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.

Shiva parvati art by

QK Arlene

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HAPPY TEACHERS DAY: Tribute to Adi Guru Shiva

FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL
( A tribute to SIVA, ADI GURU , The primal Teacher )

lord shiva has many names, many epithets, each of which sheds some light on His great Attributes.
So He is Yogeshwar-King of yogis, Aushadhi eshwar-King of prescriptions and herbs, Asutosa-easily pleased, Neelkantha- the blue throated one, Bhujgendrahaaram-one who wears snakes, Chandrasekhar- one who wears the moon, Shailendra-King of mountains and so on.
As Shiva Dakshinmurty, He is the primordial teacher , Adi Guru.
This is a fascinating aspect of Him. And one that is very important: The Primal God Himself teaches what He is, what Divinity is and how to go about our own Self Re discovery.
The Great school of spirituality, Kashmir shaivism says "Sam Karoti, iti Samkara" He who shows you Shiva, is, verily Shiva Himself. Although this adage is for the Inner Shiva, i feel it fits so well on Shiva Dakshinmurty.
Dakshinmurty itself means One who sat facing south and taught spirituality without charging a fee.

In this very beautiful picture of Shivji teaching in the mountains , the message remains the same: Shiva is the giver of Atma Gyan.He is the primordial teacher even from the forest dwellings. It may interest you to know that one of the major Upanishads is called Brihadaranayaka, meaning teachings of the old forest!
Now, Parvati is actually Durga, Devi, the shakti of Shiva Himself, and therefore , like Him, she is already the master of Atma Gyan. Why then does she appear as a student and ask spiritual questions?
It is because as Jagad mata, the universal mother , she wants all her children to know the essence of spirituality from Shiva Himself, and therefore this play of questions and answers, student and teacher from the Divine Parents. The tradition is called Agama Nigama sastra and many beautiful revelations are recorded in the tantras specifically the Vijnanbhairava.
Aum Namah Shivaye!

~

Shail Gulhati

author of the book

SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

THE PORTAL TO ALL OF LIFE

THE PORTAL TO ALL OF LIFE

Shiva sits in his cave in the Himalayas in deep meditation for the welfare of all. Shiva is the portal to all life. He is the doorway to supreme consciousness.From the cave of his own heart he can reach out to anyone of us, in our cave of heart. This is important to note: Shiva answers our calls from His lofty peaks, whether mountain peaks or spiritual attainments, softly, in the cave of our own prayer.When we close our eyes in deep repose, yes, it is possible to 'see' his own watchful eye looking at us. That is the total internal reflection of Shiva, on his own creation. That, is meditation, Dhyana.

This beautiful painting by our member Gopal Goud, to me amplifies, how, in His own third eye, Shiva contains everytning, including his own Yogi form meditating on the world!!
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYE

~

Shail Gulhati

Author of

SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

शिव सभी के कल्याण के लिए गहरे ध्यान में हिमालय में अपनी गुफा में बैठते हैं। शिव समस्त जीवन का पोर्टल है। वह सर्वोच्च चेतना का द्वार है। अपने स्वयं के हृदय की गुफा से वह हममें से किसी के पास, हमारी हृदय की गुफा में पहुंच सकते है। यह ध्यान देना महत्वपूर्ण है: शिव अपनी बुलंद चोटियों से हमारी पुकार का उत्तर देते हैं, चाहे पर्वत चोटियों या आध्यात्मिक शांति, अपनी प्रार्थना की गुफा में, जब हम अपनी आँखें गहरी ध्यान में बंद करते हैं, हाँ, यह 'देखना' संभव है उनकी अपनी चौकस निगाह हमारी ओर देख रही थी। वह शिव का कुल आंतरिक प्रतिबिंब है, उनकी अपनी रचना पर। वह है ध्यान।

