SHIVA'S STRENGTH
Suta ji tells Shaunaka of Shiva's strength.
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
THE FRUIT OF SOUL YOU CREATE .
THE FRUIT OF SOUL YOU CREATE .
In silence He waits, where the mountains and valleys meet,
Waiting in silence, for the sound of Shakti's feet.
No throne, no kingdom - just love and faith,
What to offer, but the fruit of soul you create.
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
WHO IS GOD SHIVA?
IN THE BEGINNING
(An introduction to Lord Shiva)
by author Shail Gulhati
Who Is Shiva?
TRANSCENDENT GOD
Shiva is the timeless God of the Universe.
Before even the creation of our world, He alone exists; as Existence itself,
and can be understood as the Ultimate transcendence,the Supreme Being..
PERSONAL GOD
This Supreme Being,wants to become something,
The Upanishads say, in the beginning was the One. He looked around and saw that there was no one else. He felt alone and thought, may i be two, may i, be many!
Actually God wanted to be loved. And that is why he created, simply, To love and to be loved.
So, He manifests the world as we know it,with himself the projector,
but alongside all that he creates,he enters the project as an embodiment,
much like the director taking a role in his own play! this is the step from Being to becoming.
Once he Enters His own creation as an embodied being, He now involves himself in meditating and re-connecting with his transcendent Godness,
Such connecting is termed as “Yoga”,and so, Shiva who is the Yogi par excellence, is replete with Divine knowledge and power.
Shiva constantly deploys his powers and wisdom, his Godhood,to uplift all his children , In this,he is goodness personified,and many who have faith in his immanence, worship him as their personal god. Shiva, therefore, also means , simply, the Auspicious, and we understand that Godliness is Goodness.
WHY THEN, IS SHIVA KNOWN AS THE DESTROYER?
Hinduism believes that the processes of God are principally threefold:
Creation,Preservation,and Destruction. It further believes,that God optimizes his attributes in a particular manifestation to enable the execution of a specific process with the greatest efficacy,
Thus Brahma is the creator of the world, Vishnu incarnates time and again , for he is it’s preserver.
Which , in some thinking leaves Shiv (शिव as his name is pronounced in sanskrit) as the destroyer at the end of a world cycle.
However, this is one view. Those who know Shiva better (the shaivites), see His role in a different way:
In a world full of changes, something must mark the parameter of permanence, and that permanent principle is Shiva. Shaivites prefer to understand Him as the
"Re-absorber". Their view is :
THE SHAIVITE BELIEF
Shiva is one of four main Gods of Hinduism, the other three being Brahma, Vishnu and Devi, Shiva’s consort Herself.
In the beginning, only Shiva Was. He is endowed with immense power,Shakti,which is none other than Devi,the eternal consort. The two are inseparable, like any one thing and its inherent nature, like Sun and light, Fire and warmth , Moon and Shine, stars and night.
So, when we say only Shiva 'was', it automatically, means only ShivaShakti IS.
God, and Mother Nature “In-here” in each other as one.
Where there is God, (creator) there is creation(Nature), where there is Nature, you can be sure, God too, is here!
DHYANASTHA SHIVA (Click on the pic to enlarge)
Now, in the Shaivite view, They (Shiva and Shakti) create Brahma and Vishnu. Brahma creates the world,and enters it, so does Vishnu enter it ,and, yes, So do Shiva and Devi, as his loving ,inseparable wife, Parvati. Most of us know Shiva from here,in his popular depiction as Shiva, the Yogi.
He is dhyanastha-meditative,mindful, beneficent, always immersed in transmitting spiritual guidance,sharing many methods of attainment.
Ultimately, at the end of life, all is absorbed back to him,but, those are lucky, who get absorbed in Godhead in their current birth, whilst retaining their body,that is, before actually dying. This is real attainment.This is real Moksha and jivan mukti for a lover of Shiva.
