Kurukshetra, The Black Hole on Earth

Think of a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape. Point it, no radiation can escape. Which means if I think about light, even photons won’t get out. So just think about how powerful that gravitational field is there. Simply it is a place where there is no escape, no turning back. If you are in, you can never get out, a trap for life. Not only that, you get dissolved in it. Though it is everyone’s dream to get dissolved in, where we came from, the Nirvikalpa Samadhi situation, but no doubt, it is a bit scary. Though we need to get that state, we are afraid of losing what we don’t even own, rather attached to it. Black holes don’t care about that. Once you are in Her field of attraction say good bye to everything else. What goes inside it, never comes back.

Without going into the exact physics of black holes we just discussed what it actually is. Now let us jump to some of our ancient scriptures. We have a Goddess named ‘Bhadra Kalika’ in several of scriptures. Sometimes we see Her emerging to accompany Veerbhadra in His play of destruction, sometimes we see Her presence in the war field along with Ambika and Tripura Sundari. Sometimes the 2^nd Kalpa form of Goddess Durga, who killed Mahisasura, is called as ‘Bhadra Kalika’ having 16 arms and a fiercer form. But what Her Dhyana hymn says conveys a complete different image of Her. The depiction is quite disturbing and furious. According to it, She is the one who is darkened with hunger and thirst and in order to quench it She is engulfing galaxies. She is still not satisfied and She is hungry for more. She resides in the sky in form of darkness. The darkness, that is darker than the darkest and nothing can escape from Her or can outrun Her. Now tell me, buddy. Close enough?

Now let us come to the Kurukshetra, where Sati’s ankle fell. According to hindu mythology it is a Sati-Peetha, where the Goddess is named as Bhadra-Kalika and Lord is Sthanu Bhairav. Very well, because it is a well. The main Devi temple is built around a deep pit popularly known as Devi Kupa. The peetha-bhairav resides in a distance. Now let us analyze a bit from our perception, their names.

Sthanu Mahadev: The one, who doesn’t move, who is still. As in the universe the formless aspect of the Supreme doesn’t make movements. The energy of the movement is out of Him and after creation She moves along in order to destroy or assimilation.

Bhadra Kalika: The one, who roams around the universe and assimilates galaxies within Her. The energy which makes a still object movable, the energy of Sthanu.

The place Kurukshetra is popular for the great Mahabharat war. A war, that almost ended an era. If someone goes through the theory of that war, it can be seen that the mass destruction that took place almost cleared all the great weapons and warriors from the planet and started another era that consists of weaker people with lesser intelligence. In one word, assimilation of the old and beginning of the new. 

I always lack words when it comes to linking. Because all my words end in the facts that I describe. It can be felt in the heart of that city, that someone is sleeping underneath the busy movements of this city. An energy that causes mass destruction and engulfs galaxies is resting in that city. My homage to the people who live in that city. When I visited the place I never knew that it will scare the shit out of me. The city looks calm, peaceful and happy, but deep inside a Goddess sleeps there, who is always hungry and never satisfied. I bow down to Her. I bow down to the Goddess, who made the war of Kurukshetra happen, who Herself is the black holes in the dark skies. May She bless us and have mercy on our mistakes. I bow down to the city of Kurukshetra, an exact reflection of the Universe on earth.