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Des Drishti Yog (Meditating on your homeland) Religion Author : Shail Gulhati

Herein, lays the beauty of the most esoteric Kashmir shaiv text, Vijnanbhairava, in which Lord Shiva gives us multitudes of methods to reach the state of turiya, or self revelation. So each person may choose, or his Guru may guide him to follow what suits his current mood, and then that intensifies into a bhava.

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Who is Shiva?

So, to one who wants to learn of Shiva’s mysticism, destruction does not mean ‘finishing of the world’, It rather connotes the ending of ignorance and falsehood, It is the ending of identifying too much with the finites.

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Why I love Kashmir Shaivism

For my part, I will just try to give you a very basic idea of how rich and supportive of pragmatism some of the advanced ancient Kashmir shaiv texts are. In the Vijnanbhairava, which loosely translated would mean the applied knowledge of Lord Shiva, the Devi asks the lord to teach some methods that will help an aspirant reach high levels of shivahood for himself.

Author : Shailendra Gulhati More

Shakti-God as Mother

God is the transcendental pureness,and the manifest world is called simply, Mother Nature . Without shakti (His power to create), Shiva, they say, would be shava,inert as the corpse.

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AMARNATH - Where The Nath is forever-

We forget that we at our best are custodians of faith, not just of symbols. We forget that seeing always is not the only believing. Sometimes, it is believing that enables "seeing". We even forget that Amarnath, the very epithet of lord Shiva means, the Nath always exists!

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