Today we are going to do puja to Shiva, Shri Shiva.
As you know, Shri Shiva is the reflection of Sadashiva within us.
I’ve already told about the reflection.
Sadashiva is the God Almighty,
the one who sees the play of Adi Shakti.
But He is the Father
who is watching each one of His or Her Creation.
His support to Adi Shakti is entirely, fully strengthening.
There’s no doubt in His mind about the capability of the Adi Shakti,
but when He finds that in the play of Adi Shakti,
the people or the world as such, try to disturb Her,
or to spoil Her work,
then He gets into His wrathful mood,
and He destroys all such people,
and maybe, He destroys the whole world.
On one side He’s wrathful, no doubt,
on the other side, He is the ocean of compassion and joy.
That’s why, when He is reflected within us,
we get our Self-realisation,
we get the light of our Spirit
and we get into the ocean of joy.
Also He is the ocean of knowledge,
so those who get Self-realised get the knowledge of the Divine,
which is very subtle,
permeating into every atom and molecule,
the power of this knowledge is there.
His style is such that, in his compassion,
He forgives even very cruel rakshasas,
if they dedicate themselves to Him.
Because His compassion has no limits
and sometimes the same people who are blessed by Him
try to trouble the devotees of Adi Shakti
– but it is just to create a drama, an event.
Unless and until there is some drama, people won’t understand.
We had to have Ramayana, we had to have Mahabharata,
we had to have Christ being crucified,
we had to have Mohammed being tortured.
All that drama was there because without events,
people don’t remember.
So in the spiritual life of human beings,
they have seen lots of dramas
between the blessings of Shiva and the powers of the Adi Shakti.
As the time has moved, today in the history of spirituality
a great discovery has been made,
that people can get their realization
in the collective, en-masse.
Thousands can get their realization.
Now, we should know what is that realization we have got,
what does that mean and what is the culminating point.
First of all, I have to tell you,
the mind about which we speak and depend upon is a myth.
There’s nothing like mind.
Brain is reality, not the mind.
Mind is created by us reacting to outside,
either we react to conditionings or ego.
Thus this mind is created like bubbles
in the ocean of reality,
but that’s not reality.
With this mind, whatever we decide, we know, is very limited,
illusive and sometimes shocking.
The mind always moves in a linear direction,
and because there’s no reality in it,
it recoils, and boomerangs.
Thus all the enterprises, all the projections
so far we have done, it seems, come back to us.
Whatever they discover, comes back to us
as a big destructive power or a very big shock.
So one has to decide what to do,
how to be out of this trap of our mind.
Kundalini is the solution.
When She’s awakened, She takes you,
with that awakening, She takes you beyond your mind.
The first thing is to go beyond your mind.