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| New Gate to BSD Jan 2016 |
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| Devotees in Jan 2016 |
New Dimension
On 27th Feb there was a forward mail from http://www.shivshankar.in/ by Mr Pankaj Das, refuting the place as Bhimasankar Dham and asked me to visit Real Bhimasankar Dham near Vashista Ashram. He passed on this write up throwing light on Bhimasankar Dham.
"Sri Sri Bhrigugiri Maharaj, after completing 12
years of intense sadhana, had established his ashram near Vaishistha cave and
it is called Panchakanya Dham on Kshobhak
parvat near Guwahati. This was
the sacred tapobhumi of Vashistha Muni, Viswamitra Muni and Brighu Muni. Bhrigu
muni is the father of Shukracharya. Brighu Muni gave darshan to Bhrigugiri
Maharaj after completing his 5080 years of tapas on the day of complete solar
eclipse in the year 1980 (February 16th) and entered the body of Bhrigugiri
Maharaj, to complete his tasks for which he needed a human body. This is how Brighu name was added to
Maharaj’s name.
In the Shiva Purana it is mentioned that
Bheemashankar Jyothirlinga is in Kamrup (Guwahati, Assam). It is on the Dakini parvat that Lord Shiva
appeared as a divine light to protect his great devotee King Kamarupeswar of
Kamrup, from the demon King Bheemasura. The name of the Dakini parvat was
changed to Kshobak parvat after the appearance of Lord Bhima Shankar, who was
in extreme anger (Kshob) while killing Bheemasura. Later, the Dakini Parvat
came to be known as Kshobak parvat. Even
today the Bheemashankar Jyothirlinga on the kshobak parvat is worshipped in the
Panchya Kannya Dham.
Except for a few sadhus and evolved souls this fact about Bheemashankar Jyotirlinga,
at Kshobak (Dakini) parvat, in Panchakanya dham, near Vashistha Temple,
Guwahati, remained unknown to the general public – may be for some divine
reason.
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| Sri Sri Brigugiri Maharaj |
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| Dwadash Jyotirling book in Asami 1984 |
Bhrigugiri Maharaj has written several books on
spirituality, rather, more so, on its clarification on various age-old mistaken
concepts & beliefs with integral scientific basis. His deep insight into
the Vedas, Upanishads and Itihasas (epics) has revealed many sacred hidden
truths from these treasures. These
revelations are possible only by a realized Maha Yogi (Maharshi). This booklet (Bheemashankar Jyotirlinga) is a
part of the Book named “Dwadash
Jyotirlinga” written in Assamese by Bhrigu
Giri Maharaj in the year 1984, with few additional words for clarification on
the “Bheemeswar”, which is only an associate
linga (Upalinga) of the main Bheemashankar Jyotirlinga, that is
presently being worshipped at Pamohi near Guwahati. The truth revealed to Sri
Sri Bhrigugiri Maharaj about the actual site of Bheemashankar Jyotirlinga has
been made open now to the all. Let us
all get the darshan & blessings of Bheemashankar Jyotirlinga.
II BHEEMASHANKAR II
Regarding
Bheemashankar Jyotirlinga few different opinions have arisen. This may be, but
these opinions do not have basis either on mythological history or on newly
found spiritual revelation. Taking the
old historical records as the guiding path it is possible to discover the facts
anew through spiritual insight. That means, just like checking the correctness
or incorrectness of an equation by tallying the result with the result list,
new discovery on the basis of direct spiritual insight is checked and reconfirmed
with the old ones – the historical records.
It
is believed by some that the place of Bheemashankar is situated on the Sajya
mountain on the bank of the river Bheemanadi
in Maharastra. Others say that a big temple, situated at Uzzankat in Nainital
district, is the Bheemashankar. But, the most authentic mythological accounts
on Shiva, the Shiv Puran, says about it as:
The folklores in
different parts of Kamrup state also feed the same regarding Bheemashankar.
Long ago, there was a Demon (Rakshas) named Bheem who was born with the seed
of Demon (Rakshas) Kumbhkarna in the womb of Demoness (Rakshasi) Karkatee,
who was a torturer for all creatures and anti-religious possessing limitless
powers. They lived in the Sajya mountain. After the son of Dasharatha, Sri Ram,
killed the dreaded Kumbhkarna, Karkatee took her son and started living there.
One day Bheema asked his mother, who is my father? Where does he live? Karkatee
said, your father is Kumbhkarna, the brother of the demon king Ravana. He came
to me one day. Sri Ram has killed him. I have not seen Lanka. My father’s name
is Karkat and mother’s name is Puskasee. I was married to a Demon (Rakshas)
named Biraadh. Ram killed him too. After the death of my husband, I lived with
my father and mother. One day my mother & father started proceeding towards Muni Mahatapa Suteekshna to devour him.
