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)

Shiva is Ādiguru-The Primal Teacher.

 

Shiva is Ādiguru-The Primal Teacher.

He Respects, upholds and teaches His own principles of Shaivism to His Rishis,Ganas, Yogis and Siddhas,from Yuga to yuga. शिव आदिगुरु हैं-आदि शिक्षकवे अपने शैव सिद्धांतों का सम्मान करते हैं, उन्हें बनाए रखते हैं और अपने ऋषियों, गणों, योगियों तथा सिद्धों को युग-युगांतर सिखाते हैं।

~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.

SRISTI ISWARA MAHARAJ

 

Sati announced Her intention to go every morning to worship the ancient Shivlinga in the royal forest reserves. The Shivlinga was so old that no one knew its history, not even Daksha or the noble ministers of the court, nor too the sages who were rumoured to have meditated in the mountains long before the city of Daksha had come into full being.

But the Shivlinga was there, in its monumental presence.
An enormous and beautifully carved out marvel, in mystic grey granite. All around it was the lush green of the forest, and the contrast of grey and green gave it a yet greater mystic feel.
A snake or two were always seen cuddled around it, as though to assert that they were a permanent part of Shiva.
Flowers strung together as garlands, put on the Shivlinga by worshippers, were undoubtedly more transient than the snakes, but nevertheless lay alongside in devotion.
It was common for Shivlingas to have a name. Usually the devotee of Shiva who had constructed a Shivlinga would name it by adding the suffix of Ishwara to his own name, thus acknowledging Shiva’s supremacy and also immortalizing himself, in the bargain.
Almost all the devatas had ritually made a Shivlinga. So there were Indreshwara, Varuneshwara, Agnieshwara Shivlingas.
They were magical and purported to be standing in the winds, fire and the celestial sky itself.
They formed the earliest places of Shiva worship, much before the Jyotirlingas that would become popular in later times.
But this, the colossal forest Shivlinga, grounded as it was, had a magnetism to it, which none could compare. True to its enigma,
it was unnamed. No devata was even born before it existed; so who would name it?
But it did have an extraordinary title - ‘Sristi Iswara Maharaj’,
The Lord of all creation itself.

Sati loved Sristi Iswara Maharaj. Whenever She approached the forest, She felt Her feet breaking into a run; She could never just walk. In the forest, She thought She clearly heard the leaves rustling into a chorus of invitation, singing ‘Sristi Iswara Maharaj’.
She thought that they sang to Shiva, but in Her haste to get to Sristi Iswara, what She did not notice was that the leaves were actually bowing in Her direction when She ran deep into their midst.
This became a daily ritual: She would not stop running till She reached the enigmatic Shivlinga, Her heart beating and the leaves pulsating with Her run till she arrived at the Sristi Iswara.
Faster each day was the run and the pace of life, faster this divine heartbeat, the mystic crescendo that had become all -encompassing. So fast, that She would almost fall in sweet collapse at the Shivlinga.
And then She would remain there in bliss, for hours on end, day after each passing day. Till the days turned into months and the months into a year. Her entire life itself had become an offering, Her time a rosary count.
 And then, one day, Shiva appeared.

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