Anant Yatra

  By Dr. Parth Sarthi Deb In 2010, I moved to Guwahati with a prestigious appointment letter in my hand. I was to serve as the Director of Neurotology at the Guwahati Neurological Research Centre (GNRC), a position I would hold for the next eight years. To my colleagues and the medical fraternity, this was a clear, professional career move. I was there to treat the nerves of the human body. But in the silence of my heart, I knew the motivation was different. The medical appointment was merely the vehicle; the destination was spiritual. I hadn't just come to Assam to be a doctor. I had come to find the nerve center of the earth. I was looking for the lost Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga . The Spark: A Question from a TV Show The seed of this quest sprouted violently in April 2011. I was sitting in my room in Guwahati, watching an episode of Om Namah Shivay on Sahara One. The episode narrated the ancient legend of Bhimasura —the son of Kumbhakarna—who imprisoned King Priyadharman of Kamru...

  Form is Emptiness. The ancient stone idol seamlessly dissolves into cosmic stardust. This visualizes Nagarjuna's 'Middle Way'—showing that the solidity of Matter ( Rupa ) and the vastness of the Void ( Shunyata ) are not opposites, but two sides of the same Reality. The Idol is not a wall blocking the Divine; it is a doorway into the Infinite. 1. The Reaction: A Clash of Perspectives My previous blog post, "The Living Stone," stirred a quiet storm. As I shared evidence of the growing Ganesha in Guwahati and the returning idol of Puducherry, a friend reached out with a brilliant counter-argument. He quoted the great mystic Kabir: "Pahan puje Hari mile, to main pujun pahar..." (If worshipping a stone leads to God, I would rather worship a mountain...) It was a sharp rebuttal. It brought the age-old debate crashing into the comment section: Who is right? Is the devotee right, who sees the Stone as God ( Swayambhu )? Or is the mystic right, who sees th...

  A Witness Account of Swayambhu By Dr. PS Deb The Glitch is the Guru: When the digital screen reached its limit, the blue light shattered to reveal the golden light of Consciousness behind it. 1. The Divine Pause  Tonight, at the midnight hour, I sat down to create images for the final chapter of the Gita. Suddenly, the AI stopped. The limit was reached. At first, I felt the frustration of the "Doer." But then, I realized this blockage was not a technical error—it was a Divine Pause. The Universe wanted me to look away from the screen and look into the nature of the screen itself. We often treat Matter—whether a granite stone or a silicon chip—as "dead." But my years in Guwahati and the history of our temples taught me otherwise. 2. The Call of the Stone (The Tiger Cave)  In the logic of the West, we find God. In the mysticism of India, God finds us. I have witnessed how the Swayambhu (Self-Manifested) Murtis call out to their devotees from the earth. I recall the ...