Rhythm of Damaru and Bells: A Divine Experience at Kashi Vishwanatha Temple


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 I thought I should share my experience with you all which I had in Kashi Vishwanatha Temple, VaraNaasi.
I visited Kashi couple years back with my husband to attend relative's marriage. The weather in Kashi  was very cold and chill. Maa Ganga was so clean. I felt so happy to touch Maa Ganga for the first time. 
      When I was in High-school my teacher once said that  Ganga river is covered with sewage water and so much of filth. If one drinks Ganga water he gets all kinds of diseases and so on.  But now the situation is entirely different. We all know that it is very clean and maintained very well. We should always thankful to those who worked for cleaning the Ganga River. 
 I felt so blessed  to take a holy dip in the river. 

 After our relative's  marriage most of us got Darshan at the temple and started journey to our respective places. But I was not satisfied with the Darshan,   because of the crowd we had to come back soon. Any how,  I just accepted his (lord Shiva's) will and just came out of the temple. 

 We were about to leave Kashi but........ suddenly remembered my woolen Shawl. Where is my shawl?  I didn't find it any where.  I felt so bad for my carelessness  because I lost such a beautiful,  costly and newly bought (for marriage) Woolen Shawl. That was my favorite Shawl also.
     Suddenly  I ran back to temple and requested security guards to permit me to go inside the temple. Security guards were so good and allowed me inside the temple. I started searching my Shawl. 

After a while I heard mind pleasing music of Bells, Damaru and some Mantras(hymns) and suddenly my eyes went upside of the temple's Gopuram where I saw a very big divine Trishoolam I watched it for five minutes, I experienced a very strong feeling that lord Shiva is holding the Trisholam.   I just immersed myself  in the ocean of bhakti and peeped into the Garbha griha of the  temple and SaptaRishi Arati was just started.

Automatically my mind immersed with lord Shiva and without any reason tears cameout from my eyes. I was just weeping weeping weeping and weeping and watching the Aarati and my whole body and mind was experiencing divinity and unexplainable joy, Bhakti Rasa invoked. There I felt only existence of  my divine lord Shiva and myself. 
    After the completion of the Arati, I felt so blessed and felt the existence of lord Shiva. He made me to visit temple once again and gave his Darshan with SaptaRishi Arati. 

I strongly believe that Shiva really accepts our bhakti and listens to our prayers.  He shows love, mercy towards his devotees. 
It was really a very divine transcendental  experience which I never forget in my life.
     


 

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