The Parents of all !

Lord Shiva and Parvati Ma with a lot of snakes! why have we put this picture in the folder of Shiv parivar? because Shivji is the Father of all!! He is the one God who accepts all! A passage from "The Yogi and the snake" to elaborate:

           " It was then, that the great yogi made an appearance in a mentation, the man had taken on the form of a snake, that being the nature of all beings as he had thought of last.

The yogi looked so serene and inviting, that the snake wanted to pour his heart out. All he could utter, was, ‘I am known to bite even those who feed me, so no one accepts me any more.’

Come! Wrap yourself around my neck in embrace, said the yogi. I am known to accept those who are shunned.

You ask for me to embrace you simply on the premise that I feel shunned? Asked the snake.

Yes, I ask everyone to embrace me, said the yogi. Everyone is shunned by someone else.The poor, for example, are shunned by the rich. The rich by the religious, some people shun themselves; even the spiritual are shunned by many. I am a lover to all.

But I may not be able to guarantee my nature, said the snake, sliding up to the yogi, I may still bite.

Not sure of yourself, said the yogi, but it is no matter, I am used to swallowing venom created by others. Don’t worry about your bites, they shall enable me to test my own nature from time to time.

You are all my own, he continued, snakes, pups, men, all. So, your bites serve as a test; do I have the capacity to understand why my own bite me in return? In fact your bites serve not only as a test, but also work as an arrangement."

"An arrangement?

You see, I have a habit of slipping into mystical inertia, a yoga nidra. So your bite, your provocation, if you wish to call it that serves as my invocation.

How, the snake wondered, could that be?

Ah, yes, said the yogi. Having done with creation. I leave the world to go on by its own directions, and remain absorbed in a transpersonal meditation.

Like a plane on autopilot? Asked the snake

Very much like that, answered the yogi. It takes the intense, probing meditation of man to stir me up; our energies get connected; man, at personal meditation level, and I, at transpersonal meditation level. This is how the Antarnag ‘in wokes’ the Antaryami, and I am here with you. You have been referring to your probe on God, as a bite to the creator have you not?

The snake nodded in affirmation.

Now, that someone has meditated deeply enough to stir me up, the arrangement begins. The serpents are bitting, the bells are ringing; things are stalling in the world again. I must answer the calls.

The pilot taking charge of the flight again? Asked the snake.

You will understand, what flight I talk of, said the yogi, but for now, let us begin with the skins you shed, and, you feel like a lost pup, do you? Such feelings have deep animistic significance, to understand which. I shall guide you.

And so began the most mystical journey of the snake."