शिव षडक्षर स्तोत्रम् - ॐकारं बिन्दु संयुक्तं
Salutations to that Shiva who resides as Omkara in the Spiritual Heart Center and on whom the Yogis constantly meditate -Shiva Shadakshara Stotam
So it is that day of the year again. The day when the most revered and feared god of the Hindus is worshiped. When snakes drink milk and people drink what according to some is poison. For me it always held a special place in the scheme of things when I was a kid. The fair, the toys, snakecharmers and loads of colors. I sincerely believed then that snakes drink milk just as I believed that they could hear the pipe being played and just as I believed that the black stone structure symbolized the head of the deity being prayed upon. Now I know that it is an act of cruelty upon them to make them drink it, that the charmers trick is based upon the movement of the organ in his hand and the thumping of his feet and that it is a sacless penis stuck deep in a vagina.
Over the years I turned into an ideotheist i.e one who likes the ideals and values enshrined in various religions but who detests the dogmas, blind faith and those who use them as tools to induce mass frenzy and exercise control. Shiva is the symbol of the ultimate epitomization of the goal every individual should strive for. He is the end product of the race of evolution and thus is depicted at the last of the trinity, there is none after him, he is the end all and be all. The fact that he lives a solitary life away from the society shows that what our developments should focus at- the renunciation of that necessary evil known as society to live in the ideal state of individual self sufficiency. He stays in a state of trance giving the inference that the world lies within and not without. He stays in a state of self contentment meditating all alone, yet knows all and can provide all. This is a revelation of the fact that all the answers to our questions, all that we require to quench the thirst lies within us only. His childlike innocence in spite of the fact that he knows all tells us that such a being is not effected or influenced by the illusions and delusions around him. The ash on his body show an utter disdain for the fake ornamentation which is considered a prerequisite for this artificial society of ours. The snakes around him explain that such a person is not troubled even by the grip of certain death around him. His damru(small two headed drum) emanates the music of such a soul resonating with the rhythm of this universe. His lingam ( I got to know that both the organs are infact his only, the male organ growing out of the feminine one a hermaphrodite!) and his ardhnarishvar swaroop inform us that in order to be such a complete being you need to have the traits and skills possessed by both the genders and also that when you reach such a state even sexual demarkation disappears and you rise beyond it in your knowledge and understanding. His lack of interest in even copulation ( forcing Parvati to resort to pangenesis or to take the services of that primitive sex specialist Kamdev) elucidates the fact that when we reach this stage the normal human interests and instincts hold no attraction for us. The third eye and the dance of destruction can be interpreted as to what happens to the kaledioscopic mirage of perceptions existing all around us when we exist upon such a plane- it burns at our gaze that is we understand the nothingness and the truth that all that is around is just a reflection of what goes on inside. Even the Bhaang ( Cannabis Sativa/ Indian hemp) that he partakes makes all that lies around us dance and fade when we stare right through it.
He is the only truth which will remain when societies will crumble and nations will fall, when barriers of our limitations will fall and all the bridges of our intelligence and knowledge will combine. The real anarchist, the superhuman of tomorrow. He is what lies within us and that is what the opening mantra means.
ps:- Here are two songs for the day that I immensely enjoy, hope you will too-
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