Through a messenger, from Kalbhairav

One of the fierce manifestations of Lord Shiva associated with annihilation is Kalbhairav. Born from Lord Shiva's toenail, he has a significant role in punishing Lord Brahma. Kalbhairav Jayanti, also known as Kalashtami, is observed on Ashtami Tithi of Krishna Paksha in the Hindu month of Margashirsha or Kartik. This year, it was observed yesterday, on November 27, 2021.

Chanting mantra for Kalbhairav

Some years back, I included a Kalbhairav mantra to my daily chanting list. I had an amazing experience at the Kalbhairav temple in Shringeri when I finished my 108 chanting. About two weeks back I thought that I would reduce the number of chants for Kalbhairav and Shakti to 54 from 108. In two days time I felt strong objection to this practice and I reverted back to 108 chanting immediately.

The message

On Kalbhairav jayanti day, I got a message from a friend, who is a Reiki channel.

I wrote to her that it was Kalbhairav jayanti and I have been chanting His mantra for some years now. So His presence must be exalted and it led to her dream, and thanked her for being the messenger.

It never ceases to amaze me how the Universe finds means to reach me the messages!

  

The special lemons, Shiva and Shakti

 I have been visiting a famous Devi temple regularly, but couldn’t do that since the lockdown. I can resonate so much with this Goddess since I have been praying to her since childhood.

Lemons with odd shape

When two lemons with strange shape appeared on our lemon tree, it was a surprise. I have been getting lemons from this tree for the last two decades, this is the first time I saw something like this!

One friend commented that lemons with unusual shape are very precious since they are used for special pujas. Now I looked at the lemons with a different eye. 

And I could correlate the shape of one lemon with a rare picture of Devi and the other resembled a rudraksh.

Goddess visiting us

I felt that since we couldn’t go to the temple, the Goddess decided to visit us, which was a great humbling feeling! And I decided to do a special puja, for which I got guidance from the Universe. I followed the instructions and performed a Havan. 

I could feel the Divine energy building around me and filling up the whole house!