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🎵 "Jai Shiva Shankara" 🎵
📝 Lyrics & Music - Ancient Indian Chant
🎤 Vocals by - Narayani & Shurjo
🎼 Kanjira by - Ananthram Lok Nath
🎚️ Recorded & mixed by - Ishan Naik
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Lord Shiva, as the Adi (first) yogi, is revered by his devotees as the embodiment of yogic perfection and as the giver of yoga science to mankind. Depictions of him beautifully portray the signs of complete yoga-mastery: his two eyes are half closed in meditation, while the all-seeing eye of intuition is open in his forehead. The snake garlanded around his neck attests to his having raised the life-force (kundalini) and subdued maya. His forehead is adorned with a crescent moon, symbolizing that the ego has been spiritualized and merged in final oneness with Spirit. And (as it turns out, importantly for us) the river Ganges is depicted as flowing out of his matted locks into the world.
This depiction of the Ganges has its origin in Indian mythology: Eons ago, the Indian king Bhagiratha’s ancestors were cursed by a rishi (as usual!) to not find redemption until the sacred river Ganga (Ganges), then residing in heaven, were brought to earth and made to flow over their ashes. Bhagiratha, after years of penance, obtained from Brahma the boon of the Ganges’ descent to earth. However, lest the earth be unable to endure the powerful flow of Ganga’s descent, Lord Shiva caught Ganga’s waters in his matted locks, whence he released them in a controlled, benign flow. As a result, Lord Shiva received the epithet “Gangadhar,” meaning “He who holds or controls the (river) Ganga.”
Outer mythology often hides a deeper inner meaning. In this case we get a glimpse of this meaning, by sheer luck, through Paramhansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi. He states there that Lahiri Mahasaya’s name in his previous life was “Gangadhar,” and that he was so addressed by Babaji at their first meeting, outside “Babaji’s Cave” near Ranikhet. Yogananda therefore explains the genesis of this name in a footnote (much of the previous paragraph comes from this same footnote) which contains this line:
The metaphysical significance of “Gangadhar” is “he who has control over the ‘river’ of life-current in the spine.”
A perfect epithet for Lord Shiva, no doubt! But at this point, the keen yoga student notices an anomaly. From Day One the aspiring yogi is taught that the yogic motto is “Inward and upward!” For this is the classic yogic goal: to direct the life-current (kundalini) inward and upward through the chakras to the brain. And here Lord Shiva, the giver of yoga science, demonstrates his complete yoga mastery by doing just the opposite: the “river of life-current” descends from his sahasrara out into the world!
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Thank you for this 😇🙏 I remember experiencing this in person with you both in person on Mahashivaratri full night kirtan at Madh ashram 💙