It is not just a city. It is the most divine, powerful kshetra on this earth for me. Because my Siva lives there. He walks those roads. He breathes in that wind. I'm talking about my Guru.
The dust on his feet is the dust of that city. It’s my Guru who makes the place sacred.
He often tells us, at Kailash, one ages very quickly.
And we’ve seen it with our own eyes. In the last year itself, he aged so rapidly.
This breaks down our idea of the physical Kailash.
It shows us what the real Kailash is: it moves wherever Siva resides.
And since my Guru is Siva, he himself is Kailash.
Where he stands, that is the Kailash for me.
When Maa sat in Dakshineshwar, She faced south. Not by accident.
She was already looking at her next rising : this time, in the land of the South.
She didn’t come alone.
She brought Kali, Bhairava, the Siddhas, the broken karmas waiting to be burned, the ganas, the vahanas.
Nandieswara, the Gau Mata, the Bhairava vahana, the Skanda vahana : all moved in that one flow.
It all gathered here, quietly, through karmic rivers we can’t even see.
She brought Kailash to Dakshin Bharat.
And here, in this leela, my Guru is Siva. My Guruma is Saktih... or is it the other way around?
Who can really say? They are both. They are each other.
Even the two divine beings around them are not just children. They carry the tattva of Ganesha and Skanda : the remover of obstacles and the commander of the armies.
It’s all there, playing out in front of our eyes, if only we have the subtlety to see.
What do I learn from all this?
That the Guru is not just a teacher.
He is the ground I stand on. The sky I look up to. The Kailash I keep searching for.
I only pray for the strength to follow his words exactly.
To hold onto his feet, even if my mind runs.
To keep surrendering, even when my desires scream otherwise.
Because I know, as long as I stay at his feet, I am already at Kailash.
- By Harsh Raj Shisya of Gurudev Shri Praveen Radhakrishnan