Angered, the Muni burnt both of them to ashes and since then I had to live
alone. In that time Kumbhkarna came to this mountain and had sex with me. After
your birth, I lived here only for you. Hearing all this from his mother he
became very angry. He started pondering on how to bring destruction to Hari.
Thinking thus, he started doing penance for Brahma. In this way, Bheem got
absorbed in tapasya for thousand years. Standing on one leg with raised arms
and looking at the Sun, he started meditating on Brahma. Such severe penance
(tapasya) resulted in causing radiation of fire-bursts from his head and the
fire started engulfing the gods. The gods became restless and took shelter at
the feet of Brahma and implored, the lord-father, we are started getting
devoured by the fire coming out from the evil soul Bheem’s severe penance. You
must immediately give him his desired
boon and save us, otherwise, the whole lot of gods will get burnt to
complete destruction. Hearing the prayer
of gods, the
lord-father Brahma moved in his swan vehicle, and stood before Bheem and spoke: “devotee! I am pleased with
your penance (tapasya). Tell what boon
you want”. Hearing Brahma’s word, the demon (Rakshas) Bheem spoke: “lotus-seated
one, if you want to give me boon, then, give me limitless power”. Thus spoke,
the demon surrendered at Brahma’s feet. Constrained, Brahma gave that boon. Maddened
with the power of Brahma, Bheemasur started torturing human beings and gods.
First, Bheemasur captured the king Kamrupeswar and took away the kingdom and
captivated the king in an isolated place.
On the other side, Bheemasur jumped over the gods.
Capturing the kingdom of gods, Bheema expatriated all the gods. Leaving their kingdom the gods then
went to the bank of the river Mahakoshi and started doing puja of lord Maheswar, the father of gods. Pleased
with the invocation of Rishis and gods the lord Maheswar appeared before
them and said, gods, I’m satisfied,
take your desired boon. The gods and the
Rishis, thus
telling all the stories of Bheemasur, sought the way
to free themselves from this danger.
Shiva,
the lord of gods said: “ gods, not only you, Bheemasur has tortured my dearest devotee
Kamrupeswar also. Hence, in this matter, I myself will take measure. You go
back to your own places without any fear”. Saying thus, the benefactor lord
left for dispelling the grief of the devotee along with the first Gana (Ganesha). Meantime, the servants of
Rakshas informed Bheem the news of King’s Shiv adoration:
“Oh great king! The
captivated king Kamrupeswar has installed a physical ‘Shiv Linga’ and is doing
puja, absorbed in meditation for your imprecation. Therefore, please do
whatever is proper”. Hearing the servant thus, Bheemasur got angered with fire
and proceeded towards the Prison with his soldiers to kill the king and saw that
the king is absorbed in Shiv puja. Bheemasur roared with anger and asked: “oh
king, what all this you are doing. Tell me the truth; otherwise I will give you
the punishment of death now”. The king was so absorbed in Shiv-puja that he was
not perturbed by even thunder like threatening of Bheem and told the truth: “oh
Rakshas king, I’m doing Shiv puja with this
physical ‘Shiv-linga’. The compassionate Shiv is present here in this linga.
I’m a low person and therefore He is not lenient towards me and is not giving
blessing for my welfare. His promise is there to kill the torturer of his
devotees and protect the devotees. The promise of Shankar is unshakable and He
will definitely do it. With this faith I’m doing his puja. Now, you can do
whatever you desire”. Hearing the king, Bheem mocked: “I know your Shankar,
what he will do to me; my forefather Dashanan had installed Shankar as his
servant. With this power of Shankar you want to win victory over me. You are
trying to look for the tortoise egg in the cavity of a tree. Till the time your protector, Shankar, does
not come face–to-face with me, your delusion will remain. But, when you see, you
will understand all. You immediately remove all your mental delusions along
with these garbage of symbolic-linga etc.
Otherwise you will see what power I’m possessing in my body”. Hearing
the proud words, the king said: “oh Rakshas king, I can remove Shankar, the
lord of the universe, considering him to be low. But, he is the most noblest,
he is great. He will never leave me”.
Bheem laughed aloud at king’s sayings and said: “after losing your
kingdom the way you have become beggar, you have become insane, in the same
way your Shankar is also intoxicated.
