tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35988489153141470942024-03-20T00:57:59.164-07:00Shiva Darshana<big><b>Theology, Philosophy and Tradition of Shiva</b></big>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-39212659351649905132023-10-18T00:00:00.003-07:002023-10-18T00:00:00.146-07:00Obeisance to Thee, O Bhava!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk8nQkkvnnwkdPIronVVM7DLFqJSHZTajU_kkwggG6SIiqEoGhKYWjBFKkdICe0qyOkltpY3YKLtuXQtwvqACjJRDLfmF_vI0Y1cUi2jHybbef3sV0K8117hNPOl-PhpoXE_GI-U03m45X7IyY04GNroMpLT2M25D1zhkrVtJSpfwLz7cV0HqFV0pkoMnP/s559/ANRSVR.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk8nQkkvnnwkdPIronVVM7DLFqJSHZTajU_kkwggG6SIiqEoGhKYWjBFKkdICe0qyOkltpY3YKLtuXQtwvqACjJRDLfmF_vI0Y1cUi2jHybbef3sV0K8117hNPOl-PhpoXE_GI-U03m45X7IyY04GNroMpLT2M25D1zhkrVtJSpfwLz7cV0HqFV0pkoMnP/s320/ANRSVR.jpg" width="183" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art the form of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether, the
Sacrificer, the Moon and the Sun. (<a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2019/07/ashtamurtis-and-universal-form.html" target="_blank">Ashtamurti</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art beneficent and abidest in all that is; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Obeisance to Thee!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou abidest in the Upanishads,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art Shruti (Veda), Shruti owes her birth to Thee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art beyond the senses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art the eternal Mahah (All Might);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To Thee obeisance again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art neither gross nor subtle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art Shambhu (the Good).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou destroyest the ills of this world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Obeisance to Thee, O Bhava (Existence)!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art far beyond all polemics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">All-knowing Thou art and grantest the fruits of penance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And the fourfold aims of human life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Obeisance to Thee and again obeisance!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou hast no beginning, no middle and no end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou dispellest all fear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Attributeless art Thou and great.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Yogins alone can meditate on Thee; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To Thee obeisance and again obeisance!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art the Universe, and beyond thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou destroyest the pride of Kama.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou annihilatest Time (<a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2022/01/kala-sukta.html" target="_blank">Kala</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On Thy forehead shines the Moon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To Thee obeisance again and again!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou eatest <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/04/legend-of-nilakantha.html" target="_blank">poison</a> and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Art seated on the constantly moving Vrsha (Bull of Dharma).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The flowing waters of Ganga holds like a string<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thy matted locks in place;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To Thee obeisance!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pure Thou art and purifiest,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art the innermost Atma of the pure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art the Destroyer of Tripura.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art all and Thy name purifies;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To Thee obeisance!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou grantest enjoyment and liberation to Thy votaries,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And art to them devoted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou hast no home, no cloth to cover Thyself,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Yet art Thou the Ruler of the Universe;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To Thee obeisance again and again !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art the root of the Three (Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou hast three eyes. Obeisance to Thee!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou art the Light of the three lights (Sun, Moon, Fire).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thou destroyest rebirth;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To Thee obeisance!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The gems in the diadems of Devas and Asuras tint,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With a rosy tint, Thy feet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Charming and beloved Thou art,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And hast to Thy beloved given half Thine own body;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Obeisance to Thee again and yet again! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">~<b>Sri Sharada Tilaka</b> XX:149-160 (translated by Arthur Avalon)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Aum Namah Shivaya.</span></p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-5699963100332488692023-10-15T00:00:00.003-07:002023-10-15T13:43:59.873-07:00Sutras and Tantras<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sutra [सूत्र] means thread, derived from /siv/, to sew. When applied to scripture (shastra, शास्त्र), it means a text wherein core ideas around a certain subject are stitched or sewn together. Technically, sutras are written in a very terse language, making them easy to memorize. The language is so terse that context is often left out, and it is very difficult to understand sutras without extensive commentary or explanation. Sutra literature of Sanatana Dharma comprises of hundreds of texts that begin, historically, at the end of the Vedic age covering a every imaginable subject from Vedic rites and rituals, philosophies, linguistics, Dharma, bhakti, medicine, astronomy, etc. In many cases, a sutra text forms the foundational basis for a given system. For example, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is the first encoding of Yoga philosophy. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Famous extant sutras of Shaivism include the Pashupata Sutras, <a href="https://shaivam.org/scripture/English-Script/116/shivasutra#gsc.tab=0">Shiva Sutras</a>, Vatulanatha Sutras, and Meykanda Sutras (<a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/search?q=sivagnanabodham">Sivagnanabodham</a>). Early core of early Shaivite Tantras (Agamas) also likely began as sutras, even if they don't fit into the category of terseness in language. This principle is clear in the Nishvasatattvasamhita, and implied in the titles of <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2019/07/tantra-of-svayambhu.html">Svayambhuva</a> and Raurava Agamas both of which are termed sutra-sangraha (collection of sutras). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The literal meaning of tantra [तन्त्र] is loom, derived from /tan/, to stretch. When applied to shastra, it means a text wherein a complex range of ideas are woven elaborately together incorporating both philosophy and practice. Tantras are generally written in poetic meters (shloka or anushtup chandas) and are very voluminous. Tantra literature of Sanatana Dharma comprises of hundreds of texts that also begin, historically, after the end of the Vedic age and experienced efflorescence during the first millennium of the common era. Tantric literature spans a variety of topics, but largely focusing on ritual, practice, theology and philosophy. Whereas the Vedic literature espouses a fire ritual called Yajna, the Tantric literature endorses a ritual called Puja using consecrated icons and recommended for the Kaliyuga, the age of discord. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Generally, the extant Tantric texts of Sanatana Dharma are divided into three categories - Shaiva, Shakta and Vaishnava. The Shaiva-Shakta system is conjoined and the Tantras of this system represent a continuum of ever-evolving esoteric knowledge traditions which presuppose older, simpler forms of the same. Therefore, the epistemology and ontology of both is similar, if not the same. Hundreds of Tantric texts or Agamas have come into existence through the sub-traditions of the Shaiva-Shakta system; most of them lost and many of the remaining untranslated. The Tantric literature of what we term Shaivism proper encompasses the 92 principal Shaiva Agamas divided into 10 Shiva, 18 Rudra, and 64 <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2013/12/bhairava-and-tantras.html" target="_blank">Bhairava Agamas</a>. While this system of thought within Sanatana Dharma has remained distinct, running parallel to the Vedic-Vedantic system, in truth the latter has been strongly influenced and subsumed by it.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Aum Namah Shivaya. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-70945618991851906062023-10-06T00:00:00.004-07:002023-10-11T17:57:52.429-07:00Nishkala and Sakala Shiva<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Within Shaivite theology and philosophy, we come across these two terms - Nishkala Shiva (निष्कल शिव) and Sakala Shiva (सकल शिव). Today, we deal with these terms. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Nishkala means without parts or divisions. It is that aspect of Shiva that is beyond space and time, the Formless Absolute, the Transcendent, known as Paramashiva (परमशिव) or Parashiva (परशिव) in Shaiva-Shakta Agamic parlance, and Parabrahma (परब्रह्म) or Nirguna Brahma </span><span>(निर्गुण ब्रह्म) in Vedantic parlance. </span></span></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The knower of the truth of the real nature of the thirty-six tattvas first dissolves all these paths into the body, [then from] the body into prana, prana into intellect, intellect into void, and finally void into consciousness. In this way, this kind of yogin becomes permeated with consciousness not dependent on anything external. Then he experiences consciousness as Paramashiva, and transcending even that state, he experiences himself as being immanent as well. </span><span>(Tantrasara of </span><span>Mahameshvaracharya </span><span>Abhinavagupta, Chapter 7) </span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Yet, the Absolute Reality is not limited to transcendence, and indeed incomplete without immanence. The Transcendent, known as Vishvottirna (विश्वोत्तीर्ण) or Vishvadhika (विश्वाधिक) in Shaivism is an organic whole with the Immanent, known as Vishvarupa (विश्वरूप) or </span><span>Vishvamaya (विश्वमय</span><span>). It has no parts nor can be divided, but only so done to foster our understanding and realization. </span><span>Shaiva monism does not negate objective reality, but accepts it as an expression, an ever-changing experience of the Absolute Reality's own and inherent free Will. That Infinite Consciousness of the Absolute (Prakasha/प्रकाश) is never still, but brimming with Activity (Vimarsha/विमर्श) - the activity associated with the realization of it's existence. Paramashiva is never without Parashakti. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The objective reality or the universal experience of the Absolute is described in the grossest sense as the 118 or 224 bhuvanas (भुवन/planes of existence) that exist at various levels as we go within. In a more subtle sense, it is described as the 36 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattva_(Shaivism)" target="_blank">tattvas</a> (तत्त्व/essences) upon which the bhavanas are founded. And in the subtlest sense, it is described as the 5 <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2013/10/five-spheres-and-four-eggs.html" target="_blank">kalas</a> (कला/units or digits), which underlie and envelope the tattvas. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now that aspect of Shiva that is associated with the 5 kalas (and hence the 36 tattvas and 118 or 224 bhuvanas) is called Sakala Shiva. This the Immanent Divine, of myriad forms, qualities and attributes, associated with time and space, cause and effect, the very foundation of all objective reality. In Vedantic parlance, that is Saguna Brahma (सगुण ब्रह्म). </span></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Nivritti kal</span><span>â</span><span> operates in the earth principle (prithivi tattva),
pratishthâ from the water principle (jala) to prakirti, vidyâ kal</span><span>â</span><span> from above prakriti to m</span><span>â</span><span>y</span><span>â</span><span>, and from above mâyâ, Sh</span><span>â</span><span>kt</span><span>â</span><span> operates.
Šhiva is considered to be beyond the kalâs, for He is Nishkala; however, for the purpose of meditation, He is said to possess a kal</span><span>â</span><span> named <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2013/10/five-spheres-and-four-eggs.html" target="_blank">shantatita</a>. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">(Tantrasara of Mahameshvaracharya Abhinavagupta, Chapter 10) </span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In terms of iconography, Nishkala Shiva is represented as the Shiva Linga, which is the "formless form." Sakala Shiva is represented in myriad anthropomorphic forms known as the <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/05/forms-of-shiva.html" target="_blank">Maheshvara Murtis</a>. The juncture between the Sakala and Nishkala is the Sakala-Nishkala, which is represented as the Panchamukha (पञ्चमुख) or Five-Faced Linga, which is the Sadashiva Murti, and represents the <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/08/pancha-brahma-mantras.html" target="_blank">Panchabrahma</a> (पञ्चब्रह्म) doctrine of the Yajurveda. Sadashiva is the highest ideation of personified Godhead in Shaivism and the single pointed intersection between the continuum of the multiverses of objective reality and limitless Divine Consciousness.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zD-BSmeCYEfyzYnMza9UE5rDNMVg7QrlDW6xqBGAVE7zdm4HnYY9XYEM1IA3YFpH6ayu23-W_4wYyGkDoi929TrwayLy7HQxbOWNLJPs7f1p4L4PTN6kEO_Uqh1eqaDkjnk1_hkK80pWk3HGHkdGJohYqmi7r8Re6q_K7jT-woNzn1UR4P0fKfaFQrqJ/s521/Pancamukha.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="519" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zD-BSmeCYEfyzYnMza9UE5rDNMVg7QrlDW6xqBGAVE7zdm4HnYY9XYEM1IA3YFpH6ayu23-W_4wYyGkDoi929TrwayLy7HQxbOWNLJPs7f1p4L4PTN6kEO_Uqh1eqaDkjnk1_hkK80pWk3HGHkdGJohYqmi7r8Re6q_K7jT-woNzn1UR4P0fKfaFQrqJ/s320/Pancamukha.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>In the Sadashiva Tattva, there is Lord Sadashiva presiding over the world called Sadashiva-bhuvana. He is </span><span>surrounded by the retinue of eight Rudras such as Jvalini and others, whose appearance is characterized as the S</span><span>akala-Nishkala. (Srimad Mrgendra Agama XIII:162).</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Aum Namah Shivaya.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-28869182528009149012023-09-16T16:04:00.002-07:002023-09-16T16:04:58.814-07:00Aspectless (Nishkala) Form of Shiva<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today we read from the ninth chapter of the Ishvara Gita entitled the Nishkala (aspectless) Form of Shiva. In the Kurma Purana, of which Ishvara Gita is a part, it is said that the Ishvara Gita was spoken in an earlier aeon (Satya Yuga) long before the Bhagavad Gita was spoken. In a future aeon (Dvapara Yuga), the Bhagavad Gita reveals the same knowledge yet again. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Notice the subtle philosophy in this text in the usage of the terms Brahman, the highest Lord, and Maya. Maya is termed Shakti, the cause of the universe, and the supreme Brahman termed the ground of that cause. What is termed the Lord is the one pointed intersection between the unmanifest and the manifest, who is immanent in all beings, and the goal or doorway for escape from the cycles of samsara and means for bliss eternal. One sees in this chapter a continuation of the old philosophy present in seed form in the <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2017/08/nandikeshvara-kashika.html">Nandikeshvara Kashika</a>. Indeed, this is the core of all forms of Shaivite theology even today. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-----</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Sages said : </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1 . O Mahadeva, the Supreme God is unsullied, pure, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">eternal and devoid of activities. Hence, explain to us how you </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">become identical with universe in form. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ishvara replied : </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">2. O brahmanas, I am not the Universe (in reality). </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nor does the universe exist without Me. In this respect Maya is </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the cause and She is supported by Me in my [own] Atman. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">3. Maya is the Shakti (potency) which has neither begin</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ning nor destruction. It is supported in the Avyakta (the Unmani</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">fest). This world is caused by it and is indeed born of the Avyakta. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">4. They (the sages) say that the Avyakta which is </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">bliss luminous and imperishable is the cause. I am that supreme </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Brahman [viz the Avyakta] and nothing else exists apart from Me. </span></span></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9du_1P6Bn6s80yY1q4TyvFpgpCCKjcrVplBmE0ORsPq2h4X81kktQGrlWoS9rkuBCkwdkg143IhsG4GOYg-pJrR65MaJAVUNOa449hNxSKLdu0cJqyH_Pf_t0BlxQYtqqUdm6Ix7jgxorgW7IWbx6UFpbuZstiybxf8WJcWdpbQxPL_FrcDDwmX-cL9_M/s312/Nishkala.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="312" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9du_1P6Bn6s80yY1q4TyvFpgpCCKjcrVplBmE0ORsPq2h4X81kktQGrlWoS9rkuBCkwdkg143IhsG4GOYg-pJrR65MaJAVUNOa449hNxSKLdu0cJqyH_Pf_t0BlxQYtqqUdm6Ix7jgxorgW7IWbx6UFpbuZstiybxf8WJcWdpbQxPL_FrcDDwmX-cL9_M/w312-h240/Nishkala.jpg" width="312" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">5. In my unity and diversity (or apparent identity and </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">separateness from the universe) the expounders of the Vedas </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">have decisively concluded that from My Being the universe formed. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">6. I am that greatest Brahman, the eternal supreme </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Atman. As I am said to be the non-cause, no </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">fault can be attributed to Atman. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">7. All divine powers are infinite, unmanifest, permanent </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">and established by Maya. The absolute Avyakta </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">which is abiding in the region beyond </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">shines eternally. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">8. The unmanifest eternal Brahman which is without any </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">beginning or end and which is permanent is united with </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Maya and thereby is called diverse and divided though it is an </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">undivided whole. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">9. Just as the manifestation of the Purusha’s one power is </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">not concealed or obscured by another, He functions through </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the power of knowledge without beginning, middle and the end. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">10. That is the supreme unmanifest, embellished with a </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">halo of lustre. That is the imperishable light. That is the supreme </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">abode of Vishnu. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">11. Therein the entire universe is woven as if in the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">warp and woof of cloth. That alone is the entire universe. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Having realised this, one is liberated. </span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">12. Brahman is that entity from which words along with </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">mind recede due to their inability to reach it. He who has </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">realized the joy of the Brahman entertains no fear from any</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">where at any time. [</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Taittiriya Up. II. 9.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">]</span></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">13. I know this supreme Purusha with the refulgence of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the sun in front of me (beyond the darkness of ignorance). </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Having realized Him as such, the knower is liberated (from s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">amsara). Becoming identical with the Brahman, he enjoys </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">perpetual bliss. [</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Svetasvatara Up. III.8; III.21</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">]</span></span></i></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">14. Realizing that is his self from which there is nothing </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">that is greater, and that is the supreme light of the luminaries </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">stationed in the heaven, the knower becomes identical with the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Brahman and attains perpetual bliss. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">15. Knowers of the Brahman (aka brahmanas) who are </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">established in the Brahman, proclaim that I am however </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">impenetrable, subtle-bodied, joy of the Brahman, and the immor</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tal abode of the universe, and after attaining whom one never </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">reverts to samsara. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">16. The lustre that appears to shine in heaven is the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">principle of the highest firmament of golden colour. The sages </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">visualize it in their own supreme knowledge as the resplen</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">dent, pure (spotless) abode of heaven. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">17. Thereafter, the bold (self-possessed) men observe </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">it, after experiencing the (cosmic) Atman directly in their </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">individual Atman. Paramesthin, the Lord Himself, is the greatest </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">one. The Lord has the bliss of Brahman. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">18. That one Lord is lying hidden in all living beings. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">He is omnipresent, the immanent soul of all living beings. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The self-possessed men who see him as one (without a second) </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">enjoy permanent bliss and not the others. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">19. He has heads and necks on all sides. He is the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ultimate goal of all. He abides in the cavity of the heart of all </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">living beings. That Lord is omnipresent. There is nothing other </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">than He. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">20. O leading sages, thus the knowledge pertaining to </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ishvara has been related to you. It should be particularly </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">guarded, as it is very difficult even for Yogis to attain.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Ishvara Gita IX.1-20 (Kurma Purana, Book II, IX.1-20).</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Aum Namah Shivaya. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">See also: <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2020/08/vibhuti-yoga-of-shiva.html">Vibhuti Yoga of Shiva</a> (from Chapter VII of the Ishvara Gita)</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-19053334500834193062023-01-19T00:00:00.004-08:002023-01-26T14:12:23.432-08:00Shivopanishad and Shaiva Upanishads <span style="font-size: medium;">The term <i><b>Shivopanishad</b></i> (Sivopanisad) is met with at least twice within the framework of Shaivism. In the first instance, it refers to a large, yet untranslated, text with the proper name <a href="https://shaivam.org/scripture/English-Script/107/shiva-upanishad#gsc.tab=0" target="_blank">Shivopanishad</a>. This texts forms a part of the so-called Shivadharma corpus, which includes the Shivadharma Shastra and Shivadharmottara. The latter is sometimes subsumed, at least in name, within the Shaivagamas as a subsidiary (upagama) of the Sharvokta Agama. This Shivopanishad is an extensive treatise on Shaivite theology and manual on Linga worship, likely follows the first two texts in the corpus in chronology, and can probably dated to the 8th century CE (?). </span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A second use of the term <b><i>Shivopanishad </i></b>relates to the celebrated <a href="https://beezone.com/sivasutras/sivasutras.html" target="_blank">Shiva Sutras</a> of Vasugupta generally dated to the 9th century CE. Technically, every upanishad is a secret teaching. As the Shiva Sutras were a secret teaching passed from Lord Shiva to Vasugupta, they were termed the </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i>Shivopanishad Samgraha</i> or a collection of the secret teachings of Shiva. </span><span>Just as the Brahma Sutras (a.k.a., Vedanta or Sharirika Sutras) extract and systemize the philosophy of the principal Vedic upanishads, the Shiva Sutras or Shivopanishad Samgraha extract and systemize the philosophy of the large body of Shaiva Agamas that precede it.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">And then there are the <b>Shaiva upanishads</b> connected to the Vedas. According to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muktik%C4%81" target="_blank">Muktika canon</a>, there are 14 texts considered <a href="https://archive.org/details/SaivaUpanishads/mode/2up" target="_blank">Shaiva upanishads</a>. This list includes the <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/08/kaivalya-upanishad.html" target="_blank">Kaivalya</a>, <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/search?q=rudra+hridaya" target="_blank">Rudra Hrdaya</a>, <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2019/08/atharvashira-upanisad.html" target="_blank">Atharvashira</a>, etc. The oldest of these Shaiva upanishads belong to the middle of the first millennium BCE and considered likely composed by Pashupata ascetics prior to the advent of the Pashupata Sutras (ca. 1st century CE). These 14 are by no means the only upanishads to call the Divine by the term Shiva. Among others, the famed <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f_1zgSY4D1mNJI5AsSNZtUIY-Paiuesc4aUoyAVSdiY/edit" target="_blank">Shvetashvatara Upanishad</a> is also a Rudra-Shiva oriented text and we may considered it a principal Shaiva upanishad of the Krsna Yajurveda even if the Muktika canon does not. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Shiva alone is Guru; Shiva alone is the Vedas; Shiva alone is Lord; Shiva alone am I; </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Shiva alone is all. There is none other than Shiva</i><b>.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">-Varaha Upanishad of the Krsna Yajurveda, V:39</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Finally, there are parts of the Vedic Samhitas that are not technically upanishads, but because of their profundity sometimes called as such. The <a href="https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/tag/nilarudra-upanishad/" target="_blank">Nilarudra Sukta</a> of the Atharvaveda (Paippalada recension) is one such example and is elevated because it reiterates some of the potent verses of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP8Wv1P1NFE" target="_blank">Rudra Adhyaya</a> (a.k.a., Sri Rudram) of the Yajurveda. Another notable example is the <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/08/iva-sankalpa-skta.html" target="_blank">Shiva Sankalpa Sukta</a> of the Shukla Yajurveda, which draws from mantras from the Rigveda, and is considered a very powerful and sublime upanishad. Using the same logic, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP8Wv1P1NFE" target="_blank">Rudra Adhyaya</a> (Sri Rudram) of the Shukla and Krsna Yajurveda, which also draws from mantras of the Rigveda, may also be considered an veritable upanishad, and if so done would be the oldest of all!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">All Glories to Lord Shiva, the <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2009/04/dakshinamurti.html" target="_blank">Primal Guru</a> and Source of all scriptures and teachings! </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">OM Namah Shivaya. </span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-62188559157212406062022-04-13T21:13:00.005-07:002022-04-16T14:40:11.960-07:00To That Shiva<p><span style="font-size: medium;">To that Shiva whom I have yet not recognized,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As my very Self, the Self of all things. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In whose existence we ever exist, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Never separate nor inseparable.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">To that Ocean of compassion who is Shiva,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">On whose waves worlds come and go.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In whose depth all contradictions cease,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Leaving behind pure consciousness.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">To the Wielder of the triad powers,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Of will, knowledge and action.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We offer our sense of limitations and incompleteness,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For in His Self there is only perfection.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">OM!</span></p><p>Chaitra Shukla 12, Mesha Sankranti, Kaliyuga Era 5124 (Samvat 2079)</p><p>(13 April 2022 CE)</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-40962824850067939202022-01-10T00:00:00.010-08:002022-01-10T00:00:00.159-08:00Kala Sukta<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Who is K<span style="text-align: center;">ā</span>la? It is but Lord Mahak</span><span style="text-align: center;">ā</span>la Bhairava, the Origin, the <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/11/purusha-sukta.html" target="_blank">Purusha</a>, the first personification of the Absolute, Shiva Himself. He is <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2009/01/time-divine_01.html" target="_blank">Time Divine</a>. He is the Father of Prajapati-Brahm<span style="text-align: center;">ā, the Lord of All.</span> All conflicts and confusions that arise from stories occur within the constraints of time. It is only when we vie for timelessness that we realize the oneness in San<span style="text-align: center;">ā</span>tana Dharma. All paths lead to Lord <span>Mahak</span><span style="text-align: center;">ā</span>la Bhairava!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-align: center;"><b>कालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो</b> - I am mighty </span>K<span style="text-align: center;">ā</span>la<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-align: center;">, Dissolver of the worlds.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Those who understand, understand!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-align: center;">Let us, today, imbibe from the twin hymns of Time Divine from the Atharvaveda.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-align: center;">Jai Mahakal! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-align: center;">OM Namah Shivaya!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);">Also see: <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2020/07/doctrine-of-time.html" target="_blank">Doctrine of Time</a> and <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2009/01/time-divine_01.html" target="_blank">Time Divine</a></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8a5a02; font-family: cursive;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">---<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi47S7C3EfsMnnOafUez9XCrZh8qKktG4hXVUURohkRK0Qrwjw7_lznaTNhRDkpWA7vcQS7eBvZBXOyjBw8HdSJWjHBdgASOwIEWGdJAI7LINcdHcDy7LMciFvrR9gnP09s8RScMwAsEvlm-g8JWTlhKCYq5hAY7iLLM1Gq_wgNGgd8XULqVFVE5F4uLw=s475" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="409" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi47S7C3EfsMnnOafUez9XCrZh8qKktG4hXVUURohkRK0Qrwjw7_lznaTNhRDkpWA7vcQS7eBvZBXOyjBw8HdSJWjHBdgASOwIEWGdJAI7LINcdHcDy7LMciFvrR9gnP09s8RScMwAsEvlm-g8JWTlhKCYq5hAY7iLLM1Gq_wgNGgd8XULqVFVE5F4uLw=s320" width="276" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Prolific, thousand-eyed, and undecaying, a horse with seven
reins Time bears us onward.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sages inspired with holy knowledge mount him: his chariot wheels
are all the worlds of creatures.</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This Time hath seven rolling wheels and seven naves
immorality is the chariot's axle.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This Time brings hitherward all worlds about us: as primal
Deity is He entreated.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On Time is laid an overflowing beaker: this we behold in
many a place appearing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He carries from us all these worlds of creatures. They call
him Kāla in the loftiest heaven.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He only made the worlds of life, He only gathered the worlds
of living things together.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Their son did He become who was their Father: no other
higher power than He existeth.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Kāla created yonder heaven, and Kāla made these realms of earth.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">By Kāla, stirred to motion, both what is and what shall be expand.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Kāla created land; the Sun in Kāla hath his light and heat.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In Kāla rest all things that be: in Kāla doth the eye
discern.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In Kāla mind, in Kāla breath, in Kāla name are fixt and
joined.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">These living creatures, one and all, rejoice when Kāla hath approached.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Kāla embraces Holy Fire, the Highest, Brahmā in Himself.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Yea, Kāla, who was Father of Prajāpati, is Lord of All.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhh8QOx7oFyUyLd5uowEAj4Dg1t6OO4Vg0_4iKv0XRLmxRaZ3gcWBBhQN1N0gYkb3PDz4y-kqcM6pW7Q3xs0Xndqjz0odExbKOZ3wyAhO8Rclf-PlbZgqYTmtl_6lhPVKlqRaz3sosH6_qCJQ89cH2XWftMk4Bb2Ek6Gig2g6_W4J_l9lxceL7ff7A3Lw=s329" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="267" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhh8QOx7oFyUyLd5uowEAj4Dg1t6OO4Vg0_4iKv0XRLmxRaZ3gcWBBhQN1N0gYkb3PDz4y-kqcM6pW7Q3xs0Xndqjz0odExbKOZ3wyAhO8Rclf-PlbZgqYTmtl_6lhPVKlqRaz3sosH6_qCJQ89cH2XWftMk4Bb2Ek6Gig2g6_W4J_l9lxceL7ff7A3Lw=w163-h200" width="163" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><span>From Kāla sprang the Waters, sprang the regions, Brahm</span></span>ā, Holy
Fire.</span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Sun ascends by Kāla, and in Kāla sinks again to rest.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">By Kāla freshly blows the wind, mighty through Kāla is the Earth:
on Kāla rests the mighty Sky.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In Kāla erst the text produced what is and what is yet to
be.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From Kāla sprang the Richas, and from Kāla was the Yajus born.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They formed in Kāla sacrifice, eternal portion for the Gods.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In Kāla the Gandharvas and Apsarasas and worlds abide.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Atharvan and this Angiras in Kāla are supreme o'er heaven.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Both this world and the world that is most lofty, the pure worlds and pure intermediate spaces,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Yea, having conquered all the worlds by Brahm</span>ā, Kāla as God Supreme
is supplicated.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He made, He stirred this universe to motion, and on Him it
rests.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>He, Kāla, having now become Brahm</span>ā, holds Parameshthin up.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Kāla created living things and, first of all, Prajāpati.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From Kāla self-made Kasyapa, from Kāla Holy Fire was born.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Holy Atharvaveda</b> [Shaunaka Recension]: XIX:53-54</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-49256439786176858492022-01-07T00:00:00.001-08:002022-01-07T00:00:00.189-08:00Essential Nature of the Great Lord<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDwVhD-1aiC4tgEyTm5ZHPTcKjn4nwN1tkYcz2qjzFwFcx7gyWwGhQ3NopyjNiWvLghgjWT1MVAip2aJ8Oq1abnI4GDhu3opJzwinAFYJP3Fi-KCmLqYifpUpnzko3hCX59xKRIW2LMArOzGv1Ta908E3wFKZBBtwHvhR997RNQto8EP1ITKG_Ai0h7A=s1024" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="1024" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDwVhD-1aiC4tgEyTm5ZHPTcKjn4nwN1tkYcz2qjzFwFcx7gyWwGhQ3NopyjNiWvLghgjWT1MVAip2aJ8Oq1abnI4GDhu3opJzwinAFYJP3Fi-KCmLqYifpUpnzko3hCX59xKRIW2LMArOzGv1Ta908E3wFKZBBtwHvhR997RNQto8EP1ITKG_Ai0h7A=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><b>The essential nature of the great Lord (<i>Parameshvara</i>) is the fullness of His </b></span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><b>consciousness. </b>This fullness of consciousness </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">is His Shakti, which is known as body (kula), capacity </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">(samarthya), wave (urmi), heart (hrdaya), essence (sara), vibration </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">(spanda), glory of power (vibhuti), the three-formed Goddess </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">(Trishika), the cause of kalana (Kali), one who minimizes (Karsini), </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">dreadful (Chandi), speech (vani), enjoyment (bhoga), knowledge </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">(drk), and the superintending Deity of lunar phases (Nitya). This </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">Shakti is expressed by these and other appellations based on various </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">grammatical, derivations, which are technical terms used in the </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">Agamas. Let this Shakti abide in any of these forms in the heart of a </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">meditator. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">If this Shakti is viewed collectively, as consisting of the </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">totality of all Shaktis, the fullness of consciousness becomes manifest. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"><b>The Lord possesses innumerable dynamic Shaktis.</b> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">What more can we say? <b>The entire universe is His Shakti.</b> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">Therefore, </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">it is impossible to enumerate all of them in this instruction.</span></div><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>However, the whole universe can be summed up under three main Sh</span><span>aktis. The supreme energy (<b>Parashakti</b>) of the Lord is that Shakti </span><span>by means of which this universe, beginning with Shiva and ending </span><span>with earth principle (prithivi tattva), is born, seen, and manifested by the </span><span>Lord in indeterminate consciousness. <b>Paraparashakti</b> of the Lord </span><span>is that Shakti by means of which He projects the universe just like </span><span>the reflection of an elephant, etc., in a mirror: as different-cum-nondifferent. </span><span>The glorious <b>Aparashakti</b> is that Shakti by means of </span><span>which He manifests this differentiated universe, in which all these </span><span>objects appear as different from one another.