मेरे लिए, हमारे सदस्य गोपाल गौड़ द्वारा यह सुंदर पेंटिंग, कैसे शिव अपनी तीसरी आँख में, सारी सृष्टि समेटे हुए हैं ,जिसमें उनका अपना योगी रूप संसार का ध्यान करना शामिल है, इस अद्भुत चमत्कार का प्रतीक है !!
ओम् नमः शिवाय
Hindi translation by

Yash N R

 

SHIVA, THE ULTIMATE TIME TRAVELLER

 

SHIVA, THE ULTIMATE TIME TRAVELLER

Author’s Preface


He is the One who existed even before the world began.
He is 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 has been loved by millions.
Records about Him from ancient folklore are very interesting;
He is the perfection of opposites:
Supreme spiritual Guru, but warrior Chieftain,
Ascetic, but perfect husband,
Mendicant, but householder,
Master of yogic stillness, but King of dance;
Shiva is the fountainhead where paradox reconciles.
In the Hindu pantheon of Gods, He is called the destroyer,
And yet, known by the beautiful symbol of creation, the Shivlinga.

Shiva is a storyteller’s delight.
But because Shiva is hugely paradoxical, it comes as no surprise that, much as He is loved by the masses, there have been times when He has actually been maligned in some circles.This may have been by the design of a select few, as had happened at the instance of His own father-in-law, Daksha. Or then, it may simply be because of ignorance—a lack of knowing Shiva’s esoterics. Ignorance is not always bliss; ignorance mostly leads to a fear, which then makes up its own stories.

 

I believed it was important that Shiva’s endearing mythology, as well as His scintillating spirituality, both needed to be known.
The twin wings that make the truly ethereal flight He eternally embarks upon. It became my call to write a book that gives equal emphasis to Shiva’s story and reveals the fabulous mystic that He is, and indeed, has always been. 

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.

There is the Pauranic Shiva: The Timeless One vouchsafed to us by the ancient tellings of the Rishis, down to our grandmother’s tales. The Shiva from Kailash.
Shiva, the mountain Chieftain who lives happily with His beautiful Queen, Parvati, and the merry mountain men called ganas. Because His traditional story must always be respected and passed on, it is important to read about Shiva from the Puranas and assimilate this learning into the contemporary idiom of His legend.

 

But there is also the Adhunik Shiva; the Omnipresent, who is always here, lurking in our own hearts, in the present, and therefore the most modern at any time.
For Shiva is Mahakaal, the Ultimate Time Traveller...The Shiva who sometimes comes into the fantasies of writers to make up new stories—as indeed in my own heart He has been, and remains a constant inspiration, stroking my own imagination…

In the deepest reflection, we realise that all things are possible to God; As long as we do remember the Traditional, the modern can be imagined.
In my book, therefore, while there will be conformity to tradition in recalling the magnificent trysts of the players from ancient times, there will also be exciting new characters to introduce a dramatic interplay. These are names which may not have been heard before, but who nevertheless encapsulate the spirit of Shiva’s fantastic bhakts. They reiterate that the enigmatic story of Shiva, enfolds All! Past, present, future, history, mythology and fantasy.
A magical story about the possibility of Shiva in dance with all the mystics of all the worlds, through all the ages and to our own present time.

Aum ShivaShakti Namah!
Shailendra Gulhati

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

A modern re-telling of Great God Shiva and Parvati's story by Shail Gulhati
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THE END OF QUESTIONING- पूछताछ का अंत

