No Mind

"As you go more deeply into this realm of no-mind, this sense of your own presence, you realize the state of pure consciousness. You feel your own presence with such intensity and such joy that all thinking, all emotions, your physical body become relatively insignificant in comparison to it. A new dimension of consciousness has come in. And yet this is not a selfish but a selfless state. It takes you beyond what you previously thought of as your self." ~ Eckhart Tolle

Shiva the Supreme is:

Shiva the Supreme is...
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1. Supreme Soul .

2. Incorporeal point of light.

3. Worshipped in the oval or egg-shaped form of the Shivalinga.

4. Worshipped as the Supreme Father of all deities and of Rama and Krishna.

5.  We Always say “Satyam Shivam Sundaram”  means Satya hi shiv hai . God is Truth.

6.   ” Om Namah Shivay..”    the great redeeming mantra.

7.   Known as Trimurti, the creator of the three subtle deities — Brahma, Vishnu and Shankar.

8.  The three lines marked on the Shivalinga symbolise His triple characteristics of Trimurti:

i. Trinetri — the one with the third eye of wisdom .
ii. Trikaldarshi — the one who sees the three aspects of time.
iii.  Trilokinath — the lord of three worlds.
9.  Shiva is also known as Shambhu or Swayambhu and Sadashiva meaning that Shiva is the eternal Soul who has no creator above Him.

10 . Sanskrit meaning:

शिव bliss
शिव favourable
शिव gracious
शिव benign
शिव  kind
शिव  friendly
शिव  benignant

Shankar the Deity :
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1. Shankar has a human form residing in the subtle world region called Sankarpuri..

2. he is responsible for destruction of the old world order.

3. In some paintings and sculptures, Shankar is shown meditating in front of the Shiva Linga, which also indicates that the two are different from each other.

The festival of Shivratri symbolises the divine incarnation of Shiva on this earth. The night indicates the moral degradation in souls that sets in due to the ignorance in this world. The true fasting (upvaas plus close company) on Shivratri is that we link our intellect with Shiva and stay in His company. The true Jagran or awakening means to awaken from the slumber of ignorance and to protect the self from the negative influence of vices such as lust, anger, greed and ego. Absolute formless God, Sadashiva appeared in the form of Lingodbhav Moorti exactly at midnight on Shivratri. With all this insight into the Supreme Soul Shiva, let us all celebrate Shivratri and know its spiritual significance
OM NAMA: SHIVAY....!!!
OM NAMA: SHANKARAY...!!!
OM DEVADHIDEVAY MAHADEVAY NAMA:!!!
SATYAM......SHIVAM....- .SUNADARAM.......!!!.
                              (MAHA MRITUNJAY MANTRA)
OM TRAYAMBAKAM YAJAMAHE SUGANDHIM PUSTIVARDHANAM
URVARUK BANDHANAT MRITYOMUKSHEEYA MAAMRITAT...OM...!!!....

🔥‌🇴‌ ‌🇸‌ 🇭 🇴🔥 स्त्री का प्रेम

जब तक किसी स्त्री को उसका प्रेम न मिल जाए,
तब तक वह पत्थर ही होती है।
तब तक उसके भीतर सब शिलाखंड हो गया होता है।
और उसके पास हृदय पथरीला हो गया होता है।
जब तक उसे उसका प्रेमी न मिल जाए,
तब तब उसे उसके प्रेम का स्पर्श, जब तक उसे उसके प्रेम की छाया और
जब तक उसे प्रेम की ऊष्मा न मिल जाए, तब तक उसके भीतर कुछ पत्थर की तरह ही पड़ा रह जाता है। वह अनंतकाल तक पत्थर ही रहेगा।

इसे एक तरह से और समझ लेना चाहिए।
स्त्री जो है, "पैसिविटी' है।
स्त्री जो है, वह ग्राहक अस्तित्व है, "रिसेप्टिव एक्जिसटेंस' है।
"एग्रेसिव' नहीं है, आक्रामक नहीं है, ग्राहक है।
स्त्री के व्यक्तित्व में गर्भ ही नहीं है,
उसका चित्त भी गर्भ की भांति है।
इसलिए अंग्रेजी का शब्द "वूमन' तो बहुत मजेदार है।
उसका मतलब है, "मैन विद ए वूंब'। स्त्री जो है, वह गर्भसहित एक पुरुष है।
स्त्री का समस्त अस्तित्व ग्राहक है, "रिसेप्टिव' है।
आक्रामक नहीं है।

पुरुष का सारा व्यक्तित्व आक्रामक है, ग्राहक बिलकुल नहीं है।
और यह दोनों "कांप्लिमेंटरी' हैं,
और स्त्री और पुरुष का सब कुछ "कांप्लिमेंटरी' है।
जो पुरुष में नहीं है वह स्त्री में है, जो स्त्री में नहीं है वह पुरुष में है।

