BABABAM BHAYANKAR- भयंकर बाबाबम

 BABABAM BHAYANKAR

The extreme sorrow gave way to extreme rage, and Narada noticed that Shiva was going into a different mood.
He had darkened. His face resembled the darkest cloud in the sky, His eyes became bloodshot, His hair rising in extreme excitement, like the mixed thrill of a warrior, when He is about to embark into an immediate and deadly battle.
He started stomping His feet on the ground, causing the earth below Him to quake, and the mountains in even the farthest horizons began to shake. “Daksha, you will not be spared! Sati, I am coming! Sateee!!”
The ganas repeated the call, “Daksha, you will not be spared! Ma, we are coming!!”
Shiva started a war dance, tugging violently at His own hair and whirling in the air, with His torso doing the most unusual twists, like a man in severe pain. His right hand pulled out His Trishula from the ground where it had been restfully parked for years, as if to jerk it out of its dormancy. “BABHAM!!” He yelled a war cry and lunged forwards. He moved like a one-man army getting ready to wreak havoc on all those who came in its way, and Narada was reminded of a cloud of locusts on rampage.
The world shivered. Devas shivered, Brahma shivered, Vishnu shivered.
Shivering in Shiva’s wrath had become the new extension of the presence of Shiva.
This was something they had never seen before, but a vague and very uncomfortable feeling told them that the end of the Universe was near.
“Pralaya,” spoke Indra. “Pralaya,” chorused the Devas. They feared their own death which seemed inevitable.
“O Mahadeva, save us from Pralaya, save us from your own wrath!"
~ From the book SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.
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अत्यधिक दुःख ने अत्यधिक क्रोध का मार्ग प्रशस्त किया, और नारद जी ने देखा कि शिव जी एक अलग मनोदशा में जा रहे थे। वह काले पड़ गए थे। उनका चेहरा आकाश के सबसे काले बादल जैसा था, उनकी आँखें लाल हो गईं, उनके बाल अत्यधिक उत्तेजना में उठे, जैसे किसी योद्धा का मिश्रित रोमांच, जब वह एक तत्काल और घातक लड़ाई में शामिल होने वाले थे। उन्होंने अपने पैरों को जमीन पर पटकना शुरू कर दिया, जिससे उनके नीचे की धरती काँप उठी, और दूर-दूर के पहाड़ भी हिलने लगे। “दक्ष, तुम्हें बख्शा नहीं जाएगा! सती, मैं आ रहा हूँ! सती!!" गणों ने पुकार दोहराई, “दक्ष, तुम्हें बख्शा नहीं जाएगा! माँ, हम आ रहे हैं!!" शिवजी ने एक युद्ध नृत्य शुरू किया, अपने स्वयं के बालों को हिंसक रूप से खींचते हुए और हवा में घूमते हुए, अपने धड़ को सबसे असामान्य मोड़ देते हुए, जैसे कि एक व्यक्ति गंभीर दर्द में हो। उनके दाहिने हाथ ने उनके त्रिशूल को जमीन से बाहर खींच लिया जहां वह वर्षों से आराम से खड़ा था, जैसे कि उसे अपनी निष्क्रियता से बाहर निकालना हो। "बाभम !!" उन्होंने युद्ध का नारा लगाया और आगे की ओर लपका। वह अपने रास्ते में आने वाले सभी लोगों पर कहर बरपाने ​​​​के लिए तैयार एक-व्यक्ति सेना की तरह चला गया, और नारद जी को टिड्डियों के एक बादल की याद आ गई। दुनिया कांप उठी। देवता काँप उठे, ब्रह्मा जी काँप उठे, विष्णु जी काँप उठे। शिव जी के क्रोध में कांपना शिव जी की उपस्थिति का नया विस्तार बन गया था। यह कुछ ऐसा था जिसे उन्होंने पहले कभी नहीं देखा था, लेकिन एक अस्पष्ट और बहुत ही असहज भावना ने उन्हें बताया कि ब्रह्मांड का अंत निकट था। "प्रलय," इंद्रजी बोले। "प्रलय," देवों ने समवेत स्वर में कहा। उन्हें अपनी मौत का डर था जो अपरिहार्य लग रहा था। "हे महादेव, हमें प्रलय से बचाओ, हमें अपने क्रोध से बचाओ!"

