18/02/2023
Wishing everyone a very Happy and Blessed Maha Shivratri 🙏🕉 A STORY ABOUT BECOMING SHIVA: The well known Saint Mohanji once told this beautiful story: “During every trip I make to the Himalayas, I meet an old saint who has great value in my life. The last time I saw him he told me: “In the days to come, you will explicitly express Shiva. Fire will come through your eyes. You will elevate many people just through your eyes. You will change many lives through Shaktipat. You cannot hide for long anymore.” I joked: “Swamiji, let me hide as long as I can. This introversion is what suits me best.” He just laughed and said: “Wait and watch what is going to happen........” It was a day after my Birthday in 2007, February 23rd. I was with my parents and decided to celebrate my birthday at a nearby ashram. I usually celebrate my birthday by feeding the poor children. However, that day, since morning, I was feeling dizzy. My head was spinning. I was feeling very uncomfortable and also was having a bit of nausea. I reached the ashram by evening. When I reached there, I was almost helpless as even my eye sight was blurred. I could not see people clearly. But I tried to behave as natural as I could, to avoid unnecessary questions and explanations. That morning I had a deep urge to buy the book “Shiva Sutras”, without any particular reason. By 8pm, I spoke to the Swami of that ashram and told him that I am very much uncomfortable, without any apparent reason. He said: “Fine. Let’s take a walk and get some fresh air.”
He took me out and we walked to another house in the ashram complex, which is about 500 yards away. All I could remember was reaching that place, entering the hall and sitting down on a chair near a table.
Sacred Ash started coming out through the top of my head and then slowly falling down my body. Sacred Ash sprouting out of the Sahasraara is a sign of burnt karmas. When the last remnants of karmas are getting exhausted, like a volcano, with high intensity, they are burnt and expelled through the Sahasraara. This is typical of the Dattatreya Tradition. My body was transparent and a huge bright light was glowing from within. My eye lids became golden. The light penetrated my clothes and was radiating to the outside world. I was expanded beyond description. Everything was within me. Mohan did not exist anymore.
The Viboothi kept flowing. There was no time or space. There were no gunas (attributes) such as Sattwa, Rajas or Tamas, there were no identities. Everything got erased in a split second. The need to return or come back was also not there. I do not know how much time I existed in that state. All I heard after some time was the voice of the Swami shouting to the other ashramites: ” Shiva is here! Come fast. Bring the camera.” I slowly started regaining my body awareness, but that took some time. I became aware that many people are around me. I became aware of the flash bulbs. Then, at one point, I opened my eyes. I saw a lot of people in front of me. The first photo caught a slight glimpse of the brightness that was coming out from inside my body. Swami said that the brightness was so strong that initially he couldn’t allow anyone to enter, as they (their nerve endings especially) would not be able to withstand this level of energy.
That experience tilted my consciousness. My awareness level changed. As of then, I started shifting to different awareness levels effortlessly. When a seeker becomes the sought, his limited identity dissolves into that of unlimited nature. He becomes all pervading, completely lucid and transparent, vibrant, shining, subtly dynamic and exists in complete awareness. The sourcing of data from the higher realms becomes effortless and continuous.
Shiva is Unfathomable Infinity. When we touch the realms of Shiva, the Supreme, everything dissolves. Everything merges into One. It’s only a vast, expanded brightness, absolutely peaceful and all-knowing. All the planets, various suns, stars and various spheres of existence, become simply parts of the vast existence of Shiva, the Supreme. It is all contained within the infinite brightness which has supreme awareness. That was my experience on Feb 24th, 2007. That state can be called the state of the Father or Parabramha, it’s all the same.
When the the limited entity called Mohan became Shiva, at first, there was only the bliss, indescribable bliss that encompassed me. The bliss of infiniteness. The bliss of liberation. The bliss of bodylessness. Existing in that expanded state, I became one with all the beings of the Universe. The limited awareness of Mohan merged with the entire cosmos and became one with both, the limited and unlimited existence. In that expanded state, one can only express Love, our very nature. I became every being and every being became me.
Human intellect cannot comprehend the state of Shiva. Humans can experience that state only when they get out of their body, mind, intellect, ego and every other aspect and become empty and pure. Shiva’s state is that of extreme purity. The State of Shiva cannot be described, it can only be experienced.
In that state of complete Bliss and Love, the transformed entity will choose to lead many more souls to His stature – that of the Supreme. This is a pure act formed out of Love and compassion. By doing this, he is guiding himself; because he realizes that everything is part of himself and that he does not exist separate from anything. Everything is him. He is everything. There are no independent identities or identifications. Deep bliss. Nothing else but bliss. The bliss of being Shiva. Shivoham...........”
