Shiva and Shakti are essentially one. It is said in the very first verse of Kalidasa’s Raghuvamsa that Shakti and Shiva stand to each other in the same relationship as the word and its meaning. Just as heat and fire are inseparable, so Shakti and Shiva are inseparable. Lord Shiva cannot do anything without Shakti. Shakti is like the snake with motion. Shiva is like the motionless snake. Waveless ocean is Shiva, Ocean with waves is Shakti. Shiva is absolutely calm, motionless, breathless, with His eyes closed in Samadhi. He is untouched by the cosmic play or Lila that is eternally going on, on His breast. He is absolutely dead to the world. He is beyond the three Gunas .There is no duality, no plurality, no relativity, no differentiation between subject and object, no distinction, no difference, no Triputi, no Dvandvas, no Raga-Dvesha, no good and evil in Him. He is ever pure, Nirlipta (unattached). And yet He is the source, substratum, support, first cause for this universe. He simply gazes. Shakti is vitalised. She works and creates. In His mere presence Shakti keeps up the play of this universe or Lila. He is superconscious and yet He has cosmic consciousness. He constitutes all the names and forms and yet He is above all names and forms. Without Shiva, Shakti has no existence and without Shakti, Shiva has no expression. It is through Shakti that the Impersonal Supreme Being Shiva or Nirguna Brahman becomes the Personal Being or Saguna Brahman. Shiv is the Soul of Durga. Shiva and Shakti are one and neither is higher than the other. Worship of SHAKTI is equivalent to worship of Shiva, and vise versa! Love, Light & Peace ~ Jai ShivaShakti ~ Jai ShankarParvati!
Monday 19 December 2016
Shiva and Shakti are essentially one.
Shiva and Shakti are essentially one. It is said in the very first verse of Kalidasa’s Raghuvamsa that Shakti and Shiva stand to each other in the same relationship as the word and its meaning. Just as heat and fire are inseparable, so Shakti and Shiva are inseparable. Lord Shiva cannot do anything without Shakti. Shakti is like the snake with motion. Shiva is like the motionless snake. Waveless ocean is Shiva, Ocean with waves is Shakti. Shiva is absolutely calm, motionless, breathless, with His eyes closed in Samadhi. He is untouched by the cosmic play or Lila that is eternally going on, on His breast. He is absolutely dead to the world. He is beyond the three Gunas .There is no duality, no plurality, no relativity, no differentiation between subject and object, no distinction, no difference, no Triputi, no Dvandvas, no Raga-Dvesha, no good and evil in Him. He is ever pure, Nirlipta (unattached). And yet He is the source, substratum, support, first cause for this universe. He simply gazes. Shakti is vitalised. She works and creates. In His mere presence Shakti keeps up the play of this universe or Lila. He is superconscious and yet He has cosmic consciousness. He constitutes all the names and forms and yet He is above all names and forms. Without Shiva, Shakti has no existence and without Shakti, Shiva has no expression. It is through Shakti that the Impersonal Supreme Being Shiva or Nirguna Brahman becomes the Personal Being or Saguna Brahman. Shiv is the Soul of Durga. Shiva and Shakti are one and neither is higher than the other. Worship of SHAKTI is equivalent to worship of Shiva, and vise versa! Love, Light & Peace ~ Jai ShivaShakti ~ Jai ShankarParvati!
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