Hindi translation by Yash N R 

THE ONE

 THE ONE

“His mentions had been varied. Shiva the auspicious, Shiva the Warlord, Shiva the mountain God, Shiva the dweller of the cremation grounds, Shiva the creator of the universe, Shiva the destroyer, Shiva the ascetic, Shiva the loyal husband, Shiva the intoxicated, Shiva the meditator, Shiva the recluse, Shiva the Supreme spiritual master! Which One was He?”
“Yes, which one was He indeed, Gurudeva?” asked Shaunaka.
“One thing that stood out clearly in the descriptions, was that there was much paradox about Him. The moment anyone thought they understood one aspect of Him, immediately another would come and juxtapose itself in contrast. And that was the way He was known by most people: As the greatest enigma in the pantheon of the Hindu Gods,” continued Suta.
~ From the book SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati
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Statue: Shiva, Yama and Markandey- Ujjain

एक “उनके उल्लेख विविध थे। शिव शुभ, शिव योद्धा, शिव पर्वत देवता, शिव श्मशान घाट के निवासी, शिव ब्रह्मांड के निर्माता, शिव संहारक, शिव तपस्वी, शिव निष्ठावान पति, शिव मतवाले, शिव ध्यानी, शिव वैरागी, शिव सर्वोच्च आध्यात्मिक गुरु! वह कौन से थे?” "हाँ, वह वास्तव में कौन थे, गुरुदेव?" शौनका ने पूछा। "वर्णन में एक बात जो स्पष्ट रूप से सामने आई, वह यह थी कि उनके बारे में बहुत अधिक विरोधाभास था। जिस क्षण किसी ने सोचा कि वे उनके एक पहलू को समझ गए हैं, तुरंत दूसरा आ जाएगा और इसके विपरीत तुलना करेगा। और इस तरह वह ज्यादातर लोगों द्वारा जाना जाते थे: हिंदू देवताओं की सबसे बड़ी पहेली के रूप में, "सुतजी ने जारी रखा। Hindi translation by Yash NR

He was Shiva, the Auspicious.

