Thursday, 15 October 2026

KALI AND SHIVA

 

 KALI AND SHIVA

This fabulous picture of Ma Kali atop Shiva has many meanings at many levels.
The famous story is that Kali was very angry about the injustice and wrong doings on earth. She wanted to finish the world, and began her Tandava.
All creatures went helter skelter, looking for shelter, as the world began to crack up with earthquakes and demolitions .No one could stop her, she was unstoppable in her rampage.
It was true that evil had exceeded and needed to be stopped, but also true that not all people were evil, not all needed to be taken to task. Shakti can be glorious as Durga, and she can be fear invoking, as Kali, it depends on the Bhava we set for Her. If we trouble Mother Nature too much, she is bound to get into a Kali Mood. So, then Shiva, her husband lay down on her path, knowing that this will stop her, that she wont "over step" him. But she stepped even on Him.
A minute later she realised that this was her dearest beloved, and She calmed down...the wife in her emerged, and she lolled her tongue in a gesture of "sorry"
The Maha Pralaya was thus averted.
This is the katha( story) for which we pray to Ma Kali.

But God and Shakti are multidimensional, so there can be many understandings of the symbolism. The esoteric meaning can also be:
The power of Maya (bhadrakali) is so great that it can make even God Himself forget his own self and slip into an unconscious state.
It is only when the force of His own Maya is lifted that he may slowly rise. This is somewhat on the lines of the Kashmir Shaiv Darsana : Kashmir Shaivism Which states that this forgetfulness and remembrance of His own Nature is the eternal play of God and His own Maya. Because, she, as Shakti, is the equal Half of the Supreme! It is said Shiva without shakti is inert like a shava, till he doesnt recognize that the shakti is His own, that in the highest reality, they are never separate! So also, Shiva is called Shaktimaan, the wielder of His own Maya.
Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism. #shiva #kali

काली और शिव

मा काली की इस शानदार तस्वीर के कई स्तरों पर शिव के कई अर्थ हैं।
प्रसिद्ध कहानी यह है कि मा काली धरती पर अन्याय और गलत कामों को लेकर बहुत क्रोधित थीं। वह दुनिया खत्म करना चाहती थी, और अपना तांडव शुरू किया।
सभी प्राणी हेल्टर स्केटर (हफडा दफ्डी )में चले गए, आश्रय की तलाश में, क्योंकि दुनिया भूकंप और विध्वंस के साथ टूटना शुरू हो गई थी। कोई भी उसे रोक नहीं सकता था, वह अपने क्रोध में अजेय थी ।
यह सच था कि बुराई बहुत अधिक हो गई थी और उसे रोकने की जरूरत थी, लेकिन यह भी सच है कि सभी लोग बुरे नहीं थे, सभी को काम में लेने की जरूरत नहीं थी। शक्ति दुर्गा के रूप में गौरवशाली हो सकती हैं, और उन्हें भय का सामना करना पड़ सकता है, मा काली के रूप में, यह उनके लिए निर्धारित भव पर निर्भर करता है। यदि हम माँ प्रकृति को बहुत अधिक परेशान करते हैं, तो वह कलि मूड में आ जाती है। तो, शिव, उनके पति मा काली के रास्ते पर लेट गए, यह जानते हुए कि यह उन्हें रोक देगा, कि वह उसे "कदम से अधिक" नहीं करेगा। लेकिन उन्होंने भगवान शिव पर भी कदम रखा।
एक मिनट बाद उन्होंने महसूस किया कि यह उनकी सबसे प्यारी प्रेमिका थी, और वह शांत हो गई ... पत्नी उनकी उभरी हुई थी, और उन्होंने "सॉरी" के इशारे में अपनी जीभ को बाहिर लटका दिया ।
इस प्रकार महाप्रलय टल गया।
यह वह कथा (कहानी) है जिसके लिए हम माँ काली से प्रार्थना करते हैं।

लेकिन भगवान और शक्ति बहुआयामी हैं, इसलिए प्रतीकवाद की कई समझ हो सकती है। गूढ़ अर्थ भी हो सकता है:
माया (भद्रकाली) की शक्ति इतनी महान है कि स्वयं शिव अपनेआप को भी भूल सकतेहैं और स्वयं को भूलकर एक अचेत अवस्था में गिर सकतेहैं ।
यह तभी होता है जब उनकी अपनी माया का बल उठा लिया जाता है कि वह धीरे-धीरे उठ सकते है। यह कुछ हद तक कश्मीर शैव दर्शन: कश्मीर शैववाद की तर्ज पर है जिसमें कहा गया है कि यह अपनी ही प्रकृति का विस्मरण और स्मरण ईश्वर और उनकी अपनी माया का शाश्वत नाटक है। क्योंकि, वह, शक्ति के रूप में, सुप्रीम के बराबर आधे है! यह कहा जाता है कि शक्ति के बिना शिव एक शव की तरह निष्क्रिय हैं, जब तक वह यह नहीं पहचानते कि शक्ति उनकी अपनी है, उच्चतम वास्तविकता में, वे कभी अलग नहीं होते हैं! तो, शिव को शक्तिमान भी कहा जाता है, जो अपनी माया के क्षेत्रक हैं।
hindi translation by Yash N R

Jai Mata Di!

