AMAR KATHA IN AMARNATH

 

AMAR KATHA IN AMARNATH

Amarnath Is Lord Shiva's great cave, where He explained the

Amar Katha to Ma Parvati. This unique distinction is not with any of His other dhams, jyotirlings, or even Holy Mt Kailash. This was supposed to be a top secret, but to hear him , two pigeons secretly

entered the cave! See the full story on YouTube. Link on comments section.

~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism

LOVE

 

LOVE

"The strangest things are often the ones hiding in plain sight."

"People travel across the world searching for mysteries while completely overlooking the fact that they can see colour, hear music, and fall in love."

~ From the book ' The Shiva Scientist ' by Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.

आओ शिव शक्ति के रंग में रंग लें अपना जीवन Come, let us join the play of Shiva Shakti

 

All Shiva Bhakts know that this world is the creation of the Father Shiva and Mother Shakti out of love. Shiva and Shakti want all beings of this Universe to be happy, to be playful, to be good and to be Godly in their own outlook. This in short, is the purpose of the Shiva Lila.

But what happens is that we get so involved in our social duties  such as household work, office work, children's school, parents care etc, all these things are important and should be handled with responsibility, but they sometimes take our mind away completely from the original mission, of being Godly in our own outlook
.
But our heart always wants to connect to happiness, to connect to God. So how do we do that?
The answer is lying in the same heart that wants God: To be near to God, we need to become the same what we want God to be.

We know God is Kind, so we should also be kind. We know God is generous, so we should also be generous. We Know God keeps His body fit, so we should also keep ourselves fit.We know God shares only happiness and positive thoughts, so we should also be like that to the others we come across.To play Shiva lila, we should be like the perfect child of God, the perfect Bhakt of God, by being an absolutely good and divine person ourselves.
The Shiva bhakt knows that Shiva likes it when His Ganas are as Good as Shiva Himself in their behaviour. So let us colour ourselves in the great colours of God,
आओ शिव शक्ति के रंग में रंग लें अपना जीवन
Come, let us join the play of Shiva Shakti.
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.

ALMIGHTY SHIVA

 

ALMIGHTY SHIVA

Shiva is the gentlest soul. However, He can also be the most dreadful of all. He is the mightiest warrior these mountains… nay, this world has ever known. No onslaught is powerful enough to even budge Him for more than a moment. On the other hand, none can stand His onslaught. You do know the power that propels His mighty Trisula, do you not?”

“Ah yes, it is like the comet of death itself, hurtling at a being whose time is surely over,” shuddered Bhringhi.

“Yes. That is the power of Shiva, the God of Power itself. He is Shakti Maan, the wielder of Shakti!”

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

I FELT THEE, SHIVA

 

I FELT THEE, SHIVA

My tree of waking

only showed me, that all trees

are of your making.

In the root of my soul I felt Thee, Shiva

leaf by leaf ,

learnt the dance,

the tree of my waking

set the forest shaking.

In the root of my soul,

I felt Thee, Shiva.

~ From the book 'Shiva poetry' by Shail Gulhati

IS IT YOU I FEEL

 

IS IT YOU I FEEL

Is it you I feel

in the warmth of the Sun?

But then

there you are again

in the soft touch

of the moon you so adorn!

Is it you, by chance

I see, tapping in the midst of creations dance

you it is dancing at your mountain top,

But then

Who was that in the vale,

Who indeed the master of the wood,

Who in the Desert was the water well ?

Who caressed the waves of the Ocean

running fingers through the hair of this child?

Who whispered lullabies from the sky?

Namah Shivaye, Aum Namah Shivaye!

~ From the book ' Shiva poetry '

The word bhūta has many overlapping layers of meaning.

 

Shiva spoke again, his voice carrying the weight of the ages. “As we discussed by the fire, the word bhūta has many overlapping layers of meaning.”

The seeker nodded, counting them on his fingers. “Ghost. Disembodied spirit. Physical element. And the past itself.”

“Exactly,” Shiva said.

The ancient stories of the Puranas returned to the seeker’s mind in a flash of clarity: the wild descriptions of Shiva wandering through cremation grounds covered in ash, surrounded by ghosts, goblins, and strange, otherworldly beings; Shiva choosing to keep company with the outcasts and the forgotten while the other gods dwelt in magnificent, pristine palaces.

“Why do they follow you, Lord?” the seeker asked softly. “Why do you surround yourself with the ghosts and the dead?”

From the book ‘ The Shiva Scientist ‘ by Shail Gulhati

THE SUPREME REALITY OF SHIVA

 

Inside Shiva's cave, the animals never  disturbed Him as He meditated. Sometimes, He opened His eyes after hours of inward concentration, to see a deer looking at Him curiously! A snake or two cuddled peacefully in a cozy corner was not uncommon either. It was unbelievable, that sometimes, bumble bees hovered around His Kamandalu, desperately looking for the source of a sweet and enigmatic aroma that would emanate almost every time He went into meditation.
Even thesnakes knew that He was the One who existed even before the world began.
He was the One who has been prayed to, even when He was unseen.
And ever since the very first time He chose to make His presence known, Shiva was loved by millions.
~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. A modern story telling of Great God Shiva.

THE END OF QUESTIONING

 

THE END OF QUESTIONING

“A lovely story about the time of Shiva's wedding with Parvati, goes somewhat like this,” said Suta.

“Yes! Yes, Gurudeva, please tell!”

“At the point of the solemnising of the marriage by a holy Havan, the pundit asked Shiva, "Who is your father?" Shiva looked at Brahma and said, "He."

"And who is Brahma's father?" asked the pundit. Shiva looked at Vishnu and said, "He is."

But the pundit persisted. "And who, may I ask, is Vishnu's father?"