इसलिए वे दोनों मिलकर पूरे हो पाते हैं।

स्त्री की जो ग्राहकता है, वह प्रतीक्षा बन जाएगी और पुरुष का जो आक्रमण है, वह खोज बनती है। अहिल्या जो शिलाखंड की तरह प्रतीक्षा करेगी, राम नहीं प्रतीक्षा करेंगे। राम अनेक पथों पर खोजेंगे। यह बड़े मजे की बात है कि शायद ही किसी स्त्री ने कभी प्रेम-निवेदन किया हो। प्रेम-निवेदन लिया है, किया नहीं है। शायद ही किसी स्त्री ने अपनी तरफ से प्रेम में "इनीशिएटिव' लिया हो, अपनी तरफ से पहल की हो। ऐसा नहीं है कि स्त्री पहल नहीं करना चाहती, ऐसा भी नहीं है कि पहल उसके भीतर पैदा नहीं होती, लेकिन उसकी पहल प्रतीक्षा ही बनती है। उसकी पहल मार्ग ही देखती है, राह देखती है और अनंत जन्मों तक देख सकती है।

असल में जब भी स्त्री आक्रमण करती है, तभी उसके भीतर से कुछ स्त्रैण खो जाता है, और तभी वह कम आकर्षक हो जाती है। उसकी अनंत प्रतीक्षा में ही उसका अर्थ और उसका व्यक्तित्व, उसकी आत्मा है। अनंत काल तक प्रतीक्षा चल सकती है लेकिन स्त्री आक्रमण नहीं कर सकती। वह जाकर किसी से कह नहीं सकती कि मैं तुम्हें प्रेम करती हूं।

वह जिसे प्रेम करती है, उससे भी नहीं कह सकती है। वह यही प्रतीक्षा करेगी कि वह जो उसे प्रेम करता है, कभी कहे, और कहने पर भी उसका हां एकदम सीधा नहीं आ जाता। उसका हां भी न की शकल लेकर ही आता है। उसका सारा "गेस्चर' कहेगा, उसका सारा व्यक्तित्व कहेगा, हां। लेकिन उसकी वाणी कहेगी, ना। क्योंकि अगर वह जल्दी हां कहे तो उसमें भी आक्रमण थोड़ा-सा हो जाता है। वह ना ही कहती चली जाएगी। पुरुष ही पहल करेगा।

कृष्ण के लिए भी कोई प्रतीक्षारत हो सकता है। और, कृष्ण के बिना शायद कोई स्त्री उस हर्ष को, उस प्रफुल्लता को, उस खिल जाने को उपलब्ध ही न हो सके।

तो इस देश के नियमों में एक बहुत अदभुत नियम था, वह समझ लेने जैसा है। वह नियम यह था कि स्त्री साधारणतः, सामान्यतया न आक्रमण करती, न निवेदन करती, न प्रार्थना करती। लेकिन, यदि कभी स्त्री प्रार्थना करे तो पुरुष का इनकार अनैतिक है क्योंकि यह बहुत "रेयर' मामला है।

एक स्त्री तो निवेदन करती नहीं, लेकिन यदि कभी स्त्री निवेदन करे तो पुरुष का इनकार अनैतिक है। और अगर पुरुष इनकार करे, तो उसने अपने पुरुषत्व से इनकार कर लिया। यह नियम इसलिए बनाया जा सका कि ऐसे यह सामान्य घटने वाला नियम नहीं है, ऐसा होता नहीं है। लेकिन कभी ऐसे क्षण आते हैं। अर्जुन के जीवन में एक उल्लेख है और उल्लेख मैं आपको याद दिलाना चाहूं..

ओशो  .....कृष्ण स्म्रति

Zorba's golden gems 1

"Think in terms of optimism, don’t be a pessimist

Even if you come across a negative, find something positive in it. You will always be able to find something. And the day you become skillful at finding the positive in the negative, you will dance with joy.

Try it, try the new vision of life. Think in terms of optimism, don’t be a pessimist. The pessimist creates hell around himself and lives in it — you live in the world you create. Remember, there is not only one world, there are as many worlds as there are minds in the world. I live in my world, you live in your own world. They are not only different, they never overlap. They are utterly different, they exist on different planes.

Then you start turning each opportunity into a challenge for growth. For example, somebody insults you. Now it is so clear that you have been insulted, how can you practice a happy frame of mind now? Yes, it can be practiced.

This is how one should use situations, this is how a sannyasin should use negative opportunities for inner growth, for inner understanding, for meditativeness, for love, for compassion. And once you have learned this happy frame of mind, this positive vision of life, you will be surprised that the whole existence starts functioning in a totally different way. It starts mothering you. It starts helping you in every possible way, it becomes a great friend.

