Vasuki

And you're going to need a rope to churn.

And for that, you're going to invite Vasuki, the great divine serpent, to wrap himself around and be the rope.

And you can offer him some of the Amrita in exchange for that, okay? And you're going to need to have the asanas hold one end and you hold the other end and you're going to churn.

And once you start, you must complete the task.

And so they begin this whole process.

They put the Mount Mantra in the ocean.

And they wrap Vasuki around and they begin to pull.

And then what happens is the mountain, because of the churning, starts to get more embedded in the underground of the great vast ocean.

For that, they need a rope that can wrap around a mountain and take the strain.

So they go to Vasuki, the great serpent king.

A snake so long you could loop him around a mountain and have plenty left over.

They used a live snake as the rope? A giant, grumpy, very much alive

snake.

Vasuki is the same snake you see wrapped around Shiva's neck.

So nice of him to lend his necklace to become a churning rope.

They wrap Vasuki around the mountain.

But if you go to many old cultures, there are a lot of snakes, worship snake stories, Nagas.

So he says among the snakes, I am Vasuki, son of Kasiyap.

They were born from whom? Kadru.

Kadru is the mother of snakes.

It's a relative term, immortality, in material language.

So the demons and the demigods took two sides, and using the great serpent Vasuki as a rope, and using Mount Meru as a, like a churning rod, and using ...

They had no- nothing to put their churning rod on, so they employed Vishnu, who plays a very big role in this story.

He incarnates first of all as Kurma.