The Fearless

 

I purchased an eyeshadow palate on which Fearless was written. I pondered about the word. In India, it is known as Abhay. Bhay means fear and “a” gives a negation. That is fearless. Fearlessness is a unique attribute. God is the fearless one. In Sikhism, He is the truth, formless and He is the one who does not discriminate. Nobody can disturb His truth, peace, and his faith. Truth is God.

I pondered about my childhood about how much I was fearful as I saw a fierce idol of Goddess Kali /the Goddess of Time & Death {Hinduism} in our neighbor’s home. I was accompanied by my mother to their place as she was busy talking with the people who were Bengalis, I went to explore the nook and corner of the new place. I went to the puja room {room for worship}and saw the Goddess Kali. I bowed on the ground and was shivering with fear, then came running to my mother’s lap with panic. Later I understood that she is a divine mother, the divine energy of the God or the Yogamaya. Shankaracharya {the founder of Hinduism and re-established the faith in the Vedas} said that there is only one entity Braham. The world is nonexistent. The soul is Braham. He defeated Veda Vyasa who authored the Great Indian Epic of the Mahabharata. When he was traveling to Kashi with his disciples and while going to the Manikarnika Ghat to bathe, he came across a lady with his dead husband in her lap and she did not move. When was told to move she came in her original form. She is the embodied Divine power of God. God and his Divine power are the same. She is the reason for the creation and destruction.

I have heard in the Shiv Purana when God Shiv has been depicted and compared to a grand fire bar. Nobody can recognize the starting point and ending point of the fire bar. Just like the tiny fire particles in the grand fire bar and water drops in the vast water body are part and parcel of it, similarly, we are part of the divine.

Mahabharat: When Bhishma was about to vanquish the Pandava and their army in the Kurukshetra, despite his vows Lord Krishna became furious. He, the most eminent kinetic engineer holds the wheel instead of the Sudarshan disk with uncontrollable RPM. Instead of the vow not to hold a weapon, he did it to save his Partha {beloved devotee} and to show the world that for the sake of righteousness, difficult steps are taken into account.

When there is a complete surrender, He is enslaved by the pure divine love of the devotee. All the burdens are on the Cosmic Energy. Neither the enemy nor the negative energy can harm the devotee. This is also Abhay meaning Fearless. Isn’t it?