LEARNING SHAIVISM
So,to one who wants to learn of Shiva’s mysticism, destruction does not mean ‘finishing of the world’, It rather connotes the ending of ignorance and falsehood,It is the ending of identifying too much with the finites. Therefore, interestingly,Shiva guides us to higher wisdom not by giving things, but by the ‘taking away’ of junk messages that have accumulated in our minds through ages,much like a computer vendor cleans up your personal computer to make it efficient and new , once again. These junk messages may have resulted not only in personal misery,but also creating chaos and disharmony when we come together in collective societies.So too, Shiva is Hara,'the taker away" in taking away, He gives! Ignorance goes, Godhood returns.
WHAT DOES SHIVA TAKE AWAY?
Foremost amongst our errant conditionings, is:
We think we are distant from God.
Shiva ends the delusion that we are only body and mind,distant from God.
Ending of delusion,ends limitation. So if there is something Shiva does destroy, its your limitation:
Shiva destroys your sense of separation from Shiva !
He tells you that you are one with God, you always were, and you always will be, because, there is nothing that can exist outside of God!
Shiva teaches "God is nearer to you than your very breath"
for simply understood, is not God the breath in you?
And thus, Shiva begins to remind us of where it all began….
He teaches that we, in fact, are made of the same ShivaShakti principle that began the world.
All creation is from one source and that there are no two different origins.This makes him the teacher divine, Shiva Dakshinamurti. He who taught without taking a fee.Thus too His Bhakts ( devotees) and lovers call Him शिवजी Shivji, Ji is an honorific. I spell His name shiva with an "A" at the end , only because i write for an International audience, who pronounce it that way. Names dont matter, The essence does.
Aum Namah Shivaye! We salute the Great Adi Guru.
For more writings from shail gulhati visit fb page Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.
(An introduction to Lord Shiva)
by author Shail Gulhati
Who Is Shiva?
TRANSCENDENT GOD
Shiva is the timeless God of the Universe.
Before even the creation of our world, He alone exists; as Existence itself,
and can be understood as the Ultimate transcendence,the Supreme Being..
PERSONAL GOD
This Supreme Being,wants to become something,
The Upanishads say, in the beginning was the One. He looked around and saw that there was no one else. He felt alone and thought, may i be two, may i, be many!
Actually God wanted to be loved. And that is why he created, simply, To love and to be loved.
So, He manifests the world as we know it,with himself the projector,
but alongside all that he creates,he enters the project as an embodiment,
much like the director taking a role in his own play! this is the step from Being to becoming.
Once he Enters His own creation as an embodied being, He now involves himself in meditating and re-connecting with his transcendent Godness,
Such connecting is termed as “Yoga”,and so, Shiva who is the Yogi par excellence, is replete with Divine knowledge and power.
Shiva constantly deploys his powers and wisdom, his Godhood,to uplift all his children , In this,he is goodness personified,and many who have faith in his immanence, worship him as their personal god. Shiva, therefore, also means , simply, the Auspicious, and we understand that Godliness is Goodness.
WHY THEN, IS SHIVA KNOWN AS THE DESTROYER?
Hinduism believes that the processes of God are principally threefold:
Creation,Preservation,and Destruction. It further believes,that God optimizes his attributes in a particular manifestation to enable the execution of a specific process with the greatest efficacy,
Thus Brahma is the creator of the world, Vishnu incarnates time and again , for he is it’s preserver.
Which , in some thinking leaves Shiv (शिव as his name is pronounced in sanskrit) as the destroyer at the end of a world cycle.
However, this is one view. Those who know Shiva better (the shaivites), see His role in a different way:
In a world full of changes, something must mark the parameter of permanence, and that permanent principle is Shiva. Shaivites prefer to understand Him as the
"Re-absorber". Their view is :
THE SHAIVITE BELIEF
Shiva is one of four main Gods of Hinduism, the other three being Brahma, Vishnu and Devi, Shiva’s consort Herself.
