KHYAPA- THE WAY TO KALI
Throughout ages it has been noticed that the ones who were rejected by society because they were perceived unfit for sadhana were the ones for whom Maa herself gave darshan to. They were those exceptional sadhakas and gurus whose words would be repeated, recited, and remembered by future generations and not the current ones.
Shri Ramakrishna Paramhansa faced so much backlash, hatred, and insults from people all over. But then what happened in the end? Maa Kali gave darshan to her beloved son at the place which is now called Dakshineshwar.
Parmeshtha guru Shri Bamakhyapa, also known as The Mad Saint, was known for doing everything society said would take one away from the divine, and yet Maa Tara came to him and not to those who brought unnecessary restrictions on the path to the divine, which is nothing but a path ruled by mad love.
Even Sri Krishna was ridiculed by some sections of society, which makes us pause for a second and urges us to give it a thought.
Khyapa – a Bengali term which literally means "Mad."
If you're called mad, weird, or strange by society for your love for the divine, if you break societal norms and rules in what you offer the divine, if you are desperately in love with your ishta that money, fame, success, promotion, house, and cars mean nothing to you, and if you don't care about the societal expectations or assumptions they have of you if it means you have the lap of Maa and the hands of Bhairava, then my friend, you're a Khyapa.
A Khyapa is not pretentious. He is straightforward, what is within him is shown outside of him crystal clear, no matter the judgements of society. A Khyapa is fearlessly on the path of the divine. Anyone who dares to stop him will be destroyed by the one he worships, and he will have zero attachment and pleasure to that destruction.
When you talk about an extremely, immensely, unimaginably powerful goddess like Maa Adya Mahakali, societal norms fall. Small desires have no place in front of her. It is only the Khyapa who has the eligibility to stand in front of her. That rejected mad saint who is desperately in love with Maa is the only one who will find himself standing before her. If you ask for a mere car or bungalow from her, she will simply send you to the yoginis, her smaller manifestations, to fulfill your small desires. But if you're like Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, asking for the freedom of an entire nation, doing something so magnificent and extraordinary that it catches the attention of Parashakti itself, if your goal is something totally outside the norms of society, not just getting a job in a company but buying the whole company itself, not just writing books but aiming to influence the minds of the masses, not just singing but aiming to win the hearts of billions—
That is something you ask of Maa Adya Mahakali, and then wait and watch how your name will be remembered for generations after. She will make you immortal. Limited mindsets will not even be able to imagine being close to her. Be so mad and crazy in aiming for your targets and in the love you have for Maa that it catches her attention, compelling HER to act through you, making you a mere instrument of the game that she now plays.
EARN that title.
Fall so hopelessly in love with her that she becomes your only mother. Cry to her like a baby calls to its mother when it is hungry. That hunger within you is the only thing that will make her come running towards you. That emptiness which screams for her fulfillment, that void which craves for the peace that is her. It is the Khyapa, the mad, crazy ones, who ultimately find themselves in the lap of the Mother.
What is there in those small wins? Small appreciation by an authority here and there? Small medals here and there? Small popularity of the batch? Good marks, good jobs, good placements? If you're satisfied with these, this is not the deity for you. Because if you want Maa to come to you like she came for Ramakrishna ji, Parmeshtha Guru Bamakhyapa ji, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, then become them and make your mind limitless, because the one you're praying to, Maa Adya Mahakali, is that utter darkness of space which is limitless and never-ending.
Just imagine that for a second before asking for something small from her the next time you sit for your prayers.
Jai Maa AdyaMahaKali
Jai Khyapa Parampara
Omshrigurubhyonamah
Jai Skanda
- By Shreya Tiwari Shisya of Gurudev Shri Praveen Radhakrishnan