 


Jai Mata Di!
Mother of the most fierce warrior -commander in chief of the Devatas army, and yet She is the one who taught Him to be firm but kind.

Wednesday, 14 October 2026

The meaning of Shiva's right hand raised in Blessing - क्या है शिव का अभय मुद्रा

 


Dear friends and Shiva bhakts,

We have often seen this picture of Shiva sitting serenely in Dhyana and posturing His right hand
 towards us in blessing. But what blessing is this?
This mudra is called ‘Abhay” it means fear not.
Actually the path of God is never easy and comfortable, it is in fact full of difficult tests and situations as some of us would know through our personal experience, but  the bhakta needs to be fearless in the path of God. One must be ready to face anything, to give up anything if one has to know God. Therefore Shiva in His kIndness gives us this boon in advance, to help us in our journey towards Him Himself!
Aum Namah Shivaye!

प्रिये शिव भक्तों एवं मित्रों , हम सब ने भगवन शिव के ऐसी तस्वीर कई बार देखि है , जिसमे उनका दायां हाथ भक्त की तरफ वरदान में  खड़ा है  परन्तु ऐसी तस्वीर का अर्थ क्या है?  इस से मुद्रा को 'अभय ' कहा जाता है . जो साधक परमात्मा के दर्शन पाने के लिए अपनी यात्रा आरम्भ करता  है , उसका रास्ता कभी आसान नहीं  होता ,बल्कि दुर्लभ होता  है , कठिनायों  से भरपूर होता है , जैसा की आप सब को अपने ही एक्सपीरियंस से पता होगा . परन्तु भक्त को फिर भी  निडर  रहना है और अपनी मिशन पे चलते रहना है .यदि परमात्मा के दर्शन करने हैं तो अपना लक्ष दरृरता से  निश्चय करना है और बढ़ते ही जाना है . इस लिए भगवन शिव जो आशुतोष हैं , अपनी उदारता में  भक्त तो पहले से ही निर्भयता का वरदान दे देते हैं ताकि भक्त यह सफर सफलते से पूर्ण करे और स्वयं भगवन के दर्शन पा ले
ॐ नमः शिवाये !

THE DANCE ETERNAL

 


THE DANCE ETERNAL
Sri Adi sankaracarya, who wrote Saundarya lahiri and ananda lahiri, waves of beauty and waves of bliss, probably got such a beautiful vision as Siva and sakti in the dance eternal.Shiva dances the robust Tandav, while parvati matches with the gentle and eloquent Lasya.

Tuesday, 13 October 2026

WHEN KING HIMAVAT ASKS SHIVA TO STAY BACK WITH PARVATI

 


WHEN KING HIMAVAT ASKS SHIVA TO STAY BACK WITH PARVATI
As He came near King Himavat, Shiva spoke, “It has been a great day your Majesty, the greatest day in my life. I shall remain grateful for this, forever. But for now, may I take your leave, and may I take Parvati to Her new home at Kailash?”
“I was thinking, my dear Lord,” said Himavat softly. “Why do you not stay here for a while, with us? Give us the pleasure of being our guest for a few days, and in the bargain, give Parvati more time to spend in Her own mountains…”

“AUM”.ॐ.

 

A mixing of the time worlds, in the stillness of now.
This would enable them not only to rejoice in the essential Oneness, but also enable the group to bring forth and introduce characters into the play that were hitherto unknown to the other.
Everything would just become a divine moment, a climax of the life lived. Samadhi.
The magical moment of transcendence was loved by the wise seers. They understood a divine sound, a divine vibration for it, and whispered it almost inaudibly…“AUM”.

The art of the littlest point.
A whole infinity reduced to a dot. And the dot crowned the Aum, represented by crowning the syllable
ॐ.

Aum, was always in the now. Samadhi was a moment of the future mingled with the past. The seers understood that Samadhi was the grace of Shiva, it was the ultimate revelation about the Self.
He knew a perfect stillness.
When He sat alone, He was in deepest oneness, always. When He closed His eyes in self-repose, a most enigmatic dance presented itself to Him; a dance of Time; where the p
ast and the future got animated as players and themselves entertained Him , like performers in a carnival. It had dawned on Him that He was an eternal witness, and thus too, the realisation that the story of all life, was His story.


~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati

SHIVA'S AGHORA DIKSHA : THE HIGHEST TRAINING

 


SHIVA'S AGHORA DIKSHA : THE HIGHEST TRAINING
Shamshan Nath was no ordinary Gana. He belonged to the Aghora sect; The most elite, but also the most terrifying guard of Shiva. It comprised of some Ganas from Himachala,Tibet and Mahachina, and others from the unknown reaches of the mountains called Shambala.
“Arise Shamshan Nath” , Shiva had said ever so gently."It is you, who shall prepare for my arrival into the current life cycle". When Shiva clasped his shoulders to shake his disbelief, Shamshan Nath felt as though a thousand bolts of lightning from a sky of knowledge and power had entered him. It indeed had. It was called pervesa, the pervasion of gnosis.