In the beginning, only Shiva Was. He is endowed with immense power,Shakti,which is none other than Devi,the eternal consort. The two are inseparable, like any one thing and its inherent nature, like Sun and light, Fire and warmth , Moon and Shine, stars and night.
So, when we say only Shiva 'was', it automatically, means only ShivaShakti IS.
God, and Mother Nature “In-here” in each other as one.
Where there is God, (creator) there is creation(Nature), where there is Nature, you can be sure, God too, is here!
DHYANASTHA SHIVA (Click on the pic to enlarge)
Now, in the Shaivite view, They (Shiva and Shakti) create Brahma and Vishnu. Brahma creates the world,and enters it, so does Vishnu enter it ,and, yes, So do Shiva and Devi, as his loving ,inseparable wife, Parvati. Most of us know Shiva from here,in his popular depiction as Shiva, the Yogi.
He is dhyanastha-meditative,mindful, beneficent, always immersed in transmitting spiritual guidance,sharing many methods of attainment.
Ultimately, at the end of life, all is absorbed back to him,but, those are lucky, who get absorbed in Godhead in their current birth, whilst retaining their body,that is, before actually dying. This is real attainment.This is real Moksha and jivan mukti for a lover of Shiva.
LEARNING SHAIVISM
So,to one who wants to learn of Shiva’s mysticism, destruction does not mean ‘finishing of the world’, It rather connotes the ending of ignorance and falsehood,It is the ending of identifying too much with the finites. Therefore, interestingly,Shiva guides us to higher wisdom not by giving things, but by the ‘taking away’ of junk messages that have accumulated in our minds through ages,much like a computer vendor cleans up your personal computer to make it efficient and new , once again. These junk messages may have resulted not only in personal misery,but also creating chaos and disharmony when we come together in collective societies.So too, Shiva is Hara,'the taker away" in taking away, He gives! Ignorance goes, Godhood returns.
WHAT DOES SHIVA TAKE AWAY?
Foremost amongst our errant conditionings, is:
We think we are distant from God.
Shiva ends the delusion that we are only body and mind,distant from God.
Ending of delusion,ends limitation. So if there is something Shiva does destroy, its your limitation:
Shiva destroys your sense of separation from Shiva !
He tells you that you are one with God, you always were, and you always will be, because, there is nothing that can exist outside of God!
Shiva teaches "God is nearer to you than your very breath"
for simply understood, is not God the breath in you?
And thus, Shiva begins to remind us of where it all began….
He teaches that we, in fact, are made of the same ShivaShakti principle that began the world.
All creation is from one source and that there are no two different origins.This makes him the teacher divine, Shiva Dakshinamurti. He who taught without taking a fee.Thus too His Bhakts ( devotees) and lovers call Him शिवजी Shivji, Ji is an honorific. I spell His name shiva with an "A" at the end , only because i write for an International audience, who pronounce it that way. Names dont matter, The essence does.
Aum Namah Shivaye! We salute the Great Adi Guru.
For more writings from shail gulhati visit fb page Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.
SO IT SEEMS
SO IT SEEMS
So
it seems
the gist of the world
is simply this:
We are but a beam from your mind,
a thought.
But there is a game.
and as we play ,
we need somehow, to slip
into your heart
just so you may find,
and fix a dream
into your eternal day.
Sometimes, life can become like a dream
where day after day,night after night, things repeat.
Things repeat at a personal level, and we call it routine.
Things repeat at a Universal level, worldwide, and we call it the Times, good or bad.
All Shiva says, is wake up to the origin, wake up to me.
Instead of always focusing outwardly, look deep within and see.
~ From the book ' Shiva poetry Vol 2' by Shail Gulhati
Monday, 18 May 2026
Matrika, the Universal Mother- ज्ञानाधिष्ठानं मातृका
JNAN ADHISHTAAN MATRIKAज्ञानाधिष्ठानं मातृका
The Siva Sutras teach that Matrika, the Universal Mother,is the master director of the triple knowledge consisting of Anava mala, Mayiyamala and Karmamala. When Universal energy is known in a correct way, it is Svatantrya Sakti,When it is known in a wrong way it is energy of illusion and it is called Maya Sakti. So Matrika is both the one who binds and the one who frees you.
