SHIVA -THE DESTROYER

 

SHIVA -THE DESTROYER

The most popular belief had Him listed as The Destroyer.

The ancient Indians, who propitiated many Gods, had three principal deities at the helm of affairs. Brahma, the creator of the universe; Vishnu, who handled its running; and then, there was another amazing aspect that no one really understood:

The ancients had emphasised that there existed a God who destroys the universe at the end, and that God was Shiva.

So it was, that He shared Godhead with the other two.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

PASUPATI

 

PASUPATI

He was here in their midst, as Pasupati. Just His presence seemed to exorcise them of an age-old sense of being unwanted. They began to think of Him as God.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

AND THEN, ONE DAY SHIVA APPEARED!

 

AND THEN ONE DAY, SHIVA APPEARED

And then, one day, Shiva appeared.
He was magnificent.
Tall, and beautifully chiseled. His chest was large and firm.
A cobra wrapped around His neck was peering down at this chest, as if he had being doing that for an eternity.
Sensing Sati’s presence, the cobra arose swiftly from what seemed a blissful slumber, and darting out a forked tongue, looked at her with hypnotic eyes, putting her into almost a magical spell.

Shiva wore a tiger skin and innumerable brown beads. The beads were woven together like rosaries and cosied themselves all along His upper torso. They were also draped around His arms in tight embrace as amulets. In His right hand He held a rustic looking trident, the Trisula.Tied on the top of the trident was a little drum, shaped like an hourglass.
Sati noted that even as the trident was held perfectly motionless and steady in Shiva’s secure grip, the stringed beads on the drum were still in a gentle motion.
It was as if the perfect centerpiece to the forest symphony had arrived, a subtle and strangely seductive rhythm.
The rustle of the leaves was now like a heart beat. Or was it indeed Her own heart that was becoming louder in a most indiscreet way? She realised She was losing control, and that this heart had a mind of its own. How She longed to be that cobra,who was both possessive and possessed; or that Trisula, or even those beads, or somehow, all of them!
She swooned and fell into His empty arm, in a perfect fit, like it was indeed an embrace waiting for Her, as a balance to the Trisula.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati

SHIVA BARAAT LILA.

 

SHIVA BARAAT LILA.

“Who is this uncouth man? What is he doing in Shiva’s baraat, why has he been allowed here? And why don’t Shiva’s men throw him out?” asked Mena with extreme consternation.

“He, verily is Shiva, dear Mena…” replied Brahma with a twinkle in His eye.

“He is who??” cried Mena.

“Your son- in -law to be. Behold Shiva, the Great God of the universe!” replied Brahma with a chuckle, enjoying the Shiva lila.

But Mena fainted.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

TO CUT OFF ATTACHMENT, LITERALLY

 

TO CUT OFF ATTACHMENT, LITERALLY

“Shiva, you know I love you like a brother… I loved Sati like my sister…” began Vishnu.

“Loved?” said Shiva quietly.

“Yes, I mean I love Her like a sister. I mean She has gone now, so I loved Her.”

“Gone?”

“Shiva, Shiva! Come on, it’s the most terrible thing that could have happened, but you have to compose yourself. She is gone now, and we must go on, it’s what She would have wanted,” said Vishnu.

“Go on?”

“Shiva, you cannot be like this, you cannot behave like this,” Vishnu was almost pleading.

Nandi shifted uneasily.....

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

आओ शिव शक्ति के रंग में रंग लें अपना जीवन Come, let us join the play of Shiva Shakti

 

All Shiva Bhakts know that this world is the creation of the Father Shiva and Mother Shakti out of love. Shiva and Shakti want all beings of this Universe to be happy, to be playful, to be good and to be Godly in their own outlook. This in short, is the purpose of the Shiva Lila.

But what happens is that we get so involved in our social duties  such as household work, office work, children's school, parents care etc, all these things are important and should be handled with responsibility, but they sometimes take our mind away completely from the original mission, of being Godly in our own outlook
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But our heart always wants to connect to happiness, to connect to God. So how do we do that?
The answer is lying in the same heart that wants God: To be near to God, we need to become the same what we want God to be.

We know God is Kind, so we should also be kind. We know God is generous, so we should also be generous. We Know God keeps His body fit, so we should also keep ourselves fit.We know God shares only happiness and positive thoughts, so we should also be like that to the others we come across.To play Shiva lila, we should be like the perfect child of God, the perfect Bhakt of God, by being an absolutely good and divine person ourselves.
The Shiva bhakt knows that Shiva likes it when His Ganas are as Good as Shiva Himself in their behaviour. So let us colour ourselves in the great colours of God,
आओ शिव शक्ति के रंग में रंग लें अपना जीवन
Come, let us join the play of Shiva Shakti.
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.

SHIVA

 

SHIVA

He often drifted into a whirlpool of questions. What was His role in this world? How far had He played out that role? Where had He come from? Where was He going?

He had serial memories of the past, lucid visualizations of a future, strangely woven together into a spiritual Déjà vu.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.