</span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tantrasara of Abhinavagupta, Chapter 4 </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">H.N. Chakravarty, 2012</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>OM Sauh Parayai Namah</b></span></p></blockquote><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-9778059705024746612022-01-05T11:38:00.001-08:002022-01-05T17:04:08.501-08:00Thus Spake Vayu<div class="col-12 mt-3 mb-5 chapter-content text_1392" id="scontent" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 1rem; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 910px;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Like all Puranas, the Shiva Purana is an anthology of multiple books. Experts believe that the Shiva Purana was built upon the earlier version of the Vayu Purana, and hence still contains a book termed Vayaviya Samhita divided in two parts. In the chapter below, we read the teaching of Vayu regarding the Shaiva Dharma. Herein, the entirety of Shaivism is summarized very succinctly so anyone can understand the Dharma quickly. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Obeisance unto Vayu!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OM Namah Shivaya.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">-----</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The sages said</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;">:—</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">1. What is that excellent practice of holy rites, whereby salvation is directly acquired? O Māruta, it behoves you to explain it as well as its means.</span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f;">Vāyu said</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;">:—</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">2. What is termed excellent practice is the great Dharma of Śiva wherein Śiva the Bestower of salvation is directly perceived.</span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">3. It is fivefold divided into five sections, holy rites, penance, japa, meditation and knowledge</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">4. The five activities along with attendant virtuous rites constitute the greatest Dharma. Thereby one attains the direct and indirect knowledge that bestows salvation.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUfYUdX6aEfOTZupXoYfeoCjTCZ9F23piVSu1zZQuiwlCA3W5cycqvmDZ-CKk3NHsMIm7B2AD5gycJqp07mwIGa70Hj65CdFra6sXyvXxWiStsiuzX0EZbqoB6i10hh_Yaj6ICqg6vRPwk/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="245" data-original-width="200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUfYUdX6aEfOTZupXoYfeoCjTCZ9F23piVSu1zZQuiwlCA3W5cycqvmDZ-CKk3NHsMIm7B2AD5gycJqp07mwIGa70Hj65CdFra6sXyvXxWiStsiuzX0EZbqoB6i10hh_Yaj6ICqg6vRPwk/" width="196" /></a><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">5. The two Dharmas the higher and secondary are mentioned in the Vedas. In the matter of Dharma the Vedas constitute the final authority for us.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">6. The higher dharma upto the practice of Yoga is mentioned in the Vedantic section of the Vedas. The secondary Dharma is mentioned in the Karmakāṇḍa section of the same.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">7. The Ātmans freed from Pāśa are authorised in the higher Dharma and in the other one, every one is authorised.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">8. This higher Dharma is the means for achieving the greatest virtue of Śiva. It shall be supplemented in all parts by Dhasmaśāstras and other holy treatises.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">9. The greatest Dharma of Śiva termed the excellent practice is explained in the Itihāsas and the Purāṇas.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">10. In the Śaiva Āgamas a detailed explanation of every thing including the consecratory rites is given.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">11. The Śaiva Āgama is of two varieties: Śrauta and Aśrauta. The Śrauta consists of condensed Vedic texts; the other one consists of independent texts, but well consecrated.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">12. The independent texts were originally ten but supplemented subsequently by eight more so as to constitute eighteen texts. They are called Kāmika etc., and the entire literature is called Siddhānta. </span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">13. The Śrauta literature consists of a billion verses. In it the Pāśupata Vrata and and are explained.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">14. In every circle of Yugas, Śiva incarnates as Yogācārya in different places and propagates yoga.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">15. The four great sages Ruru, Dadhīca, Agastya and the renowned Upamanyu have condensed these principles and propagated them.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">16. They are all Pāśupatas and exponents of the Saṃhitās. Hundreds and thousands of their descendants have been the preceptors of their principles.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">17. The great virtue of Śiva mentioned before is four-fold with regular performance and observance as the basic Atman for them. Among them the Pāśupata yoga facilitates the direct perception of Siva.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">18. Hence the excellent practice is this Pāśupata Yoga. The mode of it as practiced by Brahmā shall now be mentioned.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">19. This is Nāmāṣṭakayoga prescribed by Śiva himself. By means of this Yoga the discernment of Śiva is generated.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">20. Through this discernment the stable and perfect knowledge is attained ere long. Śiva is delighted with him whose knowledge is well-founded.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">21. Thanks to his grace the great Yoga is attained which facilitates the direct perception of Śiva. By perceiving Śiva directly the cause of worldly existence (saṃsāra) is quelled.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">22. Then the devotee is liberated from worldly existence and being liberated he becomes identical with Śiva. The means mentioned by Brahmā is now separately mentioned here.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">23-24. Śiva, Maheśvara, Rudra, Viṣṇu, Pitāmaha, Samsāravaidya, Sarvajña and Paramātman—these eight names mainly indicate Śiva. The first five are the names of the deities presiding over the Kalās, Śāntyatīta etc.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">25-28. The five names of Sadāśiva originate from the conditioning factors. When the conditioning factors cease to exist they too recede. The region is eternal and the Ātmans who occupy them are non-eternal. When the Padas are changed the Padins are released. In another evolution they attain the same region. But the first five Ātmans undergo the change of names. The last three names are due to the adoption of the three conditioning factors. They indicate only Śiva.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">29-30. He who is naturally pure is called Śiva. He has the antecedent non-existence of the contact of the primordial dirt. Or, he who is full of good attributes and is Īśvara is called Śiva by good men who propound the Śaivite principles.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">31-35. The name Maheśvara is explained thus: Prakṛti is greater than the twenty-three principles. Puruṣa the twenty fifth principle is greater than Prakṛti. Puruṣa is Praṇava the first Svara in the Vedas. Since his real nature is comprehensible only through the Vedas he is established in the Vedānta. He who is beyond this Puruṣa, who is associated with Prakṛti is Maheśvara because both the Prakṛti and Puruṣa function in subservience to him. Or, Maheśvara is the wielder of Māyā. Māyā is Prakṛti the principle with the three Guṇas. It is unchanging. He who makes this Māyā energetic is Maheśvara. He is glorified as Kālātman, Paramātman, the primordial, the gross and the subtle.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">36. The explanation of the word Rudra:—‘Rud’ means misery and ‘Drāvayati’ means ‘routs’. Since the Lord quells our misery he is called Rudra. He is Śiva, the great cause.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">37. Śiva pervades all living beings, the principles and elements. He is wakefully present in the bodies and presides over them. Hence he is called Viṣṇu.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;">38. Śiva is the progenitor of the souls that have attained the status of fathers. He is therefore called the grandfather (</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pitāmaha).</span></span></span></h2><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;">39-40. Śiva is called the physician of the universe (</span>Samsāravaidya). Just as the physician who is conversant with the pathology diagnoses and cures the ailment with medicines so also the Lord annihilates the worldly existence (saṃsāra) along with its roots. He is so called by all those who understand the nature of principles.</span></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">41-43. Even when they have the sense-organs for comprehending the ten objects of sensual perception, the atoms do not know the beings gross and subtle, present in the three periods of time, in their entirety because they are hidden by the particles of dirt in the form of Māyā, whereas Sadāśiva has not these causes of perception. Even when they are not present, he knows without any strain every object as it is. Hence, He is Sarvajña (omniscient).</span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">44. Śiva is the Ātman of all. He perpetually possesses all these qualities. There is no greater Ātman than Śiva. Śiva is Paramātman.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">45-47. By the grace of the preceptor the eight names shall be acquired. The knots of the Kalā, Nivṛtti and others shall be cut off with the five names of Śiva and purified by repetitions, strokes and non-restraints. By means of the Suṣumṇā, the Puryaṣṭaka alone with the chest, neck, palate, middle of the eyebrows and the hole on the top of the head, shall be cut off.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">48-49. The Ātman shall be taken above to the splendour of Śiva beyond the moon stationed in the twelve-petal led lotus of the heart. The mouth is shrunk in size. The body is drenched with the shower of the nectar of the Śakti and merged in their reasons. The Ātman is then let down into the heart.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">50-52. The devotee then meditates on the great god Śiva, favourably disposed to his devotees who is conceived as sitting in the white twelve-petalled lotus beyond the moon, who in the sweet crystal-pure, delighted, cool, lustrous form of Ardhanārīśvara, shall be meditated upon. The devotee shall have the mind in normal state. He shall then worship the Lord with the eight names of Śiva and the sacred flowers.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">53. At the end of the worship the devotee shall perform Prāṇāyāma and concentrate the mind well. He shall perform the japa of the eight names of Śiva.</span></span></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">54-56. He shall perform eight Āhutis in the navel and repeat “Namaḥ” alone with the Pūrṇāhūti, offering eight flowers and conclude worship. With a palmful of water he shall dedicate his Ātman. By doing this, ere long, the auspicious knowledge of Pāśupata cult is obtained. He acquires its magnificent status and the excellent conduct. Then securing the great Yoga he is liberated. There is no doubt in this.</span></span></h2><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Śri Śiva Mahāpurāṇa, Vayāviya Samhitā (Part I) 32:1-56</span></h3></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-64608680103680596782021-12-16T00:00:00.001-08:002021-12-16T00:00:00.167-08:00A Single Verse on Rudra-Shiva<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today, we read from the Atharva Veda a hymn of a single verse praising Rudra-Shiva. Rudra dwells within the fire, within the waters, within herbs and plants. He has formed and fashioned these worlds. He is Agni, the fire of consciousness within! He is transcendent and immanent.</span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Om Namo Bhagavate Rudraya!</span></i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd98hln-hUQAwGFzsIz2hXZVUizySUSQxY0omGDCakNbuAeMg_Mg55UwXVGCW_OlDCP9K86bnmFQvuhgxdfhzexUpnMT68CeRPIt4ujmLjC7xZ8XWBbeyLlWDhE6QmX7pB-zYZroZkoj8KITX8a610LtAV8XNoPCm5FWdwOqE9yyKEzkfra7cYLVE2TA=s723" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="540" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd98hln-hUQAwGFzsIz2hXZVUizySUSQxY0omGDCakNbuAeMg_Mg55UwXVGCW_OlDCP9K86bnmFQvuhgxdfhzexUpnMT68CeRPIt4ujmLjC7xZ8XWBbeyLlWDhE6QmX7pB-zYZroZkoj8KITX8a610LtAV8XNoPCm5FWdwOqE9yyKEzkfra7cYLVE2TA=w298-h400" width="298" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To Rudra in the fire, to Him who dwells in floods, to Rudra who hath entered into herbs and plants,<br /> To Him who formed and fashioned all these worlds, to Him this Rudra, yea, to Agni, reverence be paid!</span></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">Atharva Veda (Shaunaka Recension): VII:87</span></div></h2><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-34848893346028332152021-12-13T09:20:00.002-08:002021-12-13T12:01:17.226-08:00Teaching of Markendeya<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-size: 16px;"></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-size: 16px;"><a href="Markendeya" style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Markandeya</a><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"> is an ancient sage in the Shaiva tradition and the primary teacher in the Markandeya Purana. </span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Here, in the Harivamsa Purana, we come across a short teaching on the oneness of Shiva and Vishnu as taught by Markandeya. This teaching of the oneness of the central Deity of Shaivism and Vaishnavism is not unique to this Purana, and is an important teaching across the vast Puranic literature. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #323232;">While the Hindu religion of the Goddess has long been consolidated, the Hindu religion of God has historically struggled to consolidate. The early Puranic literature, therefore, introduces the concept we now call the <a href="https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/trinity#hinduism-general">Trimurti</a>, which tries to bring together the three religions of God: Rudra-Shiva, Vasudeva-Vishnu and Prajapati-Brahm</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #323232;">ā as one. With the rising of later sectarian Puranas and blossoming of Tantric (Agamic) literature, the religions of Rudra-Shiva and Vasudeva-Vishnu subsume the religion of Prajapati-Brahm</span></span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">ā to the point where the latter becomes a secondary Creator. Herein, we already observe that process occurring. Brahm</span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">ā, Vishnu and Rudra are identified as one, but a few verses later, Narayana (Vishnu) and Maheshvara (Shiva) are also called the primary causes of Hiranyagarbha (Brahm</span><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">ā). </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-size: 16px;">-----</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-size: 16px;">Markendeya said:</span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-size: 16px;">Shiva </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-size: 16px;">is identical with Vishnu and Vishnu is identical with Shiva. I do not see any difference. They are both auspicious, without beginning, middle or end, eternal and undecaying. Hear! I will describe that form identical with Hari and Hara. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He is Vishnu who is Rudra; and He is Rudra who is Brahmā. Brahm</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ā</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, Vishnu and Rudra are one and of the same form. Three of them are great ascetics, Lords of half-female forms, self-sprung, Givers of boons and masters of the universe. As water is mixed with water when it is thrown into it so Vishnu becomes at one with Rudra, when He enters into Him. As fire becomes fire when it is mixed with it so Rudra becomes identical with Vishnu when He enters into Him. Rudra is identical with fire and Vishnu is identical with the moon. This universe, consisting of mobile and immobile creations, is identical with the Protector of what is mobile and immobile in this universe. And Maheshvara is their Destroyer. The Lord Narayana</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, identical with past, present and future, and Mahesvara are the primary causes of Hiranyagarbha </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">and the great principles. They both are the Givers of the Vedas</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">. They are the Creator and the Protector of the universe. They send down rain in the shape of Indra</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> and spread rays in the shape of the sun. They blow in the shape of the wind and create all. Thus, O grandfather [Vaishampayana], I have described to you the great secret. The man, who daily reads or hears this account, attains to that most excellent region created by the power of Vishnu and Rudra.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">With Brahm</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ā</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, Hari and Hara are the Creator, Preserver and Destroyer of the universe. I will now chant their glories. Vishnu is adorable unto Rudra, and Rudra is adorable unto Vishnu. They are one, still they range in the world under two forms. Vishnu is not different from Shankara and Shankara is not different from Vishnu. Therefore, formerly Rudra and Upendra </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">became one. Salutation unto Rudra and Krishna of one united body!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhv0ZIcAX7qcT08MXE_dRyySh97NaDKH-k9O1QlttycLk_5ZaEm_Dxm_BhG_NxivjRuqKaBOPQubfHEpj8RHR058mK5z7EvLQpSs1zs6ZYdgpEa14uZ0Dir79xiAadbPivBr0jSN2yXRgXIJPgOIQ7s1yem6Nne0xw92XgWhYJTNasoG7V-D917I_aBQA=s1448" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: georgia; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1448" data-original-width="1080" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhv0ZIcAX7qcT08MXE_dRyySh97NaDKH-k9O1QlttycLk_5ZaEm_Dxm_BhG_NxivjRuqKaBOPQubfHEpj8RHR058mK5z7EvLQpSs1zs6ZYdgpEa14uZ0Dir79xiAadbPivBr0jSN2yXRgXIJPgOIQ7s1yem6Nne0xw92XgWhYJTNasoG7V-D917I_aBQA=w209-h279" width="209" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Salutation unto the three-eyed Deity, salutation unto the two-eyed Deity, salutation unto coppery-eyed and lotus-eyed.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Salutation unto the Holder of the earth, of the Holder of peacock-feathers and of Keyura. Salutation unto Him adorned with a garland of skulls, Him adorned with a garland of wild flowers, Him the holder of trident and him the Holder of discus, unto the standard of gold and Brahm</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ā</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Salutation unto Him clad in skin and salutation unto Him clad in a yellow raiment. Salutation unto the Lord of Lakshmi and unto the Lord of Uma.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Salutation unto the Holder of trident and unto Him of mace. Salutation unto Him whose body is covered with ashes and unto Him who is dark-blue hued. Salutation unto Him who lives in the cremation ground and unto Him who lives in an ashrama. Salutation unto the Rider of a bull and unto the Rider of Garuda. Salutation unto Him who has more than one form, unto Him who has many forms, unto the Lord of destruction and unto Him who lies on the ocean. Salutation unto Him who has many forms and unto Him who is Bhairava. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Harivamsa Purana II:127:29-50</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #323232; font-size: 16px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Om Namah Shivaya.</span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-30133868902575643192021-11-11T13:09:00.000-08:002021-11-11T13:09:30.742-08:00Guíanos <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV57PsEcrdi36onXP-B2yrOSjkgTyMGxkXa-Yj5qPPtZ3-N5JrhG6XZaVt-d6vl8UyTvIwMyK2-7wV16SxLL9IpMl3FVO_iXS1N-7cnjdGKOpUoVz8IBKUDnZ8uaLOy6vpWFSY2gKeddRP/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV57PsEcrdi36onXP-B2yrOSjkgTyMGxkXa-Yj5qPPtZ3-N5JrhG6XZaVt-d6vl8UyTvIwMyK2-7wV16SxLL9IpMl3FVO_iXS1N-7cnjdGKOpUoVz8IBKUDnZ8uaLOy6vpWFSY2gKeddRP/" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Guíanos de la falsedad a la realidad;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Guíanos de la oscuridad a la luz;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Guíanos de la muerte a la inmortalidad.