AUM PURNAMADAH PURNAMIDAM

 

Dear friends and Shiva bhakts,

we all know the story of how Shiva volunteered to receive Ganga on His head when she had to descend to earth from the heavens for the upliftment of humanity, both living, and the dead. But, she was so full of Divinity that the very earth she was coming to purify would not have been able to take the impact of the torrential 'weight' of her Gyana or satvikta! Shiva stepped forward to make His own matlocks a landing pad for her, Shiva's Yogic hair already contained the ultimate Gyana,infinite Divinity within, and could receive an infinite amount more.

This reminds us of the Purna prayer from the teachings of the ancient hindu rishis, in the Isha Upanishad, which is the first Upanishad.

ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पूर्णमुदच्यते ।
पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥

Om Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-Idam Puurnnaat-Puurnnam-Udacyate |Puurnnasya Puurnnam-Aadaaya Puurnnam-Eva-Avashissyate ||

Meaning:
Fullness 'that' (Outer World)
Fullness 'this' (Inner World)
From Purna is manifested Purna (From the Fullness of Divine Consciousness within, the outside world is manifested),
Even after manifesting a whole Purna from itself, Purna still remains the same.

Shaivites believe that Shiva is the Adi Purnam, the Original Fullness, therefore no amount of giving or receiving Gyana will affect His own Fullness in any way. And this makes it easier to understand why Shiva has a nature of taking every cosmic event upon His own head, be it the Samundra manthan or then, the reception of Ganga.
Aum Namah Shivaye

~ Shail Gulhati , Author of :
SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.
Shiva Poetry
The Yogi and the snake
And Life Said.
NAAM ROOP- A Tribute to the Divine

FROM NETI NETI TO TATHA ASTU

 

FROM NETI NETI TO TATHA ASTU

You may have heard of 'Neti neti' , The spiritual training of rejecting every material thing as ' not this, not that' . This is a way taught by saints to ignore the world of Maya, so that we may carry on a spiritual journey till we have Self realisation, or meet God.

But once you have that meeting, something really beautiful happens :

Suddenly everything changes to 'Tatha ashu, Tatha asthu ' with Shiva's benificent smile, ' So be it so be it,'

~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.

ALMIGHTY SHIVA

 

ALMIGHTY SHIVA

Shiva is the gentlest soul. However, He can also be the most dreadful of all. He is the mightiest warrior these mountains… nay, this world has ever known. No onslaught is powerful enough to even budge Him for more than a moment. On the other hand, none can stand His onslaught. You do know the power that propels His mighty Trisula, do you not?”

“Ah yes, it is like the comet of death itself, hurtling at a being whose time is surely over,” shuddered Bhringhi.

“Yes. That is the power of Shiva, the God of Power itself. He is Shakti Maan, the wielder of Shakti!”

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

MORE AND MORE, IS ACTUALLY GETTING US LESS!

 

MORE AND MORE, IS ACTUALLY GETTING US LESS!

These days, we live in an age of fierce competition; It is an age dominated by sales pitch, incremental volumes, market exploitation, competitor strategy, and so on. It's always about higher targets. And we have gotten so used to this that we don't find anything wrong, or entangling in this. It's a way of life.We are fixed firmly in the box of corporate culture.So fixed in trying to make a living, that i sometimes think that we have completely forgotten to live!

God has created ' things', for us to enjoy in Nature, like fruit for our body and wonderful landscapes for our soul, but mankind has given us currency- something with which we put a value to all of the 'things' available.
God made people, but people made society.

Society was the first entity that came into being, even though God did not create it. It was a rather funny thing; a getting together of things created, to create in turn an entity that had no individuality of its own, yet had a formidable effect on the very individuals it comprised of. It killed individual growth, and no one could raise the voice of his heart above whatever it would declare as a verdict in any given situation.

And now we have gone a step further, to 'Corporate'.
Corporate is that extension of society which has only monetary gain as its motive, to the exclusion of everything else: and so we have words like exploitation and target filling up our daily routine . And amazingly, we do not even notice the negative input!

We need to seriously reconsider who has become the target here.
We need to seriously reconsider if more is actually getting us less. And when we had less of' things' we had more of Life!
So, if we make a conscious effort to actually move to a world which is less about money and more about harmony, what happens to present day corporate structure?

Someone once asked if there were no wars, what would armies do? Well they could involve themselves in a hundred different vocations, which add to the welfare of fellow beings; Good soldiers are so well trained for helping others!
So too, corporates would do well to change their mission statements from ' making profit' , to ' profit the planet'
It would be so wonderful if social enterprise actually became infused with spiritual motive.
Namah Shivaye.

Shail Gulhati is the author of the book SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

THE BHAKTI GOD NEEDS

 

THE BHAKTI GOD NEEDS

God, is often worshipped in stone. Indeed some highly attained souls become stone-like; tranquil in their discovery of the Self. The suffering of others and their own suffering seems not to affect them anymore. They become accustomed to suffering as a result of past deeds: Karma, about which nothing can be done. Nothing can be done about karma by man, but what about God? Can He ease things?

Some people say that suffering can be ignored, since life itself is an illusion. But to one who really cares for humanity, the sufferings are more real than before, demanding more penetration by the seeker. Having reached the stage of stone-like tranquility with their efforts, those who begin to melt back into humanity. This is the kind of bhakti God needs.

~From the book The Yogi and the snake by Shail Gulhati

THE YOGI

 

THE YOGI

It was then, that the Great Yogi made an appearance in a mentation. In this 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 anymore.”

“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 of 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”.

~ The Yogi and the snake

Kali Ma and Shiva story (VIDEO)

 

Kali Ma and Shiva story