Happy Navratri festival to all friends
Friends, the description of creation is almost the same in all the Puranas. Everyone considers their own deity as supreme. Meaning, in Vishnu Purana, Vishnu is considered favourable, in Shiv Purana, Shiva is considered favourable, and in Devi Purana, Goddess Bhagwati is considered favourable. There is a story in Shiva Purana that Shiva was alone, although complete in himself. Just like for a fun, once a desire arose in his mind to make himself into two. Therefore, he manifested His body in two bodies, Shiva and Parvati. Then from Shiva and Parvati, man and nature aka Prakriti (woman) were born respectively. Original Nirgun Shiva asked both of them through Akashvani aka sky voice to perform penance. When both of them asked for a place to do penance, Nirgun Shiva created the city of Kashi inside his own form. Due to their penance, many streams of water emerged from their bodies, which filled the entire void. Nothing was visible at that time. When Vishnu in the male form nodded his head to see that surprise, the gem fell down from his ear. It became Manikarnika Tirtha or pilgrimage. When the city of Kashi (Panchkoshatmika/five kosha in area) started sinking in water, Shiva established it on his trident. After that Vishnu slept there with his wife named Prakriti. Then, on the orders of Shankar, Brahma appeared from his navel. Then, with the permission of Shiva, he created a wonderful creation. He created fourteen worlds. The expansion of this universe is fifty crore yojanas in area. Thinking that how will I get the beings bound by karma in the universe, Shiva kept Kashi away from the universe. Shiva established his salvation-giving Linga named Avimukta there. Even after completion of one day of Brahma, that Kashi is not destroyed. At that time Shiva wears it on his trident. When Brahma re-creates creation, he re-establishes Kashi.
Explanation of the above story
The initial part of the story itself is descriptive. A man and a woman will marry and think of building a house only if they have the space to do so. The basic requirement is space. They can also add resources and assets later. Asking them for marriage is asking them for penance. Marriage is also a Yagya, which we can consider as an initiation ceremony for the asceticism of a householder. His father etc. gave him a piece of land to establish his household or rather gave him a place in his earthly world. That is Kashi given by the Supreme Father. He is the form of Shiva, because everything is Shivamay or Shiva form. Anyway, everyone has a sense of self or ego attached to their land and property. They do penance there, that is, keeping in mind the auspicious idea of world development, they do lovemaking, dating etc. among themselves. Due to this both of them get immersed in love. Water is also a form of juice. Love has been compared to water. Water all around, means love only love. Lovers see nothing but love. The void is filled meaning the state of depression is filled with love. When a man sees this with surprise, an idea arises in his mind to do something, which means he starts developing some practical intelligence. This is shown in the story that due to the gem falling from his ear, Manikarnika becomes a pilgrimage site. Pilgrim because immense love is mixed in his behavior, intelligence or creation, due to which purity, divinity and intimacy remain in him and his creation. Still, their love kept on increasing, due to which they started forgetting their daily routine due to love madness. They are not even able to remember where they are, what time it is and what they have to do. It is said this way that the city of Kashi started drowning in water. Then his worldly inclination returned by remembering Shiva. Trishul or trident is a symbol of three qualities, and worldly life is also basically three qualities or gunas in nature. Then, with the inspiration of elders and gurus and their instinct, they started sleeping together to have children. Then the woman became pregnant. Foetus is also in the form of Vishnu. He was also situated in water, because the womb is filled with water. Vishnu was said to be sleeping in Kshirsagar or milk dessert ocean. The water of the womb is also full of nutrition like kheer that’s a dessert made of milk and rice which nurtures the child. That can also be called love interest between mother and her son. It can also be called the city of Kashi because on it or because of it, the mother does penance for the creation of her son, that is, she endures the great pain of pregnancy. During sleep, both of them sleep together. Only then does the fetus, connected to the umbilical cord, start growing and takes the shape of a human being. It is called the Lotus because all the chakras are shown as lotus, especially the Sahasrara Chakra, which is the largest lotus with a thousand petals. When the brain develops, the mind i.e. Brahma is born on it. In the mind, strange scenes, thoughts and experiences keep developing in the form of the universe. Readers may have a doubt that Vishnu was called the father and not the son in the womb. So its meaning is that in the scriptures the son has been called the father’s form, that is why the son is also addressed as the father’s self. It has been said that even after the destruction of the universe, the city of Kashi remains the same, which means that even if a man dies, the womb of the mother remains the same. After the birth of the child, the uterus shrinks and returns to its original form ready for the next fetus form universe to form. It is probably said that with the destruction of the universe it becomes situated on Shiva’s trident. This means the triple form in the state of equilibrium, because in such a situation nature remains present in its original form, but does not do any work in the universe. That womb is the best land of penance and the land of liberation, because there one has to endure hardships, but it is there that the sanskars are imparted, which in the future help a person attain salvation. That is why it is said that a woman should do spiritual fellowship and good deeds during pregnancy. There are many such examples in history, when a man had done spiritual practice while still in the womb. Uterus can also be called a dark place like a pit. Darkness is considered to be the form of Mooladhar. From there the power goes directly to Sahasrara for awakening. Doing penance in the cremation ground by Shiva is like doing sadhana in the pit. Ravana also got the darshan of Shiva by worshiping him in the pit. If the Kundalini Shakti is concentrated there, then the subsequent liberation of the fetus is certain or immediate and special. A means firm or immediate, and Vi means special. That is why it is said that Avimukt Linga is situated there, whose bath should be done with Ganga water i.e. Kundalini Shakti and one should definitely continue meditating and worshiping it. Probably it is around the navel. Probably, the sound made by the movement of the fetus in water reaches the ear and is as pleasant as the tinkling of a gem. Because she feels it from within, hence her name is Manikarnika. Meaning, like a gem, it flows through the white bones and reaches the ear, and not through the air.