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">OM! Sea la paz, paz y paz. _/|\_</span></p><p style="text-align: center;">(<i>Gran Upanisad del Bosque del Yajurveda Blanco</i>)</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-3522421182960866192021-06-15T21:09:00.001-07:002021-06-15T21:09:18.653-07:00Rudra is Truly One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCBetf0tprw7c2hbNA0ktgsAzx4XDOaXLtPrxqrF1NgTdCATbjTyp3GQZqhvSKHzJjdDzonafqjJQLrKMEY-d1QAkgz5PQqgzIvBZxq0xTxtyF6mSatGb1f1tclb3Z2OKJ73ldsR0VuyKf/s599/Maheshwara.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="599" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCBetf0tprw7c2hbNA0ktgsAzx4XDOaXLtPrxqrF1NgTdCATbjTyp3GQZqhvSKHzJjdDzonafqjJQLrKMEY-d1QAkgz5PQqgzIvBZxq0xTxtyF6mSatGb1f1tclb3Z2OKJ73ldsR0VuyKf/w400-h334/Maheshwara.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-5f5a01df-7fff-b4f8-63c3-bb6e9b4019d5"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d2aa6e86-7fff-7e73-7068-32f08bb00cca"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ya eko jālavān īśata īśanībhi</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sarvā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> lokān īśata īśanībhi</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ya evaika udbhave sambhave ca ya etad vidur am</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tās te bhavanti ||1||</span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The non-dual Ensnarer rules by His powers. Remaining one and the same, He rules by His powers all the worlds during their manifestation and continued existence. They who know this become immortal. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">eko hi rudro na dvitīyāya tasthur ya imā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">l lokān īśata īśanībhi</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pratya</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṅ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> janā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">s ti</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣṭ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hati sañcukocānta-kāle sa</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">s</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">jya viśvā bhuvanāni gopā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ||2||</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rudra is truly One; for the knowers of Brahman do not admit the existence of a second, He alone rules all the worlds by His powers. He dwells as the inner Self of every living being. After having created all the worlds, He, their Protector, takes them back into Himself at the end of time. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">viśvataś cak</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ur uta viśvato-mukho viśvato-bāhur uta viśvatas-pāt |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sa</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bāhubhyā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> dhamati sampatatrair dyāv-ābhūmī janayan deva eka</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ||3||</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His eyes are everywhere, His faces everywhere, His arms everywhere, everywhere His feet. He it is who endows men with arms, birds with feet and wings and men likewise with feet. Having produced heaven and earth, He remains as their non-dual manifester. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">yo devānā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> prabhavaś codbhavaś ca viśvādhipo rudro mahar</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hira</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">yagarbha</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> janayāmāsa pūrva</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sa no buddhyā śubhayā sa</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">yunaktu ||4||</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He, the omniscient Rudra, the Creator of the Gods and the Bestower of their powers, the Support of the universe, He who, in the beginning, gave birth to Hiranyagarbha -may He endow us with clear intellect! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">yā te rudra śivā tanūr aghorāpāpa-kāśinī |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tayā nas tanuvā śantamayā giriśantābhicākaśīhi ||5||</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">O Rudra, Thou who dwellest in the body and bestowest happiness! Look upon us with that most blessed form of Thine, which is auspicious, unterrifying and all good. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">yābhi</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">u</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> giriśanta haste bibhar</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">y astave |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">śivā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> giritra tā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> kuru mā hi</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sī</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> puru</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> jagat ||6||</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">O Dweller in the body and Bestower of happiness, make benign that arrow which Thou holdest in Thy hand ready to shoot, O Protector of the body! Do not injure man or the world!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tata</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> para</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> brahma para</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> b</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hanta</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> yathānikāya</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sarva-bhūte</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">u gū</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḍ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ham |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">viśvasyaika</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> parive</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣṭ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">itāram īśa</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ta</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> jñātvām</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tā bhavanti ||7||</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Supreme Lord is higher than Virat, beyond Hiranyagarbha. He is vast and is hidden in the bodies of all living beings. By knowing Him who alone pervades the universe, men become immortal. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vedāham eta</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> puru</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> mahāntam āditya-var</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tamasa</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> parastāt |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tam eva viditvātim</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tyum eti nānya</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> panthā vidyate'yanāya ||8||</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I know the great Purusha, who is luminous, like the sun and beyond darkness. Only by knowing Him does one pass over death; there is no other way to the Supreme Goal. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">yasmāt para</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> nāparam asti ki</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cid yasmān nā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">īyo na jyāyo 'sti kaścit |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">v</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">k</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a iva stabdho divi ti</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣṭ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">haty ekas teneda</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> pūr</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> puru</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a sarvam ||9||</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The whole universe is filled by the Purusha, to whom there is nothing superior, from whom there is nothing different, than whom there is nothing either smaller or greater; who stands alone, motionless as a tree, established in His own glory. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tato yad uttaratara</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tad arūpam anāmayam |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ya etad vidur am</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tāste bhavanti athetare du</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">kham evāpi yanti ||10||</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That which is farthest from this world is without form and without affliction. They who know It become immortal; but others, indeed, suffer pain. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sarvānana-śiro-grīva</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sarva-bhūta-guhāśaya</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sarva-vyāpī sa bhagavā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">s tasmāt sarva-gata</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> śiva</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ||11||</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All faces are His faces; all heads, His heads; all necks, His necks. He dwells in the hearts of all beings. He is the all-pervading Bhagavan. Therefore He is the omnipresent and benign Lord. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mahān prabhur vai puru</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sattvasyai</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a pravartaka</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sunirmalām imā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> prāptim īśāno jyotir avyaya</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ||12||</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He, indeed, is the great Purusha, the Lord of creation, preservation and destruction, who inspires the mind to attain the state of stainlessness. He is the Ruler and the Light that is imperishable. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṅ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gu</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣṭ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ha-mātra</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> puru</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">o'ntarātmā sadā janānā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> h</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">daye sannivi</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣṭ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">h</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">dā manī</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">o manasābhik</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḷ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pto ya etad vidur am</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tās te bhavanti ||13||</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Purusha, no bigger than a thumb, is the inner Self, ever seated in the heart of man. He is known by the mind, which controls knowledge and is perceived in the heart. They who know Him become immortal.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sahasra-śīr</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ā puru</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sahasrāk</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sahasra-pāt |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sa bhūmi</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> viśvato v</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tvā-[a]tyati</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣṭ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">had daśā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṅ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gulam ||14||</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">puru</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a eveda</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sarva</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> yad bhūta</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> yac ca bhavyam |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">utām</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tatvasyeśāno yad annenātirohati ||15||</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Purusha with a thousand heads, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet, compasses the earth on all sides and extends beyond it by ten fingers' breadth. The Purusha alone is all this — what has been and what will be. He is also the Lord of Immortality and of whatever grows by food. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sarvata</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> pā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i-pāda</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tat sarvato 'k</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i-śiro-mukham |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sarvata</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> śrutimal loke sarvam āv</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tya ti</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣṭ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hati ||16||</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His hands and feet are everywhere; His eyes, heads and faces are everywhere; His ears are everywhere; He exists compassing all. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sarvendriya-gu</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ābhāsa</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sarvendriya-vivarjitam |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sarvasya prabhum īśāna</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sarvasya śara</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> b</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hat ||17||</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Himself devoid of senses, He shines through the functions of the senses. He is the capable ruler of all; He is the refuge of all. He is great. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nava-dvāre pure dehī ha</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">so lelāyate bahi</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vaśī sarvasya lokasya sthāvarasya carasya ca ||18||</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Swan, the ruler of the whole world, of all that is moving and all that is motionless, becomes the embodied self and dwelling in the city of nine gates, flies outward. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">apā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">i-pādo javano grahītā paśyaty acak</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">u</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sa ś</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṛṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">oty akar</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sa vetti vedya</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> na ca tasyāsti vettā tam āhur agrya</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> puru</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṣ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> mahāntam ||19||</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grasping without hands, hasting without feet, It sees without eyes, It hears without ears. It knows what is to be known, but no one knows It. They call It the First, the Great, the Full. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">īyān mahato mahīyān ātmā guhāyā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> nihito'sya janto</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tam akratu</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> paśyati vīta-śoko dhātu</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ḥ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> prasādān mahimānam īśam ||20||</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Self, smaller than the small, greater than the great, is hidden in the hearts of creatures. The wise, by the grace of the Creator, behold the Lord, majestic and desireless and become free from grief. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">vedāham etam ajara</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> purā</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṇ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sarvātmāna</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sarva-gata</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> vibhutvāt |</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">janma-nirodha</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ṃ</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> pravadanti yasya brahma-vādino hi pravadanti nityam ||21||</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I know this undecaying, primeval One, the Self of all things, which exists everywhere, being all-pervading and which the wise declare to be free from birth. The teachers of Brahman, indeed, speak of It as eternal.</span></p><div><br /></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-1dd3a3f3-7fff-4018-2aa2-af7f8d5f062e"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f_1zgSY4D1mNJI5AsSNZtUIY-Paiuesc4aUoyAVSdiY/edit?userstoinvite=kcs810%40gmail.com&ts=60602e1c" target="_blank">Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣhad</a> III:1-21 of the Yajurveda.</span></span></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-85805457585356253572021-06-12T18:14:00.008-07:002021-06-17T13:06:11.464-07:00They Do Not Incarnate Any More<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bhasmajabala Upanishad is an ancient Shaiva scripture written in the form a dialogue between Mahadeva Shiva and Sage Jabala. It deals with various Shaiva topics including the holy mantras of Shiva, rituals, rules for wearing sacred ash, Shiva puja, and the sanctity of the city of Kashi (Varanasi). In the below section, we read about the real nature of Lord Shiva and liberation of pashus (individual souls). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">[Mahadeva said:]</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ylwLI83TmMPb9jHI7IKAxEmq1oLyaNCuW_7C8uQHekN_c5KqX0yVqBL7GOYzvkHJtOOgqbGu7ABooi8Z6kjFle6t9rV_p_SfFT4mMw98E6J229cTY-cCg9-rdsKjoAx3ctwtUWG1XiFK/s180/images.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ylwLI83TmMPb9jHI7IKAxEmq1oLyaNCuW_7C8uQHekN_c5KqX0yVqBL7GOYzvkHJtOOgqbGu7ABooi8Z6kjFle6t9rV_p_SfFT4mMw98E6J229cTY-cCg9-rdsKjoAx3ctwtUWG1XiFK/s0/images.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I, conjoint with Uma, am the Brahman!</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I, conjoint with Uma, am the Pavana that sanctified all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I, conjoint with Uma, am the Generator of the various
dispositions of the mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I, conjoint with Uma, am the Generator of the Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I, conjoint with Uma, am the Generator of fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I, conjoint with Uma, am the Generator of the Sun.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I, conjoint with Uma, am the Generator of Indra.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I, conjoint with Uma, am the Generator of Vishnu.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I alone am the Generator of the Moon, the Devas, the
terrestrial, mid-ethereal and the celestial regions and all the other worlds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I, conjoint with Uma, am the source of all that has been,
that continues to be generated in various and variegated forms, and all that is
yet to be. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am the great Rishi, the Seer of Vedic mantras.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am Rudra, transcending all the universe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I do see Hiranyagarbha and other Prajapatis that are yet to
come into existence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I alone am the innermost Atman, that is immanent in all as
the Antaratman [Indweller], the radiance of the Brahman, transcending which,
transcending Me, there is naught else! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I alone am the transcendent Brahman that transcends the entire
universe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The world of persons, ignorant of the real nature of the
Atman, on coming to realize Me alone attains the state of immortality and
surmounts all misery. He, who, on coming to realize ME, remains in the attitude,
“I am the Brahman alone” causes the disease of worldly existence to melt away.
