Shiva never thinks of Parvati as separate from Him

 

Parvati worships Shiva, thinks of Him, meditates upon Him, loves Him, served Him.

And Shiva:

He never thinks of Parvati as separate from Him.

His existence in one word, is Parvati.

Parvati is the greatest power against all demons;

Shiva is Her Back.

And yet, Shiva in turn is protected by Parvati and Her unsurpassable yogini magic.

~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.

HIS STORY

 

HIS STORY

It had dawned on Him that He was an eternal witness, and thus too, the realisation that the story of all life, was His story.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

LORD SHIVA'S AGE

 

HE HAS BEEN HERE BEFORE US ALL

Some people ask, What is the age of Lord Shiva?
The great Rishi Sutji answered this to his disciple Shaunaka in the Shiva Purana, “Time and again He has appeared on the scene and time and again, He has vanished. No one knows where He comes from.The one thing that’s almost certain is, that even when He appears to us for the first time, the records of our forefathers remind us that He has been here before. He has been here before us all and so, no one knows where He comes from, or when He was born,” they repeated.
“He is The God,” they emphasised, and in their tedious manuscripts, added, “Ultimately, of All things.” He is Mahakaal, He is SHIVA The Ultimate Time Traveller.


~ From the book series SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.,
A modern rendition of Great God Shiva's story by Shail Gulhati ,

HOW SHIVA PLAYS!

 

The Yogi and the snake is a story written by author Shail Gulhati ,  which is basically  a conversation of a bhakt with God Shiva. Here,  the Bhakta has taken the form of a snake, in order to be able to meet the Great Yogi, Shiva. It is like a spiritual diary full of questions that  we want to ask  God, and the answers in simple conversations.In the following chapter, the bhakt discovers that the whole Universe created by Shiva is still young, and it will become full of more and more adventures.

“Does God aspire?” asked the snake.

“I had asked you to meditate upon this”, said the Yogi.
“They say God cannot desire. This calls for a high spiritual understanding.
If God does not desire, there is no need for creation, life, and God itself.
The God of no desire can only rest in a void, in the primordial state, why should He go for the dynamics of creation?
The God of no desire would thus be a neutralized force.
Such a state of God can last for longer than the age of the Universe itself”, the Yogi was becoming very still.
“Then, there is a stir!  and the God of desire begins to vibrate!” said the Yogi, changing his tone dramatically. “This vibration is His very Nature. He always aspires for play and growth. He is not just content with tranquility, as in the state of extreme nothingness.
He needs to manifest, needs to reflect His own power of creation, to put it to use.
So the process of cosmic evolution is still in its infancy, and God is just a baby whose play has just begun.
Shiva’s Mantra is not just Om Shanti, it must culminate in Om  Anand, ultimate bliss!  at all levels of existence”  

   
~ From the book The Yogi and the snake ( conversations with God Shiva)

WHO IS THE REAL BHAKTA OF SHIVA?

 

One day Shiva said to Parvati, "Where are all those who cared so much for the planet, for life, for love, for goodness, and, for God? We need to re-group all the saints who walked this earth for the betterment of all beings. We need to galvanize a council of mystics, from all ages and all lands, who in turn , will galvanize love, kindness and spirituality only; turning God’s flight back onto the course of Universal harmony.”
“Oh ! How beautiful your mind is, Shiva,and how beautiful are your thoughts..so are you really looking for good souls?”
"Yes"
"And how will you find them? in which place, or which profession?"
"Not place or profession, Parvati, i will find them by their actions"
"What do you mean Swami?"
"A persons's social status is of no meaning to me.Because everyone has divinity in them, everyone is made of my own Shiva Tattva."
"Everyone?"

" Yes. Devi, you must know that know that everyone has it, not just saints not just you, everyone is Shiva’s child, and Shiva is no one’s monopoly. How one dresses, be it ochre or be it white, makes no difference to me. All the colours are mine. In fact, young people wearing jeans seem to have sub-consciously hit upon my  favourite  colour,  Blue! Look how much of it  i used in the sky! How much spice a man  eats in his food is not of much consequence either.  I think it should be a topographical rather than spiritual preference. If he speaks softly, yet is given to hatred, or is loud, but warm hearted, i have enough discernment to see through both. Indeed, I have seen profane men speak profundities for their own interests and heard profound men being coarse, to deliver a refined message.”

