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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

#1134 - A Shiva Story - The Man with an Empty Face

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Sadhguru narrates the heartwarming story of a Shiva devotee, whose longing to take his ageing mother to Kashi was so intense that Shiva himself came in disguise to make it happen for them. Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast, Sadguru of Mystics and Mistakes. This is a wonderful incident it happened some 250 or 300 years ago. there was a devotee in southern regions of Karnataka and his mother was aging.

0:32.0

She wanted to go to Kashi and die in the lap of Vishwanats.

0:38.0

Or she wants to die in the lap of Shiva.

0:41.0

She had never asked her anything in her life. This one thing she requested from her

0:46.0

son, please take me to Kashi. I'm getting old. I want to go there and die. So the man took this old mother and started walking.

0:57.0

So walking through the jungles from Southern Karnataka to Kashi is a lot of distance.

1:06.0

They were walking.

1:08.0

Mother took ill being a old lady, so he carried her on his shoulder. So he was sapped of energy and the only way he could keep himself moving was he went on Shiva, he went.

1:27.0

Sheva, shea.

1:30.0

He went.

1:31.0

Please don't let me fail in this one end hour this is one thing that my mother asked let me fulfill this

1:39.4

I want to take her to Kashi

1:41.4

we're only coming there for you.

1:43.3

Please give me the strength.

1:45.9

Then, as she was walking, then he heard a bell.

1:51.5

So he heard a bull a bullockot coming somewhere and noise of the bell.

1:58.0

Then he saw out of the mist a bull-car drawn by a single bull, which is strange.

2:07.0

In Karnataka you will see a single bull, but only for local use.

2:11.0

Long distance is always two bulls, but a single bull in the forest.

2:18.0

Strange, but when you're so tired you don't care about these nuances.

2:25.0

Then it came and the man requested the driver,

2:30.0

he couldn't see his face.

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