Shri Radhe Maa - Jai Baba Gaur Bhairav ki!

Lord Shiva

Lord Shiva in his Bhairava aspect is believed to have incarnated as a prince in the family of a king in Kumaon, Uttarakhand. He is popularly known as Gaur Bhairava or Golu Devata and is known to be very powerful. 

Golu Devata's father married a powerful but spiritual woman who once separated two bulls as they locked their horns. The king was impressed by her strength and decided to make her his queen. When Golu Devata was born, his jealous stepmothers put a stone in place of the baby and threw the child in cave and submerged the cage in water. A fisherman found the child and brought it up as his own. When the boy grew up he took a wooden horse to the spot where his stepmothers were and when they asked the young man what he was doing, he explained that his horse was thirsty. When the queens laughed, Golu Devata exclaimed that if a woman can give birth to a stone, a wooden horse could also drink water. The king learnt of the incident and he punished the stepmothers and made the boy king.

Golu went on to become a divine king known for his justice. To this day people who have been wronged or have suffered an injustice seek his intervention and are rewarded! 

May the lotus feet of Lord Gaur Bhairava guide us to a path of right thoughts, words and deeds! 

Jai Golu Devata! Har Har Mahadev! Jai Bolo Bhairav Baba ki! 

Watch a video of a song to Golu Devata in the Kumaoni language on this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odvePEsnrbY

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Shri Radhe Maa - How Lord Shiva came to wear the crescent moon

Daksha cursed his son-in-law Lord Chandra or Moon that he would eventually become smaller and wane away because he did not treat all his wives equitably. Chandra prayed to the Somnatha linga, the first of the Jyotir Lingam and was blessed by a boon that he would honor Daksha's curse and also be released from its ill-effects. The moon would wane away in the Krishna Paksha and Wax in the Shulka Paksha.

Lord Shiva being all-merciful also honored his devotee by placing his on his head.

Lord Shiva who has countless forms is beyond form, name and gunas and is yet the base from which all names, forms and qualities arise. He wears the Moon, which waxes and wanes. The Moon like everything in nature waxes and wanes. Everything in life moves in cyclical fashion. That which does not change us Shiva.

Watch a video of a shloka that honors Lord Shiva as Chandrashekhara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTzhYWceIxk

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Shiva temple built by Ravana's father-in-law in Lanka

Shiv

The Ketheeswaram Mahadev temple is among the oldest Shiva temples in Sri Lanka. It is believed to be at least 2,500 years old. It is known as the place where Lord Ketu worshipped Shiva. It is believed to have been originally been built by the father of queen Mandodari, the wife of Shiva, a woman of great purity who was known to be a staunch devotee of Lord Shiva like her husband.

This is also said to be the place where Mandodari hailed from. It is also believed to be the temple where Maharishi Bhrighu honored Lord Shiva. The temple had fallen into disuse for four centuries before the Hindus of Sri Lanka under the guidance of the great Hindu reformer Arumuka Navalar decided to renovate the temple.

The restoration has not been completed till date because of the civil war in Sri Lanka.

May Ketheeshwaram Shiva bless all beings with desire for the supreme happiness - ananda - which is our true nature! Om Namah Sivai! Jai Parvati Patae! Har Har Mahadev!


Watch a video on the Ketheeshwaram Mahadev temple on this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ_0N7NkMu4

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Mahadevi Akka, the girl who married Lord Mahadeva Shiva

Akka Mahadevi is to Shiva what Mira Bai was to Lord Krishna. Akka Mahadevi has fallen in love with Shiva who posseses an alluring body that is as Goswami Tulasi Das puts it "Karpur-Gauram" or "White as Camphor".

Akka Mahadevi was born in Karnataka in the 12th Century. She left her husband as he tried to get intimate with her as she had already accepted Lord Shiva as her husband. She left the house naked and never wore anything in her life.

Here are lines translated in English from a poem originally written in Kannada by Akka Mahadevi:

For hunger, there is the village rice in the begging bowl,
For thirst, there are tanks and streams and wells
For sleep temple ruins do well
For the company of the soul I have you, Chenna Mallikarjuna

- Mahadevi  Akka

May the example of Akka Mahadevi light the spark of love for Lord Shiva, whose Tandava animates the cosmos, in our hearts!

Watch a video on the story of Akka Mahadevi on this 

link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd8sxe-SoiU    

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Hail Murugan - Kartikeya of Kataragama, Sri Lanka!

Kartikeya - Ganpati - Maa Parvati

Lord Kataragama is Karktikeya who presides over the Kataragama Devalaya which is dear to the Hindus and Buddhists of Sri Lanka. While the Buddhist honor Kataragama as the protector of the Buddha's dhamma in the land, the Hindus honor the Lord as the son of Lord Shiva and Mata Parvati.

The temple complex is a fast-growing city which remains surrounded by a thick jungle. The main festival at the temple is celebrated in July and August every year. A Yantra representing Lord Kartikeya is taken in a procession for all to adore and worship. Devotees walk on fire as a ritual, peirce their bodies and carry kavadis.

May all-powerful Kartikeya, the son of Lord Shiva, bless all with strength of resolve and faith! Jai Baba Swaminath! Om Namah Shivai! 

Watch a video on Kataragama on the following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-0LfjKZzic

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German Swami Gauribala Giri, the son of Mata Kalika

Maa Kali

Born in a upper class intellectual German Jewish family in the first decade of the 18th century as Peter Joachim Schoenfeldt, German Swami was at various times a Mahayana Buddhist Monk, a Tantric Master of the Tibetan school and finally a devotee of Maa Adya Shakti and a sanyasi of the Naga Dasnami order established by Adi Shankaracharya.