 EARTHILY MAGNETIC MOUNTAIN GOD

He loved mountains. He loved to dance. He loved to wear His hair long. He was a simple hillbilly: good at heart, and He loved his fellow mountain men. But He was not considered in turn, a fellow man.
It was said of Him that He was God Himself—The Primal One.
He was said to be the Timeless Lord of the mountains and also the men He so loved.
He was Shiva, the Auspicious. Shiva, whose very presence was able to transform humans into demigods.
He, Shiva, was supposed to be the ultimate spiritual alchemist.
But whatever He could see of Himself, was plainly human.
He felt like a human; fond of the forest life, and like all the other creatures that roamed in the forest, always looking forward to more of it. Gods were said to be without desire, but He loved life!
Gods were timeless, but He was always contemporary, always in the present.
Gods were supposed to have some subtle form of body, or then none at all, but He was the most earthily magnetic mountain man.
Yet, legend insisted that He was no ordinary forest dweller.
“He is the Supreme, in the midst of all beings,” ancient Seers noted in their historic notes.
“He is The God,” they emphasised, and in their tedious manuscripts, added, “Ultimately, of All things.”
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उन्हें पहाड़ों से प्यार था। उन्हें नृत्य करना बहुत पसंद था। उन्हें अपने बाल लंबे रखना पसंद था। वह एक साधारण पहाड़ी व्यक्ति थे: दिल के अच्छे, और वह अपने साथी पहाड़ी लोगों से प्यार करते थे। लेकिन बदले में उन्हें एक साथी आदमी नहीं माना गया। उनके बारे में कहा जाता था कि वह स्वयं परमेश्वर थे—आद्य एक। उन्हें पहाड़ों का कालातीत भगवान कहा जाता था और वे पुरुष भी जिन्हें वह बहुत प्यार करते थे। वह शिव, शुभ थे। शिवजी, जिनकी उपस्थिति ही मनुष्य को देवताओं में बदलने में सक्षम थी। वह, शिव, परम आध्यात्मिक कीमियागर माने जाते थे। लेकिन जो कुछ भी वह अपने आप में देख सकते थे, वह स्पष्ट रूप से मानवीय था। वह एक इंसान की तरह महसूस करते थे; वन जीवन के शौकीन, और जंगल में घूमने वाले अन्य सभी प्राणियों की तरह, हमेशा इनके लिए और अधिक तत्पर रहते हैं। देवताओं को इच्छा रहित कहा जाता था, लेकिन वे जीवन से प्रेम करते थे! देवता कालातीत थे, लेकिन वे हमेशा समकालीन थे, हमेशा वर्तमान में। माना जाता था कि देवताओं के शरीर का कोई सूक्ष्म रूप होता है, या फिर कोई भी नहीं होता, लेकिन वे सबसे पार्थिव चुंबकीय पर्वत पुरुष थे। फिर भी, किंवदंती ने जोर देकर कहा कि वह कोई साधारण वनवासी नहीं था। "वह सर्वोच्च है, सभी प्राणियों के बीच में," प्राचीन संतों ने अपने ऐतिहासिक पुस्तकों में उल्लेख किया है। "वह परमेश्वर है," उन्होंने जोर दिया, और अपनी थकाऊ पांडुलिपियों में जोड़ा, "आखिरकार, सभी चीजों का।"  Hindi translation by Yash NR  

The spiritual significance of Diwali

The spiritual significance of Diwali.

Namaste! It is a very busy time for festive India! Starting last week with the first navratra, followed by another eight days and nights of prayer to Durga Ma, that make the total of nine navratri for her nine different forms. Temples are glowing with lights, satsangs are chirping in every locality, and there is a huge vibration of festivity.

And this is followed by Dussehra . I’m sure many of you must have accompanied your children to the Public grounds in your city, to watch Ravana and his team go up in flames.

And now, in this continuing celebration mood and mode, we look forward to the festival of festivals - Diwali!

If you ask your pundit, or look up religious books or even check the internet,you will find so many mythologies connected with this festival.

It is said, Lord Rama took about twenty days to return to Ayodhya after defeating Ravana, whereupon there was great rejoicing and the streets were lit up in warm welcome. So too, Diwali arrives approximately twenty days after Dusshera.

And the obvious message is the triumph of good over evil. It may interest you to know , that quite resonantly , the next Avatar, Krishna too defeated the demon Narakasura around the same calendar day.

An enigmatic and perhaps even older mythology links Diwali to Goddess Parvati playing dice with Shiva, and gambling during these days is actually supposed to get transformed into a holy act! Of course I talk of a little game of cards with the family at home and which is not to be mixed with the hazard of professional betting and abetting.

But Diwali is not limited to the plays of good and evil, it is a major festival to honour Lakshmi, Goddess of wealth,and till date indian housewives not only invoke the Goddess Dhanlakshmi by pious prayer,but also invoke their own privelege of buying gold and silver, and utensils to run a better home on Dhan Teras,and this is a great time to remind the husbands to have the house re painted!

All the shops wear a bright look and for the traders, this even used to mark the day to make new ledgers and accounts and yes, with some even starting new businesses! It isn’t rare to see actors and industrialists launching new projects on this day..

