UNION! UNION OF JEEVAATMAN and PARAMAATMAN!
Who is happier?
Who gets more bliss?
When a raindrop falls into the ocean, what is left?
When the wave falls back into the ocean, what is left?
When JEEVA merges into THE SUPREME, what is left?
BLISS, BLISS, BLISS alone is there!
SUPREME SILENCE!
GOD and the devotee were ONE!
Naarada started amending his mistakes. He first met the two subordinate RUDRAS, who had tried to correct him. He apologized profusely for his misconduct. The curse could not be taken back; but could be modified. He ordained that both will take birth through the ‘Veerya’ (virility) of a Sage.
They will become demons, but they will be great devotees of SHIVA. They will have extreme self-control. They will rule all the worlds. And, getting killed by SHIVA himself, they will return to their abodes.
Naarada decided to propitiate SHIVA.
He visited many shrines of SHIVA.
He contemplated on the many forms of SHIVA and was graced by many Supreme Visions of SHIVA.
He spent his time in discussing about the greatness of SHIVA with other adorers of SHIVA.
At last he visited KASHI, the City of Knowledge.
His whole being was now filled with SHIVA.
He wanted to know more about SHIVA.
He went to BRAHMALOKA.
He put forth many questions to his father.
“Who is SHIVA?
Is He with form or without form? How did He get His form?
How does He play in the world? How does He remain above all? How does He get pleased?
What do we get by worshipping SHIVA?
How does He take the form of NAARAAYANA and others?
How did Uma manifest?
Why did He marry her?
What is His life like?”
What was there before everything..?
What was there, when, ‘there’, ‘here’, were not there?
What was it like, when ‘now’ and ‘then’ were not there?
What was there?
NOTHING!
No Sun, No Moon, No Stars, No Light…
Darkness was there!
No Fire; No Wind; No Earth; No water; No day; No night…
No Nature; No manifestation of anything!
Emptiness, without Light!
No Past; No Present; No Future!
No Sound; No Smell; No Sight; No Taste; No Touch!
No Quarters!
What was there?
NOTHING!
Only Darkness existed!
Darkness, so dark, that a needle could pierce it!
If Darkness alone was there -
If Darkness alone existed -
What supported the existence of darkness?
EXISTENCE ALONE WAS THERE.
[SAT EVA AASEET].
SAT alone WAS!
SAT alone is!
SAT alone WILL BE!
SAT means neither Existence, nor Non-Existence.
SAT is beyond SAT and ASAT!
Confusing?
Because,
SAT is beyond the grasp of the words.
Mind cannot even imagine such a state.
SAT cannot be perceived by the senses.
SAT is Brahman.
SAT is without form.
SAT is without color.
SAT is not thin or thick.
SAT is not long or short.
SAT does not grow.
SAT does not deteriorate.
SAT has no name.
VEDAS become silent when they reach Its Presence.
THAT is Truth, Endless, Conscious, and Blissful.
THAT is SUPREME.
THAT cannot be measured.
THAT is without any other support.
THAT is changeless.
THAT is shapeless.
THAT is NIRGUNA, without characteristics of any kind.
THAT is ONE.
THAT is all pervading.
THAT is without any sort of disturbance.
THAT is without any problem.
THAT has no Beginning; No End.
THAT was aware of ITSELF; No Second Object was there.
THAT WAS ALONE.
THAT WAS ALONE.
THAT had a Disturbance.
WHY? HOW?
Nobody Knows.
THAT ALONE KNOWS.
If you become THAT; if you reach that Supreme State and know that you are SAT -there is no secondary person to reveal this fact. When you reach that state and ask the question, ‘Why did you get disturbed?’ –Nobody is there to answer, because –you alone are there.
No questions arise; No answer is there.
THAT WANTED TO BECOME TWO!
WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?
NO ANSWER! NO ANSWER! NO ANSWER! NO ANSWER!
A salt doll went to measure the ocean;
It never found the answer.
A rain drop wanted to measure the depth of the ocean; it never found the answer.
The stream of the river wanted to reach the end of the ocean; it never did.
When you reach the Greatest ‘I’ to ask the question - “HOW DID YOU BECOME ‘I’ AND ‘YOU’? –
there is no one to answer you, because ‘YOU’ are ‘I’.
Nobody is there to ask the question. Nobody is there to answer.
ONE BECAME MANY.
FROM THE FORMLESS- A FORM AROSE.
THAT FORM was THE FIRST.
THAT has all the auspicious characters.
THAT has all Knowledge.
THAT is SHE.
SHE is EVERYTHING.
SHE is All the Forms.
SHE is All the Forms.
SHE is the CAUSE of one and all.
SHE sees everything.
SHE is before anything.
SHE is adored by one and all.
She has all the virtues.
SHE bestows anything.
SHE is PERFECT.
SHE is PERFECTION.
SHE makes everything perfect.
ISHVARI.
SHE was ISHVARI.
SHE was THE SUPREME QUEEN.
When SHE arose - THE FORMLESS SUPREMITY vanished.
When Form is there, Formless is not there.
When FORMLESS is there, FORM is not there.
Either THIS or THAT!
Either THAT or THIS!
THIS asks THAT –“Why did THIS come out of THAT?” - THAT appears! THIS vanishes!
Nobody answers; because- THAT alone is there. THIS is not there.
ISHVARI! THE BEST AMONG RULERS!
SHE is the FORMLESS.
From HER arose ISHVARA.
From HER arose SADASHIVA.
SADASHIVA is ever auspicious.
HE WAS ALONE.
Why is SHIVA covered with ashes always?
Shiva is the embodied form of VAIRAAGYA, Dispassion.
He sees all the objects around him as ashes.
The burning fire of dispassion in him turns everything around him into ashes.
That is why he remains buried in the deepest caves of the snowy Himalayan Mountains
