Monday, May 31, 2021
EVERYONE'S STORY-सबकी कहानी
EVERYONE'S STORY
Everyone has a story to tell.
Everyone has emotions.
Everyone goes up and down,
in the experiences of life,
like a roller coaster ride.
Everyone oscillates between
Happiness
Sadness
Fear
Anger
Confusion
Everyone knows their own situation the best.
Everyone's story is important
no story is too small to be told.
In the end, we realise
Everyone is part of the greater story,
the bigger picture.
And when we learn to keep our eyes on that
it is then that we meet our God, our purpose, and our life itself.
Everyone has a story, what's yours ?
Aum Namah Shivaye.
~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.
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सबकी कहानी सबके पास सुनाने के लिए एक कहानी है। सबकी भावनाएं होती हैं। सब ऊपर और नीचे जाते हैं, जीवन के अनुभवों में, रोलर कोस्टर की सवारी की तरह। हर कोई के बीच दोलन करता है ख़ुशी उदासी डर गुस्सा भ्रम की स्थिति हर कोई अपनी स्थिति को सबसे अच्छी तरह जानता है। सबकी कहानी महत्वपूर्ण कोई भी कहानी कहने के लिए बहुत छोटी नहीं होती। अंत में हमें एहसास होता है हर कोई बड़ी कहानी का हिस्सा है, बड़ा चित्र। और जब हम उस पर नज़र रखना सीख जाते हैं तभी हम अपने परमेश्वर, अपने उद्देश्य और स्वयं अपने जीवन से मिलते हैं। सबकी एक कहानी है, आपकी क्या है? ओम् नमः शिवाय। Hindi translation by Yash N R
Friday, May 28, 2021
Matrika, the Universal Mother- ज्ञानाधिष्ठानं मातृका
JNAN ADHISHTAAN MATRIKAज्ञानाधिष्ठानं मातृका
The Siva Sutras teach that Matrika, the Universal Mother,is the master director of the triple knowledge consisting of Anava mala, Mayiyamala and Karmamala. When Universal energy is known in a correct way, it is Svatantrya Sakti,When it is known in a wrong way it is energy of illusion and it is called Maya Sakti. So Matrika is both the one who binds and the one who frees you.
It is the Un- understood Mother that is the basis of the limited knowledge. She ( Matrika) brings about knowledge in a limited form, e.g. ”I am imperfect”(anavamala), “I am thin or fat”(mayiya mala), “I am doing an engineering job (karma mala) and by penetration in the minds of the listener, brings about a feeling of sorrow, pride, joy, and passion.
Therefore Matrika Sakti is the Hetu (cause) of all creation and limitation, and She is always seated authoritatively, in the midst of all this confusion and ignorance ,reduction and limitation, as the Queen Mother who is waiting to be re-cognized by the sadhaka.
The most amazing miracle is that by studying and practising Shaiva sacred literature like Siva Sutras. Prtyabhijna and Vijnanbhairava, we get to the ultimate Transcendent world of Shiva's Divinity, through the recognition of Shakti pervasive in our own manifest world!
Aum Namah Shivaye.
~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.
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ज्ञानाधिष्ठानं मातृका
Hindi translation by Yash N R
Thursday, May 27, 2021
SHIVA AND G.P.S.- वह अद्भुत उपकरण
G. P. S.
GPS. that wonderful device we all have in our phones
which helps us to navigate our way even in totally unknown terrains, and arrive successfully at our destination.
The full form of GPS is Global positioning system. There is a system which first checks where you are and then sees where you have to go, and then carefully collating both, gives you directions till you reach your destination.
Perhaps the best feature of the GPS is this:
Even if you miss one of the directions and take a wrong lane, it again ' Re- routes' your map and gives you new directions:
It gives you a second chance.
Just like this wonderful device, in the journey of life too, we have a GPS, which directs us to our destination.
This GPS is GOD'S Positioning System.
