GREAT LOVE STORY

 

GREAT LOVE STORY

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.
Shiva is known to be a great yogi, a great chief of ganas, destroyer of evil, great teacher, and so many more amazing things, but importantly,he is the Ishta of marriage! And 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.

( Author’s preface From the book SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.)A modern book about the great story of Shiva and Sati by Shail Gulhati

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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 by Yash N R

PARVATI TAUGHT EVEN THE SAPT RISHIS HOW TO WORSHIP SHIVA- पारवती ने सप्तऋषियों को भी सिखाया भगवान् शिव से सीखा आध्यात्मिक ज्ञान अवं शिवलिंग रहस्य

SHIVLINGA AND SHIVA ROOPAM


One day, Sati said to her Lord, “I fell in love with you even before I saw you,” She added. “The wood of this soul started to prepare itself to burn for you from the very time I saw a Shivalinga. I did so love the Shivlinga, and now I love you so much as Shiv Shanker, the handsome mendicant, who is my husband! My Swami, My Lord! Mine and only mine! She said happily."The Shivlinga can belong to all, but you, belong to me!” She looked at Him and then added,“Tell me more about the Shivlinga being your representation”
Shiva smiled. “The Shivlinga means many things at many realms, each true for that level of subtlety. It is a symbolic representation of absolute transcendence, Omkaar, the impersonal God leading to a spiritual understanding of supreme consciousness.”
“I see.”
“Whereas, in my Yogi roop,” Shiva continued, “Worshippers consider the immanence of God personified; the personal God, you know, the one with all the stories and folklore they sing of.”
“Yes. There are so many stories about you!” said Sati.
“It is how the ancient rishis conceived God in His unborn, invisible form as the Shiva Lingam. It is worshipped equally popularly as the Image of my own self, or as me!” said Shiva
"As i said, it means different things to people of different levels of understanding. The paramount understanding is this:“The Shivlinga means to convey that the transcendent or formless God, called nirakaar pervades the manifest world as immanence or God with form- sakaar ,” Shiva continued.
“Oh,” said Sati." I understand now, God is both formless and with form"
Later , when the Saptrishis tried to test Parvati for her spiritual knowledge, she shared with them all the right methods of worshiping the Shivlinga as a param bhaktini.

( From the book SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by shaivite author Shail Gulhati)
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Parvati, the inseparable half of Shiva - पारवती, शिव की अर्धांगनी

Having created the Universe, Shiva had a natural tendency to love all beings and all things. But the one person that He loved meeting in this cosmic mind field the most, the one person whose memory He would not allow to fade even when they were not together, was, unchallengeably, His Woman.
In a whole universe that had been projected by Him, She was the one being He loved immensely.
Parvati, His inseparable better-half.
Parvati, without whom, Shiva felt like ‘not Shiva’.
Parvati, without whom, Shiva didn’t feel anything at all.
Parvati, without whom, the Seers summarized, “He was Shava, a corpse.”
And without whom, as He Himself told Her once, ‘Nothing’, was actually possible.
He closed His eyes to meditate upon her when she was not present, and found a tremendous connection between love and divinity itself." love, is Parvati", He said, "Divinity too, is Parvati, there is no difference", He smiled to his loyal Nandi.
~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati
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Devi Parvati-Pasupatinathini,Queen of all creatures

THE QUEEN

The forest was buzzing with spirits that dwelled in it; spirits which were mysteriously connected and seemed omnipresent. Peering piercingly on anyone or anything that entered, without them being aware, from where exactly they were being looked at: but nevertheless feeling a burn on the nape of their necks. It had its tongue and ears too, this magical forest, and the word passed on from one tongue to another. “She is coming, the Maid of the mountains; She is coming, to become the Mistress of the jungle.”
It began with the sensitive birds tweeting and shrieking loudly in their shrill pitch. Not to be left behind, the mischievous baboons also started shrieking, jumping wildly from one tree to another, in exaggerated exuberance. The much ‘calmer in contrast’ deer, looked up from the green grounds, their beautiful big eyes inspecting the whole landscape fervently, as if to spot a family member, another of their tribe. “Ah yes, there She is, the doe eyed princess from Himalayas, scion of mighty Himavat himself, pretty daughter of the most gracious Queen, Mena Rani.”
“ What a divine time!” said the langurs. The langurs prided themselves to have been granted a boon of being associated with all divine humans.
“Yes, it will be the return of the divine period,” spoke Peepla, the wise old peepal tree.
“Return of the divine?” asked the chimpanzees.
“Sati,” replied Peepla with a monosyllable, and shook his mighty shoulders, to release thousands of leaves, as if to confer timeless blessing to the forest ground.