Did you know that Mahavir of the jains, Swami dayanand saraswati of the Arya samaj, and also Swami ramtirath all attained to samadhi on this day? and also ,that not only is Diwali the largest celebrated festival in India, but is enjoyed by millions in Nepal,Thailand, Kenya,Trinidad,Malaya and Siam ,apart from those countries that have significant numbers of indian settlers!

On this day, we all look forward to lighting lamps, bursting crackers, making and partaking sweets,wearing colourful clothes, buying all sorts of new things from toys to cars! Clearly, everybody is happy,as they wish each other Happy diwali.

And then?

Diwali will be over, and we will wait for next year to make festivity and light up our lives. But then, we may have missed the spiritual significance of the event, we may have eaten the husk instead of the rice. And this should not be, because Diwali has an enduring message,to understand the spiritual significance of which, we will have to first refer to the original name of the festival, which is "Deepavali".

It means"row of lights", and thats why we call it the festival of light.

Light is always the symbol of divinity,knowledge,and purity. By contrast, darkness is evil, sorrowful, ignorant.

When we are in a room that is not well lit, how easy it is to become depressed and low,while in a place which is well lit, how natural to feel bright and wonderful!

Saints have forever spoken to us of the inner light, they have always told us that the inner self has the ability to give us all happiness and health, joy and prosperity,

but more importantly it is our sure link with divinity, in fact, it is divinity itself residing in us.

It becomes an easy analogy, that if the inner room is lit, all dark things will disappear.

Do you remember a song from Sant Jnaneshwar, "jyot se jyot jagate chalo, prem ki ganga bahate chalo"?

or the fervent psalm 18 :28 of the Bible ‘The Lord will light my candle so,that it shall shine full bright;

The Lord my God will also make my darkness to be light.’

The same is recorded in the Upanishads as " Tamasso ma jyotir gamayo", from darkness, lead us to light.

The Buddha implored truth seekers to be a lamp unto themselves.

If you have been to Mcleodganj and heard the famous Tibetan buddhist mantra Om mani padme hum, it means the same thing, " The jewel is in the lotus "

And even the hath yogis only talk of lighting up the inner chakras one by one through austere effort,and invoking the inner shakti kundalini. But perhaps, the greatest allusion to light would be from the Gayatri mantra

Aum Bhur bhuva svaha …. which is in praise of the Sun as dispeller of darkness,

"We meditate on the creator of all the three worlds,who is worthy of praise, being Himself the perfect embodiment of light and knowledge, helping us to dispell the darkness from our little self, to merge into the very womb of great effulgence".

Returning to the subject of good and evil. The evil we must win over is within, the good that wins is also within,we must light up the good,we must light our own lamp, and then spread it around.

Interestingly, In diwali we are supposed to light one central candle/lamp first, Called the Atma jyoti, from which all the rest of the lamps are then lit,the significance is simple, we must first locate the inner self ,and then all our other faculties will be lit. We must know real happiness first, by knowing our Self, then only we can pass happiness to others.

This is important to note, very often we go about setting the world right, without first taking a deep look at ourselves, and that's how problems crop up, thats how Ravana and Kamsa go wrong.

Simply put, the spiritual significance of Diwali, is about spiritual homecoming. It is about an inner transformation that corresponds to the glory of Lord Rama returning to His Pristine kingdom as a ruler.

And there's another important lesson on endurance:

when we light the first candle, we take so much care that it should not get extinguished,

but sadly ,we dont take the same care to keep the very spirit of diwali glowing! thats how hundreds of diwalis come and go away ,only to find us plunged back in darker moods and negative tendencies , just like a power cut! till the holy season arrives again the next year , with the next Diwali..

Why keep the spirit of love and happiness just for a week , and wait for a full year to rekindle it again?

I leave you to meditate upon Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s beautiful lines on the significance of Diwali.

“The night is black kindle the lamp of love with thy life and devotion”

Happy Diwali! Shail Gulhati is the author of the book SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. On Amazon https://www.amazon.in/dp/B017ECI6CU 

SHIVPARVATI

Women sang of Him while they wished to get married to someone else, because He was supposed to be, among many things, a God who lavishly bestowed boons on them to find a suitable groom.