Gauribala Swami travelled all over India and Tibet and met many masters but did not find any he could accept with all his heart. Then one day as he was browsing through some books at a bookstore in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, a poorly dressed man with a beard and strange ways, came up to Gauribala and said, "You bloody fool, it is not found in books." 

Gauribala has found his guru in Yogaswami of Nallur.

A website dedicated to the tradition to which German Swami belongs, mentions how German Swami loved cracking jokes. 

"German Swami was at the Mahadevale gate with begging bowl. Coins flowed in, perhaps because he was European.

A richly-dressed man was about to pass by when Swami repeated the begging mantra. The man looked at him, embarrassed, and touching his breast pocket said, "No change." 

Pat came the instant reply with feigned humility and a side-grin at me: "We also accept big notes!"  

Swami Gauribala left his body in 1984 with the words Umma, Umma, Umma! (Uma, the Supreme Mother) on his lips.  

May Mother Gauri, the mother of Swami Gauribala and of the Universe bless us with the supreme gift of Ananda! Jai Mata Di! 

Read more about German Swami on the following link http://aryasangha.org/gauribala_sam.htm

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When Lord Shiva slapped Robert Hansen

Lord Shiva

After years of study of the Hindu scriptures, practice of yogic meditation and interacting with several Hindu and Buddhist teachers, Robert Hansen the American youngster finally stood before the great sage Yogaswami of Sri Lanka, the man who embodied in his person the wisdom and power of the 2000-year-old Nandinatha Sampradaya. 

The sampradaya is Shaiva - they worship Lord Shiva.

The sage looked into the youngsters eyes. As the youngster bent to touch the Master's feet, the master slapped his back hard! The slap was the youngster's initiation into Sanyasa!

"This sound will be heard in America! Now go ‘round the world and roar like a lion. You will build palaces (temples) and feed thousands," said Yogaswami. 

The youngster became the famous yogi, author, temple-builder and staunch defender of Hinduism - Sadguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami! sadguru has written over 30 books on different aspects of Shaivaism, built Shiva temples in the traditional South Indian style all over the world and also encouraged people across the world to enter the Hindu tradition.

He has written the the most comprehensive book on entering the Hindu faith titled "How to be a Hindu". Sadguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami left his body on November 12, 2001.

May Lord Sadashiva, the cause of all causes in this universe, guide us towards the path of dharma! Om Namah Shivai! 

Watch a video of Sadguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami delivering a talk on Hinduism on the following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=323o-1QfXoI
  

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Investing in Lord Shri Krishna - the best investment ever

Lord Krishna

A humble pouch of parched rice is all poor ill-dressed Sudama had to offer his sakha Lord Krishna. And Sudama tried as hard as he could but was unable to ask anything from his friend who was the king of the mighty Yadavas.

However, he returned home to find a palace standing at the spot where his poor hut had been, and his wife was bedecked with gold and there were cows in his gau-shala, and enough grain in his storage to feed him and his family for as long as they lived.

Bhakta-vatsal Krishna, the one who knows all, had responded to his bhakta's condition!

Whatever is invested selflessly in bhakti gives returns so handsome that you cannot compare it to any other worldly investment. And the rewards are not merely material. Invest in dharma because it continues to give us returns even beyond death. It is not for nothing that Pundit Chanakya says "Dharma mitram mritaschya!"

Jai Yadavakulbhushan Krishna ki! Jai bhaktaraj Sudama ki! Jai Bhaagvat vrinda ki!

Watch a song dedicated to Lord Krishna by Sant Surdas on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm6KJjFlBV4      

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Lord Jagannatha of Puri and his Muslim bhakta Salabega

Lord Jagannath 

Salabega was born in the first decade of the 17th century to a Mughal subedar and a Brahmin widow whom had father had forced to marry him. They lived in Orissa close to the famous Jagannatha temple. When Salabega became a young man he joined his father's army and began his career as a soldier. Once, after he hurt himself badly, he found that nothing would give him relief.

Salabega's mother advised him to chant Lord Krishna's name. He obeyed his mother and found the names of the Lord so sweet that he forgot everything and was healed of his pain. He was overcome by a desire to know more and visited the Jagannatha temple. The Brahmins would not let Salabega enter the temple because he was not a Hindu.

Dejected Salabega when to Vrindavan and lived immersed in the Lord for several years before returning to Orissa just before the grant Ratha ceremony of Lord Jagannatha. Realizing that he would be delayed, he prayed from his heart to Jagganatha to not let the chariot move till he reached the spot.

Despite all the efforts of all devotees and Brahmins, the chariot would not move. It was when Salabega reached the spot and saluted his beloved Jaggantha that the chariot began to move. As long as he was alive, Salabega was never allowed to enter the temple. He always remained the outsider but is remembered today for his wonderful poetry in the Oriya language and his devotion to Lord Jagannatha Krishna and Shrimati Radharani, Mata Subhadra and Lord Balbhadra.

May Lord Jagannatha, the beloved of Salabega, bless us with devotion for the feet of Shri Narayana, who permeates all existence! 

Jai bhakta Salabega! Jai Jai Shri  Jaganntha! Jai Jai Shrimati Radhe Rani! 

Watch a bhajan by Salabega in the Oriya language on this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0ILytHeTSE  

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