My personal experience and my personal advice to all my students, first Shiva, the Father, then Mother Divine. Once Shiva is with you, Mother Divine’s illusions cannot touch you. One reason Shiva and Shakti are separated in temples is that Shiva has a huge fear inside. One part, the Father’s nature is really concerned to take care. If She starts to create a lot of disasters, then he has to take care and save everything. He wants to make her balanced, to make everything in a smooth way. So win Shiva. When he’s in Rudra Rupa, the super angry phase, even Mahakali has to calm down. Once he gives a blessing, it doesn’t matter if it’s a cobra and you’re doing to die, or any negativity is playing in your life, anything, or whatever leela Vishnu is giving, or if your Brahma Consciousness is not smart enough to take care of things, that’s the time to use his energy to make it a thumbs up.

This planet has huge disturbances that are affecting you. How can you avoid this planet’s vibrations? Are there any channels for that? The Sky Mantra belongs to the Shiva energy. It is the prayer of Shiva - Om Lingastakam Needum Punyam, Yaha Patay Shiva Sanidhou, Shiva Loka Mavapnoti, Shivayna Saha Mogatay. Anytime you’re facing a lot of problems, some high, intense vibrations are around you, consider it a big challenge. You have to face it. You have to go in nature, sit, simply for ten to fifteen minutes quietly, calmly, just chanting the Sky Mantra. Meditate on Shiva. If you chant this mantra you will have the strongest willpower automatically; it will develop in your heart. The Shiva energy will flow huge in you. The Sky Mantra is one of the highest, most powerful Shiva prayers in the universe. Once you connect with the Sky Mantra in nature, it’s a high melodious connecting to the angels. Once you start connecting, connecting, and connecting to that prayer, for sure, one million times your heart chakra will start to open much, much, much, much bigger. After you start to open your heart, you start to get a little avadhut nature.

If you go through the Sky Mantra deeply, these are all the meanings you will find. The sky is Shiva; Shiva is the sky. The sky is a huge unbounded energy. Shiva completely covers this galaxy and all the galaxies beyond with the huge Cosmic energy. It has no limit. That is why the Vedic tradition compares the Shiva energy to the sky. There is no limit. Mavapnoti - each stone, each rock, is Shiva. Shiva is everywhere. It’s unlimited, infinite. Keep on chanting, and chanting, and chanting. You are saying first to Shiva, “Shiva, totally I’m surrendering to your feet. No matter what, you’re the person to take care of me. Do whatever you want.”

The Shiva lingam structure is like a globe, isn’t it? It’s Lingapati. Once you connect to his energy, to his name, to his bijaksharas, to the pronunciation of his mantras, 99% of the illusions, the negative stuff, cannot touch you. At the same time, it also helps unbelievably to open your open heart bigger and bigger and bigger. That’s the high, high, high inner significance of the process he is in.

[17] A drama or sport created by the Divine for some higher purpose, but cannot be recognized.
[18] A saint who has gone beyond the five elements.