Hence I am known as Rudra [the Driver of the disease of worldly existence], who
is the final resort of all. That reputed Rudra of the aspect of all, am I. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Knowing Me to be the Paramatman alone whence all creatures
take their origin, through whom all these creatures continue to subsist, and whom
they finally reach as their last resting place and get dissolved therein, one
should resort to Me through upasana. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I alone am praised by all beings, and the Devas as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The wind wafts ouf of fear for Me. The Sun rises only out of
fear of Me. Agni and Indra [discharge their duties] of out fear of Me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I, conjoint with Uma, am alone the Controller of all and
protector of all. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am the Earth; I am the fire; I am air; I am <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2009/01/time-divine_01.html" target="_blank">time</a>; I am the
cardinal points; I am the Atman. In Me all things are established.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He who knows the Brahman himself attains the Parabrahman.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">May Brahma, the Creator, be identical with Shiva unto me;
may he be identical with Sadashiva too, OM!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am the Ishvara of the universe that has no eyes and at the
same time has eyes turned in all directions; that has no ears and has ears
turned in all directions; that has no feet and at the same time has feet moving
in all directions; that has no hands and at the same time has hands moving in
all directions; that has no head and at the same time has heads in all
directions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am Ishvara resorted to through the <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/08/pancha-brahma-mantras.html" target="_blank">vidya mantras</a>, that of
the form of the vidya, composed of vidya, the Vishveshvara [Lord of the
Universe] and devoid of dotage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Having known me as of this character, the seeker after
liberation is released from bonds of worldly existence. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For that reason I am the Liberator of <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/12/essential-triad.html" target="_blank">pashus</a> from the bonds
of worldly existence (pasha). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">All created beings down [from Brahma] down to the human
beings and those that occupy intermediate positions are verily <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/12/essential-triad.html" target="_blank">pashus</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Should any of these <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/12/essential-triad.html" target="_blank">pashus</a> have attained the balanced state
of Samadhi, such persons endeavor to attain Me alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On attaining Me, they do not incarnate any more; they do not
incarnate any more. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>~Bhasmajabala Upanishad II:5-14 of the Atharvaveda. </b></span><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-48873174461160599562020-08-24T06:00:00.032-07:002020-08-27T09:27:05.683-07:00Fifteen Verses of Wisdom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Who here hath not heard of Abhinavagupta? About the greatest of Shivacharyas, we need not say anything for no words can describe the grandeur, the depth, the genius of his being. Unto the feet of this Jagadguru, we pay obeisance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">In the Bodhapanchadashika (Fifteen Verses on Wisdom), the great Acharya very succinctly summarizes the entirety of Shivadvaya, the non-dualist philosophy associated with what we now term Kashmir Shaivism. Although written about a thousand years ago, the powerful words still resound in our consciousness as we read these beautiful verses. Because this short work was created by the Acharya for his disciples of little understanding, <span style="text-align: left;">it is easy for us to understand without any explanation. Presumably, he wrote these fifteen verses after finishing his <i>magnum opera</i>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span>As we know, 118 worlds (bhuvanas; 256 in some Agamas) make up the entire universe at various levels, within various tattvas. </span></span><span face="" style="text-align: left;">Lord Bhairava is Himself the nature of all these 118 bhuvanas; all this His experience of His own infinite Being. All this diversity exists within Him. </span><span face="" style="text-align: left;">It is by His grace alone that we realize the true nature of reality, the true nature of our own being, which is but Lord Bhairava. Indeed time, one of the </span><a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/02/shuddha-ashuddha-tattvas.html" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">kanchukas of maya</a><span face="" style="text-align: left;">, and our (mis)understanding of its march results in worldly existence (samsara). The perception of the existence of time is a result of His independence, His means to realize His own nature (see: </span><a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2009/01/time-divine_01.html" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Time Divine</a><span face="" style="text-align: left;">; </span><a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2020/07/doctrine-of-time.html" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Doctrine of Time</a><span face="" style="text-align: left;">). The fullness of this realization is achieved by those who have been liberated within this life (jivan-muktas; see: <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2020/08/sivagnanabodham.html" target="_blank">Sivagnanabodham</a>). </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">These verses have been especially created for those of us with little understanding so we may be instantaneously elevated! Let us, then, as disciples, learn from the Bodhapanchadashika. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>बोधपञ्चदशिका</b> [Bodhapanchadashika]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">1. The brilliance of the One Being's light does not vanish in external light or in darkness because all light and darkness resides in the supreme light of God Consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">2. This Being is called Lord Shiva. He is the nature and existence of all beings. The external objective world is the expansion of His Energy and it is filled with the glamour of the glory of God Consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Shiva and Shakti are not aware that they are separate. They are interconnected just as fire is one with heat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">4. He is the God Bhairava. He creates, protects, destroys, conceals, and reveals His nature through the cycle of this world. This whole universe is created by God in His own nature, just as one finds the reflection of the world in a mirror.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">5. The collective state of the universe is His supreme Energy (Shakti), which He created in order to recognize His own nature. This (Shakti), who is the embodiment of the collective state of the universe, loves possessing the state of God Consciousness. She is in the state of ignorance, remaining perfectly complete and full in each and every object.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">6. The supreme Lord Shiva, who is all-pervasive and fond of playing and falling, together with the Energy of His own nature simultaneously brings about the varieties of creation and destruction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">7. This supreme action cannot be accomplished by any other power in this universe except Lord Shiva, who is completely independent, perfectly glorious and intelligent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">8. The limited state of consciousness is insentient and cannot simultaneously expand itself to become the various forms of the universe. The possessor of independence is absolutely different from that insentient state of consciousness. You cannot, therefore, recognize Him in only one way. The moment you recognize Him in one way you will also recognize Him in the other way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">9. This Lord Shiva, who is completely independent (svatantra), has the diversity of creation and destruction existing in His own nature. And, at the same time, this diversity is found existing in its own way as the field of ignorance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">10. In this world you will find varieties of creation and destruction, some of which are created in the upper cycle, some of which are created below, and some of which are even created sideways. Attached to these worlds smaller portions of worlds are created. Pain, pleasure, and intellectual power are created according to the status of being. This is the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">11. If you do not understand that there is actually no span of time, this misunderstanding is also the independence (svatantrya) of Lord Shiva. This misunderstanding results in worldly existence (samsara). And those who are ignorant are terrified by worldly existence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">12-13. When, because the grace of Lord Shiva is showered upon you, or due to the teachings or vibrating force of your Master, or through understanding the scriptures concerned with Supreme Shiva, you attain the real knowledge of reality, that is the existent state of Lord Shiva, and that is final liberation. This fullness is achieved by elevated souls and is called liberation in this life (jivan-mukti).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">14. These two cycles, bondage and liberation, are the play of Lord Shiva and nothing else. They are not separate from Lord Shiva because differentiated states have not risen at all. In reality, nothing has happened to Lord Shiva.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">15. In this way the Lord, Bhairava, the essence of all being, has held in His own way in His own nature, the three great energies: the energy of will (iccha-shakti), the energy of action (kriya-shakti), and the energy of knowledge (jnana-shakti). These three energies are just like that trident which is the three-fold lotus. And seated on this lotus is Lord Bhairava, who is the nature of the whole universe of 118 worlds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">16. I, Abhinavagupta, have written and revealed these verses for some of my dear disciples who have very little intellectual understanding. For those disciples, who are deeply devoted to me, I have composed these fifteen verses just to elevate them instantaneously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Hughes, John. <u><i>Self Realization in Kashmir Shaivism</i></u>. State University of New York Press, 1994. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-24273735784037452562020-08-17T06:00:00.000-07:002020-08-17T06:00:06.492-07:00Sivagnanabodham<div style="text-align: justify;">Meykanda Devar (aka Meykandar) was a important 13th century CE philosopher and propounder of the southern school of Saiva Siddhanta. Here we read from his work known as Sivagnanabodham (Instruction in the Knowledge of Shiva), a masterpiece of 12 sutras in the Tamil language. It is said that these verses come from or are inspired by the Rauravasutrasamgraha (aka, Raurava Agama). However, this is no longer found in the remaining fragment of the text that goes by that name. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Within these sutras, Meykanda Devar has carefully woven and saliently highlighted the <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/12/essential-triad.html" target="_blank">essential triad</a> that is central to all forms of Shaivism from the ancient Vedic Pashupata and Lakulisha-Pashupata forms all the way to the Agamic-Tantric, Puranic and Vedantic forms. These sutras then also go on to form a school of philosophy within the southern Saiva Siddhanta through their exposition by Shivacharyas that follow Meykanda Devar. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Verses 1-2 describe the nature of Pati (the Lord), here called Hara, as it relates to the world and the individual Atmans (Pashus). Verses 3-5 elaborate the true nature of the Pashus, and how they are guided by the Pati. Verses 6-7 speaks of the world (the fetters, pasha) and how it is perceived by the Pashus; what constitutes real and not real. Verses 8-11 speak of the quest and means of liberation for the Pashus. Finally, verse 12 describes the remaining life of the liberated soul (jivan-mukta), who has removed the fetters by the Grace (Arul/Anugraha) of Hara. Such is the beauty of the Sivagnanabodham!</div><div> </div><div>ஓம் நம சிவாய ~ ॐ नमः शिवाय ~ ওঁ নমঃ শিবায় ~ ૐ નમઃ શિવાય ~ اوم نمہ شوایہ ~ Om Namah Shivaya </div><div>-----</div><div><b>Sivagnanabodham</b></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSuw2IINnsKFHuJAU2Z-MSKoown0VhyphenhyphenA0p5YF86toRt_Mmfya-04Aazw3UQ6jDvJRRwmhNyxyC0vsVS4xc_AX61wA4sYb2fAMDHK2luzS2HnlCEKOB3lE7DIdVBEMhm-fKTjvg0ZUXPCzm/s800/0e90dbd7067a924b636b78f5657c6ddf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSuw2IINnsKFHuJAU2Z-MSKoown0VhyphenhyphenA0p5YF86toRt_Mmfya-04Aazw3UQ6jDvJRRwmhNyxyC0vsVS4xc_AX61wA4sYb2fAMDHK2luzS2HnlCEKOB3lE7DIdVBEMhm-fKTjvg0ZUXPCzm/w256-h256/0e90dbd7067a924b636b78f5657c6ddf.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tamil Om<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>1. As the (seen) universe, spoken of as he, she and it, undergoes three changes (origin, development, and decay), this must be an entity created (by an efficient cause.) This entity owing to its conjunction with anava mala has to emanate from Hara to whom it returns during samharam (dissolution). Hence, the learned say that Hara is the first Cause.</div><div><br /></div><div>2. He is one with the souls (non-dual). He is different from them (dual). He is one and different from them (dual-non-dual). He stands in union with His Gnana Sakti and causes the souls to undergo the processes of evolution (births) and return (samharam) by including their good and bad acts (karma).</div><div><br /></div><div>3. It rejects every portion of the body as not being itself; it says my body; it is conscious of dreams; it exists in sleep without feeling pleasure or pain or movements; it knows from others; This is the soul which exists in the body formed as a machine from maya.</div><div><br /></div><div>4. The soul is not one of the antahkarana (mental apparatus). It is not conscious when it is in conjunction with anava mala. It becomes conscious only when it meets the antahkarana, just as a king understands through his ministers. The relation of the soul to the five avasthas is also similar.</div><div><br /></div><div>5. The senses while perceiving the object cannot perceive themselves or the soul; and they are perceived by soul. Similarly, the soul while perceiving cannot perceive itself (while thinking cannot think thought) and God. It is moved by the Arul (Anugraha) Sakti of God, as the magnet moves the iron, while He Himself remains immoveable or unchangeable.</div><div><br /></div><div>6. That which is perceived by the senses is Asat (non-real in the absolute sense). That which is not so perceived does not exist. God is neither the one nor the other, and hence Siva is called Sat or Chit - Sat by the wise; Chit or Siva when not understood by the human intelligence and Sat when perceived with divine wisdom.</div><div><br /></div><div>7. In the presence of Sat, every thing else (i.e., cosmos - Asat) is sunyam (is non-apparent). Hence Sat cannot perceive Asat. As Asat does not exist, it cannot perceive Sat. That which perceives both cannot be either of them. This is the Soul (called Sat-Asat).</div><div><br /></div><div>8. The Lord appearing as Guru to the soul which had advanced in tapas (virtue and knowledge) instructs him that he has wasted himself by living among the savages of the five senses; and on this, the soul, understanding its real nature leaves its former associates, and not being different from Him, becomes united to His Feet.</div><div><br /></div><div>9. The soul, on perceiving in itself with. The eye of Gnanam, the Lord who cannot be perceived by the human intellect or senses, and on giving up the world (Pasha) by knowing it to be false as a mirage, will find its rest in the Lord. Let the soul contemplate the panchakshara according to instruction.</div><div><br /></div><div>10. As the Lord becomes one with the Soul in its human condition, so let the Soul become one with Him and perceive all its actions to be His. Then will it lose all its mala, maya, and karma.</div><div><br /></div><div>11. As the soul enables the eye to see and itself sees, so Hara enables the soul to know and itself knows. And this Advaita knowledge and undying love will unite it to His Feet.</div><div><br /></div><div>12. Let the Jivatma, after washing off its mala which separates it from the strong lotus feet of the Lord and mixing in the society of bhaktas (jivan-muktas) whose souls abound with love, having lost dark ignorance, contemplate their forms and the forms in the temples as His Form.</div><div><br /></div><div>Trans: J M Nallaswami Pillai</div><div>[Edited for clarity]</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-76130724013331559112020-08-10T06:00:00.009-07:002023-09-16T16:09:24.479-07:00Vibhuti-Yoga of Shiva<div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#2b00fe" size="6">ॐ</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today we read from the seventh chapter of Ishvara Gita (the Lord's Song), an ancient </span><a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2018/02/gitas-as-agamas.html?m=1" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">gita</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> spoken by Lord Shiva to the assembled sages in the Naimisha forest (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naimi%E1%B9%A3%C4%81ra%E1%B9%87ya_(forest)" target="_blank">Naimisharanya</a>). The Ishvara Gita comes to us from the latter book (uttarabhaga) of the Kurma Purana. In modern rendering, the chapter is entitled "Vibhuti-Yoga of Shiva." The teaching is in line with the doctrines of the Vedic Pashupatas and is absent of overt concepts from Agamic Shaivism except in seed form. The concepts around the </span><a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/12/essential-triad.html" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">essential triad</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> are beautifully incorporated alongside theistic </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3598848915314147094/7613072401333155911#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/01/oldest-system-of-philosophical-thought.html?m=1" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/01/oldest-system-of-philosophical-thought.html?m=1" style="font-family: georgia;">sankhya</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> philosophy. The pashas (fetters) are said to be two: karma and maya; anava is curiously missing. Nevertheless, asmita (egotism) is said to be one of the six klesha (miseries) caused by maya. By all accounts, this is a very ancient composition. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="georgia">In the chapter below, we find that Shiva as best of the best, the highest of the highest, the essence of All; He is the supreme Lord, He indeed is Aum. He is the Overlord of both prakriti and purusha, and Maya Shakti is His primordial energy. He is the Causer of bondage and He is the Causer of liberation. As we read, we also note the similarity between this chapter and sixth chapter of the <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/08/rmad-iva-gt_14.html">Shiva Gita</a> and the tenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="georgia"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">||Aum Namah Shivaya, Shivaya Namah Aum||</span></div><font face="georgia"><div><font face="georgia">-----</font></div></font><div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="458" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisIpsfZ_F2JuYUfvAJF8mFf68Yw1Hwewll5oiWMn174Bth7oqNPyBSYB1-entzwSobgUTvCixcdCaI_RDFF1jVb-rgv1xZSbR5sKCdw8vfrxXMeqlqpaFIkgEtr9UHLrOg9jjkj0UxVcJp/w363-h400/Capture.JPG" width="363" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i>Ishvara said</i>:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1. Ye Sages, listen all of you to the prowess of Parameshthin (highest objective) on realizing which man becomes liberated and does not fall
