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)!

WHO IS THE REAL BHAKTA OF SHIVA?

 

One day Shiva said to Parvati, "Where are all those who cared so much for the planet, for life, for love, for goodness, and, for God? We need to re-group all the saints who walked this earth for the betterment of all beings. We need to galvanize a council of mystics, from all ages and all lands, who in turn , will galvanize love, kindness and spirituality only; turning God’s flight back onto the course of Universal harmony.”
“Oh ! How beautiful your mind is, Shiva,and how beautiful are your thoughts..so are you really looking for good souls?”
"Yes"
"And how will you find them? in which place, or which profession?"
"Not place or profession, Parvati, i will find them by their actions"
"What do you mean Swami?"
"A persons's social status is of no meaning to me.Because everyone has divinity in them, everyone is made of my own Shiva Tattva."
"Everyone?"

" Yes. Devi, you must know that know that everyone has it, not just saints not just you, everyone is Shiva’s child, and Shiva is no one’s monopoly. How one dresses, be it ochre or be it white, makes no difference to me. All the colours are mine. In fact, young people wearing jeans seem to have sub-consciously hit upon my  favourite  colour,  Blue! Look how much of it  i used in the sky! How much spice a man  eats in his food is not of much consequence either.  I think it should be a topographical rather than spiritual preference. If he speaks softly, yet is given to hatred, or is loud, but warm hearted, i have enough discernment to see through both. Indeed, I have seen profane men speak profundities for their own interests and heard profound men being coarse, to deliver a refined message.”

What then are the real indicators of an evolved being, a God’s man?”  asked Parvati.

“Love and Kindness” , answered Mahadeva, “Some things never change, some things we can never have enough of ; love and kindness, the two real indicators of God’s man, and luckily these are far more difficult to feign than a dress or a dietary code. These spring only from true knowledge and understanding"
~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati

THE GREATEST TRANSMISSION OF SHIVA TO PARVATI

 

THE GREATEST TRANSMISSION OF SHIVA TO PARVATI

"What is it that you know always, that all the yogis always want to know?" asked Parvati in the Amareshwar cave.

Shiva smiled, laughed, and then spoke exaltedly like a poet. “This earth upon which we sit, the hills, these trees, the springs, this soft wind, even the moon, the sky, those distant stars that bejewel the night are offerings to you, truly, dearest!" He exclaimed, arising. "The entire universe is a projection from the pristine essence within me; this human bodied Yogi you love - your husband, Shankar! I am always the knower of the highest transcendence, I am always the knower of what is always."

Even as Shiva was expounding the most secret Agama of Srishti rahasya to Parvati, a trickle of water on a portion of their cave wall began solidifying, in the form of a magnificent Linga,

which was the symbol of all creation.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

TRISULA DHARI, CHANDRA SEKHAR, DAMARU WALE BABA!

A different But very beautiful Painting of Shivji, elaborating many of His attributes:
Ganga
Chandrama
Trisula
Rudraksha
Bhujang(snake)
Trinetra
Damru
Kundal( Curly hair)
Abhaya Mudra( Hand raised in blessing)
Nanti( Yogi Ear rings)
Mrig shala( deer skin)

Prayers to Shiva are usually the description of His own Attributes back to Him. Thus here is a small prayer to Shivji  by  Shail Gulhati  Author of ~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.  


त्रिसूला धरी चन्द्र शेखर डमरू वाले बाबा ,मेरे भोले नाथ त्रिनेत्र भंधारी !! पहन ली हमने गले में तेरी माला तेरे रुद्राक्ष की महिमा न्यारी !!!!
Trisula dhari, Chandra sekhara ,Damaru wale Baba , Mere Bhole Nath trinetra Bhandari !!!
Pehen li hamne Gale mein teri Mala , tere Rudraksh ki Mahima Nyaari!!


Lord Shiva keeps all the incidents of his creation safely tucked away in his memory , long after they are gone. Rudraksh are His tears that get automatically shed in love for all beings .They are the most pious remembrance of all. And we should honour them and if we wear them it should be with respect and this awareness. Jai Shiv shanker!
~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati

Shiva is: Trilochana

 

Shiva is: Trilochana

The Three-Eyed One — whose vision sees beyond the past, present and future. With this third eye, He can 'open' the seekers mind to the fourth dimension, or then He can destroy any object He gazes at, with the intention to dissolve it back to the origin. शिव त्रिलोचन हैं: तीन नेत्र वाले — जिनकी दृष्टि भूत, वर्तमान और भविष्य से परे देखती है।इस तीसरे नेत्र से वे साधक के मन को चौथे आयाम में ‘खोल’ सकते हैं, अथवा जिस वस्तु पर वे इरादे के साथ दृष्टि डालते हैं, उसे मूल में विलीन करके नष्ट कर सकते हैं।

~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.

OUTER APPEARANCE DOESN'T MATTER TO SHIVA

 

For Rudra, it didnt' matter at all what the colour of one's skin was, or then what was the outer appearance.He loved all beings for their inner beauty.He liked each of them for what they were. He realised that they were more wronged than doing wrong; that they were scorned, only because they looked different. He saw that mankind had an obsession for devising labels. Humans loved to customise descriptions of other beings, so as to suit their own parameters, ignoring the beauty of Nature’s bigger plan. He realised that to look for beauty only in beauty was a subtle ugliness.

He joked with them about the lighter side of everyone’s looks including, many a time, His own. His sense of humour unburdened them and they felt worthy. They knew they were not just beasts; they were part of a divine plan. An important part. And 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.
On His part, Rudra wondered who indeed, was the God of the banished?  Surely a selective God was not God at all; not owning up to all of creation as His own, would in His view, diminish the role of such a God. This was His intuitive understanding. Was Rudra being divinely ambitious?
Probably not; He disliked competing. Competition too, He felt, had the most ugly results in its seed.
Such was His understanding from the jungle, where life lived itself out in perfect harmony. Even when there was an established food chain, even where the lion was a King, the deer had his share of the waters, his share of the mountains, his share of life. You didn’t compete with anyone else; you just spent a lifetime discovering the miracle of life. And that too, not by analysis and dialectics, but simply by the act of living ,itself.

The harmony of the jungle was in stark contrast to the deceit that existed in the city.

 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.

SATYAM EVA JAYATE

 

SATYAM EVA JAYATE

“You see, this universe is huge, almost infinite, and life forms exist in wonderful, varied ways across galaxies in outer space.”

“Yes.”

“Most of the life forms are content to live in their own place of birth.”

“Hmm…”

“But there are some, who are eager to know more, so they venture out of their own homes, their comfort zones, and traverse the far ends of their planet. Sometimes, they go beyond even that, into outer space.”

“Oh, Gurudeva! Are you saying that intergalactic travel exists?”

“I am saying, that in God’s creation, everything that can be thought of, exists,” said Suta.

“So, some of these explorers were more ambitious: planet after planet, star after star, even traversing several galaxies in a few years,” he continued.

“I see…”

“Now here came the problem. After having explored the whole world, they wanted more: they wanted to own the world, they wanted to be supreme masters of the universe they had explored, and this was a kind of malignancy that crept into the cosmic evolution. Verily, some of them relished the thought of subjugating others and ruling over them.”

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.