Shankar is highly earthly. He moves
with the begging bag for his own belly. What will he understand about the knowledge of
‘Yog’. If he had the power to do good to you, your status would not have been
so today. Even then, your delusion has
not gone away. Hence, along with your Pravu, you-deluded will also be
finished from this world and the world will be made completely delusion-free
for the
future”. Thus said, the great powerful Bheemasur fired lethal weapons at the
king. Just in a moment, great destruction came upon, making the earth dark and there
arose the frightening thunders. And with a divine light, Rudradev appeared from the physical Shiv-linga
with the flood light of thousand suns. Rudradev said, “I’ve appeared as
Bheemashankar to protect Hansmantra. I’m vowed to protect my devotee”.
Thus
said, Rudradev, the stealer of the
world, destroyed the weapons fired by Bheemasur. The fierce battle started
between Bheem and Rudra.
Gods
got wonderstruck in seeing the horrific scene of the battle. Unable to sustain
the weight of the fierce Rudra, the gods of all directions became shattered and
started crying. The sea, the mountain, the hills, the planets and stars got
disturbed. The Brahma and gods got astonished. They became worried more on why
Rudravev is not killing Bheem when He could easily kill him. Thus said, the
gods approached Narad, the Tribikram, begging for help. At the behest of gods,
Narad went to the battlefield and prayed to ‘trita-prahari Hara’, Rudradev, and
said, lord! Please destroy this evil immediately and bring peace to the world.
Hearing the prayer of Narad, Shiv roared and moved along with the soldiers and
killed Bheemasur to ashes. Nobody could see where the ashes fell after flying.
Rudradev’s anger did not cool down even after destroying the Rakshas. This
splinter of Anger became fire and spread to the forest and jungles and from it
various medicinal trees were created. From these medicinal trees, transformed
and transmuted, the imprecations of
ghost-ghoul, demon (pishach) get removed. Not only this, there is no
task in the world which cannot be accomplished with the help of these medicinal
stuff. Kamrup is famous as the kingdom of alluring illusion and magic. (the
work of Maron, lukayon, Mohan and Jeeyon etc. are accomplished by this magic
science. Some part of this magic science is still prevalent in human-society living
in the upper part of this mountain-chain
and its use is happening always. With the help of ‘Rupantor’ science, people
take the form of ferocious animal, like tiger etc. to take revenge, with
‘Mohan’ science, subduing one into his
will in an act ‘Bashikaron’, with
‘Maron’ science, killing the enemies etc. – all these activities of
imprecations are still running in full-swing. There is no comparison of these
medicinal trees and creepers. Medicinal pandits, sadhus and sanyasies from different part of India use to collect
the medicinal stuff from this mountain daily. Raksharishi Dashanan (Ravana)
started the first application of this science and won the universe – with his
penance (tapasya) in this mountain-range, taking the blessings on his head.
With the passage of time, due to lack of discipline, the utility of this
science has become diminished, but, however, its active-portion is still
prevalent today among the human society living in the nook and corner of this
mountain. This science can be revived by some
renouncers (tyagi) who desire to do sadhana for this by his penance
(tapasya). The whole moving & unmoving universe got terrorized by seeing
the ferocious fire of Anger of Rudradev. All the gods & rishis kneeled down
and prayed to the Devadidev Hara and
said, Pravu, you are the bestower of bliss, the Isha, supremely composed and
you bestow happiness to all people. This kingdom is full of grief & suffering.
This medicinal stuff is pain-giving. You are all joy-giving. Therefore, you remain
present in this place so that with your presence, this suffering land becomes
joyful. All the pain will vanish and become joyous after having darshan in this
place. You become famous as ‘Bheemashankar’.
The
soul of the universe, ‘Hara’ got pleased with the prayers of gods and
relinquishing the anger & disappointment became calm and started living
there in the form of a ‘Linga’. Due to
causing agitation ( ‘kshobh’) to the
lord of destruction, this place has been
named as ‘Kshobhak’ and the name of ‘Hara’ the stealer of the universe, became
‘Harak’ or ‘Heruk’. ‘Ham’, in source, means ‘Sky’. That means, ‘Ha’ means
‘Sky’. Sky is vastness as ‘Bheem’ ; that
is why the eight-armed statue (murty) of ‘Hara’ is worshipped as: “ OM Bheemaya aakash murteye namah”
From the world of maya &
suffering, sustained & nurtured by ‘Hari’, he who takes away the creatures
(Jiva) to deliver salvation into divine ‘Self-form’ is ‘Heruk’ or ‘Hara’. He is
the ‘Mahakaal’, the creator of triple dimension of ‘Time’. His form is space (vyom), Nothingness
(shunya), sky (aakash), He is ‘Ha’ of
‘Brhma’. He is complete & total, undiminishable, vowel and Him only,
we call ‘Ishwar’. Because, He is :
“om purna-madaha purnam-idam purnat purnam-udachatey
Purnasya purnamadaya purnameyabo aboshishatey”.
