Shiva Shambho

I want you to look at it before it is too late. Imagine you had only a few minutes left to live. If you look at what you have done from birth until now, has it all been worthwhile? If you are wise enough to look at it now, you can craft your life in a beautiful way. You will know not only the colors of life but that which is the basis of life. Otherwise, ninety-five percent of humanity has some inane thoughts in their minds, all the time. Education teaches you how to conduct yourself in front of other people. Spiritual process is about how to conduct yourself internally. This is about turning inward and knowing the deeper roots of life. The mind is useful if you know when to turn it on, and when to turn it off. If it is out of control – on all the time – it is madness. This is the state the majority of people are in.

The spiritual process is about obliterating all that you ever thought you are – even your gender. It is about being here just as a piece of life. Only human beings, who are supposed to be the pinnacle of evolution, have made such a mess out of themselves. They have been given a mind that they do not know how to handle. All that is happening is the endless psychological drama of their thoughts and emotions. The quality of your life is determined by how beautiful you are within yourself. No one can see this; no one needs to acknowledge this; no one needs to pay attention to this. But this is the most worthwhile thing.

In this context, chanting “Shiva Shambho” can do wonders to you. Do not expect Shiva to come. He will not interfere with your life. This is not a religious process. This is about using sound as a tool to clear the mental nonsense. If you chant “Shiva Shambho” effectively, new energy, boundless Grace, and intelligence will be available to you.

As I mentioned earlier, out of a very deep state of understanding of sound, we have taken out a few sounds which are like the keys to existence. If you utter them with the right sense of intensity at the right moment in your life, they can just shatter all your limitations and take you elsewhere. So ‘Shiva’and ‘Shambho’ are two such keys. You are supposed to use these to break you open, to crack you up. From the solid person that you are, they are meant to open you up to a new dimension.

Just make it your life-breath, to make the sound constantly on within you. If one moment of vulnerability comes, the sound will just crack you open. New things will happen; absolutely new things will happen. So don’t use ‘Shiva Shambho’ just for your survival.

When you say ‘Shiva’, you are seeking dissolution, because Shiva means ‘that which is not’. The blissfulness of the uncreated, the ecstasy of being uncreated, that’s what Shiva means. When who you are, is broken, only then you will be ecstatic. If you have known a moment of ecstasy in your life, those moments happened only when who you are was broken for some reason. Isn’t that so?

Can I continue to say ‘Shambho’? If this is your intention, you must always say it. how to acquire the next property, call on someone else. Don’t call on Shambho and Shiva. It will not be appropriate. Not that they cannot provide it, but it’ll be like using a spacecraft to go to the next village. You can walk to the next village. If your intention is to go to Mars or beyond, a spacecraft is okay. But don’t ride a spacecraft to the next village.

Shiva Shambho – A magnificent story

One day a kriya yogi, who had great accomplishments behind him, went to Shiva and asked, ‘What is all this? Your bhaktas are making all this noise in the world; all the time they are shouting, ‘Shiva Shambho’. What is this going to do? What is the use of yelling these mantras like this?’ 

Kriya Yogis -  the kriya yogis, yogis who have mastery over their life energies. Usually if they have attained to their heights, it’s fine. But otherwise as they get more and more mastery over the situation around them and they can do things that other people cannot, they tend to have a total disdain for everything else around them. 

So they look down upon all these mantra-uttering people

Then Shiva said, ‘Let us experiment. 

Here is a worm crawling. Go close to him and say, ‘Shiva Shambho’. Let’s see what happens.’The yogi went to the worm and said, ‘Shiva Shambho’. The worm fell dead.The yogi was aghast: ‘I just uttered this mantra, your name, and the worm is dead! What is this?’

Shiva, completely oblivious of the worm, pointed at a butterfly and said, ‘See how wonderful this butterfly is.’ The yogi also got involved with the butterfly. Shiva said, ‘Attempt the mantra with the butterfly.’

The yogi looked in the direction of the butterfly and said, ‘Shiva Shambho’. The butterfly fell dead.

The yogi was totally in turmoil, and said, ‘What is this? If I just utter your name, one creature after the other is falling dead. I don’t want to say it anymore.’ 

Shiva completely ignored this and looked at a wonderful deer that was romping around. He said, ‘Look at the deer, so wonderful.’ The yogi also got involved. Shiva said, ‘Why don’t you utter the mantra to the deer andsee?’The yogi said, ‘Shiva Shambho’.

 The deer fell dead.The yogi said, ‘No! No more can I say this.’

Then somebody brought their newborn child to Shiva for his blessings. Then Shiva said, ‘Why don’t you utter the mantra to this child?’