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

THE REINCARNATION LOUNGE

 

THE REINCARNATION LOUNGE

In one vision, Shiva saw Himself in the future , sipping His coffee, and smiling - Airport lounges were, in a way, the modern analogy of reincarnation. We come and go, only to receive and see off others.

Ultimately all of life seemed to be a preparation for a much greater flight, and somewhere between the shopping, disappearing, re-appearing, somewhere between missing heartbeats for a loved one, and embarking the great flight onward to an eternal sky, we had a lounge, called Heaven.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

MEETING SHIVA

 

MEETING SHIVA

You may have heard of 'Neti neti' , The spiritual training of rejecting every material thing as ' not this, not that' . This is a way taught by saints to ignore the world of Maya, so that we may carry on a spiritual journey till we have Self realisation, or meet God.

But once you have that meeting, something really beautiful happens :

Suddenly everything changes to 'Tat ashu, Tat asthu ' with Shiva's benificent smile, ' So be it so be it,'

Let all be true, let all be happy.

~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.

SHIVA COMES RUNNING FOR HIS BHAKTAS

 

Lord Shiva loves His Bhaktas and His relationships with them. He is always eager to know, how his favourite people have surfaced to their present form in this ocean of manifestation, how are they doing in life. He always wants a recap from the other’s story.
This is because it is Lord Shiva's lila;  In each lifetime, in each story, He enjoyed sitting with His friends, sharing quality time in long conversations. They would exchange anecdotes and talk of the experiences gathered in each other’s absence. It was like filling in the blanks, putting in the pieces that fitted into a mystic Jigsaw. Unfailingly, each time, there would ultimately be that one glorious moment when, while sitting and exchanging their own private worlds and sojourns, the final piece would fit, completing the big picture.
And a silent but supremely powerful Oneness would dawn.
It was called Samadhi.
Samadhi means, to be one with the Adi- the first ( Shiva)
Don't you think it is time for you to have your samadhi?
Call out to Shiva in your own life, call from your heart and the Lord will come running.
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.

YASHODA AND SHIVA

 

YASHODA AND SHIVA

“I am but a simple mendicant, come from far, very far indeed, to have a darsana of your child…” implored Shiva.

But Yashoda backed off even more, further alarmed at the yogi’s words. “Take what you want!” she exhorted. “Here… pearls, gold, jewelry… but see my baby, you cannot!”

“Of what use are these to a mendicant?” replied Shiva wistfully. “These are of no use at all in the forests. Please let me have one glimpse of Krishna.”

“Not at all! Go away, please, I say!” Yashoda’s voice had assumed a slightly aggressive tone.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

RUDRA- BRAHMA'S MIND BORN SON

 

Suswagatam prithviloka mam putra! Welcome to earth, my son!”

Shiva remembered that  Brahma had spoken those words, at the time of His appearance as a little baby on earth.
He had a tremendous ability to remember most things from the past

His mind raced back to the time when Brahma first lovingly called Him, “Rudra, my son.”
No one knew of Shiva's origin, but out of all the Origin stories, Shiva Himself  felt  more comforted in the ones that listed Brahma as His father.
In one story , Brahma gave Shiva His first name.
That was His prerogative as Father: to name the son.
Brahma had stood up on one leg and prayed to Shiva for a thousand years. When Shiva appeared and asked him to choose a boon, Brahma asked that Shiva should become his son. And the moment He asked Shiva for a boon that He should be born as Brahma’s son; He had named the Son!

Once Shiva had been the formless, nameless, unseen one, but Brahma saw to it that all that changed.
And when it happened, this birth was indeed the miracle of a cosmic timeline.
Now, holding a rueful baby in His paternal clasp, listening to His cries and wails, trying His best to calm Him down, Brahma let out a proud laughter, saying aloud “Rudra.”

“You are Rudra, the wailer, my tiny son. Welcome to the world of manifest beings.”

One of the first sounds He heard, was of admiration.There were thousands who had come to receive Shiva as a little baby.  “Oh! What a nice body He has!” Someone was saying to Brahma. From the corner of His eye, He saw Brahma beam with pride. “ Mam putra! Mam putra! He is my son! MY son!”

The receivers could well have been revellers. They were shouting and kissing Him, cuddling Him, tossing Him amongst themselves, from one to another. The patting and shouting and excitement increased, only to be supplemented by some smothering kisses on His cheeks by ladies who in turn said, “I am His Aunty.”

This was His first ritual. And it was frenzied, this welcome ritual by earthly fathers and mothers and what they were collectively called - Kutumba. One of the mothers started draping Him in some very fine and warm robes. “Our little raja,” she said fondly.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati

A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN

 

A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN

There was frenetic activity in Kailash.

Every gana had a look of superiority on his face and was running up and down, sometimes in circles, sometimes with a purpose, at other times in strange motions borne out of excitement.

Shiva was getting married! This was no small thing. Shiva, Lord of the universe was getting married! And they were part of it. Of course there was reason to be excited. And there was so much to do!

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

“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 past 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

A TIMELESS LOVE

 

A TIMELESS LOVE

Personally, His mind always went out to two things: The first were the snow-clad mountains He could see but did not know.

The other, the woman He knew, but could not see.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

PARVATI - THE ONE HE LOVED IMMENSELY

 

PARVATI - THE ONE HE LOVED IMMENSELY

The one person that Shiva loved meeting in this cosmic mind field, the one person whose memory He would not allow to fade even when they were not together, was, unchallengeably, His Woman. In a whole universe that had been projected by Him, She was the one being He loved immensely.

Parvati, His inseparable better-half.

Parvati, without whom, Shiva felt like ‘not Shiva’.

Parvati, without whom, Shiva didn’t feel anything at all.

Parvati, without whom, the Seers summarized, “He was Shava, a corpse.”

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

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.