PARAKUNNATH SREE VETTAKKORUMAKAN PAYYAN KSHETHRAM (TEMPLE), AROLI, KANNUR, KERALA: Lord Shiva is the personification of the Absolute, particularly in its dissolution of the universe

Saturday, 10 December 2016

Lord Shiva is the personification of the Absolute, particularly in its dissolution of the universe

Lord Shiva is the personification of the Absolute, particularly in its dissolution of the universe. He is the embodiment of Super-Death. He is called Yamantaka, 'The Ender of the Tamer’, He who conquers and exterminates Yama the God of Death, the Tamer. Shiva is MahaKala, Great Time, Eternity, the swallower of Time, swallower of Ages and cycles of ages. Shiva is apparently, thus, two opposite things, archetypal ascetic, and archetypal dancer. On one hand, he is Total Tranquility , inward calm absorbed in itself, absorbed in the void of the Absolute, where all distinctions merge and dissolve, and all tensions are at rest. But on the other hand, he is Total Activity, life’s energy, frantic, aimless, and playful.!
Hari Om Tat Sat ~ Jai Natraja!