When Shiva an Parvati got married, they went to spend their days in the Himalayas.
"What is it that you know always, that all the yogis always want to know?" asked Parvati in the Amareshwar cave, ( Now called Amarnath )
Shiva smiled, laughed, and then spoke exaltedly like a poet. “This earth upon which we sit, the hills, these trees, the springs, this soft wind, even the moon, the sky, those distant stars that bejewel the night are offerings to you, truly, dearest!" He exclaimed, arising. "The entire universe is a projection from the pristine essence within me; this human bodied Yogi you love - your husband, Shankar! I am always the knower of the highest transcendence, I am always the knower of what is always."
Parvati was impressed. “But… where do I fit in?" She asked teasingly.
"You, Parvati…" He urged emphatically. "Are the embodiment of Shakti, my inseparable power of dynamics. You cause the projection.Without you, there would be no manifest world, and I would remain ever, in my transcendence, by myself." Seeing that His young wife was pleased, Shiva continued, "and so this beautiful miracle, that tonight we sit as two beings in love, chatting, admiring each other and our surroundings, such a beautiful creation, of which we are now a part, and yet I tell you, the secret is that we are the perennial source of all that is..."
चितिः स्वतन्त्रा विश्वसिद्धिहेतुः
स्वेच्छया स्वभित्तौ विश्वमुन्मीलयति॥
Chitih svatantra vishvasiddhihetuh, svechchaya svabhittow vishvamunmeelyatih.
This is pratyabhijnahrdayam, O Parvati! Learn to re-cognize your self! Chitih, which is absolute consciousness, by its own free will – svatantrya, is the cause of manifestation, preservation and again re-absorption or withdrawal of the universe into itself. Such withdrawal is what we call destruction of the world or dissolution. By Her own power, She unfolds the universe on Her own screen, and there result endless cycles of time and creation.”
“Fascinating!” said Parvati.
“Yes. It is. But what’s really fascinating is the perennial magic that creation has…”
“Magic?” asked Parvati.
“To make each life think that the world began with the opening of its eyelids,” said Shiva.
“And that is the very nature of the human mind - to think that life began with its own birth.”
“Yes, Swami.”
“And to be honest, creation is a paradox, and there is some truth in this primal thought of each being,” smiled Shiva, and whispered softly again, “Chitih svatantrah vishvasidhhihetuh.”
~ 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.
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