Today I went to my local gym, like I do every now and then, to work out. Even though I'm probably not going to be a bodybuilder, I do feel good after a bit of exercise.
There's a funny story about Robert Adams that he met with a bodybuilder who proudly showed off his big muscles to Robert, and Robert said 'Great, you'll be the healthiest corpse in the cemetary'. So much for that worldly occupation I guess.
However, I usually stretch out after the exercising is done, there's a little corner of the gym where you can do that.
And there it was, my own Shiva stone, leaning slightly up against the wall like the most natural thing in the world. Made of polystyrene.
I noticed it immediately as such because I had seen the actual one in the documentary about Ramana Maharsi at about 1 hour, 5minutes, 10 seconds into the video, in the last post I made here.
That is of course an actual stone, black, standing over Ramanas tomb.
Mine wasn't a stone, but it had the same shape and it was black, and it looked like it was the same size, at least from my point of view. And I have no idea what it was used for. Why was it standing there? Was it an exercise equipment? Why against the wall? Had someone left it behind? No idea. I could probably have figured it out by asking someone, but it wasn't necessary, because the main message was received as far as I was concerned.
On one level it could be Ramana sending me a message in a funny way, as I was stretching out I thought about what how Ramana walked to his holy mountain every day, Arunachula. That would be his exercise it seems.
But the actual credit goes to Self, You create your own reality, whatever you focus on.
It would have been interesting to ask Datre if one could manipulate what kind of people one would meet during the day, simply by putting on a certain fashion or outlook. Or clothes with specific images.
I.e. if you wore a t-shirt with the heart-sutra on, the people you would meet who would notice that, would have to have it in their minds one way or the other. Perhaps they would be buddhists, but they could also be hostile to buddhism. Or they might not notice the writing in the first place.
So yes, I see a Shiva stone in a video, and 3 days later I see a very resembling object at my local gym, which is not specifically spiritual or religious in any way. If it was a Yoga center it might have been less mystical.
Shiva is suppose to be the greatest of the Hindu gods, the destroyer of ego and the world. Since I don't know anything else than the Self that can destroy the ego and make the world go away, I guess Shiva is a reference to Self.
In the book "Who Am I" where Ramana is answering questions, he mentiones Siva (God), and I don't know if that is the same as Shiva. but it would make sense.
But yes this is an observation, one of the funny ones from my perspective, it takes you by surprise when it happens, and it doesn't have to have any fireworks going off when you see it, just calmly quietly it's there. Except if the actual observation include fireworks and loud sound that is.
It reminds me of something similar that happened to me after watching some television program with interviews of psychics - they said dead people would send birds to the people left behind in the live zone.
Some time after seeing that program I had birds waking me up in the morning, flying into my bedroom through my open window, it is usually open. Some of them were panicking to get out, others just took a break between the battles with the glass window, one of them hovered above my head looking down at me while I was lying there half awake wondering what all the noise was about.
I can take a guess who would be sending me these little birds who flew into my bedroom for awhile.
But again the actual credit goes to Self, whatever you experience is your own creation.
Nowadays I'm more often woken up by wasps, that are very interested in getting through the window opening while the sun is shining on my bedroom wall. Just one at a time.
I can probably guess what it means, though that one isn't so obvious.
Either way I've come to see that wasps have different personalities, some will be very eager in moving about and trying to get out, not understanding how they got in, while others will much more calmly explore the environment that they have gotten into. Almost like a scientist making notes, a wasp anthropologist taking a look at the human world. Those ones are much more aware of where the exit is though, and will quickly head for the window if they feel that someone is trying to show them the way out.
I was thinking of putting a picture of Shiva in this post, but that sort of doesn't fit if Shiva is a reference the the actual Self, the YOU that you are. Because that is unlimited, so how can it be described?
Pictures can only describe limitation.
I guess that's why pictures, or icons were forbidden in orthodox religions, perhaps a link to an actual understanding who God was, - unlimited, undescribable, No-thing, nothing of this world.
The true "I Am".
I could have taken a picture the polystyrene "Shiva stone" though, but didn't really have a camera with me at that time.
In case Ramana Maharsi had anything to do with my local shiva stone, I thank you for your gesture. :-)
But most of all I thank my Self, for any clues and hints I get, the experience is gently and perfectly timed, and the sense of humor that is put in it.
I sure Am amusing sometimes.
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