Thread by @gowkinkara

KATHA SRAVANTHI (BEDTIME STORY 5/2/22):
Once there was a great sage, who was a HATHA YOGI. He had many disciples, and one among them was Shiva Sharma, who became almost as perfect as his Guru, and would often ask his guru why he is not able to get SHIVA SAKSHATKARA. To this, his

Guru smiles and replies, to achieve that you need to be bereft of all attachments. After a moment's silence, Shiva Sharma tells the guru how much he loves his wife and children and couldn't imagine being away them. Seeing his Guru give a smile, Shiva Sharma, tries to convince his

Guru that his family loves him to the core as well, and they wouldn't hesitate to give their lives up if God forbid something happened to him. The guru after listening to all the frustrated talk of his disciple, teaches him a asana in Hatha yoga, and asks him to be in the Asana,

Doing vayu bandhana, for some long hours, and gave him some powder of herbs, to be milked in Milk, and drunk before doing this Asana. The disciple though confused with the inconclusive conversation, takes the powder, and drinks it mixing with Milk. Soon his body becomes Contorted

That is weirdly twisted and he easily goes into the Asana taught by his Guru. And because of vayusthambhan, he stops breathing, and the herb he took with Milk, makes his body cold and dead like, and the twisted posture looked like Rigor mortis. After a while, his wife comes after

Finishing her work and seeing Shiva Sharma , thinks he died, starts wailing horribly hugging him, and crying inconsolably. His children come too, and seeing their father dead, start crying along with their mother. Soon all relatives and neighbours gather, and they finish the

Rituals, and were about to take the body to the burial ground for Last rites. The body being twisted wouldn't come out of the small door. So they take a axe and start chopping the door. Listening to the sound of the axe , Shiva Sharma's wife comes running and asks them what they

Are doing , for which they say as the body isn't fitting the door and cannot be taken out, they are chopping the door
The wife then says I already lost my husband who was the sole bread winner of the family, ans though they were well off,she should be extra careful while spending

Money as she has to take care of her teen aged children. She then says whatever has happened has happened, and now her husband is just a dead body, so instead of chopping the door, she asks them to chop her husband's body to pieces, to everyone's astonishment. By this time, the

Effect of the herbs wanted , and the time till which his guru asked him to do the Asana was complete. Shiva Sharma then filled with rage, screams at his wife saying how could she prefer cutting him to pieces than chopping the door. The wife first apologises, and after a while in

The course of argument, screams back at Shiva Sharma that what if she had asked to, he was of no use, and damaging the door for a lifeless body was foolish, and even his children support their mother. In a fit of anger she says she doesn't need a husband who is of no use, and can

Leave and become a sanyasi if he wishes to. Though Aghast by this, a deep enlightenment strikes Shiva Sharma about relationships , and he understands the harsh reality of birth , janmas and attachments and as his wife had given permission of sanyasa, renounces everything and

Leaves to his Guru, and after many years of Sadhana, attains SHIVA SAKSHATKARA, and when Shiva asks him what boon he requires, asks for destruction of his Sanchita karma and Moksha, and in the due course attains Kailasa prapti.
Om Namah Shivaya 🙏
Om Namo bhagavate Vasudevaya🙏

Waned* not wanted. Apologies for typo