 The yogi said, ‘No, I cannot do this. (Laughs) Already the worm, the butterfly and the deer I have behind me, and I don’t want to say this.’

Shiva said, ‘It doesn’t matter; say it.’ 

So the yogi, with great hesitation,went to the child and said, ‘Shiva Shambho’. 

This newborn babe just sat up, looked at the yogi and said, ‘Oh yogi, don’t you know the power of the mantra? Don’t you know the power of the name of Lord Shiva?’

The yogi said, ‘No, can you tell me?’

The infant said, ‘Yes. I was a worm and you uttered the mantra, so I becamea butterfly. You uttered the mantra, so I became a deer. You uttered the mantra, so I became human. You utter the mantra once more, I will become divine.’

‘You can transform this piece of earth into the divine... a deity that’s worthy of worship.’

Shiva Shambho Word the sound

When we utter the word ‘Shiva’, it is the freedom of the uncreated, the liberation of one who is not created. (Long pause) He has been my fifty per cent partner in everything that I do, but still he overwhelms me. (Laughs) It is not hundred per cent correct to say this, but we can say that the source of the sound ‘Shiva’ emanates from this space. It’s almost like that. 

So it’s a tremendous possibility. One way of assisting yourself to be with this is that with every step that you take, you utter ‘Shiva’. If you want to have a picnic, it’s a beautiful place, a fantastic place. I am not against it. If you wish to do it that way, it’s up to you. There are no compulsions about this, but if you wish to know something else here, you must minimize yourself. You must simply make yourself very small and every step that you take, we will go with a certain mantra. 

So when we say ‘Shiva’, it’s not about creating one more idol, one more  god that we can beg to, ask for more prosperity, and for better things in life. It is not about that. The word ‘Shiva’ means ‘that which is not.’ Not that which is, but that which is not. If you want to put it in logical terms, we have been saying everything begins from nothing and ends with nothing. Everything that’s here has evolved itself out of nothingness; now it is here; and again it goes back to nothingness. This is a fact of life. That nothingness is Shiva. What we call ‘shoonya’ is Shiva. That emptiness is

Shiva. You can call it by any name or form, or if you have that much awareness, you can look at it as a formless energy. But that which contains everything, that which is not, is Shiva. We have given many names to this energy, many forms also. One important aspect of Shiva is ‘Shambho’. Normally, Shambho, or that aspect of this root energy, is worshipped only by people who are on the spiritual path,

because the word ‘Shambho’ means ‘the auspicious one.’ The most auspicious thing that can happen to you is to realize yourself, is to reach the highest within yourself. We think, unfortunately, that getting married is auspicious; getting a promotion is auspicious; building a new house is auspicious... The most auspicious thing that can happen to you in your life is that you reach the peak within yourself. 

At Isha, the energy of Shambho has been very dominant. In that form we are able to call him down to us here, very easily. In that form he seems to respond to us much better than any other form. 

There is a very unfortunate tradition right now which says you should not keep Shiva in your house. It is right; you should never keep Shiva in your house; you have to keep him in your heart. Keeping him in your house is of no use. If you have the courage, you carry him in your heart. Locking him up in the pooja room won’t work, because you can’t lock him up. 

One reason why this has been said is that this energy is towards your dissolution; this energy is for you to reach your highest peak. This energy is not for begging; this energy is not for getting a little more advantage out of life. This energy is only for those people who are seeking to reach the very peak of their consciousness. 

If you are only concerned about getting a little more advantage out of life, maybe we can create many other smaller deities, smaller aspects of life, but not Mahadeva, not Shambho. If you go to the highest, ultimate power in existence, you must also be going with the petition for the highest possibility. 

Excerpts from ‘Himalayan Lust’

Different yogis, different systems created various forms. There are very beautiful forms and very hideous forms. Shambho is one of the more auspicious ones. He is a very gentle form of Shiva, which is rare. Shiva is usually wild and crazy. But this is a very gentle form of Shiva, a beautiful form. These forms were established by people so that others could make use of it. They are made into eternal forms. If you are willing, you could bring them down in your experience. Is this a reality? Is this something that is there in the creation? No, these things were created by people who had absolute mastery over their own systems, their own energies and their own creation.

Excerpts 

"When subsequently the pervasive sound of "Shiva Shambho" filled the air, it was as if to reveal the power and possibility of the mantra that she had been able to dissolve into" -ref-

Sadhguru says: People always ask me Sadhguru from where all this knowledge is coming, Today I will give away the Key to the source of my knowledge. The question is are you aware enough to handle the key and open the correct lock with it.

On shiva - https://ayogisguide2.blogspot.com/2023/01/shiva-who-he-is-sadhguru.html

On shambho - https://ayogisguide2.blogspot.com/2023/01/shambho-highest.html