LET US TRANSCEND THIS WORLD

I read a transcript of a video that I watched, on YouTube some days back, which made me question if I too was deceiving others, for what is told in this video resonates with me, bringing on a feeling of both fear and guilt when I am forced to ask myself the same, too, if I am following the truth or comfortable shadows.

My name is ..... I am a 58-year-old Hindu priest from Varanasi, India. For three decades, I led sacred rituals at Shiva's temple along the holy Ganges, guiding thousands in traditional Hindu worship. But on the night of Maha Shivaratri last year, during our most sacred festival, my heart suddenly stopped... and I met Him. 

I spent my entire life devoted to Lord Shiva, performing countless pujas and teaching ancient Vedic wisdom. Yet in those moments between life and death, it wasn't Shiva who appeared before me—it was Jesus Christ. His presence was unlike anything I'd experienced in 40 years of meditation. 

The light that emanated from Him showed me truths about our world that shattered everything I once taught. What He revealed about modern spiritual leaders, ........, has compelled me to break my silence. I know sharing this will anger many, but I must speak the truth I witnessed in death. 

The brass bells echoed through the ancient stone corridors, their sacred resonance filling every corner of the temple with the kind of vibration that penetrates bone and spirit alike. I had rung these same bells countless times before, but tonight - Maha Shivaratri - their song carried a different weight. Each toll seemed to reach deeper, stirring something restless within me that I had tried desperately to suppress. 

What I experienced that night wasn't just a near-death vision - it was divine intervention that stripped away decades of spiritual misconceptions. The truth I witnessed about modern gurus, ......, isn't meant to condemn but to illuminate. We've been following shadows when the true light has been calling all along.

If you're feeling shaken by this testimony, I encourage you to examine your own spiritual journey with honest eyes. Are you following the truth, or comfortable shadows? ...... Has a crisis ever led you to question everything you believed? The choice that lies before us isn't about abandoning our cultural heritage - it's about embracing a deeper truth that transcends all traditions. 

As I learned that night when my heart stopped beating, sometimes we must die to our old beliefs to truly begin living. ..... 

Lord Muruga had come to warn me of the trap that I would fall into if I were not alert and aware. He said that both Lord Shiva and Agathiyar were playing games, roping in Indra, who is known for his mischief and game of illusion or Maya. I had to learn to see through this illusion and know how to identify one from the other.

Watching "Spider-Man - No Way Home" again, but now the  "Extended Cut" last night, I tend to agree that we are the reason everything is here, but nobody remembers it, as told in the movie. It is akin to Agathiyar telling me to give him life to a piece of metal. We create things, make them sustain, and destroy them eventually. Once here, we attempt to build concepts and conceptualize all that is taking place. It makes us realize, too, that nothing is written in stone, and the gods, too, can only predict to a certain extent, hence the reason why some predictions do not happen. No one knows the intent of the Supreme and Almighty and the direction or course, or rather his play. Things come into being as we encounter each moment in the present. This brings us to the final message of Sivavakiyar, which is that only the present moment that we touch, feel, and experience is real. All else is false or a fake. Life is akin to a river flowing. Sadly, we, in our greed, tend to gather everything on our path and hoard it, adding on to the baggage that we brought with us and refuse to lay it down even at the moment of death.

The Siddhas help us break each and every perception we hold on to till there is no concept but mere presence, stillness, and awareness. We then realize that clarity arises not from reading sacred texts, journals, or listening to others speak on stage, or on social media these days, but only when we travel and experience the journey for ourselves and eventually come to transcend the borders and link with the Akasha or consciousness. It is from here that we gain enlightenment and not from within this world of Maya. Do I make any sense?