Everyone was excited; from the tiny squirrels who couldn’t stop their teeth from incessant chattering, to the huge elephants, who were behaving like little children about to see their mother after a long gap.
Even the sulking wild tiger was smiling, displaying a fine array of pearl- like teeth matched by equally sharp paws, which he held up to his own face and smirked in self appreciation. “I am ready for you, Parvati… my Master from time immemorial, Master of the King of the jungle Himself, The one and only who can ride even me, as a mere vehicle,” he whispered. “What do these meek folk know about the back that is needed to carry a Goddess?” he beamed at his own fabulous physique.
“Hsss… hsss… what a stupid and vain animal,” hissed the snakes to each other. “What does a tiger know about love and longing, loyalty and lifelong association like we snakes do? What does this feline fool know about the secret songs and hymns that the Mother sang to us as Sati Ragini? He is just a driver, whereas we are co passengers! It is to us, as Shiva’s beloveds, that She sang, to exchange places with; to us it was, that Sati said She was envious – if only She could be the one wrapped around Shiva’s neck in embrace! Hsss… hsss… and now She comes again!” “Not long ago,” thought Peepla to himself. “He was here, in our midst as Pasupati, and now, here She is, in our midst, as His Queen.” “Hahaha! Peepla, you old fool!” laughed his best friend Vrikshavirata. “Not long, you say? Don’t gauge everything by tree years, it has been more than a thousand years since Rudra was here as Pasupati, and Sati was our Pasupatinathini.”

 ~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. series
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Unconditional love and unconditional faith- असीम प्रेम को असीम भरोसे से उत्तर देना

'A picture speaks a thousand words', and truly this beautiful picture from the net shows so many things in one go.
Parvati is lovingly fixing Shiva's crown. And He has left Himself completely in Her hands to do whatever She feels best. This, is unconditional love being answered by unconditional trust. If this is the way God can give Himself to His beloved's care, it is a sure pointer to the bhaktas too : How to 'surrender' oneself to the care of God.

Also, as we all know that Shiva usually doesn't wear a crown,
so this must be an occasion of public importance.
Therefore, it matters to Parvati how Shiva 'appears' when He is to address someone in his capacity of a ruler, a King.
However Shiva may dress or leave His hair down when He is relaxing in His forests and mountains,with His Ganas, when it comes to Kingship, Parvati always tells Him to grace everyone with His 'Sunder Roopam' . Just like she asked Him to show it at the time of His Baraat to her mother Mena rani.
This does not mean that Shiva is 'dressed up' for certain occasions, rather the opposite:
Shiva is always Sunder, but it is we who miss it because of His informal interactions and endearingly human ways.
Aum Namah Shivaye.

कहा जाता है की एक चित्र हज़ार शब्दों से अधिक समझा सकती है .
और इस चित्र में हम एहि देखते हैं . देवी पारवती अपने स्वामी शिव का मुकुट सीधा कर रही हैं , और शिवजी ने अपने आप को बिलकुल उनके हवाले  कर दिया है .
इससे कहते हैं असीम प्रेम को असीम भरोसे से उत्तर देना
समझने की बात यह है की अगर शिवजी भी अपने आप को अपने भक्त के भरोसे में दे सकते हैं तोह फिर एक भक्त को अपने स्वामी पैर कितना असीम भरोसा होना चाहिए .

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. series
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SHIVA PARVATI THE TOGETHERNESS OF GOD

He was happily married  and the name of His eternal beloved, Parvati, was always fused into His own name.
So often was He referred to as ‘Shivparvati’, that this plural had become synonymous with togetherness.

Parvati, His inseparable better-half.
Parvati, without whom, Shiva felt like ‘not Shiva’.
Parvati, without whom, Shiva didn’t feel anything at all.
Parvati, without whom, the Seers summarized, “He was Shava, a corpse.”
And without whom, as He Himself told Her once, ‘Nothing’, was actually possible.
And just as great an enigma as He was, so too was Parvati. It was She who was Sati, in a previous life. She it was, who was Shakti, the Goddess of power, in eternal wedlock with Shiva, making Him Shaktiman, the wielder of all the power there was in the Universe. She was always present in His presence. Even if that meant being reincarnated from one lifetime to another.
~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.
  A modern rendition of Great God Shiva's story   by Shail Gulhati
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