HEAVEN

 

HEAVEN

At the thought of Heaven, images of snow clad mountains and a certain indescribable joy of togetherness would then inevitably come rushing to His mind. Another image almost always linked itself to the landscape. A gypsy tribe of fierce men, and gorgeous women dancing around a bonfire of pure warmth; a bonhomie that was incomparable in the entire universe.

A bonhomie that He had now understood, led intergalactic travellers to search for this tribe like the Holy Grail. If discoverers of the cosmos, and time travellers could find the tribe, surely the mountain chieftain and His Queen would be spotted in the midst of it all.

Parvati was the Queen jewel actually, seated in His heart, around whom all the rest rallied to form a masterpiece of Shiva’s eternal adornment.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. Part 2

SHIVA MAHAKAAL, THE ARRIVAL OF TIME

 

One day, She asked Shiva,“When are we going to wed?”
“Whenever you wish,” He replied. “Today?”
“Haha! Not today my Lord!” Sati laughed.“You must ask my father to give me away as a bride to you, and then he would be arranging the most fabulous celebrations, which is his style and his prerogative.”
“Yes. A fabulous celebration of your marriage is his prerogative, also,” Shiva smiled. “I will ask him for your hand very soon.”

He went the very next day. Unlike all the others, Shiva did not ever wait for a different phase of the moon to signal Him His beginnings. He went by His own instinct and emotion, and this time it was overwhelming.
It was a sunny morning, and Shiva was feeling good. He readied Nandi for a ride to Daksha’s palace.
Nandi himself was in a hurry and charged in true bull fashion to their collective destiny. Together, they made a momentous sight: the Rider and the Ride. Raising merry dust with their hooves, every moment relegated to the past. It was like the perfect symbolism of the ride of time itself, as they rushed forward to embrace the future.
And soon, they reached the outskirts of Daksha’s kingdom. Nandi’s furious run was still heavy with the vigour of purpose, still robust with the virility of expectation. Women plowing their rice fields looked up to see this unstoppable creature heralding his master just past their midst. They were here one moment, and off the fields in the next. But the impression would be a life-lasting one; the farmer women knew it was not just a rider that was being heralded, but a whole new time itself had arrived.
~ From the amazon book, SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

THE MAGIC OF LOVE - अद्भुत प्रेम का जादू

 

THE MAGIC OF LOVE

When i set out to write on Shiva, at first, I was overwhelmed by His infinite aspects: What could one write about Him, who is Timeless, Limitless and Boundless? And then, the question itself revealed the answer. One sure mark of Shiva, is that He is bound to Parvati. It is said of Shiva that He does not incarnate. Of Parvati's bhakti (devotion), it is said She is one who can make even Shiva incarnate.
He is Timeless, and yet when Parvati manifests, it is time for Shiva to arrive. He is formless, but when She arrives, He manifests form. She is His eternal soulmate, and they always find each other, through the mists of cosmic time, even through lifetimes; such is the magic of their love! For it is said, Parvati is His wife even from Her previous birth, when She was called Sati.
And I realised that behind the innumerable tales about Him,
at the core of the myriad roles that He plays out, Shiva's story,is essentially a love story, over and over again.

एक महान प्रेम कहानी

कोई भी उसके बारे में क्या लिख ​​सकता है, जो कालातीत,अपरिमीत और असीम है? और फिर, सवाल में ही जवाब का पता चला। शिवजी का एक निश्चित  चिन्ह है, वह देवी पार्वती जी से बंधे हुए हैं। शिव के बारे में कहा जाता है कि वह अवतार नहीं लेते हैं। पार्वती जी की भक्ति के बारे में कहा जाता है कि वह है जो शिव को भी अवतार लेने के लिए विवश कर सकती हैं ।
वह अपरिमीत (टाइमलेस) है, और फिर भी जब देवी पार्वती जी प्रकट होती है, तो शिव के आने का समय होता है। वह निराकार है, लेकिन जब पार्वती आती  हैं, शिवजी रूप प्रकट करते है। वह उनकी शाश्वत आत्मा है, और वे हमेशा एक दूसरे को खोजते हैं, लौकिक समय के जीवनकाल के माध्यम से भी; कुछ इस तरह सा अद्भुत उनके प्यार का जादू है! इसके लिए कहा जाता है, पार्वती उनकी पत्नी हैं, उनके पिछले जन्म से भी, जब उन्हें सती कहा जाता था।
शिव एक महान योगी, गणों के एक महान प्रमुख, दुष्टों का नाश करने वाले, महान शिक्षक, और बहुत अधिक आश्चर्यजनक चीजें करने के लिए जाने जाते हैं, लेकिन महत्वपूर्ण बात यह है कि वे विवाह के ईष्ट हैं! और उनके बारे में असंख्य कहानियों के पीछे, असंख्य भूमिकाएँ जो वह निभाते हैं, शिव की कहानी, अनिवार्य रूप से एक प्रेम कहानी है!
ओम् नमः शिवाय।

Hindi translation yash nr

`( Author's preface- )

SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

MOTHER OF THE MOTHER : MENA RANI AND DURGA

 

MOTHER OF THE MOTHER : MENA RANI AND DURGA

“Arise, O Yogini! You have prayed to me in the deepest solitude for more than five hundred years. You have not been bothered about hunger, nor have you let the changing seasons, the blistering sun, the thundering rains, or the biting cold affect you in any way. Not once have your lips stopped chanting, ‘Aum Aim Hreem Kleem Chamundaye Vichaye Namah.’ So ask, O Devi, what do you want?”

“Aum Aim Hreem Kleem Chamundaye Vichaye Namah,” repeated Mena.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. Part 2

THAW

 

THAW

“She turned into fire

He froze into silence.

And Time stood still.”

“Yes, I do understand, Gurudeva. But, the story did not end here, right? She did come back as Parvati, right?” asked Shaunaka.

“Yes,” said Suta. “She did, and we all know that, but it took a very long, long time.

“Time stood still?” asked Shaunaka .

“Yes,”said Suta quietly .

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

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.

THE MOST BELOVED KING

 

THE MOST BELOVED KING

Those who surrounded Him were more like merry men rather than subjects. They were more like ‘brothers in arms,’ a happy bunch of gypsy people who were rumored to be fierce like brigands and impetuous as hobgoblins.” Suta’s eyes gleamed as if he saw the whole scene of Shiva’s forests being played out right in front of him.

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.