Yes, once you switch it on, God does the same thing:
He checks where you are now, and gives you directions to follow, so that you may reach the greatest soul destination, which is His own home, waiting to receive you.
And in His compassion, He too gives us many chances, re -routing our map if we have gone off track. Shiva is the most compassionate God, who time and again gave His Global directions to His Rishis and other spiritual travellers, notably in the Siva Sutras; and they followed it with a passion, they travelled and travelled and travelled, till they could finally and actually hear the beautiful words:
" You, have arrived at your destination".
Aum Namah Shivaye.
~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.
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Hindi translation by Yash N R
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
VITARKA ATMA JNANAM-वितर्क आत्मज्ञानम्
VITARKA ATMA JNANAM
वितर्क आत्मज्ञानम्
The supreme Lord (Paramesvara) is all knowing, all doing and all pervading. So, the yogi who is meditating on Shiva also should think "My self is one with the Lord "
By attentive meditation on this, one becomes one with Shiva.
~ Swami Lakshman Joo.
Tarka in the system, is to discuss or analyze, to reason or rationalize.
Sat tarka is to dwell on pristine consciousness, to remain absorbed on Sat, reality, which is non dual.
Vitarka, is intensive awareness returning you to the realization, that because all really is formed of the one consciousness,
And which is the same as my self, therefore the continual affirmation that all is Siva, all is my own self.
Therefore, this sutra is an advanced stage, and is about the yogi who has realised that the universe is only a form of Siva.
~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.
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Hindi translation by Yash N R
Monday, May 24, 2021
HOW TO VISUALISE GREAT THINGS- महान चीजों की कल्पना कैसे करें
HOW TO VISUALISE GREAT THINGS
Swami Vivekananda said, the same faculty that we employ in dreams and thoughts, namely, imagination, will also be the means by which, we arrive at Truth. When the imagination is very powerful, the object becomes visualised.
God is like a top Aeroplane flyer, whose children know that their father has fantastic flights in the sky. And it is when they want to be like him one day, that He takes off the winged bade from His own flying jacket and pins it on his beloved kids...and that badge is "Imagination"
Yes, we human beings have a very special gift that no other animal has- that of Imagination. This is possible from a activity of the brain which is different from routine perception, analysis and rationalisation. While all animals have these three, the fourth facility is present only with us. And therefore Swami Vivekananda said that we must always use our imagination in a positive way, we must create dreams, not nightmares.
This beautiful pic of Mahadev and Devi looking at baby Ganeshji as He toys with the moon which is usually adorning Mahadev's forehead, seems to suggest the very same thing:
Shiva removes His own badge and gives it to His children to be able to fly.
Shiva taught the Siva Sutras- the ultimate map of imagination to His Rishis Durvasa and Vasugupta in Kashmir, with the very same purpose: So that man may be able to take the Divine flight to God's own skies .
Aum Namah Shivaye.
~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.
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महान चीजों की कल्पना कैसे करें
Hindi translation by Yash N R
Sunday, May 23, 2021
BHOLENATH- THE SIMPLE AND SPIRITUAL- भोलेनाथ - सरल और आध्यात्मिक
BHOLENATH- THE SIMPLE AND SPIRITUAL
What is spirituality in simple terms?
The answer lies in the question itself :
To be simple is spiritual.
The flow of Nature is in the simple things
and if we look carefully,we see that all the creatures
in God's creation know how to 'Go with the flow'
Except us humans.
Us humans with all our intelligence and technology,
invention and innovation, with all our discovery of the laws of Nature, sadly we have forgotten the main law:
To live life simply and in the moment.
You see, the greatness of Nature is that everything every creature needs is already provided for. But Nature does not account for hoarding; And all species of animals understand this except , perhaps squirrels, who pack their nuts before winter!
