07/03/2016
THE UNKNOWN STORY OF MAHASHIVARATRI
" LORD MAHESHWARA SHIVA SHANKARA REVEALING HIS GIGANTIC SUPREMEST HOLY DIVINE UNIVERSAL COSMIC FORM " OR
" MAHADIVYA VISHWAVIRAT SWAROOP " Shown to all great god's and goddesses and all beings And Pushpadanta
All God's, Goddesses and pushpadanta said :
What was asked by us , O all-pervasive Lord, that stands as such. Here, an answer was not received from You by us at all, O greatest Lord!
Your body, O Lord – being of limited measure – how is it the origination of all beings, their maintenance and dissolution.?
How are the Deities bound to their respective duties stationed in You? How is it that all of them are one with You? How is it that the fourteen worlds (are one with You).?
O Lord! Even after hearing it from You, there is a great doubt in us. You must deign to dispel the doubt in my mind which suffers from incomprehension.
The Lord Maheshwara Shiva said:
Though the seed of the banyan tree is very tiny, the huge banyan tree always existed in it. Otherwise, how can that tree come out of that seed.?
Similarly, O all gd's and goddesses, the origination and dissolution of the beings take place in My body. Even a large mass of salt easily dissolves in water and is no more visible, but when (that water is) boiled that salt appears as before. 6
Just as light emanates every dawn from the solar sphere, similarly all the universe originates from Me, exists and then merges in Me. Everything is in Me. O all god's and goddesses of noble resolves! Know it thus.
All God's and Goddesses said :
O greatest Lord! Just as for a person confused regarding directions, the confusion is not removed even when correctly informed, similar is our delusion. What shall we do.?
The Lord Maheshwara Shiva said:
O all god's and goddesses ! I will show you all how all this, the moving and the unmoving beings of the world subsist in Me. But you will not be able to see this. O all god's and goddesses , I will endow you all with divine vision. Through that, shedding all fears, behold the expanse of everlasting luminosity of Mine.
My majesty cannot be perceived through physical eyes either by human beings or by celestial beings without My grace.
Having said thus, the Lord blessed all (god's and goddesses) with divine vision. Then they saw the form of the Lord resembling subterranean fire.
Seeing that (form) luminous like millions of lightening flashes and striking intense terror even among the brave, all god's and goddesses in sheer fright, collapsed on their knees to the ground. everyone fell prostrate on the ground and again and again praising (the Lord) then rising, looked as far as they could. They saw the form of the Lord, the Destroyer of Tripura, with sidereal universes inside it looking like she-sparrows, in constellations of luminous blaze.
They saw (within the form of the Lord) the mountains like Meru, Mandara and Vindhyā, the seven seas, the sun and the moon, all the demigod's & goddesses and great Gods & Goddesses and all the elements and many more things
beheld the forests, the holy mountains, the fourteen worlds and the entire cosmic expanse. they saw the battles between the Devas and the Asuras and victory of devas; those born and yet to be born; Vishnu saw the ten incarnations of him and the leelas in those incarnations, Great goddess durga or shakti saw her forms, slaying of mahishashura and her leelas in all her forms and all other god's and goddesses saw their future and leelas in him.
O dvijas, He saw the defeat of the asuras, the burning of Tripura and the extinction of all that is born and yet to be born. Beholding all this, all God's and goddesses filled with fear, prostrated again and again. (At this point) true wisdom dawned on all and they extolled MAHESHWARA SHIVA SHANKARA with meaningful hymns that contain the very essence of the Upanishads.
All God's ,Goddesses and Pushpadanta said :
O Lord! The Destroyer of distress of those who take refuge in You! Be gracious! Be gracious! O Lord of the universe! O, Thou worshipped by the Universe! Be gracious! Thou the Bearer of the Ganges, with moon adorning Your crest! Protect us all, helpless we are, from the fear of births and deaths.
O Lord! This world, indeed, is born only from You, in You alone the created beings live always, O Śambhu! Into You alone they undergo merger, just like trees and creepers into the earth. 23
O Wielder of the trident! Brahmā, Vishnu,Mahavishnu, Ganesha, Mahaganesha Kartikeya,Mahakartikeya, Indra and Rudra,Maharudra, kali, Mahakali , saraswati, Mahasaraswati, lakshmi, Mahalakshmi, durga, Mahadurga, shakti, the Maruts, the Gandharvas, the Yakṣas, Asuras, the community of Siddhas, rivers like the Ganges, the oceans, all of them live in the midst of Your person. O Moon-crested One! Everything is illusorily projected by Your māyā. In You alone, the universe attains perceptibility. All this is perceived by the common people mistakenly (as real), just as silver is seen in a seashell or a rope is mistaken for a snake.
