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    Re: I am Shiva

    From Afar
    Rabindranath Tagore

    The 'I' that floats along the wave of time,
    From a distance I watch him.
    With the dust and the water,
    With the fruit and the flower,
    With the All he is rushing forward.
    He is always on the surface,
    Tossed by the waves and dancing to the rhythm
    Of joy and suffering.
    The least loss makes him suffer,
    The least wound hurts him--
    Him I see from afar.
    That 'I' is not my real self;
    I am still within myself,
    I do not float in the stream of death.
    I am free, I am desireless,
    I am peace, I am illumined--
    Him I see from afar.

    Om Namah Shivaya
    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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    Re: Shiva Theosophical Society

    Quote Originally Posted by atanu View Post
    Shiva

    [Reprinted from THE THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT, February 1962]

    Who is Shiva, the destroyer-god, who with Brahma, the creator, and Vishnu, the preserver, forms the Hindu Trimurti? What relationship exists between this god and humanity? Is he to be prayed to, to be worshipped, to be feared, to be appeased? He is said to be Rudra, the terrible, the destroyer, the regenerator, the frequenter of the burning-ground, the Cosmic dancer, the eternal Contemplator, the Mahayogi, the patron of all the yogis. Is he entirely a Hindu concept? Or do we find him as Phtah, Typhon and Set in the Egyptian, as Saturn-Kronos in the Greek, as Jehovah in the Jewish, as Baal in the Chaldean teachings? Does not his vehicle, Nandi, the Bull, have its counterpart in Apis, the Egyptian sacred bull? And is not his symbol, the lingam, that of every creative god in every nation? The fundamental idea needs to be grasped that Shiva is a great god in Nature, a power in the Cosmos, the Sound, the Word, or Vach, that stirs all into activity. It is his drum that is the origin of Sanskrit, the language of the gods, Panini says. It is Nature's call, the rhythm of the Universe, the Song of Life, the sound of the waves, the rumbling of the thunderclap, the vast sounds emitted by every aspect of Nature, from the bursting of the bud to the earthquake, the "silvery buzzing of the golden fire-fly" to the trumpeting of the elephant. Shiva is Motion, which is positive and negative, present eternally in every atom during this Manvantara. He is within every atom; every atom is part of him; he is within every man and every man is part of him. There is that aspect of Shiva which we do not yet perceive, for it is without the sphere of our consciousness, and that aspect which is in us and which we are dimly beginning to recognize as the perceiver through sorrow and joy. Evolution is the process of becoming one with the eternal perceiver-contemplator. Briefly put, Shiva is the All. He is the universal spiritual essence of Nature. We degrade him by our anthropomorphic conceptions of him. Nature alone can incarnate the delusions which the illusions of Nature produce in us. It is because destruction is necessary for all changed and progress that man fears him and he has become the dreaded god of the burning-ground. Unfortunately for us, his regenerative aspect has been lost sight of. But, when this is seen, then destruction is welcomed, for it is only through destruction resulting in regeneration that we progress. This recognition marks a stage in human awakening and brings to mind H.P.B.'s statement: "Woe to those who live without suffering."
    The best thread probably in Shaiva forum - for me.. cant stop re-reading it ove & over..

    Atanu's message in the first few pages - AMAZING...

    IM bowled over by the Shiva Bhaktas here !!

    Servitors to the servitors of Eeshan , am i !!!
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    " In the fifty letters reside the Vedas,
    In the fifty letters reside the Aagamaas,
    When one comprehends all the fifty,
    What remains are the letters Holy Five !! "

    - Tiru Mantram 965,

    by Tiru Moolar
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    Re: I am Shiva

    ************ POsted by ATANU *******************************

    Punyakshi’s Groom

    The gods did not want Punyakshi to marry. Only as a virgin did she possess the power to kill demons. Punyakshi, however, longed to be like other girls: to have a husband and a home. The men in her village refused to marry her, out of reverence to the will of the gods. So she prayed to Shiva to be her husband. He agreed. “What’s the bridal price?” he asked other gods. “A sugarcane without rings, a betel leaf without veins and a coconut without eyes,” said the gods. Shiva conjured up these unnatural gifts. “Here is the bridal price. Now, when can we get married?” asked Shiva.

    The gods were angry with Shiva; they were determined to stop the marriage. So they said: “You must get married before the roosters crow at dawn tomorrow, otherwise you must wait till the end of this aeon.”

    This condition was a real obstacle, for Punyakshi’s village was at the southern tip of Jambudvipa, while Shiva lived on the hills that bordered its northern frontiers. It was a distance that nobody could traverse in one day, not even the gods.

    “Fear not, Punyakshi, I will fly through the air and be there on time to make you my wife,” promised Shiva. Reassured, Punyakshi bedecked herself as a bride. Her father invited the whole village to the wedding. The priests set up the marriage pandal, the cooks prepared the food. Everything was ready.

    At the appointed hour, however, Shiva did not arrive. Everybody was disappointed. The sun rose and the priests departed. So did the guests. There would be no marriage, no banquet.