Nature's design is to make you live one day at a time, and that is the way you get most out of life. When you live in the moment, you relish it fully. When you worry about the future, or regret about the past, you lose the moment. When you lose the moment, you have lost life momentarily. And so we lead a whole life in thinking about the future, and land up not living at all! Always saving things for a better time tomorrow, but when tomorrow comes, we are saving for day after, and so it goes on, till, one day, as is again the law of Nature, our body comes to an end. And we exit the world without having lived.
Like the lion or the deer, both of who have a healthy chase each day, one running for food and the other running for life. But The lion does not hoard, he hunts for the day; and the deer does not worry about the lion he will meet tomorrow, he takes care of the moment.
So too, we should live life in the moment, we should live simply, because, being simple is to be spiritual, and this is the great message of Lord Shiva's beautiful name as " Bholenath"
Aum Namah Shivaye.
भोलेनाथ - सरल और आध्यात्मिक
Saturday, May 22, 2021
The independent Shakti of Shiva - Chitih svatantra vishvasiddhihetu
स्वेच्छया स्वभित्तौ विश्वमुन्मीलयति॥
Chitih svatantra vishvasiddhihetu, 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.”
“And when shall my children get this vision?” demanded the mother, latent in the bride.
"In due course of time, many Kathas later, O Devi!" vouched Shiva. "Any being that attains to this station to which you are primal witness, shall be granted the Amrita..."
~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.
यह है प्रत्याभिज्ञहृदयम्, हे पार्वती! अपने आप को फिर से पहचानना सीखें! चितिह, जो पूर्ण चेतना है, अपनी स्वतंत्र इच्छा से - स्वातंत्र्य, प्रकटीकरण, संरक्षण और फिर से ब्रह्मांड को अपने आप में वापस लेने या वापस लेने का कारण है। ऐसी वापसी को हम संसार का विनाश या प्रलय कहते हैं। अपनी शक्ति से, वह ब्रह्मांड को अपने सामने प्रकट करती है, और वहाँ समय और सृजन के अंतहीन चक्र होते हैं।" "चित्त आकर्षण करनेवाला!" माता पार्वती ने कहा। "हाँ। यह है। लेकिन जो वास्तव में आकर्षक है वह है सृष्टि का शाश्वत जादू..." "जादू?" माता पार्वती ने पूछा। शिवजी ने कहा, "प्रत्येक जीवन को यह सोचने के लिए कि दुनिया अपनी पलकों के खुलने से शुरू हुई है। और यही मानव मन का स्वभाव है - यह सोचना कि जीवन अपने जन्म से शुरू हुआ।" "हाँ स्वामी।" "और सच कहूं, तो प्रत्येक प्राणी के इस मूल विचार में कुछ सच्चाई है," शिव मुस्कुराए, और फिर धीरे से फुसफुसाए, "चितिः स्वतंत्रः विश्वसिद्धिहेतुः।" "और मेरे बच्चों को यह दर्शन कब मिलेगा?" मां ने पूछा। "समय के साथ, कई कथाएँ बाद में, हे देवी! कोई भी प्राणी जो इस स्थान को प्राप्त करता है जिसके आप प्रमुख साक्षी हैं, उसे अमृता प्रदान की जाएगी ..."
Hindi translation by Yash N R
Thursday, May 20, 2021
A DREAM MORE REAL THAN WAKING- जागने से ज्यादा वास्तविक सपना
A DREAM MORE REAL THAN WAKING
Sometimes He visits you in a dream.
Unimaginable, inexplicable,
you cannot share, you cannot explain.
And even if you try,
the people you tell, say that's not possible
or, it is just a dream.
But to you, it was more real than life itself,
that dream which changed your life.
And you know that there was a reason
and, you know too that the reason
will be clearer in time to come.
You have known deep within,
you were a part of His tribe
a long long time ago,
and wish to be part of it
yet again, for ever more.
And as you think of it,
it never fails to get a large smile on your face
and an even larger one, in your heart.
Aum Namah Shivaye.
~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.