It is the Un- understood Mother that is the basis of the limited knowledge. She ( Matrika) brings about knowledge in a limited form, e.g. ”I am imperfect”(anavamala), “I am thin or fat”(mayiya mala), “I am doing an engineering job (karma mala) and by penetration in the minds of the listener, brings about a feeling of sorrow, pride, joy, and passion.
Therefore Matrika Sakti is the Hetu (cause) of all creation and limitation, and She is always seated authoritatively, in the midst of all this confusion and ignorance ,reduction and limitation, as the Queen Mother who is waiting to be re-cognized by the sadhaka.
The most amazing miracle is that by studying and practising Shaiva sacred literature like Siva Sutras. Prtyabhijna and Vijnanbhairava, we get to the ultimate Transcendent world of Shiva's Divinity, through the recognition of Shakti pervasive in our own manifest world!
Aum Namah Shivaye.
~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.
ज्ञानाधिष्ठानं मातृका
शिव सूत्र सिखाते हैं कि मातृका, सार्वभौम माता, अनव माला, मइयामाला और कर्ममाला से युक्त त्रिगुण ज्ञान की मास्टर निर्देशक हैं। जब सार्वभौमिक ऊर्जा को सही तरीके से जाना जाता है, तो यह स्वातंत्र्य शक्ति होती है, जब इसे गलत तरीके से जाना जाता है तो यह भ्रम की ऊर्जा होती है और इसे माया शक्ति कहा जाता है। तो मातृका वह है जो आपको बांधती है और जो आपको मुक्त करती है।
अज्ञेय माता ही सीमित ज्ञान का आधार है। वह (मातृका) सीमित रूप में ज्ञान लाती है, उदा। "मैं अपूर्ण हूँ" (अनावमाला), "मैं पतला या मोटा हूँ" (मैय्या माला), "मैं एक इंजीनियरिंग नौकरी (कर्म माला) कर रहा हूँ और श्रोता के मन में प्रवेश करके, दुःख, गर्व की भावना लाता है। , खुशी और जुनून।
इसलिए मातृका शक्ति सभी सृष्टि और सीमा का हेतु (कारण) है, और वह हमेशा आधिकारिक रूप से, इस सभी भ्रम और अज्ञानता, कमी और सीमा के बीच, रानी मां के रूप में बैठी है, जो कि रानी द्वारा फिर से पहचाने जाने की प्रतीक्षा कर रही है। साधक
सबसे आश्चर्यजनक चमत्कार यह है कि शिव सूत्र जैसे शैव पवित्र साहित्य का अध्ययन और अभ्यास करना। प्रत्यक्षाभिज्ञ और विज्ञानभैरव, हम शिव की दिव्यता के परम पारलौकिक संसार में पहुँचते हैं, शक्ति की मान्यता के माध्यम से जो हमारे स्वयं के प्रकट संसार में व्याप्त है!
ओम् नमः शिवाय।
Hindi translation by Yash N R
Hindi translation by Yash N R
EMPTY YOUR HEART
EMPTY YOUR HEART
Did you know that you are like a beautiful bench in a park. Empty your heart of the rush
and sit awhile with your own timeless Self.
~ From the book' And life said' by Shail Gulhati
Sunday, 17 May 2026
NANDI'S GAME
NANDI'S GAME
Nandi loudly declared, “My Lord, are you ready to play a game with Her Majesty, Queen Parvati?”
“Hmm… okay,” said Shiva.
“lets play an ancient game, my Lord. One, that I have no doubt you will enjoy playing. It is called, simply, ‘Find Me’.”
This ring will show which one of you found the other through love,” said Nandi, putting the ring into the milk plate. and then added loudly, “Aum Aim Hreem Kleem Chamundaye! Aum Triyambakam yajamahe!
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