    Hurt and humiliated, the girl kicked the pots of food cooked for the marriage feast and threw away her ornaments. The demons looked at the frustrated girl and mocked her. “Why don’t you marry us instead?” they screeched. In rage, she picked up a sickle and killed them all.

    Punyaksi stood on the tip of India and decided to wait there until the end of the aeon when she was destined to be united with her lord. She became the Goddess Kanyakumari. The food prepared for the wedding mixed with the sand forever colouring the beach at Kanyakumari.

    As for Shiva, he did come, flying through air, as promised. But on the way he heard roosters crow. The gods had played a cruel trick: they had duped Shiva by making the roosters crow much before the daybreak. Shiva still waits for Punyakshi at Sudindram, Tamil Nadu.

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    Reminds me of the eternal Mother Shakti at the base of every spine, waiting to unite with Her Lord at the top ; the spine being Mother Bhaarat in the micro cosmic sense.
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    " In the fifty letters reside the Vedas,
    In the fifty letters reside the Aagamaas,
    When one comprehends all the fifty,
    What remains are the letters Holy Five !! "

    - Tiru Mantram 965,

    by Tiru Moolar
    ******************************************

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    Re: I am Shiva

    Quote Originally Posted by sarabhanga View Post
    आत्मषटक


    || ātmashataka ||


    मनोबुध्यहंकारचित्तानि नाहं
    manobuddhyahankāracittāni nāham

    न च श्रोत्रजिह्वे न च घ्राणनेत्रे ।
    na ca śrotrajihve na ca ghrānanetre |

    न च व्योमभूमिः न तेजो न वायुः
    na ca vyomabhūmih na tejo na vāyuh

    चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहं शिवोऽहम् ।१।
    cidānandarūpah śivo'ham śivo'ham |1|


    न च प्राणसञ्ज्ञो न वै पञ्चवायुः
    na ca prānasańjńo na vai pańcavāyuh

    न वा सप्तधातुर्न वा पञ्चकोशः ।
    na vā saptadhāturna vā pańcakośah |

    न वाक्पाणिपादौ न चोपस्थपायू
    na vākpānipādau na copasthapāyū

    चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहं शिवोऽहम् ।२।
    cidānandarūpah śivo'ham śivo'ham |2|


    न मे द्वेषरागौ न मे लोभमोहौ
    na me dvesharāgau na me lobhamohau

    मदो नैव मे नैव मात्सर्यभावः ।
    mado naiva me naiva mātsaryabhāvah |

    न धर्मो न चार्थो न कामो न मोक्षः
    na dharmo na cārtho na kāmo na mokshah

    चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहं शिवोऽहम् ।३।
    cidānandarūpah śivo'ham śivo'ham |3|


    न पुण्यं न पापं न सौख्यं न दुःखं
    na punyam na pāpam na saukhyam na duhkham

    न मन्त्रो न तीर्थं न वेदा न यज्ञाः ।
    na mantro na tīrtham na vedā na yajńāh |

    अहं भोजनं नैव भोज्यं न भोक्ता
    aham bhojanam naiva bhojyam na bhoktā

    चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहं शिवोऽहम् ।४।
    cidānandarūpah śivo'ham śivo'ham |4|


    न मे मृत्युशंका न मे जातिभेदः
    na me mrityuśamkā na me jātibhedah

    पिता नैव मे नैव माता न जन्म ।
    pitā naiva me naiva mātā na janma |

    न बन्धुर्न मित्रं गुरुर्नैव शिष्यः
    na bandhurna mitram gururnaiva śishyah

    चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहं शिवोऽहम् ।५।
    cidānandarūpah śivo'ham śivo'ham |5|


    अहं निर्विकल्पो निराकाररूपो
    aham nirvikalpo nirākārarūpo

    विभुर्व्याप्य सर्वत्र सर्वेन्द्रियाणाम् ।
    vibhurvyāpya sarvatra sarvendriyānām |

    सदा मे समत्वं न मुक्तिर्न बन्धः
    sadā me samatvam na muktirna bandhah

    चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहं शिवोऽहम् ।६।

    cidānandarūpah śivo'ham śivo'ham |6|
    Here is a beautifull version of this song from Deva Premal:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ePVRBpdSS4

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    Re: I am Shiva

    Namaste.

    Old thread...nice thread...wish there were more threads like it thread...

    Shiva

    On the white summit of eternity
    A single Soul of bare infinities,
    Guarded he keeps by a fire-screen of peace
    His mystic loneliness of nude ecstasy.
    But, touched by an immense delight to be,
    He looks across unending depths and sees
    Musing amid the inconscient silences
    The Mighty Mother’s dumb felicity.

    Half now awake she rises to his glance;
    Then, moved to circling by her heart-beats’ will,
    The rhythmic worlds describe that passion-dance.
    Life springs in her and Mind is born; her face
    She lifts to Him who is Herself, until
    The Spirit leaps into the Spirit’s embrace. -Sri Aurobindo

    Aum Namah Shivaya

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