Hindi translation by Yash N R
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
THE GREAT DANCE OF SHIVA AND SHAKTI - शिव और शक्ति का महान नृत्य
THE GREAT DANCE OF SHIVA AND SHAKTI
No one needs to master the Universe, it belongs to us all.
Sometimes you are lucky to get connected with the force of Nature, Shakti itself. But you must not manipulate it. This is more like a dance, a participation, you have been drawn by the force, therefore accept it as the initiator of the dance. You are conscious of your own rhythm, now, follow its steps, let it lead to you to spontaneity. Enjoy the dance.
When you are both in perfect harmony, when you both merge into the dance, when you have so far responded to her every call, when; she finally accepts you as a mate, you will learn to make a new step, and she shall respond. This is not mastery of one over the other, this is a meeting of two masters. A jugalbandi, a duet. The eternal meditator at the transcendence and the eternal energy force tapping at the manifest.
The force of energy, is the most unfathomable, yet the simplest of all. It, infact, is so simple, that you cannot fool it, that is its innate nature, a sort of self defence mechanism against ill conceived manipulation and contriving.
So, when you have examples of people using this energy for ulterior gains, for malevolence rather than benevolence, for chaos rather than harmony, for regression, rather than evolution, the dance will not last long. If your rhythm remains friendly, all old intimations come back, you are an old yogi through past lifetimes, and you will grow from where you left.
Aum Namah Shivaye.
~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.
शिव और शक्ति का महान नृत्य
ब्रह्मांड में महारत हासिल करने के
लिए किसी की जरूरत नहीं है, यह हम सभी का है।
कभी-कभी आप भाग्यशाली होते हैं कि आप प्रकृति की शक्ति, से जुड़ जाते हैं। लेकिन आपको इसमें हेरफेर नहीं करना चाहिए। यह एक नृत्य की तरह है, एक भागीदारी है, आप बल द्वारा खींचे गए हैं, इसलिए इसे नृत्य के आरंभकर्ता के रूप में स्वीकार करें। आप अपनी खुद की लय के प्रति सचेत हैं, अब, इसके चरणों का पालन करें, इसे आपको सहजता की ओर ले जाने दें। नृत्य का आनंद लें।
जब आप दोनों पूर्ण सामंजस्य में हों, जब आप दोनों नृत्य में विलीन हों, जब आपने अब तक उसकी हर कॉल का जवाब दिया हो, कब; वह अंत में आपको एक साथी के रूप में स्वीकार करती है, आप एक नया कदम उठाना सीखेंगे, और वह जवाब देगी। यह एक के ऊपर एक की महारत नहीं है, यह दो गुरुओं का मिलन है। एक जुगलबंदी, एक युगल। परात्पर पर शाश्वत ध्यानी और प्रकट पर दोहन करने वाली शाश्वत ऊर्जा शक्ति।
ऊर्जा की शक्ति सबसे अथाह है, फिर भी सबसे सरल है। यह, वास्तव में, इतना सरल है कि आप इसे मूर्ख नहीं बना सकते हैं, यह इसकी सहज प्रकृति है, एक प्रकार की आत्मरक्षा तंत्र है जो गलत कल्पना की गई हेरफेर और षडयंत्र के खिलाफ है।
इसलिए, जब आपके पास ऐसे उदाहरण हैं जो लोग इस ऊर्जा का उपयोग उल्टे लाभ के लिए करते हैं, परोपकार के बजाय द्वेष के लिए, सद्भाव के बजाय अराजकता के लिए, प्रतिगमन के लिए, विकास के बजाय, नृत्य लंबे समय तक नहीं चलेगा। यदि आपकी लय मित्रवत रहती है, सभी पुरानी सूचनाएं वापस आ जाती हैं, आप पिछले जन्मों के एक पुराने योगी हैं, और जहां से आपने छोड़ा था, वहां से आप आगे बढ़ेंगे।
ओम् नमः शिवाय।
Hindi translation by Yash N R