so just now right before sadhana i was going through this funk, you know like how the world can be and such and then out of now where i received a karmic biaa slap of realization across my face, from Guru Ji =), i love these moments in which guru ji awakens me from my slumber. Making me realize not to pay heed to others. its such a shame that i take Guru Ji Maharaj for granted. here is the hukam
i couldn’t not help but snicker at the fact that, Guru Ji backed up Ms. Gurupurakh’s comment of my earlier post. i guess i should listen to my bhenna =).
anyways i’m off to try to do sadhana. Also one last note,
I love you Guru Ji Oh So Much =)
At winter solstice, Deva Singh Khalsa and Gurujot Singh Khalsa (Espanola Vale) were telling about the practices of Aghoras. The whole point their bizarre and taboo rituals is to find God in everyone and everything, regardless how disturbing the practice or sadhana is. now i was not too sure, but it intrigued me so i went on Amazon and found the book here. I usually read this book on the MARTA transit, when i’m going to and coming back from school. This book is so amazing, and the practices of aghoris are quite interesting and shockingly similar to Sikhi…. Now this is where i’m going to have to make sure i do not put my foot in my mouth.
If i offend anyone, i apologize now.So i am going to be as graceful as i can be. imagine you have a coin and you have Sikhi/Kundalini Yoga on one side then you have Aghora/Kundalini Yoga on the other side.. Ok so the Aghoris have really bizare practices to say it lightly, such as cannibalism and use of freshly dead corpses in their sadhana… i am pretty sure many of you have seen the film “Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom” there Amrish Puri’s character is praying to Kali, saying “Kali Maa Shakti Dey” granted Speilberg was trying to dramatize it..in the book the author talks about his guru who has mastered this quick and dangerous sadhana to get Kali to come to him…..
Now here is the thing that is going to get me in real trouble. Ok another name of Shiva, is Mahakala, The Great Destroyer, because he is the embodiment of Shakta (male energy), Shakti is the female creative energy of the Universe, where Shakta is male side of that energy… Ok so when you read Guru Gobind Singh Ji’s bani, with in Sri Dasam Granth Ji Di, he speaks about this greatness of the Goddess Chandi/Durga/Indra in Bani/Ballad with in Durga Di Vaar/Chandi Di Vaar. Guru Gobind Singh Ji maharaj refers to Waheguru as Mahakal , if you read Akal Ustat with the couple of paurees before Choupai sahib di paath, Maharaj refers to Mahakal.Then further with in the granth, also with in a Nihaang Gutka, there is a bani called Dhumalla Di Salokh,
with in his salokh Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj wrote about the significance of the dhumalla and how it came with in Sikhi. The saakhi goes that one day Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj asked the sangat is there anyone out there who knows the roop of Mahakal? so for two week Akaali Nihaang Baba Fateh Singh Ji, the youngest sahibzadia, , went in to samadhi for two weeks, he did an ardaas (prayer) to Waheguru to get the roop of Mahakal. So with in his deep meditation , Baba Fateh Singh Ji saw 25 Shaheed Singhs, with huge Dhumallas, and with in their dhumallay they had Chand and Toras (Crescent moon khandas) also with chakkars and amazing amounts of shastaars as well. Another which was added was the Farla, which is the extra fabric which is on top of a Farladhari Nihaang.
So when Akaali Baba Fateh Singh Ji went to Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj, he told him that his is the roop of Mahakal. from that they forth Guru Gobind Singh ji maharaj made it that he would bless any of his Singhs with Farla if they displayed vast amounts of knowledge also if they were generals as well. Its a very high honour to be blessed with a Farla…. so back to how this relates to the book i was reading… about the aghoras, ok so any Nihaang Singh, who is Farladhari or Farla Vale, his title is Mahakaal, which means not that they are literally God, how ever they have the roop of Mahakal. or technically Mahakaal means the “Great Destroyer” now during war this was rather important thing to have to have that awesome energy of Shakta , Akal Purakh’s to cut through one’s own doubts and attachments to this world and just to stay present with inthe moment and live in that harmony of the Shakti and Shakta.
now how are sikhs the flipside of aghoris is simple we both have pratices, which are made to kill one’s ego and to find union with mahakal. Both groups worship Mahakaal, Death, in the sense of the death of one’s own duality and dependence upon maya, and just coming to the realization that we are all impermanent beings and Mahakaal is the ultimate power that we have to realize.