08/10/2022
Kalabhairava, a unique manifestation of Shiva in the form of Time
You cannot manage time because it is running at its own pace. Energy you can manage, you can play with it. Time is running at its own pace, but there is a certain dimension of consciousness, which can go beyond time. That dimension of consciousness is referred to as Kala Bhairava.
There is a beautiful story in the tradition. The story is told in many ways. Markandeya was a child. When he was born, or before he was born, the parents had to choose: either they will have an idiot who will live for 100 years or a brilliant shining being who will live only for 16 years. The parents were wise, and they chose the latter that they bore a brilliant, shining child of enormous capabilities. But as days passed, as years rolled, they became very tortured as the date came close because they knew the expiry date of their child. They revealed this to the child because the child was phenomenally wise and knowledgeable, and when the moment came, when the god of death Yama came to claim his life, Markandeya, who knew the ways of life, just did one simple act. There was a form of Shiva in the form of a linga – an energy form, which was particularly consecrated as Kala Bhairava – and he just held the linga. The moment he held the linga time came to a standstill, and death could not approach him and held him right there. Then that dimension of consciousness opened up within him where he was not available for time any more. They say he continued to live as a fifteen-year-old boy, never turning sixteen because he came in touch with that dimension of consciousness which we refer to as Kala Bhairava - Sadhguru.
