SoulfulUnsobriety

 I walked down the same street where I had last met you.  The exact place where I saw you last. And I stopped. There was a tug at my heart , some degree of sadness but not the multitudes of grief I used to feel. I let go the moment I realized that you valued more the people that were gone than the ones right next to you... I loved you, dearly. But life made a mockery out of me, perhaps because I loved you in vain. I used to write for you, to make you happy. I used to send pictures to you, of all the memories dear to me. But you just loved someone else. You were clueless, you were lost. There were nights I used to cry myself to sleep, thinking that letting go of you would be selfish on my part.  Though you didn't need me for solace, yet I used to feel the guilt. Grappling with my heart, choking me. I knew your story, you knew mine, yet I was deciding to let you go. There were streets and quotes and poems and the clothes I wore when I met you, everythi...

Chapter 2 - Bhairava's Secret : From Fear comes all corruption Shiva reveals the power of the higher brain over the lower brain, the human brain over the animal brain. That is why is called Pashu-pati , the master of animal instincts. He offers the promise of a-bhaya , the world where there is no fear of scarcity or predator i.e no fear of death. Shiva offers immortality. Markandeya, a son of a Rishi, declared that Shiva is Yamantaka , he who destroys Yama. When one liberates one-self from the dear of death using faith, one becomes indifferent to death. Death then no longer controls us or frightens us. We are liberated. We achieve immortality. Shiva smears himself with ash to remind all of the immortality of the body. When a man dies, his body can be destroyed by fire. What outlives the fire and the body is ash, which is indestructible. Ash is thus the symbol of indestructible soul that occupies the body during life and outlives the body in death. The soul is atma . ...

i Chapter 1 - Lingeshwara's Secret : Imagination makes us Human. The Linga is the container of infinity, the form of the formless, the tangible that provokes insight into the tangible. Shiva is the pure one, purified of all the forms. It means transcendent. Shiva means the God who cannot be contained by space or time, God who has no form. Shiva has been visualized as the 12 major Jyotir-lingas (or self illuminous), self-created lingas of India, mentioned in a hymn composed by Shankaracharya in the 18th century - Somanath in Prabhas Patan, Saurashtra, Gujarat; Mallikarjuna in Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh; Mahakaleshwar in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh; Omkareshwar in Omkareshwar, Madhya Pradesh; Kedarnath in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand; Bhimashankar in Bhimashankar, Maharashtra; Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh; Trimbakeshwar Shiva temple in Trimbakeshwar, Maharashtra; Vaidyanath in Deoghar, Jharkand; Rameswar in Rameswar, Tamil Nadu; Grishneshwar i...