What then are the real indicators of an evolved being, a God’s man?”  asked Parvati.

“Love and Kindness” , answered Mahadeva, “Some things never change, some things we can never have enough of ; love and kindness, the two real indicators of God’s man, and luckily these are far more difficult to feign than a dress or a dietary code. These spring only from true knowledge and understanding"

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati

WHAT IS SHIVRATRI ?

 

SHIVRATRI

It’s that time of year,
when all beings of the manifest world,
from ants,
to birds, animals and even plants,
behave with a certain cheer,
as if cosmically 'stirred' out of their sleepy dormancy
into a mood of 'waking'.
We humans too find ourselves bubbly.
Winter has gone, and a sparkling Sun
is thawing its way, springing into a fresh sky.
And everyone seems to perceive that certain Divinity,
about the way Nature begins the season's regeneration.
Shiv bhakts, in particular, seem doubly merry,
with a definitive halo of authority
that has recently dawned on their countenance,
getting into busy mode and frenetic festivity…

And why not?
It’s that time of year, when
in the dark half of 'Phalgun',
in English, february or maybe march,
on the I3th or I4th day,
the longest night, which is also moonless and so the darkest
has come.
But behold, they say it is the great night of their auspicious Lord,
Shiva ratri, the beginning of all light.
Celebrated all over India,
in homes and in temples,
by the ascetics and the householders,
in sober prayer and in ecstatic intoxication,
by ritual and by trance,
in stillness and in dance,
and many things more.
It is attended by legends
of the wicked and the devout,
the sickly and the stout,
but none agrees on exactly what it’s about.

"It’s Shiva's birthday," say some.
Others swear it’s His wedding night with Parvati.
Some opine that is when the Ananda Tandava,
the first Dance, began.
Yet others teach of it as the profundity of awakening,
saying,
“It’s the celebration of the day Shiva was illumined
about cosmic mind,
a Primal consciousness,
His own rhythm Divine!”

Shail Gulhati, author of the bestselling book series shiva the says " Shivratri is actually the realisation night of Shiva, when after intense meditation He finally realises His own Shivaness. This is a realisation by Shiva of His Shakti, which then shows its magic across the entire Universe. Therefore Shivratri can be all three in one go: Shiva's realisation, His birth ( to Self ) and His marriage to Shakti ( His own Power )

This picture of Shiva is the one that adorns Shail gulhati's house temple. It is displayed openly on the Shivratri night.

Aum Namah Shivaye.Shail Gulhati is the Author of the books :

SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.
The Yogi and the snake
Shiva Poetry
NAAM ROOP- A Tribute to the Divine
And Life Said.

KRISHNA LOVED TO PLAY,AND SHIVA LOVED TO WATCH HIM PLAY.

 

"He had known Vishnu, the other God, through at least two of His incarnations. He had known Him as Rama, from His forest meanderings and resonated so completely with Him in the love for one’s spouse.
Shiva empathised greatly with Rama in the pain of separation, Having been through the loss of His own wife, Sati. A life cycle later, when Vishnu incarnated again as Krishna,
 Shiva went all the way from Kailash to the Plains to see Krishna as a baby", said Rishi Suta.

"Ah! I see" said Shaunaka.


“Krishna loved to play, and Shiva loved to watch Him play. He loved the infant Krishna’s delightful ability to steal butter cookies from His mother’s larder, much before He was a full-blown God. He smiled at Krishna’s charming adolescence as He dallied with the infatuated cowgirls of Vrindavan".Continued Suta.

" Lovely, master!" excaimed Shaunaka.
" Then again, years later, when the time came for Krishna to sermonise Arjuna about divinity on the battlegrounds of Kurukshetra, Shiva had watched from an eternally witnessing sky above, listening intently along with others to Krishna’s song of God, the Bhagwad Gita.
When Krishna sang eloquently to Arjuna about Mahakaal, The Great Timelessness, Shiva smiled again. He had known this song even before Krishna was born. He, verily, had known it even before Rama’s time," said Rishi Suta.

~ From the book SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati