This is Shiva’s Swarnakarshan Bhairav Swaroop!

This is Shiva’s swarnakarshan bhairav swaroop



A beautiful painting by Alfredo Shankar Das, showing Shiva give wealth to both Lakshmi Ma, Goddess of wealth herself and also to Kuber raj, the Devata of riches.
It catches our eye, and sends us into a deep reflection on the Nature of the Lord.
Shiva is giving with both hands, and this is an adage in Hinduism ” to give alms with both hands”,
it denotes complete generosity.



But there are also two arms open in embrace, and two more pointed to the sky above..
To  Lord Shiva, Richness has always meant something more than just money: it is about abundance.
Abundance is a more Divine phenomenon. When we have money without divinity, we tend to make the mistake of
forgetting  the real purpose of material things and life itself.
But when we have money with divine compassion, like Shiva’s two arms in open embrace, it becomes abundance.
And this brings us closer to the real purpose of all things in Gods world: It  is to simply to understand that all things come from God.
And All things go back to Him. ” Tera tujhko arpan ” .

If all the material things serve to take us back to God , if they help us to  always remember God in the transcendent ,
even when we enjoy the material world, This, is real Bhakti of Shiva.
This, it seems , was the lesson Shiva was giving to the mother goddess of wealth and His own minister with finance portfolio!

Aum Namah Shivaya!