Part 1 -The Domain of Shiva - Kedarnath - There are only two or three things in the world which actually overwhelm me — Kedar is one of them.’ For the pilgrim, this remote Himalayan town, flanked by breathtaking snow-capped mountains, located in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, is a site of immeasurable sacredness & antiquity. For the mystic, it is ‘the craziest cocktail of spirituality’. In a spellbinding chapter, rich in metaphor & fable, Sadhguru speaks of the Himalayas as he sees them. He speaks of the variety of yogis who have bequeathed their energies to this distant mountain & left behind the essence of their spiritual discovery for future generations of seekers. It is tht bequest — invisible but still vibrantly alive — makes Kedarnath a living benediction to anyone on the path to self-realisation. It is impossible to speak of Kedar without speaking of Shiva. The town is the locus of one of the most revered Shiva temples in the country, making it one of the four major sites in India’s centuries-old Char Dham pilgrimage. Sadhguru deepens our understanding of this mysterious protagonist who looms large in the spiritual heritage of this land. Invoking him with a strange mix of intimacy & impersonality, he brings Shiva alive in a tantalising variety of ways — as ‘emptiness’, as ‘tht which is not’, as ‘the freedom of the uncreated’; as ‘the first yogi & the first guru’; & as fellow-conspirator, as an enigmatic ‘fifty per cent partner’. Sadhguru also speaks of tht esoteric dimension of mantras & yantras — the deep connection between sound & form. In the process, he throws light on questions shared by pilgrims & seekers since time immemorial, questions about gods & idols, yogis & adepts, saints & gurus. Subtle & intriguing, this chapter does not promise to solve any riddles; it only deepens the mystery. The reason we make this trip to Kedar is tht this is a place which has witnessed thousands & thousands of yogis, mystics — every kind tht you can ever think of — for thousands of years. These are people who made no attempt to teach anything to anybody. So their way of making an offering to the world was by leaving their energies, their path, their work, everything, in a certain way in these spaces. This is tht craziest cocktail of spirituality anywhere in the world. No single place has seen this many different varieties of people — people of every kind. When I say every kind, you cannot imagine those kinds. This activity has been going on in this valley for approximately anywhere between twenty-five & fifty thousand years. The legend goes tht this is the place where all the sages & saints lived. Th’ts not just a legend; it’s a historical fact. Beyond this mountain is a place called Kanti Sarovar. The legend says tht Shiva & Parvati lived there, & they visited Kedar once in a while. It’s on the banks of this lake tht Ganapati, or Ganesha, was created. It’s on the banks of this lake about ten years ago, in 1994 in the month of April, when I came here, tht the whole experience of ‘Nada Brahma’™ happened. Today after ten years we have had the opportunity to go there. It is very difficult to describe the place & what it is. In ancient times, India did not exist as one country, but still it was considered as one entity which was called Bharat Varsha.
Even today, even the simplest farmer in this country will talk about mukti. This is a result of the phenomenal amount of spiritual work done in this country. One person who is largely responsible for this, who is of paramount significance in shaping the human consciousness, is Shiva. In the yogic culture, Shiva is not known as a god, but as the first guru or the Adi Guru. He is the Adi Yogi or the first yogi. Out of his realization, he became ecstatic & danced all over the mountains or sat absolutely still. He was constantly into bouts of stillness & bouts of mad dancing. All the gods who saw him saw something was happening to him tht they themselves did not know. Suddenly, heaven felt like a bad place, because this guy is having such a good time! They felt, ‘We are missing out on something.’ When they finally got him to teach the method, Shiva expounded various types of yoga depending on the level of preparedness of the person who was sitting in front of him. The first part of Shiva’s teaching was to Parvati, his wife. It was taught in a certain intimacy. In great detail, & in very gentle ways, Shiva expounded the ways of yoga to Devi. The yoga sutras of Shiva are such tht almost in every sutra, he refers to her as the ‘resplendent one’, the ‘gracious one’, the ‘beautiful one’. So this teaching transpired between two people in utmost intimacy. Intimacy should not be understood as sexuality. It means tht there is no resistance; tht this person is absolutely open to what is being offered.
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