Filling the entire universe with Your splendour, manifesting things by Your own resplendence, O GOD OF EVERYTHING AND ALL, O GOD OF ALL GOD'S AND GODDESSES, without Your light, this universe cannot be perceived even for a moment.
Great things do not rest on flimsy support. One single atom cannot support the Vindhyā mountains. This universe rests on Your person through Your māyā alone. I am convinced now about this.
Just as a fear-causing snake appearing in the rope has not really come into being, nor exists, nor undergoes destruction, similarly is the universe too taking shape in You, through that sheer māyā of Yours, O Nilakaṇṭha.
When it is enquired as to Your body assuming the nature of being, the very basis for the world of manifestation, that itself is seen to be certainly due to our ignorance. Thou art wholly the nature of Consciousness and Bliss.
O Destroyer of Tripura, Thou alone, being praised, bestow upon the enjoyers the fruits of the eminently meritorious acts, performance of Vedic sacrifices and charitable acts. But even this statement is not fully true because there is nothing different from You at all.
The Sages declare those as deluded by ignorance who mistakenly think that Śiva, Lord of the Himālayas, is pleased by external acts of worship and services. How can there be any desire for pleasure for one who is formless? 31
O Supremest Lord! Even the sovereignty of all the three worlds, You bestow as a reward on those people who offer You a leaf or a little water. I deem it all as the work of ignorance.
You pervade all the quarters and the intermediate directions. Thou art the universe, secondless, the infinite and the eternal. Even when this universe become extinct, there is no loss to You, just as there is no detriment to space (within a pot), when the pot is broken.
Just as the one, single Sun in the sky gets its many reflections in various vessels of water, so Thou, O Lord, art (variously) reflected in different minds.
There is nothing to be done by You even when the world is created, protected and dissolved. Even then, You bestow heaven etc. on the souls beginninglessly embodied according to their mortal fruits. It all happens as in a dream.
O Śambhu! For the two inert bodies, the subtle (sūkṣma) and the gross (sthūla) there could be no consciousness without the Self. Therefore, the scriptures, O enemy of Tripura, speak of pleasure and pain experienced through Your reflection in them.
Prostrations to Thee, O Swan in the ocean of Existence and Consciousness; prostrations to Thee, O Blue-Throated One, the very form of Time; prostrations to Thee, the Destroyer of all sins; prostrations to Thee, the one (witness) experiencer of the functions of the mind, which after all is illusory. 37
Suta said :
Prostrating thus before the Lord of the universe, standing with folded hands before Him, the over-awed god's and goddesses praised the supreme Lord in so many words.
All God's,Goddesses and Pushpadanta said :
O Self of the universe! Withdraw this cosmic form of Yours. By Thy grace, O Śambhu, the ocean of the world (of existence) has been seen (by me).
The Lord said:
O god's and goddesses,There is nothing other than I.
Suta said:
Saying thus, the Lord withdrew the Gods and goddesses and the other (forms) and everything into His own form.
Closing his eyes in sheer delight, all god's and goddesses again opened their eyes and saw the Lord standing over the tiger-skin on the crest of the (Himālaya) mountain. They saw Lord Nilakaṇṭha with three eyes , donning the tiger skin, His person adorned with sacred ash, wearing the serpents as His bracelets and sacred thread, wearing matted locks, blazing like lightening. (He saw) the One, the Lord of the universe, with moon on His crest, the supremely adorable, assuring freedom from fear, with four arms, holding a battle-axe, with a deer in one hand.
Then prostrating, all god's and goddesses, at the Lord’s command, sat in front of Him. Then, the God of Gods and goddesses and everything told them , “Whatever you want to ask, O all god's and goddesses, you can ask of Me. There is no preceptor for you other than I.” 45
Thus ends the seventh chapter called the Vision of the Cosmic Form in the form of a dialogue between Śiva and all god's and goddesses in the Śiva-Gītā an upaniṣad delivering Brahma-vidyā, and a yoga śāstra occurring in the Padma Purāṇa.
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