He was much married Himself and the name of His eternal beloved, Parvati, was always fused into His own .

So often was He referred to as ‘Shivparvati’, that this plural had become synonymous with togetherness.

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.

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जबकी वे किसी और से शादी करना चाहते थीं, तब भी महिलाओं ने उनका गान गाया, क्योंकि शिव को  कई बातों के अलावा, एक ऐसा भगवान भी माना जाता था, जो उन्हें एक उपयुक्त वर खोजने के लिए वरदान देते थे ।  वह स्वयं भी अपने विवाह से बहोत खुश थे और उनकी शाश्वत प्रेमिका, पार्वती का नाम हमेशा उनके साथ जुड़ गया था। उन्हें 'शिवपार्वती' के रूप में संदर्भित किया जाता था, कि यह बहुवचन एकता का पर्याय बन गया था। और जैसे वे जितने महान रहस्य माये थे, वैसे ही माता पार्वती भी थीं। यह वह थी जो पिछले जन्म में माता सती थी। वह वह थी, जो शक्ति की देवी थी, शिवजी के साथ शाश्वत विवाह में, उन्हें शक्तिमान बना रही थी, जो ब्रह्मांड में मौजूद सभी शक्तियों की क्षेत्राधिकारी थी। वह हमेशा उनकी उपस्थिति में मौजूद रहती थी। भले ही इसका मतलब एक जन्म से दूसरे जन्म में पुनर्जन्म लेना हो। Hindi translation by Yash NR

ARISE, AWAKE , AND MOVE ON

 ARISE, AWAKE , AND MOVE ON

Every morning is a gift from God.
It is as if the Sun actually rises for you,
almost as a wish, " each day is a birthday"
Because every morning we have a chance to upgrade ourselves
into a newer, happier, stronger, and wiser version of ourselves.
We do not need to compete with others!
The one constant race is with our own Self.
While past happiness makes us smile and encouraged for more,
even past sadness becomes a useful experience,
leading us from bitter to better.
Every morning we have that choice, are we going to
spend our today complaining about yesterday,
or are we going to be our best
and move naturally into a great tomorrow.
No matter what circumstance Life has shown us
Mother Nature has a way to replenish our soul.
to Arise, awake and move on.
Aum Namah Shivaye.
~ Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.
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उठो, जागो और आगे बढ़ो हर सुबह ईश्वर का दिया हुआ उपहार है। यह ऐसा है जैसे सूर्य वास्तव में आपके लिए उगता है, लगभग एक इच्छा के रूप में, "हर दिन एक जन्मदिन है" क्योंकि हर सुबह हमारे पास तरक्की करने का मौका होता है खुद के एक नए, खुश, मजबूत और समझदार संस्करण में। हमें दूसरों के साथ प्रतिस्पर्धा करने की आवश्यकता नहीं है! एक निरंतर दौड़ हमारे अपने स्वयं के साथ है। जबकि पिछली खुशी हमें मुस्कुराती है और अधिक के लिए प्रोत्साहित करती है, पिछला दुख भी एक उपयोगी अनुभव बन जाता है, हमें कड़वे से बेहतर की ओर ले जा रहे हैं। हर सुबह हमारे पास वह विकल्प होता है, क्या हम जा रहे हैं कल के बारे में शिकायत करने में अपना आज बिताओ, या हम अपना सर्वश्रेष्ठ बनने जा रहे हैं और स्वाभाविक रूप से एक महान कल की ओर बढ़ें। ज़िन्दगी ने हमें कैसी भी परिस्थितियाँ दिखायी हों माँ प्रकृति के पास हमारी आत्मा को फिर से भरने का एक तरीका है। उठो, जागो और आगे बढ़ो। ॐ नमः शिवाय। Hindi translation by Yash NR