As per the request,
Herukeswar Rudradev established his seat in the form of ‘linga’ after which Indra and other gods took their
respective seats and the daughter of
Himadri, Bhagawati Durga, taking the five facet form, having equal potency as
Rudra, started serving the father of gods, the Devadidev, with devotion. That is why the goddess here is virgin &
highly potent.
In
this way, thirty three crore gods took their seats at ‘Kshobhak’ around
Rudradev at the centre and settled there.
As per the order of Rudradev, the river ‘Saridwara’ Ganga came down from
the hair-lock of Neelkantha to the earth taking the name of Kanta. Gods
established a divine pond there for taking daily bath. This pond is great.
Taking bath in this pond and worshiping the goddess, one gets freed from
evolutionary birth cycle (yoni-bhog), means, one becomes equivalent to divine.
In
the Mahashivratri, keeping fast, one who worships Bheemashankar, he gets rid of
all suffering and all his desires get completely fulfilled.
In the southern part of Guwahati, in
the Sandhyachal mountain lies the Ashram of Bashistha Muni. Just 300 meters (approx)
away from this Ashram lies the Bheemashankar Jyotirlinga in the Panchakanya dham in the ‘kshobhak’
mountain. Apart from daily puja in every chaturdarshi night, chatur-prahar puja
of Herukeswar Rudradev is also performed.
Bheemeswar: ‘Upa-Linga’ of Bheemashankar Jyotirlinga.
Bhagwan Shankar’s agitation (kshob)
sparked fire and burnt Bheemasur to ashes and for this reason that mountain had
been named as ‘Kshobak’. East to Kshobhak is ‘Sandhyachal’, in north-east is
‘Bhagwan’, in west ‘Baman’ and in north ‘Durjaya’ & ‘Barah’. These were the
land of meditation - ‘tapobhumi’: Bashisht in Sandhyachal, Soot and other
Rishis in Bhagwan mountain, in kshobhak, Bhrigu, in Baman Viswamitra, Gautam
Rishis etc. after Baman avatar. Western part of Durjaya was the tapobhumi of
Markandeya, Urva and Shukracharya. From
the northern part of this mountain chain to ‘Nilachal’ is the great Barah
Mountain. In this mountain only there happened the avatar of ‘Barah’. In this
mountain only Rajarshi Seerdhaj did Vishnu sadhana and then after, his son,
Rajarshi Narakasur, established the capital and did penance (tapasya) there.
Rajarshi Naraka only, at the behest of Vishnu, did shakti-sadhana in the
northern part of Nilachal and awakened the daughter of Himadri and made her
famous as ‘Kamakshi’.
There is one ‘associate-Linga’ (Upa-Linga)
of Bheemashankar in this Barah mountain.
His name is Bheemeswar. (Bheemeswar is situated near the village presently
called as Pamohi). During his sadhana, Naraka
did sadhana for Bheemeswar also. He used to travel from the capital situated
near the Durjaya in the northern part of Barah to Ranipur (presently Rani),
where his queens (Rani) lived, by horse
and elephants through a plain road running along the bank of the sea (presently
Deepor Beel) and passing beside Bheemeswar
through the lower part of Chakardaur. The present place, Rani, was the
place for the queens. Naraka had many queens and 1600 virgin girls. (Sri
Krishna took these girls after killing Naraka and kept them at Harialee
(Haryana) – these were the 16 hundred G
Among 12 Jyotirlingas, 9
Jyotirlingas have their Associate-Lingas (Upa-Lingas). These are as follows:
S/N
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Jyotirlinga
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Upa-Linga
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Place
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1
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Somnath
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Antukesh
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Land-sea confluence
(Prabhas) Gujarat.
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2
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Mallikarjuna
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Rudreswar
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Bhrigukaksh
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3
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Maha Kaleshwar
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Dugdhesh
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Narmada River bank.
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4
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Omkareshwar
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Kardmesh
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Bindu Lake
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5
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Kedareshwar
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Bhutesh
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Yamuna River bank.
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6
|
Bheemashankar
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Bheemeswar
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Barah mountain
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7
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Nageshwar
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Bhutesh
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Saraswati River bank.
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8
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Rameshwar
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Gupteswar
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Sea bank, Tamilnadu
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9
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Ghushmeshwar
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Byghreswar
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Shivalaya
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