NavDharmyug

   महाशिवरात्रि वह शक्ति है, वह शँकर है, वह प्रेम सतत् निरंतर है। वह शैलसुता का निर्दोष हठ गौरी के मन का मन्दिर है। वह नीलकंठ का गरल भी है, वह क्लिष्ट भी है, वह सरल भी है। वह शून्य का एक कोलाहल है वह शाश्वत स्वर की हलचल है। वह गौरी-गौरव का दर्पण है, वह पुरूष का पूर्ण समर्पण है। वह जीवन का रक्षक महादेव वह चिर-विद्रोही का स्वर है। वह बँधा हुआ एक सागर है वह प्रलय नृत्य भयंकर है। वह सतत प्रेम निरंतर है, वह शक्ति है, वह शंकर है।  - साकेत, 14.02.2018 You may listen to the Audio here (Click Here)

The strongest aspect of a woman, uncontested, unwinnable for a man is motherhood. Kali is the eternal, divine mother. She represents the silent darkness of the time when nothing was there, and from there, from darkness, from nothingness, she shaped life. She is every woman, every mother, which stands in darkness, so much so that she herself becomes darkness ( Kali~ Darkness) and creates life, beholds life, births life and nourishes life. The light emerges from the darkness, and the colors rise from the lack of colors. She is the dark womb from where the feeble light of human life takes first breath. She is the consort of Mahakaal ( Kaal-Death), Shiva - The lord of death, Mahakali . She is death. Hinduism celebrates life as well as death. Death being the moment, where we clean our slates and start afresh. Therefore, both death as well as life are intermingled, interconnected and interchangeable in their meaning. Death can be looked at as the end of life; can also be looked at ...

Image Courtery : GettyImages I have several times confessed being a near atheist. But I think, I am wrong. If someone were to ask me if I believed there was a God, I would tell him that I knew there was a God. My conviction on God is not because I have scientific and empirical evidence of his being. It is because I believe, we need God. As Voltaire said, " If there is no God, It would be necessary to invent one. " An atheist’s insistence of non-existence of God is as stupid as a fanatic’s insistence of the existence of God. I believe God is a necessary idea. We need God as someone who is possible, who is to be aspired for. I believe, God is what man should aspire to become. He is not a jealous, revengeful thing, which attacks us at each of our failings. God, if He were as our religious people teach us often, spiteful, He would be a mean thing to hold my respect. Someone who punishes people for not loving Him. In my opinion, he is an idea of a man, or what a man shoul...

Himalaya looked at her daughter. She was almost seventeen, right around the age to be married. The pink face, so endearing looked up. Her eyes rose from the Basil plant that she was watering. Himalaya, the affectionate father, could not stop comparing her with the little figure which had looked at her the first time he had taken her in the arms. The emotions which flooded his heart at that moment had not aged a day since then.  "A man's vagrant existence is resolved only through fatherhood. Everything else is merely a search for that ever-elusive happiness which is said to be the purpose of a man's existence. Fatherhood, when it touches a man of lowest existence, brings a sense of nobility into him. It offers him a near-god divinity by giving him an opportunity to not only protect, but nourish another human existence." Himalaya thought affectionately and sighed.  He felt a sudden sense of protectiveness towards Shailputri (The daughter of the mountains), w...