THE SUPREME REALITY OF SHIVA

Inside Shiva's cave, the animals never  disturbed Him as He meditated. Sometimes, He opened His eyes after hours of inward concentration, to see a deer looking at Him curiously! A snake or two cuddled peacefully in a cozy corner was not uncommon either. It was unbelievable, that sometimes, bumble bees hovered around His Kamandalu, desperately looking for the source of a sweet and enigmatic aroma that would emanate almost every time He went into meditation.
Even thesnakes knew that He was the One who existed even before the world began.
He was 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 was loved by millions.
~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. A modern story telling of Great God Shiva.available on Amazon as an E book
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SHIVA DARSHAN IS THE ONLY REALITY

SATYAM SHIVAM SUNDARAM


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.

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.
And these two are both ONE. It is One Shiva who gives His magnificent Darshan to some very fortunate people in every Yuga.
Those to whom the Darshana is given are called rishis. These rishis are forever transformed by 'Seeing ' Lord Shiva and they have a totally different attitude toward life, they pray differently, they teach differently and they live differently. The difference is that for Them God is a reality and not just a story.

Aum Namah Shivaye.

~ From the book series SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.,
A modern rendition of Great God Shiva's story by Shail Gulhati ,
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ONE DAY SHIVA TOLD PARVATI THE RAHASYA ( SECRET ) OF SHIVALINGA

One day, Parvati asked Shiva, “Tell me Swami, what is this thing 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 esoteric and spiritual understanding.”

“I see.”

“Whereas, in my Yogi roop,” Shiva continued, “Worshipers consider the immanence of God personified; the personal God, you know, the one with all the stories and folklore they sing of.”

“Yes. You are One storied person!” said Sati.

“The Shivlinga means to convey that the transcendent pervades the manifest world as immanence,” Shiva continued.

“Oh,” 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.“And in abundance, with some variance, across many lands, from a long time .”

“Hmm…yes,” said Sati.

“Like I said, the Shivlinga means different things to different people.And the highest understanding is this:
God In His formless existence is not knowable to anyone, even the bhaktas cannot know that  transcendent Godhood, because it is unfathomable in its pristine realm of infinity. It however, becomes knowable in the finite world it creates and pervades…” Shiva held Sati close to Himself.

“Shivlinga—there is no beginning and there is no end, one cannot find its source, nor can one find where it finishes...crosses all boundaries of time and thought,” sighed Sati.

“Yes. That's the transcendent. But how does the transcendent measure itself? Through the immanent, or the manifest world. "“So how does the Shivlinga personify this? I mean, the construction and design of the Shivlinga; how does it do that…” Sati asked.

“The Linga, the upper column, is transcendence. The lower receptacle is Yoni, The cosmic womb, the manifest world. Altogether, the Shivlinga means to convey that the transcendent pervades the manifest world as Immanence, as I just told you. This also gave the rishis some insight into ‘Why does God create the world?’

“Why indeed?” asked Sati.

 The Shivlinga therefore, tells us that God creates this world, and then enters it Himself, in order to know Himself, explore Himself, and this is His great leela,” replied Shiva.
“So then, is the Shivlinga a symbol of God’s creativity?” asked Sati.

“Yes,” said Shiva.“The Shivlinga is the symbol of us both in harmony, God and His power to create. It also represents the perfect balance of yin and yang, potential and kinetic, male and female energy, and so, Shiva and Shakti itself.”

~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati
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