There’s a very interesting story.
Surya was born to SAGE KASHYAPA & ADITI (that’s why SURYA is also called ADITYA). In fact ADITI is the mother of all DEVAS.
Lord Surya gets married to SAMJNA/SAMJANA(she’s also known as SANJANA), she’s the daughter of the GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE HEAVENS VISHWAKARMA.
There was lot of love between them, and they beget 3 children – Vaivaswatha, Yama & Yami.
Time passes by and realities of the rigors of family life start affecting Samjna. The blaze of LORD SURYA increases so much that she can barely stay near him. She’s in a dilemma of how to resolve the issue.
She comes up with a plan.
She tells her husband LORD SURYA that he’s too hot for her to come close to him, so she needs to maintain some distance from him.
Surya is very supportive of his wife but is dismayed. So he asks SAMJNA what can he do to resolve the situation. SAMJNA tells him she wishes to go to her PARENTS house and during the break she will find a SOLUTION herself.
SURYA HAPPILY agrees.
SAMJNA somehow convinces SURYA that he need not disturb his routine for her and she will go to her parent’s home by herself and leaves after bidding bye to her husband & 3 children.
But she has other plans. She never planned to go her parent’s house.
She clueless and aimless about what to do, so she wanders around into a forest where she finds a very beautiful LAKE / POND. She decides to halt her aimless journey and halt at the place and enjoy the beauty. All the time thinking of how to resolve her problem. She loves her children and cares for them but she can’t be near her husband. She feels she’s done with family life and now she just wants to do TAPAS and lead the life of a sanyasin. But who will take care of her children and how to ensure her husband is happy?
That’s when she decides to take a plunge in the LAKE. She enjoys the SWIM. Its REFRESHING.
After soaking the beauty of the lake and its surroundings for a while, she decides to step out and get dried. That’s when she sees her REFLECTION fall on the water surface. An idea strikes her.
She cups her hand and fills in some water and murmurs some mantras and sprinkles it on her reflection on the water. She’s the daughter of the ARCHITECT OF HEAVENS VISHWAKARMA but can she imbue LIFE into it. She uses a trick her father had taught her and VOILA, the REPLICA is alive. Since the REPLICA was created from her SHADOW, she calls her CHAAYA. Chaaya asks her what’s the purpose of creating her. So, SAMJNA tells her that she’s lie her twin sister and CHAAYA’s only job is to take care of her HUSBAND SURYA & 3 children – Vaivaswata, Yama & Yami.
Chaaya is super happy and follows as instructed. She reaches SURYA’s abode. Surya is happy to have his wife back, the children are happy to have their mother back. Chaaya is happy to find a loving husband and being the mother of 3 children. All is well. She’s a dedicated mother and wife. This continues for a while.
Until, SAGE NARADA shows up at her doorstep one day.
He suddenly calls her by her REAL NAME – CHAAYA. To which CHAAYA responds. But tries to make up for it, until SAGE NARADA tells her that he’s aware of her deal with SAMJNA & the SWAP too.
Chaaya is super scared now. But SAGE NARADA convinces her that he’s here for her good.
So he explains that if SURYA gets to know that she’s not the real life, its quite possible that he may oust her from the current life she’s living.
Chaaya never thought about the situation before. So a really concerned CHAAYA requests SAGE NARADA for a solution. SAGE NARADA says “its simple, you need to beget children from SURYA, then he cannot out you”. CHAAYA agrees.
Some more time passes by and CHAAYA has conceived and she’s thinking how the child will be. When the CHILD is born, its a DARK complexioned to CHAAYA’s surprise.
That’s when she asks SURYA, SWAMI he’s not GOLDEN COMPLEXIONED like you. That’s when surya says, the DARK COMPLEXION is my shadow which is an indivisible part of my GOLDEN COMPLEXION, my son is like my SHADOW.
Here are the ways to propitiate SHANI DEV
- Chant HANUMAN CHALISA
- Be disciplined
- Be humble
- Go to a shani temple every saturday and offer TIL OIL. Never bring anything back from the SHANI TEMPLE. Even if you get prasad, give it away.
- You can wear blue on SATURDAYS – but be very careful, cause if your STURN is bad it can hurt you big time. So experiment it safely. If you don’t like BLUE don’t wear it. Its usually because your SATURN is bad.
- Wear an IRON RING on the middle finger of your RIGHT HAND on a SUKLA PAKSHA SATURDAY (the day should not be a saptami or an ashtami)
- Chant the following mantra 7 times a day