ANNUAL PRAYERS OF THE KALI KOVIL, BATU 8, JALAN MANTIN - SEREMBAN, MANTIN, NEGERI SEMBILAN, MALAYSIA THIS AFTERNOON (17 FEBRUARY 2026)

The Kali Kovil, Batu 8, Jalan Mantin - Seremban, Mantin held its Annual Prayers this afternoon (17 February 2026) despite heavy rainfall.

Our Payyan family member also attended and performed his prayers.

A delicious meal was also served after the Prayers.

Photos of this Annual Prayers:

- photos taken by Mr. C.K. Kannan

Shiva is not a destroyer!

 

Once, a seeker met Lord Shiva, and said " Although millions of people around the world worship you, and we all love you very much, but, my Lord , we are afraid of you also"

"Why?" asked Shiva.

"Because it is said that you are the destroyer, that you end the Universe"

" Really? " answered Shiva,  " Now, tell me, how am I supposed to destroy the world?"

" By opening your third eye, wherever you shift your gaze then, turns to ashes."

    " That is the legend, the story,the mythology. Now, listen to the philosophy. At the personal level, the destruction of illusions, makes the meditator enlightened. This is the opening of Gyan Chakshu, this is the whole path of the yogis. The gaze of the discriminating mind destroys wrong previous concepts and illusions. Whatever scriptures such a man reads, he interprets rightly, whatever situation he encounters, he understands. The mind of spiritual discrimination destroys falsehood and delusion. At the transpersonal or cosmic level, I am a paradox however. My capability is to destroy the whole cosmic play. But, if I use only half my power, to destroy the destruction processes themselves, verily. I become the course expansion. So using half your power doubles your strength. It also takes double your strength to use half your power. Meditate upon this! " Said Shiva.

  " Aha, destruction, paving the way for creation. I understand my Lord", said the seeker." Like we have a defrost button in a refrigerator, which enables us to defrost the frozen zones, leaving the other, major portions intact. Destruction, paving way for creation. So you too, only thaw out the parts of mankind  which are frozen in ignorance!"

Shiva smiled at the seeker's understanding.and said simply, " Yes. That is my role. To Get mankind back on the track, to goodness and Godness, Kindness and Divinity "

" Aha, My Lord, It is obvious now, that although your symbol, the Shivalinga is a symbol of creation, they still call you the destroyer, this is a paradox."

      " Yes", said Shiva, " And you are learning to cut through the paradox."

~ Derived from the book
~ From the book The Yogi and the snake ( conversations with God Shiva)

Shaivism Today Soul Speak ( 7) Alone -ness

There always comes a time in our life when we know that we are alone, that we are all that we have for ourselves. What was your first awareness of being on your own, in this world?

Mine was, when as an eleven year old, I was sent away more than a thousand miles from home to a boarding School. On the very first day, we were woken up in the early morning by the matron with her crisp and authoritative voice, calling us by our School numbers. So it was not  ' Wake up Shailendra', but rather ' Wake up 314'. Right there, away from ' home' , in the middle of a dormitory of 12 boys, a class of 35, and a school of 700 students, i realized that i was just a number. Oh, the miserable feeling that only i knew my own thoughts and emotions, and that i had to keep them closely to myself. I knew right then , that i had to make my own place for myself in the middle of all the 'Others'. And the knowing that i was alone in this ,was indeed a sad one.
And then came the  more amazing realisation that actually, the 'Others' were also in the same situation.  Hmm.

It is the same with our Cosmopolitan world today. We sometimes realize all too deeply that we are just a number ; This realization can come to you anywhere, when you view and understand how many  'multitudes' of people are present in your world, even though you don't know many of them. Especially for example, when you look at the thousands of windows in a  'High- rise'  apartment complex, and though you cannot see them, you know that thousands of people live somewhere inside these windows. .. And there,as a witnessing bystander in the middle of this Universal circus, you may become determined to make some good sense of this beautiful life that has been gifted to you by God:
You want to shine out much beyond your ‘ Just one of many thousands’ status.

Am i right?

But wait, the world of God isn’t just a huge challenge after all, there is another beautiful phenomenon that we come by.
Togetherness.

What was your first realisation of sharing the world?
Mine was when i held my soulmate's hand during our wedding ceremony. Right there, in the middle of a crowd of friends who had gathered for our event, i realised the world was going to be totally different from now on. Somewhere between alone and together, the binary of life started to make itself known - There always comes a time in your life , when you know that it was meant to be lived in Togetherness...