into the worldly existence again. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">2. That is my greatest abode, the Brahman, which is greater than the greatest, eternal, steady and immutable, of
perpetual bliss, devoid of doubts and alternatives. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">3. Among the knowers of Brahman, I am the God, Bra</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">hm</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: georgia;">ā,</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> the self-born deity, with faces all round. Among the wielders
of m<font color="#202122"><span style="background-color: white;">a</span></font></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">y<font color="#202122"><span style="background-color: white;">a</span></font></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, I am the ancient, imperishable God, Hari. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">4. Among yogins, I am Shambhu, among ladies, I am the Goddess (P<font color="#202122"><span style="background-color: white;">a</span></font></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">rvati), the Daughter of the lord of mountains. I am
Vishnu among solar deities, and am the fire-god among Vasus. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">5. Among Rudras, I am Shankara; among those who fly, I am Garuda; among the leading elephants, I am
Air<font color="#202122"><span style="background-color: white;">a</span></font></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">vata, and among those who bear weapons, I am
R<font color="#202122"><span style="background-color: white;">a</span></font></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ma. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">6. Among sages, I am Vasishtha; among Devas, I am Satakratu (i.e., Indra); among craftsmen, I am Vishvakarman, and among
the enemies of Devas, I am Prahl<font color="#202122"><span style="background-color: white;">a</span></font></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">da. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">7. Among ascetics, I am Vy<font color="#202122"><span style="background-color: white;">a</span></font></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">sa; among the Ganas (attendants of Shiva) I am Vinayaka; among heroes, I am Virabhadra; and among the Siddhas, I am the ascetic Kapila. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">8. Among the mountains, I am Meru; among constellations, I am the Moon; among the weapons of striking potentiality, I am the thunderbolt; and among holy rites, I am truthfulness.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">9. Among serpents, I am Ananta (Shesa); among generals
of armies, I am Lord P</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: georgia;">ā</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">vaki (i.e. Skanda);
among the stages of life, I am the householder’s stage and
among lshvaras (Rulers), I am Maheshvara. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">10. Among kalpas (cycles of time), I am mahakalpa (the great kalpa); among the yugas, I am Krtayuga (golden age); among the Yaksas, I am Kubera and among grasses, I am Virudha. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">11. Among the Prajapatis (progenitors ofthe world), I
am Daksha; among the Rakshasas I am Nirrti; among powerful persons, I am Vayu, and among the continents, I am
Pushkara. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">12. Among the leaders of beasts, I am the lion; among
mechanical devices, I am the bow; among the Vedas, I am Samaveda and among Yajur mantras, I am Shatarudriya
(Vaj. Sam. XVI. 1-66). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">13. Among the mantras for the purpose of
chanting, I am Savitri (Gayatri mantra; RV. III. 62. 10); among mystic secret mantras, I am Pranava (AUM), among the hymns, I am the
Purusha Sukta (RV. X. 90); and among the Saman mantras
I am Jyestha Saman. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">14. Among the scholars of Vedic topics, I am Svayambhuva Manu; among territories, I am Brahmavarta, and
among holy centers, I am Avimuktaka (Varanasi). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">15. Among Vidyas (lores), I am the Atmavidya (spiritual science, leading to realization of Atman). Among types of
knowledge, I am the greatest knowledge pertaining to Ishvara;
among the elements, I am the ether (akasha), and among the entities
(realities), I am mrtyu (death). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">16. Among the nooses and fetters, I am maya, and
among the calculators, I am kala (time); among goals, I am liberation (from samsara) and among the greatest ones, I am
Parameshvara (supreme Lord).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi26U3NrzpVhHaDrjDa1BnkiADwRRIwJIOvLk9qDCAR1qklQoq2JwTVKZrKnX737AV07xdixOcF9L6CXU7S9zjMnBNdNrBqdoNfPMKBoWEe3zIwkLAC8azUYt9VZ-bG3ey4SavbKL6Lti_l/s417/Capture2.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="417" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi26U3NrzpVhHaDrjDa1BnkiADwRRIwJIOvLk9qDCAR1qklQoq2JwTVKZrKnX737AV07xdixOcF9L6CXU7S9zjMnBNdNrBqdoNfPMKBoWEe3zIwkLAC8azUYt9VZ-bG3ey4SavbKL6Lti_l/s320/Capture2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">17. Whatever else be in the world that stands most prominent by means of sattva guna, brilliance of power, you can
vouchsafe for it that it is a manifestation of (My) brilliance.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">18. All the Atmans existing in the world are said to be pashus. I am remembered as their Lord, Pashupati, by the wise
sages.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">19. In my sportive activity, I bind all these pashus by
means of the noose of the maya. Expounders of the Vedas say
that I am the Liberator of the pashus. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">20. Excepting me, the great Atman, the unchanging
overlord of the bhutas (beings), there is no other liberator of those who
are bound with the noose of the maya. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">21. The twenty-four principles, the maya, the karma and the three gunas—these are the nooses (in the hands) of
Pashupati; and distresses are the bondages of individual souls
(pashus). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">22. The mind, the intellect, the ego, the firmament, the
wind, the fire, the water, and the earth—these eight are prakritis
(causes) and the other things are vikaras (effects). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">23-24. The ears, the sense of touch, the eyes, the tongue
and the fifth one the nose (these are the sense-organs of knowledge), the anus, the genitals, the hands, the feet and the organ
of speech (these are the organs of activity), sound, touch, color,
taste and smell (these are the five objects of pleasure) —these
fifteen together with the eight objects mentioned before constitute the twenty-three prakritas or products of
Prakriti. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">25. The twenty-fourth principle is the Avyakta (unmanifest), Pradhana characterized by its gunas. It has neither
beginning nor middle nor destruction. It is the supreme cause of
the universe.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">26. Sattva, rajas and tamas—these are called the three gunas. The state of equilibrium of these, three, they know to be the
Avyakta Prakriti (the unmanifest Prakrti). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">27. Sattva is knowledge; the rajas is a </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">mixture of knowledge and ignorance; </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">and the tamas is ignorance (ajnana). The wise sages know that the inequality of the gunas
is due to the disequilibrium in intellect. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">28. What are called dharma and adharma are the binding nooses called karmas. But those karmas
dedicated unto Me are conducive to liberation and not to
bondage. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">29. Avidya (ignorance); asmita (egotism), raga (passion), dvesha (hatred) and abhinivesha (attachment) are collectively called kleshas (miseries). They are themselves the bonds that fetter the
Atman. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">30. Maya alone is called the cause of these pashas (fetters). It is
the original unmanifest Prakriti. That Shakti (divine power)
stays in me. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">31. He alone is the primordial nature or pradhana as
well as purusha, and the product such as mahat, etc. (i.e. evolutes of prakriti). He is the
eternal God of gods. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">32. He alone is the bondage and the Maker of bondage;
He alone is the pasha and the Sustainer of the pashus. He knows
everything, but no one knows him. They call him the Primordial
and Ancient Purusha. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Ishvara Gita </b>VII:1-23 (</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kurma Purana, Book II, VII:1-32)</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-60932787755683791092020-08-03T06:00:00.019-07:002020-08-03T10:41:26.271-07:00Hymn of the Supreme Support<div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">Of the thousands of hymns of the Vedas, a few stand out as unique, most rarefied. These hymns also demonstrate that the composers, the Maharishis, were not pastoral nomads, but men and women of extraordinary realization. Their <i>yajnas </i>were not just external fire rituals, but they also kindled the fire of consciousness deep within. The <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/11/purusha-sukta.html" target="_blank">P</a></font><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/11/purusha-sukta.html" target="_blank">urusha Sukt</a></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/11/purusha-sukta.html" target="_blank">a</a>, the </span><a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/11/nasadiya-sukta.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/11/nasadiya-sukta.html" style="font-family: verdana;">Nasadiya Sukta</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">, the Rudradhyaya, and the Hiranyagarbha Sukta, to name a few, are all examples of such exalted hymns. Volumes could be written on these suktas, which are but upanishads without so classifying. Another such magnificent hymn is the Skambha Sukta from the Atharvaveda, the most mysterious and misunderstood of the Vedas. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">While the Rigvedic hymn glorifies the Divine as Purusha, the Cosmic Person, who was sacrificed to bring about creation, the Atharvaveda glorifies the Divine as the Skambha, the Pillar of Creation. The Skambha is the singular support unto which all this is based, the </font><span style="font-family: verdana;">substratum of all existence, the primoridial cause of all, the singular source of all Devas. T</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">he Skambha, the Pillar of Light, is the center of the manifest universe, the <i>axis mundi</i>, the Dispeller of all darkness, the One on whom all the compass points converge. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Shambha is both known, and at the same time, unknowable. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is both Being and Nonbeing; it is verily the Supreme Brahman. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is the end of all pursuits, all knowledge. S/he who knows that the highest Being, the Lord of Life, also intuitively knows that Supreme Support, the fulcrum of existence. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In later literature, this Pillar of Light is called the <a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/11/jyotirlingam-shrines.html?m=0" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/11/jyotirlingam-shrines.html?m=0">Jyotirlinga</a> or <a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/05/forms-of-shiva.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/05/forms-of-shiva.html">Lingodbhava Murti</a>, the primordial formless form of Shiva that first manifest in front of the great Devas, who couldn't but find the ends of it. It speaks to His immeasurable existence, the infinitude of Paramashiva. This same form is also understood to be Aja Ekapada, the Unborn One-Footed. For from the one limb, says the hymn, the world was fashioned; in the one limb, all the great Devas are affixed. The rest remains beyond, transcendental, unmanifest, pure Prakasha (vide: <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/11/purusha-sukta.html" target="_blank">Purusha Sukta</a>, mantra 4). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Aum Namah Shivaya.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">-----</span></div><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Skambha Sukta</b></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Atharvaveda X.7.1-44</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In which of His limbs does Fervor dwell?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In which of His limbs is Order set?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In what part of Him abides Constancy, Faith?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In which of His limbs is Truth established?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwNDQk5Pyp0SP7M9yC2cw_XcSxuTXt1q4RmSycrzb6XZFd5mudZc8c8isWee0ED5AM571oto54G4L2VajS2Dm_7emvF3gad7D0GraVWsCPw2ccDxbOTbNgUpnoR_Dx3ilUlb-_LGzAPBjz/s594/2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="396" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwNDQk5Pyp0SP7M9yC2cw_XcSxuTXt1q4RmSycrzb6XZFd5mudZc8c8isWee0ED5AM571oto54G4L2VajS2Dm_7emvF3gad7D0GraVWsCPw2ccDxbOTbNgUpnoR_Dx3ilUlb-_LGzAPBjz/w266-h400/2.JPG" title="Aja Ekapada" width="266" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">From which of His limbs does Fire shine forth?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">From which of His limbs issues the Wind?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Which limb does the Moon take for measuring rod</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">when it measures the form of the great Support?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In which of His limbs does the Earth abide?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In which of His limbs the atmosphere?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In which of His limbs is the sky affixed?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In which of His limbs the great Beyond?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Toward whom does the rising Flame aspire?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Toward whom does the Wind eagerly blow?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">On whom do all the compass points converge?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Where do the half-months and months together</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">proceed in consultation with the year?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Where do the seasons go, in groups or singly?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Toward whom run the sisters, day and night,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">who look so different yet one summons answer?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Toward whom do the waters with longing flow?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">The One on whom the Lord of Life</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">leaned for support when He propped up the world--</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">That which of all forms the Lord of Life</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">created--above, below, and in between--</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">with how much of Himself penetrated the Support?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">How long was the portion that did not enter?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">With how much of Himself penetrated the Support</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">into the past? With how much into the future?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In that single limb whose thousand parts He fashioned</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">with how much of himself did He enter, that Support?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Through whom men know the worlds and what enwraps them,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">the waters and Holy Word, the all-powerful</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">in whom are found both Being and Nonbeing--</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">By whom Creative Fervor waxing powerful</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">upholds the highest Vow, in whom unite</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Cosmic Order and Faith, the Waters and the Word--</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">On whom is firmly founded earth and sky</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">and the air in between; so too the fire,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Moon, Sun, and wind, each knowing His own place--</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may Hebe?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In whose one limb all the Gods,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">three and thirty in number, are affixed--</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In whom are set firm the firstborn Seers,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">the hymns, the songs, and the sacrificial formulas,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">in whom is established the Single Seer--</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In whom, as Man, deathlessness and death combine,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">to whom belong the surging ocean</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">and all the arteries that course within him;</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Of whom the four cardinal directions</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">comprise the veins, visibly swollen,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">in whom the sacrifice has advanced victorious--</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Those who know the Divine in man</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">know the highest Lord; who knows the highest Lord</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">or the Lord of Life knows the supreme Brahman.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">They, therefore, know the Support also.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">He whose head is the Universal Fire,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">who has for His eyes the Angirases</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">and for His limbs the practitioners of sorcery--</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">He whose mouth, so they say, is Brahma,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">whose tongue is a whip steeped in honey,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">of whom Viraj is considered the udder--</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Out of His body were carved the verses,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">the formulas being formed from the shavings.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">His hairs are the songs, His mouth the hymns</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">of the Seers Atharvan and Angiras--</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">The branch of Nonbeing which is far-extending</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">men take to be the highest one of all.