Get high on meditation, not addictions. Try this: Sit calmly, let loose your head and feel your heartbeat. Head will feel like a ball and heartbeat will give a nudge to the ball thereby causing subtle swinging motions to it. You will get high in 5 minutes .

Ego can climb mount everest, not mount Kailash. Because Kailash is inside you.Climbing it means end of Ego. Why would ego go towards its own end? Ego is just happy listening to stories about Kailash and Shiva.

If Goddess appears before you, what will you do? Your body-mind might do something, not you. You will discover that you are nothingness. You don't do anything. You remain in the eternal state of being.

Our problems are like Raktbeeja demon slayed by Mahakaali. His blood worked like seed that produced more demons.One problem contains seed of more problems. The trick is: Do whatever you can to get the solution but don’t let the blood spill. i.e. Don’t get involved in the blame game.

Your path can be a mixture of logic and devotion but if logic is more powerful than devotion, it becomes a dangerous cocktail. Then your logic can justify anything as devotional. People taking drugs in the name of Shiva and so on...

You dislike some things and want to remove them from the face of the Earth. This is Maya, the Karmic trap. But it turns into Leela, the Karmic play, if you are aware that there is a universal intelligence bigger than your intelligence. The universe has brought those things into existence and the same universe wants you to try and remove those things.

The journey to meet Shiva is difficult. You may have to wash dishes in roadside eateries, spend nights at railway stations, disappoint your parents and loved ones who are in grip of Maya. 1 in a million undertakes that journey. Others just become part of fan groups and get intoxicated on songs and substances.

Those who fit in social constructs are loved and respected in society. Those who don't fit are labelled destructive. They get love only from Shiva because He knows that there can be no construction without destruction.

Detachment from the world means nearness to Shiva. Souls that are attached to both suffer immeasurable pain.