~ Osho - Book “The Book of Wisdom”

The essence of bhagwat geeta

When Lord Chaitanya was traveling in South India, in a big temple, Ranganatha temple, He went to see the Deity, and He saw one brahmana was reading Bhagavad-gita. And people were joking with him, ‘Oh, Mr. Brahmana, how you are reading Bhagavad-gita?’ Because they were neighbors, they knew that this brahmana was illiterate, and he was studying Bhagavad-gita. So they were joking. But the brahmana did not care about them. He was taking the book and in his own way he was reading. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu saw this incident. He came to the brahmana. He asked the brahmana, ‘My dear brahmana, what you are reading?’ The brahmana could understand, ‘This person is not joking with me; he is serious.’ So he explained, ‘My dear sir, I am reading Bhagavad-gita. Unfortunately, I am illiterate. I do not know even the alphabet.’ ‘Why you are reading Bhagavad-gita?’ So he said, ‘My spiritual master knows that I am illiterate, but still, he has asked me to read Bhagavad-gita. What can I do? Therefore I have taken this book. I am simply seeing. I do not know how to read.’ ‘Oh, that’s all right. You cannot read. But I see that you are crying. How you are crying, if you are not reading?’ ‘Yes, I am crying. Of course, there is cause.’ ‘What is that?’ ‘As soon as I take this Bhagavad-gita, I remember Krishna. Krishna is sitting as driver and Arjuna is hearing. I have heard the story. I know something of the instruction but cannot read. So as soon as I take this book, this picture comes before me and I simply think how Krishna is nice that He has become a charioteer of His devotee. He is so great. Still, He has accepted a menial service of His devotee. This gives me so much pleasure that I cry.’ Chaitanya Mahaprabhu embraced him, ‘Your Bhagavad-gita reading is perfect. You have taken the essence.’
“If you simply remember how Krishna is teaching Arjuna and Arjuna is hearing—if you simply remember the picture—that is sufficient. Even if you think that you cannot read. Because after all, we have to become Krishna conscious. We don’t have to become a learned man to argue with another learned man. If it is possible, we can do that. But it does not make any difference if I cannot argue with others or if I cannot teach very nicely Bhagavad-gita to others. Simply if I remember this picture, that is perfection. Because we have to become Krishna conscious. We have to simply think of Krishna. You think in any way. That is your perfection. Smartavyah satatam visnuh [Padma Purana]. This is the injunction. You have to think of Visnu always. This is samadhi; this is meditation; this is yoga siddhi, perfection of yoga.
“One who has learned to think of Krishna always, he is already on the perfectional stage. Aradhito yadi haris tapasa tatah kim [Narada Pancaratra]. If one has come to this stage, just to understand Krishna to be the great, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and he’s a surrendered soul: ‘Krishna, whatever You like You do. I am surrendered.’ This is aradhana. Then he isn’t required to undergo any austerities or penance. His everything is finished. And naradhito yadi haris tapasa tatah kim. And if he does not come to this stage, his so-called scholarship, learned argument, this or that—all nonsense, finished. Useless. One has to come to this stage. Therefore Lord Chaitanya embraced the brahmana: ‘Yes, your study of Bhagavad-gita is perfect.’ Because one has to come to this stage, thinking of Krishna always.

Silence ~

Spiritual knowledge is nothing but this: that there is a constant longing in the heart of man to have something of its origin, to experience something of its original state, the state of peace and joy which has been disturbed, and yet is sought after throughout its whole life, and never can cease to be sought after until the real source has at length been realized. What was it in the wilderness that gave peace and joy? What was it that came to us in the forest, the solitude? In either case it was nothing else but the depth of our own life, which is silent like the depths of the great sea, so silent and still. It is the surface of the sea that makes waves and roaring breakers; the depth is silent. So the depth of our own being is silent also.

And this all-pervading, unbroken, inseparable, unlimited, ever-present, omnipotent silence unites with our silence like the meeting of flames. Something goes out from the depths of our being to receive something from there, which comes to meet us; our eyes cannot see and our ears cannot hear and our mind cannot perceive because it is beyond mind, thought, and comprehension. It is the meeting of the soul and the Spirit.

~from Volume VII, In an Eastern Rose Garden, Silence~

Kahlil Gibran says

Silence is painful, but in silence things take form, and we must wait and watch, In us, in our secret depth, lies the knowing element which sees and hears that which we do not see nor hear. All our perceptions, all the things we have done, all that we are today, dwelt once in that knowing, silent depth, that treasure chamber in the soul. And we are more than we think. We are more than we know. That which is more than we think and know is always seeking and adding to itself while we are doing nothing - or think we are doing nothing. But to be conscious of what is going in our depth is to help it along. When subconsciousness becomes consciousness, the seeds in our winter-clad-selves turn to flowers, and the silent life in us sings with all its might.

~Kahlil Gibran, Beloved Prophet: the love letters, p268~