PARAKUNNATH SREE VETTAKKORUMAKAN PAYYAN KSHETHRAM (TEMPLE), AROLI, KANNUR, KERALA: Only when Shiva is united with Shakti does he have power to create

Friday, 21 April 2017

Only when Shiva is united with Shakti does he have power to create

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Only when Shiva is united with Shakti does he have power to create. Otherwise the Lord doesn't even have the power to stir. ~ Saundaryalahari. Shiva and Shakti are essentially one. It is also 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. Shakti is the dynamic power of Shiva through which he manifests the worlds and their myriad objects and beings. Shakti is inseparable from Shiva just as heat from fire, light from the sun, night from the sky or a reflection from the mirror. Shiva is both the efficient and material cause of creation. Shakti is manifested by Shiva only during creation and is withdrawn into himself at the end of creation. He brings forth the worlds and their beings through his will and dynamic energy.

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. Shiva 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!