Gupt Sadhak Shyamakhyapa - Part 4 - The Rise of Smashan Bhairava

Gupt Sadhak Shyamakhyapa - Part 4 - The Rise of Smashan Bhairava

Kindly read parts 1,2,3 before proceeding..

As Paramaguru continues to do intense sadhana of Parameshta Guru BamaKhyapa he spends many months in Sadhana on the UgraTarachitta( a mound formed by burnt bodies dumped one over other seen in Tarapeeth smashan) and sometimes in intense dhyana he would get up and walk and while he walked intense shakti would fill him up and he walked not as Shyamakhyapa but as Smashan Bhairava.

This incident shows us the spiritual calibre of Paramaguru and why no one in Tarapeeth was eligible enough to be his Guru because who could be a Guru to Bhairava himself 🙏🏻

There was a small hut in which lived a lady who would allow him to rest there in the morning as he could continue his Sadhana in the night and in the night he would take his aasan(mostly refers to a cloth one uses to sit for sadhana )and go to the UgraTarachitta to continue his Sadhana.

One such day he met an Old man who was also into intense sadhana, astrologically Paramaguru had picked up a day of specific nakshatra to do intense tapasya and the old man also wanted to join him that day , he asked Paramaguru to take a bigger aasan that day to which he questioned why ? I have been using this one for many years now for which the Old man replied just take it ...it will be needed..

Now paramagurudev takes a bigger aasan and starts his intense tapasya in between the old man gets up and tells him my work here is done you continue your tapasya...no matter what do not get up from your aasan ... he starts walking away ...goes to a distance turns back and again screams from the distance ....." Today no matter what do not get up from your aasan, you will get the fruits of your efforts today "and walks off.

Now... Time passess....it's deep in the night ....Silence everywhere....

Intense thunder and rains begin such intense that it makes ParamaGurudev question it's reality and within minutes water has been flooded and where he is sitting the UgraTarachitta is high mound still water fills up to his thighs...then he sees two dogs swimming in the water frantic to take shelter swim up to him and sit on either sides since it's a bigger aasan, both the dogs very comfortably place their heads on his thigh and sleep...

The thunder and lightning is so intense that he feels he would be ripped apart but still he sits there unmoving remembering what the old man had told him ....

Then he sees an intense figure walk upto him ....LISTEN....GET UP...He lifts him and places him on a half burnt body and whispers a Mantra into his ears and walks away...Filled with Prana ParamaGurudev sits there invoking the mantra just as it had happened the rain disappears and water receeds and the dogs happily walk off...and that mantra became his Guru Mantra...

Thus Parameshta Guru BamaKhyapa called as the Mahakala Bhairava becomes the Guru to ParamaGurudev Shyamakhyapa the Smashana Bhairava....

Now there is so much to understand from the above incident some of which I was able to get :

1. A lady lets him stay in the hut indicating Devi is still there even at the moment gently guiding him and nurturing him giving him a place to stay

2. An Old man comes and sits with him gives him the necessary instructions and goes on who was the old man - if not a messenger of the divine

3. The Dogs come first before Parameshta Gurudev BamaKhyapa comes indicating the Dog is above all - He who can worship the dog, will attain all the Vidhya, shastras.

For the dog simply represents all Vidhya’s shastras and follows Bhairava wagging his beautiful tail and the one who places the Dog above him is Mahakala Bhairava who depicts Parameshta Gurudev BamaKhyapa beautifully in this incident

4.He is placed on a half burnt body when the mantra is given indicating he is above this sthula now burnt completely now what's yet to burn is nothing but the birth to play out it's purpose , here there is no karmic burning for siddha purushas they are above it all it's their benevolence and compassion to come back again to guide many others to the same source

5. Also an interesting attribute that Parameshta Gurudev displays here that every Sadhaka should embody is his determination otherwise known as Hath that no matter what I will attain the Deity that determination he held as he sat firm in the intense storm which led him to meet his Guru and the same determination will let us to meet our Deity too one day.

What happened after this? How did my Guru meet his Guru? How his birth purpose unfolds thereafter ? All these questions in the reader's mind will be addressed in Part 5 - That Familiar Voice.

Jai Maa 🙏🏻