Healers World
अद्ययावत 
झटपट उत्तरगुजरातच्या सौराष्ट्र किनाऱ्यावर अरबी समुद्राच्या काठाशी ते मंदिर उभे आहे, जे इतिहास पुन्हा पुन्हा पाडत राहिला आणि श्रद्धा उभारत राहिली — कारण चंद्राचे नाथ सोमनाथांचे अस्तित्व नष्ट करता येत नाही.
- विषय
- मंदिराची कथा
- वाचनाची वेळ
- 7 मिनिटे
- लेखक
- गुरुजी
- शेवटचे अद्यतरण
- 12 August 2026
The Shore That Has Seen Everything
Somnath stands at the very tip of the Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, where three sacred rivers — the Hiran, Kapila, and Saraswati — meet the Arabian Sea at a confluence called the Triveni Sangam. The location is known as Prabhas Kshetra, and it has been sacred in Hindu memory since before recorded history. This is, according to tradition, the spot where Lord Krishna departed from the earth in his final human hour, struck by a hunter's arrow near his heel — the one vulnerable point on his divine body — and where his mortal remains dissolved back into the cosmos. It is also the spot where Chandra, the moon god, performed penance to be released from a curse that had dimmed his light — and where Shiva, pleased with his devotion, restored Chandra's luminance and agreed to reside there as the Jyotirlinga of Somnath, the Lord (nath) of the Moon (soma). The temple built on this spot has witnessed the full sweep of Indian civilisation across 1,500 years of documented history: trade, invasion, destruction, reconstruction, pilgrimage, and the quiet daily worship of ordinary people at an extraordinary place.
The Jyotirlinga — Shiva's Self-Manifested Light
Among the twelve Jyotirlingas of Shiva — self-manifested pillars of divine light scattered across the Indian subcontinent — Somnath holds the distinction of being listed first in every traditional enumeration. The Shiva Purana verse that devotees memorise as a daily prayer to the twelve lingas begins: Saurashtre Somnath — in Saurashtra, Somnath. This primacy is theological, not merely geographical. Somnath is considered the root Jyotirlinga, the original point where Shiva's infinite light first touched and permeated the physical world. The linga within the innermost sanctum of the temple is said to be svayambhu — self-created, not shaped by human hands — and to be the anchor of an axis of divine energy that extends from the Somnath shore to the south pole of the earth in an uninterrupted straight line, passing through no landmass between Gujarat and Antarctica. This astronomical fact, which modern geography confirms, is considered by devotees not a coincidence but a testament to the precision of divine intention: Shiva chose the most cosmically exact position on the 's face for his most ancient self-manifestation.