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">They reckon as inferior those who worship</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">your other branch, the branch of Being.</font></div><div><font face="verdana"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJdJy-ldOSNVi0fAmaOUINOWSEjjMb7bttUShJzPH6NghIBEJtF2-YMXmhMF8EO9s03CMDdcefMz3F60CD1G6N11Ef8qMWnKdyTHYuIsTdbmUn4RE-D07Mc_W7ISdKaO5_I9SHDYn9FLT3/s736/Capture.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="461" height="489" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJdJy-ldOSNVi0fAmaOUINOWSEjjMb7bttUShJzPH6NghIBEJtF2-YMXmhMF8EO9s03CMDdcefMz3F60CD1G6N11Ef8qMWnKdyTHYuIsTdbmUn4RE-D07Mc_W7ISdKaO5_I9SHDYn9FLT3/w305-h489/Capture.JPG" title="Brahma and Vishnu search for the ends of the infinite column of light" width="305" /></font></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">In whom the Adityas, Rudras and Vasus,</div></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">are held together, in whom are set firm</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">worlds--that which was and that which shall be--</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Whose treasure hoard the three and thirty Gods</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">forever guard--today who knows its contents?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In whom the Gods, knowers of Brahman,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">acknowledge Brahman as the Supreme--</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">he who knows the Gods face to face</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">is truly a Knower, a Vehicle of Brahman.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Great are the Gods who were born from Nonbeing,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">yet men aver this Nonbeing to be</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">the single limb of the Support, the great Beyond.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">The limb in which the Support, when generating,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">evolved the Ancient One--who knows the limb</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">knows too by that same knowledge the Ancient One.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">It was from His limb that the thirty-three Gods</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">distributed portions among themselves.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Thus in truth only knowers of Brahman</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">are also knowers of the thirty-three Gods.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Men recognize the Golden Embryo</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">as the unutterable, the Supreme.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Yet it was the Support who in the beginning</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">poured forth upon the world that stream of gold.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In the Support the worlds consist; in Him</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Creative Fervor and Order have their ground.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">You I have known, O Support, face to face,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">in Indra wholly concentrated.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In Indra the worlds consist; in Indra</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Creative Fervor and Order have their ground.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">You I have known, O Indra, face to face,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">in the Support wholly established.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Before dawn and sunrise man invokes</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">name after name. This Unborn sprang to birth</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">already with full sovereignty empowered.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Than He nothing higher ever existed.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Homage to Him of whom the Earth is the model,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">the atmosphere His belly, who created the sky</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">from His head. Homage to this supreme Brahman!</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Homage to Him whose eye is the Sun</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">and the Moon which is ever renewed, whose mouth</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">is the Fire. Homage to this supreme Brahman!</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Homage to Him whose in-breath and out-breath</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">is the wind, whose eyes are the Angirases,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">whose wisdom consists in the cardinal points.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Homage once again to this supreme Brahman!</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">By the Support are held both heaven and earth,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">by the Support the broad domain of space,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">by the Support the six divergent directions,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">by the Support is this whole world pervaded.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Homage to Him who, born of labor</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">and Creative Fervor, has entered all the worlds,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">who has taken Soma for His own exclusive possession.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Homage to this Supreme Brahman!</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">How does the wind not cease to blow?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">How does the mind take no repose?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Why do the waters, seeking to reach truth,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">never at any time cease flowing?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">A mighty wonder in the midst of creation moves,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">thanks to Fervor, on the waters' surface.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">To Him whatever Gods there are adhere</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">like branches of a tree around the trunk.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">To whom the Gods always with hands and feet,</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">with speech, ear, and eye bring tribute unmeasured</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">in a well-measured place of sacrifice.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">Tell me of that Support--who may He be?</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In Him exists no darkness, no evil.</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">In Him are all the lights, including the three</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">that are in the Lord of Life. The one who knows</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">the Reed of gold standing up in the Water</font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font face="verdana">is truly the mysterious Lord of Life.</font></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-30761913560854745642020-07-27T06:00:00.001-07:002020-07-28T21:55:36.305-07:00Teaching of Upamanyu<font face="verdana"><div style="text-align: justify;">Today we read from the oldest part of Shiva Purana, a large book of two parts called the Vayaviya Samhita/वायावीय संहिता. The Vayaviya Samhita is an ancient recension of the Vayu Purana that was built upon to form the massive Shiva Purana. The entire book then is a narration of Vayu. Within this book the Sage Upamanyu and his teachings are prominent. Sage Upamanyu, like <a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/02/sage-shvetashvatara.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/02/sage-shvetashvatara.html">Shvetashvatara</a>, <a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/03/sage-tandis-prayer.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/03/sage-tandis-prayer.html">Tandi</a>, Durvasa and many other illustrious ancients were Vedic rishis and Pashupata ascetics par excellence. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here, Upamanyu instructs his disciple, Krishna Vasudeva, on the meaning of the five-syllable (<a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/12/panchakshara-stotra.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/12/panchakshara-stotra.html">panchakshara</a>) mantra, <b>Namah Shivaya</b>. As we know, appended with the seed syllable <b>OM </b>(AUM), it becomes with six-syllable (<a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/08/shadakshara-stotra.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/08/shadakshara-stotra.html">shadakshara</a>) mantra. The two terms are used interchangeably. Sage Upamanyu recounts a dialogue between Shiva and Shakti on the meaning of this mantra. The divine sage tells Krishna Vasudeva that the mantra <b>OM Namah Shivaya</b> is the essence of all essences, the very meaning of all the Vedas, Agamas and scriptures. The mantra is the expression and Shiva is the expressed. The mantra is Shiva Himself! It is the means to Shiva consciousness, the means for release from the ocean of samsara. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let us then, without further ado, imbibe from the teaching of Upamanyu.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div>Aum Namah Shivaya. </div><div><i><font face="verdana">----</font></i></div></font><div><i><font face="verdana"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlbKRa91CJy91_Bo04dL8JI3epxSBWEa9WMAuq6skEk78xLSRX6Of2_02gC2doo3Engzy33KNwRNQwWvnMfFyV4qyC_5plgRcTNzALRUsNkLAo4kM2gYKjPP4SK9pwMKPfMnIKh9aXJDaj/s408/Krishna.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="408" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlbKRa91CJy91_Bo04dL8JI3epxSBWEa9WMAuq6skEk78xLSRX6Of2_02gC2doo3Engzy33KNwRNQwWvnMfFyV4qyC_5plgRcTNzALRUsNkLAo4kM2gYKjPP4SK9pwMKPfMnIKh9aXJDaj/w250-h199/Krishna.JPG" title="Upamanyu instructs Krishna Vasudeva" width="250" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><font face="verdana">Krishna said:</font></i></div></font></i><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">O omniscient excellent sage, ocean of all knowledge, I wish to hear precisely about the glory of the five-syllable mantra.</font></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><font face="verdana"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Upamanyu said:</i></div></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">It is impossible to explain in detail the glory of the five-syllable mantra even in hundreds of crores of years. Hence, hear it in brief:</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">The six-syllable mantra is found in the Vedas and the Shiva Agamas. It facilitates the understanding of all topics by the devotees of Shiva. It consists of very few syllables, but is pregnant with meaning. It is the essence of the Vedas and it is conducive to salvation. This expression of auspicious nature is devoid of doubts. It is achieved by the order of Shiva; it is attended by many siddhis. It is divine and delightful to the mind. This expression of Lord Shiva is majestic and decisive in meaning.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">The omniscient Lord Shiva spake the mantra <b>OM Namah Shivaya</b> for the acquisition of all topics and meanings by the embodied beings since it can be easily uttered by the mouth. The first mantra [<b>OM</b>] that makes up the six syllables is the seed of all lores. It is very subtle, but serves a great purpose. It is like the seed of the banyan tree. The omniscient Lord, the Creator of everything, that all-pervasive Shiva, who is beyond the three attributes [gunas] is stationed in the single-syllable mantra, <b>OM</b>. The five subtle Brahmans [<a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/08/pancha-brahma-mantras.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/08/pancha-brahma-mantras.html">Panchabrahma</a>] are stationed in the mantra <b>Namah Shivaya</b> occupying one syllable each. Thus in the six-syllable subtle mantra, Shiva in the form of the Panchabrahma is stationed in the way of the expressed and the expressive. Shiva is expressed and the mantra is expressive of Him. The state of being the expressive and the expressed is beginningless inasmuch as this terrible ocean of existence functions without a beginning. </font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">Shiva too is beginningless and He is the Releaser of persons from worldly existence. Just as medicine is naturally antagonistic to ailments, so also Shiva is antagonistic to the ills of worldly existence. If the Lord of the universe had not been in existence, the whole universe would have been gloomy, since prakriti is insentient and purusha is ignorant. Pradhana (unmanifest prakriti), atoms, etc. are insentient; they never function as creators themselves without an intelligent cause. The instruction in virtue and evil, bondage and salvation, the activity of reflection - in view of all these things - the first creation of men would not have been possible without the omniscient Lord. Just as patients will be devoid of joy and be distressed without physicians, so also the people of the world would be in distress without the Lord. Hence, surely there is the Lord, the primordial, omniscient, perfect, Sadashiva, the Protector of persons from the ocean of worldly existence.</font></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><font face="verdana"><div style="text-align: justify;">Shiva is devoid of beginning, middle or end. He is the Lord innately pure, omniscient, and perfect as mentioned in the Shaiva Agamas. This mantra expresses Him; He is the person expressed by the great mantra. The Shivajnana (Shiva consciousness) is as extensive as the expression of Shiva, the six-syllable mantra, <b>OM Namah Shivaya</b>. </div></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">Although there are many mantras, there is nothing like the holy mantra [originally] uttered by Shiva. The Vedas and scriptures (shastras) along with their ancillaries are present in the six syllables. Hence no other mantra is equal to this. Just as an aphorism is ramified and expanded by its gloss, the six-syllable mantra is expanded by seven crores of great and subsidiary mantras [contained within all scriptures]. Whatever texts there are, they expound Shivajnana; all the repositories of lore, they are commentaries of this succinct aphorism, the six-syllable mantra. Of what avail are many mantras and shastras full of details to one whose heart is firmly established in the mantra <b>OM Namah Shivaya</b>?</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">If one has stabilized himself in the mantra <b>OM Namah Shivaya</b> by frequent practice, he has learned it all, heard it all, and performed it all. For that person on whose tongue's tip is present the three syllables <b>Shi-va-ya</b> prefixed by the word denoting obeisance (<b>Namah</b>), life is fruitful indeed! A person steady in the chanting of the five-syllable mantra is released from the cage of sins whoever he be - wise, low born or learned.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font face="verdana">All this was mentioned by the Lord when asked by the Goddess [in the days of yore] for the benefit of all men, particularly the wise.</font></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><font face="verdana" size="2">Shiva Purana, Vayaviya Samhita, Section II, Chapter XII:1-20, 30-38.</font></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-45344375389712081812020-07-20T06:00:00.006-07:002020-07-20T06:00:01.538-07:00Doctrine of Time<div><span><font face="verdana">Today, we examine a passage from the Vinashikha Tantra (वीणाशिखा तन्त्र), a text found within the shikha group of the <a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2013/12/bhairava-and-tantras.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2013/12/bhairava-and-tantras.html">Bhairava canon</a>. The Vinashikha focuses on Tumburu, a form of Shiva now largely forgotten. Just as Sadashiva is the central form of Shiva in the Siddhanta stream (<a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/08/birth-of-tantras.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/08/birth-of-tantras.html">srotas</a>) and Bhairava is the central form of Shiva in the Dakshina stream, so Tumburu is the central form of Shiva in the Vama stream of tantras, of which Vinashikha is one. </font></span></div><div><span><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div><span><font face="verdana">Within the Vinashikha, it is said that he who knows Time (Kala) also knows the Eternal Shiva (verse 233), and this doctrine is explained further below. We have previously seen why Shiva is called <a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2009/01/time-divine_01.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2009/01/time-divine_01.html">Mahakala</a>, but here we understand it a little differently, in a more mystical manner. </font></span></div><div><span><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div><font face="verdana"><span>In the passage below, we find the <a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/01/oldest-system-of-philosophical-thought.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/01/oldest-system-of-philosophical-thought.html">sankhya</a> ontology explained in a succinct manner. </span><span>Beyond the 24 tattvas that make up physical reality (prakriti or pura) is the purusha, the individual self or spirit, residing in the lotus of the heart. </span><span>The Lord, who is beyond purusha and prakriti, also resides deep within ourselves. He is the center of our existence, just as the pole star is the center of the heavens, and everything revolves around Him. The whole world originates and dissolves in Him. It is interesting to note the absence of discussion of higher tattvas characteristic of tantric Shaivism. The ontology discussed herein is remarkably similar to that found in the <a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/08/sutas-prayer-linga-purana.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/08/sutas-prayer-linga-purana.html">Linga Purana</a>, and likely suggests a similar age for the composition of the Vinashikha. </span></font></div><div><span><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div><font face="verdana"><span>Now, the Lord is said to reside</span><span> at the tuft </span><span>of the spine </span><span>(sahasrara chakra) </span><span>and Kundalini Shakti resides at its base (muladhara chakra), dormant. The purusha residing within the cavity of the heart strives to reach up to the Lord in the sahasrara. Time, equated mystically with the 21600 respiration cycles </span><span>(<a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/01/unchanted-mantra.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2008/01/unchanted-mantra.html">hamsa</a>) that make up the day, allows this passage, this union. The hamsa powers the upward flow of</span><span> Kundalini Shakti to the sahasrara chakra allowing for Her to unite with Shiva. </span></font></div><div><span><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div><span><font face="verdana">Said another way, Time exists to allow us to power the Kundalini Shakti lying dormant within so She can unite with Shiva in the sahasrara padma. Time exists only so the individual can realize Shiva within. Time is the great Creator of this experiential reality and the great Dissolver of it all. Time is Shiva and the means to realize Him. He is <a href="#" id="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2009/01/time-divine_01.html" name="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2009/01/time-divine_01.html">Mahakala, Time Divine</a>. </font></span></div><div><span><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div><span><font face="verdana">As the grammarian Bhartrhari has said: <i>kalaya tasmai namah</i> - Oh Time, salutations to thee! </font></span></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><font face="verdana">Aum Namah Shivaya</font></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><span><font face="verdana">-----</font></span></div><div><span><font face="verdana">The Lord said: </font></span></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5PwpUY2nFEJtTroSIWLwamJgH9GnxYQc54cltVjye_imUkBMNWcXwaFJkjNRsyz7EoODiIArkIzVbzn-_y3vEYfsAOpGd-OwJjvPUAiPA50xjKwWpphwWVUY2uql-Cx-SD2C47XFEpWQP/s351/Capture.