Narrated by AyodhyaWaleBaba for ThrillVana
There are moments when silence teaches more than words.
Moments when—
My heart hears, my heart speaks,
my mind becomes still, and my eyes see.
And in that silence, I feel what the sages once whispered long ago that the stars themselves are dancing.
The Milky Way flows above like a silver river, endless and shimmering. If you listen not with your ears but with your heart, you will feel a rhythm hidden in that silence. A pulse. A dance.
The sages called that rhythm: Shiva.
Shiva is not far away. He is not just an idol in temples or a story in scriptures. He is the pause between two breaths, the spark inside every heartbeat, the vibration that holds the universe together.
When he moves, galaxies swirl.
When he rests, the cosmos finds peace.
नृत्यन्तं ताण्डवं शम्भुं, ब्रह्माण्डस्य हृदि स्थितम् ।
“In Shiva’s dance lies the heartbeat of the universe.”
And where does Shiva rest?
Where does infinity find its stillness?
That sacred seat is Mount Kailash.
Kailash is unlike any other mountain. It rises with such symmetry, almost like a pyramid sculpted by invisible hands. Scientists tell us it formed millions of years ago when great tectonic plates collided and lifted the Himalayas skyward. But the sages said: “It was chosen.”
Chosen to be the still point of the turning world.
ॐ नमः शिवाय।
A mantra so simple, yet it carries the stillness of Kailash itself.
Pilgrims say that walking around Kailash feels as though the mountain is walking with them.
Travelers tell of compasses spinning wildly at its base, as if the mountain has its own heartbeat.
From its glaciers flow four mighty rivers—the Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra, and Karnali—feeding millions of lives, like sacred veins from the heart of the Earth.
If the Earth is a great body, Kailash is its heartbeat.
If the universe is a grand orchestra, Kailash is its drum.
And at the very heart of this heartbeat sits Shiva—the eternal yogi, silent yet infinite.
नागेन्द्रहाराय त्रिलोचनाय, भस्माङ्गरागाय महेश्वराय।
नित्याय शुद्धाय दिगम्बराय, तस्मै नकाराय नमः शिवाय॥
Salutations to Shiva, the eternal one, adorned with the serpent king,
who wears sacred ash, whose form is boundless like the sky.
But Shiva’s compassion is vast. He did not keep this energy locked only in the great Kailash. For those who cannot reach the mighty peak, he gifted another mountain—smaller, gentler, but carrying the same essence.
That mountain is Adi Kailash, the Chota Kailash.
A doorway for seekers.
A place where ordinary souls can feel extraordinary silence.
And this is only the beginning of the journey.
In the next part, I will share how Kailash became Shiva’s eternal throne, and why its younger brother, Chota Kailash, carries a blessing of its own.