And i knew then, that Alone-ness is not meant by Nature as a way of life. The Alone -ness we get, is for providing us Ekaant, Kevalya; it is good for us to think, to introspect, to wonder about the purpose of life, the challenges and the opportunities; And then, to come out into the world ready to share it with a beautiful partner and together dance this binary dance of Shiva and Shakti…And that fabulous feeling that i can share my thoughts and emotions, that i don't have to keep piling them up like a heap of secrets that only i can know or think about, but rather, that i can share my inner world, every little fairy tale i hold in the heart of the eleven year old child, with my partner in life.
Meditate upon this.
Aum Namah Shivaye.
~ From the notes of Shail Gulhati, Author of SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

SHIVA

 

SHIVA

Shiva is a storyteller’s delight.

But because Shiva is hugely paradoxical, it comes as no surprise that, much as He is loved by the masses, there have been times when He has actually been maligned in some circles.This may have been by the design of a select few, as had happened at the instance of His own father-in-law, Daksha. Or then, it may simply be because of ignorance—a lack of knowing Shiva’s esoterics. Ignorance is not always bliss; ignorance mostly leads to a fear, which then makes up its own stories.

I believed it was important that Shiva’s endearing mythology, as well as His scintillating spirituality, both needed to be known.

The twin wings that make the truly ethereal flight He eternally embarks upon. It became my call to write a book that gives equal emphasis to Shiva’s story and reveals the fabulous mystic that He is, and indeed, has always been.

~ Shail Gulhati, Author's preface for SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

HAPPY MAHASHIVRATRI !

 

HAPPY MAHASHIVRATRI !

May Shiva bless you and your family with Happiness health and harmony.

Maha Shivaratri 2026, which is held today, 15 February 2026 represents the victory of light over ignorance. Others celebrate this as the auspicious wedding anniversary of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati, symbolizing the sacred union of Shakti(energy) and Purusha (consciousness).

WHAT IS SHIVRATRI ?

 

SHIVRATRI

It’s that time of year,
when all beings of the manifest world,
from ants,
to birds, animals and even plants,
behave with a certain cheer,
as if cosmically 'stirred' out of their sleepy dormancy
into a mood of 'waking'.
We humans too find ourselves bubbly.
Winter has gone, and a sparkling Sun
is thawing its way, springing into a fresh sky.
And everyone seems to perceive that certain Divinity,
about the way Nature begins the season's regeneration.
Shiv bhakts, in particular, seem doubly merry,
with a definitive halo of authority
that has recently dawned on their countenance,
getting into busy mode and frenetic festivity…

And why not?
It’s that time of year, when
in the dark half of 'Phalgun',
in English, february or maybe march,
on the I3th or I4th day,
the longest night, which is also moonless and so the darkest
has come.
But behold, they say it is the great night of their auspicious Lord,
Shiva ratri, the beginning of all light.
Celebrated all over India,
in homes and in temples,
by the ascetics and the householders,
in sober prayer and in ecstatic intoxication,
by ritual and by trance,
in stillness and in dance,
and many things more.
It is attended by legends
of the wicked and the devout,
the sickly and the stout,
but none agrees on exactly what it’s about.

"It’s Shiva's birthday," say some.
Others swear it’s His wedding night with Parvati.
Some opine that is when the Ananda Tandava,
the first Dance, began.
Yet others teach of it as the profundity of awakening,
saying,
“It’s the celebration of the day Shiva was illumined
about cosmic mind,
a Primal consciousness,
His own rhythm Divine!”

Shail Gulhati, author of the bestselling book series shiva the says " Shivratri is actually the realisation night of Shiva, when after intense meditation He finally realises His own Shivaness. This is a realisation by Shiva of His Shakti, which then shows its magic across the entire Universe. Therefore Shivratri can be all three in one go: Shiva's realisation, His birth ( to Self ) and His marriage to Shakti ( His own Power )
This picture of Shiva is the one that adorns Shail gulhati's house temple. It is displayed openly on the Shivratri night.
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.

He is Shiva, the Auspicious. Shiva

 

He is Shiva, the Auspicious. Shiva, whose very presence i0s able to transform humans into demigods.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.