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?"
"I am," said Shiva rather curtly, but with a definite authority that indicated the end of such a conversation.”
“Haha, Gurudeva!” laughed Shaunaka.
“Even as children, whenever we heard the story, we laughed at the episode: at the pundit's persistence and Shiva's patience, wit, and then the estoppel authority.
This story has a very deep meaning; the pundit's questioning denotes the spiritual seeking, and the questioned Shiva is actually the answer to all things:
Shiva honours the manifest world; He honours Brahma as His father, and Vishnu as Super God. But it is only when a questioner persists in seeking the tree of lineage, he finds ultimately, that Shiva Himself is the source of His own Father!“
“I see, Gurudeva.”
“So you see, Shiva plays out the game of the manifest world, till its limit, and then, He takes you beyond its horizon, where the transcendent begins! So too, when the pundit asks Shiva His
Gotra, clan, Shiva replies, ‘Alakh’ - The unsighted, or niraakar.”
“Wonderful, Gurudeva!”
“Therefore, even though Shiva appears as a simple Yogi playing a role in this world, in reality, the whole of creation emanates from Him. Normally we will not be able to penetrate through the role play of the manifest, to find divinity seated in the midst of it all. But if we persist with our seeking, like the pundit did, then we may at last, arrive at the truth of beautiful Shiva as ‘The One’ behind it all. Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram!” resounded Suta, ending his lesson.

~

SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.

(Humesha)

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पूछताछ का अंत

सूतजी ने कहा, "पार्वती के साथ शिव की शादी के समय की एक सुंदर कहानी कुछ इस तरह से है।"
"हाँ! हाँ, गुरुदेव, कृपया बताएं! "
"एक पवित्र हवन द्वारा विवाह के समापन के बिंदु पर, पंडित ने शिवजी से पूछा," आपके पिता कौन हैं? " शिव ने ब्रह्माजी को देखा और कहा, "वह।"
"और ब्रह्मा के पिता कौन हैं?" पंडित ने पूछा। शिवजी ने विष्णुजी को देखा और कहा, "वह है।"
लेकिन पंडित आपनी पूछताछ पे लगा रहा । "और क्या में यह पूछ सकता हूँ की विष्णु के पिता कौन हैं
?"
"मैं हूँ," शिव ने सख्ती से कहा ऐसे तरीके से की जिसका अर्थ था की यह वार्तालाप समाप्त हो चुकी थी । "
"हाहा, गुरुदेव!" हँसे शौनक।
" बचपन में भी, जब भी हमने यह कहानी सुनी, हम इस प्रकरण पर हँसे: पंडित की दृढ़ता और शिव के धैर्य, बुद्धि और फिर एस्ट्रोपल अथॉरिटी यानि समाप्ति सन्देश पर।
इस कहानी का बहुत गहरा अर्थ है; पंडित का प्रश्न आध्यात्मिक मांग को दर्शाता है, और प्रश्नित शिव वास्तव में स्वयं सभी चीजों का उत्तर है:
शिव प्रकट जगत का सम्मान करते हैं; वह ब्रह्मा को अपने पिता के रूप में और विष्णु को सुपर भगवान के रूप में सम्मानित करते है। लेकिन यह तभी होता है जब एक प्रश्नकर्ता वंश के वृक्ष की तलाश में रहता है, वह अंततः पाता है, कि शिव स्वयं अपने पिता का स्रोत है! ”
"मैं देख रहा हूँ, गुरुदेव।"
"तो आप देखते हैं, शिव अपनी सीमा तक, प्रकट दुनिया का खेल खेलते हैं, और फिर, वह आपको इसके क्षितिज से परे ले जाता है, जहां पर पारगमन शुरू होता है! इसलिए भी, जब पंडित शिव से पूछते है
गोत्र, कबीले, शिव उत्तर देते हैं, 'अलख' - या निराकार। "
"अद्भुत, गुरुदेव!"
“इसलिए, भले ही शिव एक साधारण योगी के रूप में इस दुनिया में एक भूमिका निभाते हुए दिखाई देते हैं, वास्तव में, सारी सृष्टि उन्ही से निकलती है। आम तौर पर हम सभी के बीच में बैठे देवत्व को खोजने के लिए, प्रकट भूमिका के माध्यम से घुसना नहीं कर पाएंगे। लेकिन अगर हम पंडित की तरह अपनी मांग पर कायम रहते हैं, तो हम अंतिम रूप से सुंदर शिव की सच्चाई पर पहुंच सकते हैं । सत्यम शिवम सुंदरम!" अपने पाठ को समाप्त करते हुए सूतजी ने कहा ।
Hindi translation by

Yash N R