Re: Incarnation of Shiva
Originally Posted by
Eastern Mind
If Siva is truly All and in all, how could he possibly incarnate into a single human body. Wouldn't the rest of us (let alone all of the inanimate universe) be drawn into that, as we are all Siva too. (poor body would just explode from the shock) I think the concept puts Siva in a diminutive light. Siva is everywhere, in the trees, in the swamis, in us, at the core, in the lotus of the heart, "Anbe sivamayam, Satyame Parasivam". So if all of a sudden, Siva went into a single human body, that would put a limit on him. This doesn't jive with his 'infinite' ness. But then again I'm an Agamic Saivite, and as others have so verily stated in previous posts, this concept is not there. But if you want to believe he incarnates, too, that's your right. He's also in that thought. Aum Namasivaya
Namaste Eastern Mind,
Leave alone Shiva, one who has gained Shiva knowledge is not located in a body, though apparently for me and you, such a jnani may appear to be limited by a body.
These bodies are like costumes used in drama etc., you know. Wise knowers use the costumes in dharmic way and cause less war and strife. Jnanis who are non-different from Atman Shiva have no dharma to adhere to.
Om
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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