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><font face="verdana"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="351" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5PwpUY2nFEJtTroSIWLwamJgH9GnxYQc54cltVjye_imUkBMNWcXwaFJkjNRsyz7EoODiIArkIzVbzn-_y3vEYfsAOpGd-OwJjvPUAiPA50xjKwWpphwWVUY2uql-Cx-SD2C47XFEpWQP/w256-h254/Capture.JPG" width="256" /></font></a></div><font face="verdana">O Goddess, hear the supreme mystery, the embodiment within oneself of the real nature of Time. Having obtained knowledge of this, the possessors of mantras easily obtain success.</font></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><font face="verdana">Twenty-one thousand six hundred [respiration cycles] should be recognized in a twenty-four-fold rhythm occupying the regular course toward and from the mystic centre which lies at twelve fingers' breadth [<i>dvadashanta</i>; sahasrara chakra]. </font></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><font face="verdana">For the benefit of the practitioners I shall explain the <i>hamsa </i>as it resides within the body in divisible and indivisible form.</font></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><font face="verdana">Wise men recognize twenty-five categories of reality <span>[</span><i>tattvas</i><span>] </span><span>within the body. Feet, organs of excretion and generation, hands and speech [</span><i>karmendriyas</i><span>]; ear, skin, eye, tongue and nose [<i>jnanendriyas</i>]; earth, water, fire, wind and space [<i>mahabhutas</i>], sound, touch, form, taste and smell [<i>tanmatras</i>]; and mind, intellect, ego-consciousness, the unmanifest [prakriti] and the purusha. </span></font></div><div><span><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div><font face="verdana"><span>With these (being considered) as substrate, the superstructure should always be meditated upon. </span><span>The substrate is called the Fortress [Pura], the superstructure is called the Purusha, who resides in the filament of the lotus of the heart, striving upwards, of the nature of existence. This is the residence of the indivisible [nishkala] God within the substrate. </span></font></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><font face="verdana">That Purusha; the substrate and the superstructure; this body consisting of the six covers, the twenty-five tattvas; the Fortress [<i>Pura</i>] with the ten airs [<i>pranas</i>], pervaded by yogic ducts [<i>nadis</i>], the three temperaments [gunas: sattva, rajas, tamas] and inhabited by hosts of Deities -- all this revolves like a wheel under His presidence, that <span>indivisible Supreme Shiva. </span></font></div><div><span><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div><font face="verdana">Just as the whole host of stars, planets and celestial bodies in orbit revolve around the presiding Pole Star despite being immovable, so is the body to the Lord identical with the complete host of Bijas. </font></div><div><span><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div><span><font face="verdana">Having obtained the insight that [this body] is presided over by Shiva, one will attain success in the Tantra.</font></span></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><font face="verdana">The Shakti, which has the crooked form of three-fold bending [Kundalini], characterized by the sixth vowel (U), pervaded by the Bindu, residing in the body, of divisible nature - of Her, a fiery tuft exists, subtle, equal to the flexible stalk of a lotus. And it should be known as having a glowing form; at its extremity Shiva resides. </font></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><font face="verdana">The whole living world up to Brahma's heaven, from <i>a</i> to <i>ksa</i> (as it's phonic manifestation) originates from Him and is dissolved at the same place. </font></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><font face="verdana">This is the supreme, subtle Lord who resides within the substrate and the superstructure. </font></div><div><font face="verdana"><br /></font></div><div><span><font face="verdana"><b>Vinashikha Tantra</b> 238-253 </font></span></div><div><span><font face="verdana">Trans. Teun Goudriaan</font></span></div><div><font face="verdana">(edited for clarification)</font></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-10374908622615708302020-07-13T08:00:00.018-07:002020-07-20T19:42:07.089-07:00Body of Sadashiva<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="verdana">Today we examine an excerpt from the Mrgendra Agama (मृगेन्द्र आगम; also known as Mrgendra Tantra/मृगेन्द्र तन्त्र or alternatively as </font></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 16px;">Narasimha Agama/नारसिंह आगम</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">). Although considered a subsidiary Agama (upagama), it is of great importance because it espouses very ancient philosophy and theology of Shaivism. We find that scholars belonging both to the Shaiva Siddhanta and Trika schools quote from the Mrgendra Tantra. Most notably, Bhatta Narayanakantha has commented on this text. Mrgendra, meaning Lord of animals, is so named because it is narrated by Indra while wearing lion's armor, and is supposed to be an abridged version of the Kamika Agama Mahatantra.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="verdana">This excerpt below speaks of the body of Sadashiva. As we've examined previously, Sadashiva is the embodiment of the five mantras known as the <a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/08/pancha-brahma-mantras.html" target="_blank">Panchbrahma mantras</a>. The five mantras correspond to His five cosmic functions (<i>panchakritya</i>; creation, sustenance, dissolution, concealing and revealing grace), His five forms (Sadyojata, Vamadeva, Aghora, Tatpurusha, and Ishana), His five Shaktis, the five pranas, the five mahabhutas, the five tanmatras, the five karmendriyas, the five jnanendriyas, the five antahkaranas, the five letters of na-ma-shi-va-ya, etc. (see: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/12DLK_9Yny74KITIvfihSC-rIY_zrdqf5H9tLUfOKFws/edit" target="_blank">Panchabrahma - Shiva Purana</a>) </font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="color: #3367d6; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Aum Haum Namah Shivaya. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;">-----</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH2i8Q0OgPGsnF3ny8Ll3qPrqumNZQOTOkH9NAEo2aXN024Jdy3FQrcP9bcCPSQbWLL4mX_T3ULy2QGr6PSzAYfJ07PRDlzkvuwvKgGi6iw5l-fqwCHgxI6fne2NdRwkfRK8V5N71qHNaj/s261/Capture.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH2i8Q0OgPGsnF3ny8Ll3qPrqumNZQOTOkH9NAEo2aXN024Jdy3FQrcP9bcCPSQbWLL4mX_T3ULy2QGr6PSzAYfJ07PRDlzkvuwvKgGi6iw5l-fqwCHgxI6fne2NdRwkfRK8V5N71qHNaj/s0/Capture.JPG" /></a></div>Since there are no body-creating seeds such as </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://shivadarshana.blogspot.com/2007/09/triad-impurities-mala-traya.html" target="_blank">mala</a> </i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">(impurities), karma and others for the Supreme Lord, His body is not like our bodies. His body is of the very nature of Shakti. The body of Shiva is constituted of five mantras so as to be instrumentally useful in performing the five cosmic functions. </span></font><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">These constituent five mantras - Ishana, Tatpurusha, Aghora, Vama and Sadyojata - are designated the head and other parts of the body of Shiva.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="verdana">Because
of the nature of bestowing grace upon all, because of its existence and
function in the higher plane of pure <i>adhva </i>(pure realm of maya) and because of
its highly elevated state comparable to the head-portion, the Ishana mantra is
considered to constitute the head of Lord Shiva (<i>Ishana murdha</i>). </font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="verdana">Since
it exists as the activating and energizing source in the bodies of the higher
souls (Devas) and of other beings, since it manifests and illumines the
knowledge of the beings, since it dispels the fear related to the
continuing transmigration and since it protects the souls, the Tatpurusha
mantra is considered to constitute the face of Lord Shiva (<i>Tatpurusha vaktra</i>).</font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
word </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">hrdaya</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is synonymous with
consciousness. Shiva’s form which is of the nature of that consciousness
is pure and tranquil. Being free from the state of dreadfulness (aghora), the
mantra assumes the form </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">aghora
hrdaya</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. Since the assumptive energy (</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">parigraha
shakti</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">) otherwise known as adhikara shakti related to impure maya is
very dreadful, the form of Shiva has been figuratively told to be dreadful.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Since
the three goals – <i>dharma, artha and kama</i> – are of inferior nature when compared
to the highest state of liberation (moksha), they are collectively known
as </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">vama</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. That effulgence of Shiva
which enables the souls experience <i>dharma</i>, <i>artha </i>and <i>kama </i>according to
their karmic fruits becomes known as </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Vamadeva</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.
Since, by its own nature, it remains very subtle and secret (</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">guhya</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, not exposed to vision), the
Vamadeva mantra is considered to constitute the privy part of the form of Lord
Shiva (<i>Vamadeva guhya). </i></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font face="verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By
its mere will (volition, </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">iccha</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">), the
Sadya mantra creates bodies to the souls instantaneously and it creates
the mantric forms befitting the contemplations of the yogins. Because of this
power and because of its quickness of action (sadya), the mantra assumes
the form </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Sadyojata Murta</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. Shiva is
called </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Murtin</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (possessor of
form) not because He assumes forms, but because of this mantra.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="verdana">In
reality, there is no body for Lord Shiva, since all the actions to be carried
out by the body are all fulfilled by His Shakti itself. The form as
constituted by Shakti is said to be body, only in the secondary sense.
Even though this Shakti is only One, the enlightened Sages maintain that Shakti
is associated with different states such as Vama and others in view of the
varied actions concerned with the pure path (<i>suddha maya</i>).</font></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span font-family:="" style="font-size: 12pt;" verdana=""><b>Mrgendra Agama, Vidyapada III:8-14.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Trans. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">Dr. S.P. Sabharathnam </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-70587599366923267022020-07-07T15:44:00.000-07:002020-07-07T20:33:35.015-07:00To Rudra Who is Such<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">All this verily is Rudra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">To Rudra who is such, we offer our salutation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We salute again and again that Being, Rudra, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Who alone is the Light and Soul of creatures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The material universe, the created beings and manifold creation, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Whatever there is in the past and in the present in the form of this world,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">All that is indeed Rudra!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Salutations be to Rudra who is such.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We sing a hymn that confers on us happiness of the highest degree to Rudra, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Who is worthy of praise and endowed with the highest knowledge,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Who showers blessings upon worshipers most excellently,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Who is most powerful and who is dwelling in the heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Indeed all this is Rudra!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Salutations be to Rudra, who is such.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Taittariya Aranyaka X:24-25 of the Krsna Yajurveda</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">|| Aum Namo Bhagavate Rudraya ||</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-59933292482158758352020-07-05T10:59:00.002-07:002020-07-21T20:52:27.309-07:00O Holy Month of Shravan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
O holy month of Shravan!<br />
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The first month of Chaturmaas,</div>
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The most auspicious of months,</div>
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For Shiva is very close to us during.</div>
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O holy month of Shravan!</div>
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May your Mondays bring us peace,</div>
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May your full moon bring us strength,</div>
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For Shiva is very accessible to us during.</div>
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O holy month of Shravan!</div>
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The first month of heavy rains,</div>
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May you bring us prosperity,</div>
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For Shiva is always <b>listening</b> to us during.</div>
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Aum Namah Shivaya. </div>
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Notes:<br />
1. Shravan (Skt: shrAvaNa, श्रावण) is the first month of Chaturmaas.<br />
2. Chaturmaas (Skt: caturmAsa, चतुर्मास) refers to the four month period of rains and consists of the <a href="https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/purnimanta" target="_blank">purnimanta</a> months of Shravan, Bhadrapad, Ashvin and Kartik.<br />
3. Mondays of Shravan are considered especially holy for Shiva worship.<br />
4. The name Shravan is derived from Shravana (Skt: shravaNA, श्रवणा), the name of the asterism on which the full moon occurs during this month, and literally means hearing or listening. Hence the word listening has a double meaning here.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-45112028556540345802019-09-03T22:27:00.000-07:002019-09-07T16:26:48.104-07:00The Elixir to the ills of the world<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Morning Chant for Remembering Shiva </b></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Bearer of the Ganga, whose mount is the bull, the Lord of Ambika. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">To Him who holds the club and trident, who blesses and grants fearlessness, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Elixir to the ills of world, that One without a second! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Primal God, the very cause of creation, sustenance and dissolution. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">To the Lord of the universe, whose charm conquers the world, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">nāmādibhedarahitaṁ ṣaḍbhāvaśūnyaṁ saṁsārarogaharamauṣadhadvitīyam ||3||</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">To Him free of distinctions of name and form, bereft of the six bodily conditions,</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3598848915314147094.post-20211600966012416132019-08-31T13:22:00.001-07:002019-08-31T20:03:56.609-07:00White as Camphor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Below is a beautiful <i>shloka</i>, a popular short prayer, addressed to Lord Shiva which is commonly recited during <i>arati </i>rituals. This <i>shloka</i> is written in the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristubh" target="_blank">trishtubh</a> </i>meter (4x11 syllables) and is often times cited to be from the Yajurveda. However, it is more likely part of a post-vedic composition. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nevertheless, this simple verse is beautiful and spiritual capturing in 44 syllables both philosophy and devotion. Lord Shiva is envisioned in a form white like camphor, garlanded by the king of serpents (a reference to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini" target="_blank">Kundalini Shakti</a>). He is both the essence of the universe and the indweller (<i>antaryamin</i>), who resides in the lotus of the heart. He is compassion personified! The verse ends as a salutation to the ever-inseparable Shiva-Shakti, Bhava and Bhavani, the very nature of all existence.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Tooltip" style="font-size: large;">कर्पूरगौरं</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Tooltip" style="font-size: large;">करुणावतारं </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Sanskrit"><span class="Tooltip">संरसारं</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Sanskrit"> <span class="Tooltip">भुजगेन्द्रहारम्</span> ।</span></span><br />
<span class="Tooltip" style="font-size: large;">सदावसन्तं</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Tooltip" style="font-size: large;">हृदयारविन्दे </span><br />
<span class="Tooltip" style="font-size: large;">भवं</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Tooltip" style="font-size: large;">भवानीसहितं</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Tooltip" style="font-size: large;">नमामि</span><span style="font-size: large;"> ॥</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="Sanskrit" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">karpūragauraṁ karuṇāvatāraṁ </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="Sanskrit" style="font-size: normal;">sa</span><span class="Sanskrit" style="font-size: normal;"><span class="Sanskrit">ṁ</span>sārsāra</span><span class="Sanskrit" style="font-size: normal;"><span class="Sanskrit">ṁ</span> bhujagendrahāram |<br />
sadāvasantaṁ hṛdayāravinde </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="Sanskrit">bhavaṁ bhavānīsahitaṁ namāmi ||</span> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">White as camphor, the very form of compassion,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Essence of the universe, garlanded by the serpent king, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Forever residing in the lotus of the heart,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To Bhava-Bhavani together I bow.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Aum Namah Shivaya.</b></span></span>
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