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"He had known Vishnu, the other God, through at least two of His
incarnations. He had known Him as Rama, from His forest meanderings and
resonated so completely with Him in the love for one’s spouse.
Shiva empathised greatly with Rama in the pain of separation, Having been through the loss of His own wife, Sati. A life cycle later, when Vishnu incarnated again as Krishna,
Shiva went all the way from Kailash to
the Plains to see Krishna as a baby", said Rishi Suta.
"Ah! I see" said Shaunaka.
“Krishna loved to play, and Shiva loved to watch Him play. He loved the
infant Krishna’s delightful ability to steal butter cookies from His
mother’s larder, much before He was a full-blown God. He smiled at
Krishna’s charming adolescence as He dallied with the infatuated
cowgirls of Vrindavan".Continued Suta.
" Lovely, master!" excaimed Shaunaka.
" Then again, years later, when the time came for
Krishna to sermonise Arjuna about divinity on the battlegrounds of
Kurukshetra, Shiva had watched from an eternally witnessing sky above,
listening intently along with others to Krishna’s song of God, the
Bhagwad Gita.
When Krishna sang eloquently to Arjuna about Mahakaal,
The Great Timelessness, Shiva smiled again. He had known this song even
before Krishna was born. He, verily, had known it even before Rama’s
time," said Rishi Suta.
~ From the book SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati
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MATRIKA
The Matrix REVISITED IN SHAIVITE TERMS.
One of the most brilliant films of our time,The Matrix, leaves an indelible impression on whoever views it.
It reminds us about what the Upanishadic wisdom had always told us:
The world is a sort of dream, the actual reality is something else; And our purpose of life, is to find that reality.
Awakening into that Reality is known by different names, such as Moksha, Nirvana, Bodha,
Satori, Enlightenment ,
Self -realisation, God consciousness and so on. Till we
find that Truth, we go on in endless cycles of a maze, stuck
in the matrix, taking it's illusion to be our reality.
And
indeed, this Truth was exhorted by the pathfinders of all tribes and
cultures, at all times; be it the ancient Mayans, or Egyptians, the
Zoroastrians, or the Tao of Chinese , or be it the more recent Sufis, the Sikh
Gurus, the Western mystics like Teresa of Avilla, down to the most modern saints
like Vivekananda,Yogananda, and Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. All of them
alluded to this dream- like state from which we have to wake up, in order
to know the 'Other world' as being actually our eternal abode.
Interestingly, in Kashmir Shaivism there is a very similar word to matrix,called Matrika.
The ancient Kashmiri Shaivite Rishis taught, that such is the very play
of Shakti, who is seated in the middle of the mystery of all things, ज्ञानाधिष्ठानं मातृका॥४॥ Jñānādhiṣṭhānaṁ mātṛkā||4||
She
is called Matrika ( or Maya) because she is unknown to everyone ,except
those who have meditated deeply enough, and been graced with her
Darsana. ( like Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa)
Why is it that She is
revealed only to some?
All things come from Prakriti- Mother Nature,
but society is too involved with the inert elements of Prakriti, like
gold and silver; the elements that glitter with a worldly lustre. We remain so involved in decorating ourselves with these, that
we miss the more subtle vibration of the elements of life forms; we
miss reaching the higher and more subtle elements which raise the level
back to divinity..
But here is the difference between the ancient
Rishis and the modern scientific simulation theorists: Rishis say that
the whole play is a Lila , and there is great hope in the end:
Once
Matrika is known as the Shakti of Shiva Himself, She stops acting like Maya, lifting the veil of Divinity which had hitherto covered our vision, She transforms to the ' Guiding Mother' and stops her illusions over our fickle minds;We begin to know Divine luminosity instead of mundane glitter,
And then, all things shine
forth clearly as expressions of the same one God! It is very interesting that this film also has a wonderful soul called Trinity, who virtually acts as Neo's Shakti, so too, in our own life Ma Shakti does guide us constantly, this is her Anugraha- grace. So, for the Rishis, this play was not designed by some sinister computer geek, but a beneficent Source Consciousness.
In the film, Morpheous (
The preceptor- or Guru) asks Neo
( The seeker) if he would like to have the blue
pill or red pill. The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are
popular cultural symbols representing the choice between:
Red pill:
Knowledge,
freedom and the (sometimes painful) truth of reality .
Blue pill :
Falsehood, security and the blissful ignorance of illusion .
And this indeed, just like Sri Krishna said to Arjuna in His song divine, the Bhagvad Gita, is the proverbial choice we all need to make.
Do we wish to live in a dream like state of this world, without knowing God? In which case we will have to accept all the joy or pain that it gives us. Or would we like to know God, and then live with an awareness in this same world, knowing well that joy or pain have no permanent relevance,as long as we remain focused on God.
So too, quite in contrast to the normal obsessions ( Blue pill) of
society- Gold and silver, fast cars ,positions of power, and forever
making contacts, self aggrandizement in the name of leadership, attention seeking in the garb of charity, and so on! Sadhaks, choose instead, to seek the quiet repose of knowing the inner
Self. They learn to magnify the inner adornment of the Spirit
itself.And thus make good their escape from the 'Delusion System'
Aum Namah Shivaye. Aum Shakti Namah.
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. Available on Amazon E books :
https://www.amazon.in/dp/B07HVY1PPS ( India) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HVY1PPS ( USA)