Then it is said that whatever creature (even insect) is born or dies in Kashi, definitely attains salvation. It is said everywhere in the scriptures that only man has the right to salvation. Meaning, the creature that comes into the womb of a human being will definitely be freed, provided it remains a human being. Then came the question of dying. This seems tantric to me. There is a child in the womb, and by nature he is as free as innocent Shankar. One who remains non-dual like a child while fulfilling all the worldly duties correctly, will definitely become free even at the time of death. The energy of the sexual tantra does not go to the birth of a child but to awakening. Meaning, in the same Kashi where a child is born, an awakened person is also born in the same Kashi. An awakened person also dies in it. A common man can die in any ordinary condition. ‘Ka’ means water, and shayan is formed from ‘shi’. Meaning sleeping in water. It is Lord Vishnu who sleeps on Sheshnag. It seems that Kashi is a metaphor for something like a uterus.
It is said that the goddess first created water in the void sky. Then Lord Vishnu woke up with the power of Goddess Bhagwati who was sleeping on Sheshnag in the water. Actually Vishnu is the sleeping Kundalini Shakti i.e. unmanifested soul. When a woman is pregnant, the fetus appears in the water of her womb. He takes the form of a developed humanoid little child, and starts experiencing everything, i.e. becomes awake. It is connected to the woman’s body through the umbilical cord. In fact, the true form of man is like a snake with its hood raised. The same female form has been shown. It is said that it used to protect the snake Vishnu. What protection does a mother not give to her womb? In Devi Purana, Devi has been shown to be greater than Vishnu and the creator of the universe. It has been argued that who would willingly take birth in a woman’s womb, because the womb is a prison, and the problems faced in it are no less than the tortures of hell. It is the goddess who forces him to be conceived. Meaning, the Purana itself is making it clear that Vishnu is a fetus, Brahma is his mind born from him, and the various thoughts in him are the creation full of diversity. Along with this, the mother who brought that child into the womb is Goddess Bhagwati. By dying in the nearby shrine of Prayagraj, one attains auspicious worlds like heaven etc. ‘Pra’ means abundant and ‘Yag’ means Yajna or Yagya. Yagya is called virtuous action. Prayag may possibly be referred to Manipur Chakra. Because here Yagya is said to be performed through sacrifice of lives, grains etc digested in belly. Anyway, hunger comes from the stomach itself, and good deeds are done by the movement of its muscles. Meaning, deep and long yogic breath comes from the stomach, and with this type of breath, sins are burnt away and virtuous deeds are accomplished. Shallow, fast and chest breathing increases mental defects like anger, due to which sins increase instead of being destroyed. The name Manikarnika may also be because when the fetus moves or nods its head, its sound can be heard by placing the ear in the navel area. Manipur Chakra is called Tirtha as mentioned above. Now it may be that all parts of this analysis are correct. Even if nothing happens, it is still beneficial to remember the story.
Two demons named Madhu and Kaitabh, who were born from the earwax of Narayan, had threatened the existence of Vedapuran i.e. consciousness or knowledge of the entire universe. Then the Goddess gave power to Vishnu and got him killed. In fact, when a person has earwax of infection, he keeps his head tilted to one side due to pain etc. The deviation of the fetus’s head sideways has been called earwax. Due to this, he is not able to come out of the uterus when the time comes, and his life is in danger. Then he tries to straighten his head with the power obtained from his mother’s blood. With the power of the mother, the uterus also helps him in this by exerting force. Due to this he becomes erect, meaning Madhukaitbha dies and the child is born, meaning the universe is saved.
Demystifying Kundalini 