sunrise, and do Sandhyāvandanādi āhnikas, after his kāla-kṛtyas. He used to be very obedient to his Guru and learn his vidyas with utmost concentration and respect. He never let any attractions, deviations to enter his mind and always concentrated on Guru seva and his vidyābhyāsam / education.Śukrācārya had a very beautiful daughter by name Devayānī. She was very young and had a lot of prema / love towards Kacha, she tried to express herself many times to Kacha, but Kacha never had anything in his mind except his vidyābhyāsam. Also since Devayānī was the daughter of his Guru, who is equal to his father, he had sodarī-bhāvam (sister) on Devayānī.





Slowly Kacha, due to his unparalleled efforts and vinayam / modesty became the favourite śiṣhya of Śukrācārya. This could not be tolerated by the daityas who were burning with īrṣha / jealousy. Also they were afraid that Kacha would soon learn Mṛtasanjīvinī vidya from Śukrācārya and later it would be difficult for them to face the Devatas.



Once Kacha went to the forest as his Guru's gopālaka. As the Sun was setting the power of daityas increased. They attacked Kacha and killed him. Devayāni was waiting for Kacha in the āśrama. She told her father, "everyday by the time for sāyam-sandhyāvandanam (evening time), Kacha returns home. Somehow he did not return today. O father! please see if he is ok."





Śukrācārya with his divya-dṛṣhṭi saw what happened to Kacha and immediately brought him back to life. The daityas īrṣha increased with this and this time they planned to kill Kacha in such a way that it will be difficult for Śukrācārya to save him.





They killed Kacha, burnt him and mixed his ashes in surāpānam (a type of liquid) and served it to their Guru. Śukrācārya drank the surāpānam. Seeing Kacha not returning home, again Devayāni asked her father. Śukrācārya was shocked to know what mistake he committed unknowingly. He thought "a man who is under the influence of surā-pānam will loose all his distinction of good and bad, does not think and can do any great pāpa-kāryam".





Once the pāpa-karyam (sin work) is done, for normal humans, it is impossible to undo it. Śukrācārya thought that if he was not under the influence of surāpānam, he could have easily identified, with his tapobalam, that Kacha's ashes were mixed in his surāpānam. So he made a firm rule that surāpānam, in what ever small quantītes, is mahāpāpam and it must never be drunk.



He used his Mṛtasanjīvinī vidya and brought back Kacha to life. However Kacha remained in Śukrācārya's stomach in a sūkṣhma rūpam (micro particle). Śukrācārya then taught Kacha Mṛtasanjīvaiī vidya and asked him to come out of him, by tearing his stomach.





Kacha came out of Śukrācārya and then used the Mṛtasanjīvinī vidya to bring back the life of his Guru. Kacha, after the completion of his vidyābhyāsam, took the anujña / permission of Śukrācārya and was planning to leave.





Devayāni then told Kacha "Please do not leave me and go. Marry me". Kacha said "you are like a sister to me, since a Guru is equal to one's father". Devayāni got angry with Kacha and said "Since you rejected my love and pained me, your vidya will not be of any use to you".





Kacha was not sad because he knew though his Vidya will not be directly useful to him, he can spread his vidya to others and thereby become useful to the society. Vidya daanam is the only daanam that can never be destroyed and robbed. The more and more it is given to others, the more and more it grows…



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