Re: Hot Or Cold - Never Warm
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
Originally Posted by
Necromancer
When I am meditating on Lord Shiva, it is 'all or nothing' now.
I do not understand this experience... To meditate on Him (śiva) is to say there is 2 ( you and Him). Yet it is śiva that is the actual pure awareness, the purity that knows Himself. Wherefrom comes two in your experience ? He is perfectly pure ( as you know) there is no duality as that suggests impure ( or 2).
so, yajvan what are you saying ?
Are you certain of your experience ? It is perhaps you are putting your awareness on the idea of śiva which is all well and good. Yet the actual absorption (the very fancy term is viśvottīrṇa avasthā¹) comes and goes or is not part of your direct personal experience ?
We are told in our āgama-s¹ :
yathālokena dīpasya kiraṇair-bhāskarasya ca |
jñāyate dig-vibhāgāadi tadvac chatyā śivaḥ priye || 21
Just as parts of space are known by the light of a lamp
or the rays of the sun, in the same way O'dear One
śiva is known through śakti.
What is the essence here ? That śiva is arrived at via the awareness, the constantly refreshed awareness that deposits one into viśvottīrṇa avasthā .
iti śivaṁ
words
- viśvottīrṇa avasthā - the transcendental state; perfect purity of awareness; seedless as it is called.
- this is from vijñāna bhairava kārikā-s - the conversation between śakti and śiva; a subsection of the rudrayāmala tantra
यतसà¥à¤¤à¥à¤µà¤‚ शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṠśivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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