This is an ancient temple of Linga that was used for mukti, by killing themselves. Sadhguru says this linga is only for those who is directly looking for mukti.
There is no direct access to the linga. You can have a darshan from the top. You can go into meditative states here effortlessly.
How to Get there
The temple is located 100 ms North of Kashi Vishwanath Temple.
Map:
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About Kashi Karvat
Sadhguru: As long as you are in pursuit of liberation, what you do and how you do it is not important. As long as your basic intention is dissolution, it does not matter how you do it. There is a certain temple in Kashi where if you want to attain, they had a timber saw, which is called karvat in the local language. Even now, the linga is called Karvat linga. People traveled from long distances, and they wanted karvat, that is, they wanted to be sawed into two pieces in the temple in front of the linga. This linga was made for that purpose. They used the saw to cut a human being from the top of the head. Initially, this was done only to cut to a certain point to open up the sahasrar. It was done carefully by people who know what to do so that life is liberated. Clearly separating two dimensions of who you are, and liberating you from within. Do not try it now! It has been banned for some time. I am just trying to tell you the extent to which they were willing to go because that is how significant mukti was considered to be – you must attain in this life.
There are many sages and saints who have referred to Kashi Karvat, for example Mirabai and Surdas. Mirabai threatens Krishna, “If you don’t come, I will go to Kashi Karvat.” She is threatening him, “If you don’t appear for me, I am going to go and cut myself with a saw.” During the British era they banned it, but still people were going and falling on the saw. Then they removed the saw. It is said that the saw is in some British museum right now.
About Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga
Bheemeshwar Jyotirlinga located in Varanasi is a replica of Bheemashankar Jyotirlinga situated at Sahyadri hills in Pune area of Maharashtra. According to Kashi Khand, Bheemeshwar Jyotirlinga is established at Kashi Karvat temple in Varanasi.
A story has been described in Shiv Mahapuran related to origin and significance of Bheemeshwar Jyotirlinga, according to which in ancient times there was a demon named Bheem who was a son of Kumbhkarana and Karkati. He was cruel and used to torture religious people.
In his childhood he used to live with his mother and grandparents in Sahyadri hills. Once when he asked about his father, his mother told him that Kumbhkaran, brother of Ravana was his father who was killed by Lord Rama during a war. Therefore, after death of his father his mother Karkati started living with her parents. Once a saint named Agastya killed his grandparents too.
When Bheem came to know about this, he was filled with rage and he took a vow that he will take a revenge of his father’s death from Lord Vishnu. He then started performing rigorous penance worshipping Lord Brahma. After thousand years of his rigorous penance, Lord Brahma being pleased with his prayers appeared in front of him and asked for his wish. Then, Bheem asked for immense strength as a boon. Accordingly, Lord Brahma granted him wish and disappeared.
After receiving immense strength from the boon, Bheem won the battle with gods and also defeated Lord Vishnu in the battle. After that, he headed towards south and there he defeated king of Kamroop and made his entire empire his hostage. Swami Kamroopeshwar was a devotee of Lord Shiva. So, in the jail itself he created shivlinga and worshipped Lord Shiva daily along with his wife praying for the welfare of humanity. Meanwhile, all the gods along with Lord Vishnu went to Lord Shiva and pleased him with stotras and told him about the whole scenario that how Bheem was torturing humans as well as gods and requested Lord Shiva to slaughter him as soon as possible. Hearing this, Lord Shiva asked all gods to go and ask Swami Kamroopeshwar to continue worshipping Lord Shiva, at right moment he will go there to kill the demon. Accordingly, gods went to Swami Kamroopeshwar and asked him to continue worshipping shivalinga.
Afterwards, Lord Shiva went there with his army. At that moment Kamroopeshwar was engrossed in the penance of Lord Shiva. Meanwhile, someone told Bheem that Kamroopeshwar is trying to kill him. Hearing this he became angry and rushed to the king with his sword for killing him. Bheem asked the king “What are you doing? Tell me the truth otherwise I will kill you.” To this king replied bravely “ I am a worshipper of Supreme Lord Shiva and he himself protects his devotees, I am not afraid of you.” Hearing this Bheem became angry and said “ I know your Shiva, he cannot do anything to me. Stop praying Shiva and start worshipping me otherwise I will punish you.” Then Kamroopeshwar replied “ I cannot stop worshipping Lord Shiva. He is the Supreme Lord. He will always protect us.” Hearing this statement of king, Bheem attacked king with his sword. But as soon as the sword reached Shivalinga, from Shivalinga Lord Shiva appeared and he slaughtered Bheem. Later, all the saints and gods worshipped Lord Shiva and this form of him was renowned as Bheemashankar.
It is believed that reverents who visit and worships Bheemashankar Mahadev, all their problems are resolved easily.
