PRALAYA - THE END OF TIME

 

AFTER SATI

The extreme sorrow gave way to extreme rage, and Narada noticed that Shiva was going into a different mood.
He had darkened. His face resembled the darkest cloud in the sky, His eyes became bloodshot, His hair rising in extreme excitement, like the mixed thrill of a warrior, when He is about to embark into an immediate and deadly battle.
He started stomping His feet on the ground, causing the earth below Him to quake, and the mountains in even the farthest horizons began to shake. “Daksha, you will not be spared! Sati, I am coming! Sateee!!”

The ganas repeated the call, “Daksha, you will not be spared! Ma, we are coming!!”
Shiva started a war dance, tugging violently at His own hair and whirling in the air, with His torso doing the most unusual twists, like a man in severe pain. His right hand pulled out His Trishula from the ground where it had been restfully parked for years, as if to jerk it out of its dormancy. “BABHAM!!” He yelled a war cry and lunged forwards. He moved like a one-man army getting ready to wreak havoc on all those who came in its way, and Narada was reminded of a cloud of locusts on rampage.

The world shivered. Devas shivered, Brahma shivered, Vishnu shivered.
Shivering in Shiva’s wrath had become the new extension of the presence of Shiva.
This was something they had never seen before, but a vague and very uncomfortable feeling told them that the end of the Universe was near.
“Pralaya,” spoke Indra. “Pralaya,” chorused the Devas. They feared their own death which seemed inevitable.
“O Mahadeva, save us from Pralaya, save us from your own wrath!”

Art : Varun Rampal

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

SHIVAPARVATI

 

SHIVAPARVATI

He is the One who existed even before the world began.

He is the One who has been prayed to, even when He was unseen.

And ever since the very first time He chose to make His presence known, Shiva has been loved by millions.

Shiva is Mahakaal, the Ultimate Time Traveller. As The Timeless One vouchsafed to us by the ancient tellings of the rishis, down to our grandmothers’ tales, He is the Pauranic Shiva: The Shiva from Kailash. Shiva, the mountain Chieftain who lives happily with His beautiful Queen, Parvati, and the merry mountain men called ganas.

But He is also the Adhunik Shiva; the Omnipresent, who is always here, lurking in our own hearts, in the present, and thus the most modern at any time.

The central import of Shiva’s story, is that of love: God created this universe, simply to love and be loved. The central import of Parvati’s life, is to be with Shiva, always. In so doing even through lifetimes, it is She, who establishes the Hindu belief in re-incarnation; for love it is, that can propel us to be re-born; to manifest ourselves just to be with the beloved, once again.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

FEELING BLESSED WITH SHIVA!

 

Once, the great student Shaunaka asked his Master Rishi Suta , " dis it possible to meet Shiva?”

“Of course it is! But you never know when. Shiva chooses His own time to surprise. But if you want to meet Him, you must always be ready, anyone who wants to see Him must always be alert.”

“Why is that, Gurudeva?”

“Hahaha! Because Shiva, amongst other things, likes disguises. And His best guise is humility. With all that He is, His utter humility can make you not recognise Him, even if He came face to face.”

“So is it true that He wears a snake around His neck? He is called Bhujgendrahaaram, isn’t He?”
“Yes,” said the old Sage. “He is known to wear a snake around His neck, but like I told you, He is the master of guises. And to discard one of your own attributes, is an excellent way to go unnoticed.So He may not come to you in His typical form"
"So Gurudeva how do we see Shiva? How is the real Shiva bhakt blessed?"
" You must know Sarvatra Bhairav. Everywhere, is Shiva, because everything comes from Him, and to Him it will go. There comes a time in the life of a seeker when there is a Divine arising from within. This spiritual arising from Shiva within, is called Udhyamo Bhairav . When this happens due to years of prayer and meditation, learning and introspection, and , of course, the Anugraha- Grace of Shiva, the yogi becomes enlightened."
"Ah, i see Gurudeva"
" But the spiritual journey is not complete with just enlightenment or self realisation, it must culminate in the seeing of Lord Shiva everywhere, Sarvatra Bhairav. This is when the seeker has merged so completely into the sought, that he cannot anymore distinguish anything from His Beloved Shiva, wherever he looks he can "see" Shiva"

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati

WHAT IS TRUE MOKSHA FOR A SHIVA BHAKT?

 

In this world full of sorrow,
O Mahadeva, this is my Moksha prayer :
They speak of freedom, O lord
knowing not it is right here!
they speak of Moksha
knowing not it is here!
The only Moksha i want
is to be born again and yet again
in your care.
Birth my eyes to see ,
you are everywhere!
this, is my Moksha prayer.
Namah Shivaye, Aum Namah Shivaye!

हे प्रभु मेरे प्यारे महादेव जी  मोक्ष क्या है ? लोग कहते हैं की जीवन और मृत्यु से मुक्त होना ही मोक्ष है और वही हर मनुष्य का लक्ष्य होना चाहिए .परन्तु मुझे एक सरल सी बात पता है : मेरा मोक्ष शिवजी का समीप रहने में , शिवजी का गण बनने में है , अथवा किसी भी और मुक्ति में नहीं  ! हे प्रभु इस भक्त की यह प्रार्थना है की मुझे सदा अपने साथ रखना , हर जनम में , हर जीवन में , बार बार अपने साथ ही रखना ! ॐ नमः शिवाये 
~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. series

I SAW YOU

 

I SAW YOU

I saw you in a dream

Even though I stood beside you

It was you in black and white

Like the days when we were young

I looked into your eye

And saw myself there

Eye within an eye within an eye, within

it was the perfect endless multiverse of us,

There never was a time I could be without you my love.

I wonder now, what was the hurry to know all of you

and haste into the future,

I would rather slip back into that first glance

when the heart stopped, and life began.

~ Shail Gulhati #shiva #parvati #eternal #love

~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.

RAJA HIMAVAT WELCOMES SHIVA

 

RAJA HIMAVAT WELCOMES SHIVA

“My Lord, there is a strange and reclusive yogi, riding a hefty bull, who wants an audience with you,” said the royal guard.

“A yogi? On a hefty bull? It must be Shiva! Ah, have Him brought here with respect,” said Himavat.

“Greetings, your Highness,” said Shiva in a soft voice.

“Greetings, O Yogi of yogis, Shiva! I am blessed to have you in my Kingdom. Any service for me?”

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. Part 2

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)