Who is Shiva? Are they Gods? Or just a myth?

 

Who is Shiva? Are they Gods? Or just a myth? Or does Shiva have a deep meaning, available only to those who are searching? Many stories and legends are heard about the most important God of Indian spiritual culture, Mahadev Shiva. Are they Gods or just a fantasy of Hindu culture? Or does Shiva have a deep meaning, available only to those who are in search of truth?

Meaning of Shiva-

When we say 'Shiv', our point is towards two basic things. The literal meaning of 'Shiva' is - 'which is not'.

Shiva is zero-

Today's modern science has proven that everything in this universe comes from zero and goes back to zero. The basis of this existence and the basic quality of the entire universe is a huge emptiness. The galaxies in her are just small activities, like a shower. Apart from Him everything is an emptiness, known as Shiva. Shiva is the womb from which everything is born, and he is the anonymous, in which everything is reconstructed. Everything comes from Shiva, and goes to Shiva again.

Shiva is darkness-

So Shiva is called 'non existence', not like an existence. They are told as darkness, not light. Humanity always sings the praises of light, because their eyes only work in light. Otherwise, the only thing that is always, is dark. Light is limited, because any source of light, whether it is a bulb or the sun, will eventually stop spreading light. Light is not eternal. It's always a limited possibility, because it begins and ends. Darkness is a huge possibility from light. There is no need to burn anything in darkness, darkness always prevails. Darkness is eternal. Darkness is everywhere. He is the only thing that occupies everywhere.

But if I say - "Divine Darkness" people think I'm a worshiper of Satan. Really, in some places in the west it is being spread that Shiva is monsters! But if you see this as a theory you won't find a more clear theory about the whole process of creation in the whole world. I've been talking to scientists around the world, without speaking Shiva word. They rise with surprises, is it? Did you know these things? When? We've known this for thousands of years. Every common man of India knows this in an unconscious way. They talk about it, and they don't even know the science of it.

Meaning of Adiyogi Shiva - First Yogi and first Guru-

On another level, when we say Shiva, we are talking about a special Yogi, those who are Adiyogi or first Yogi, and who are Adiguru, or first Guru. What we know today as Yogic science, Shiva is the father of it. Yoga does not mean standing on your head or holding your breath. Yoga is the science and technology of learning the basic composition of this life, and taking it to your ultimate potential.

Yoga science's first communication took place on the banks of Kantisarovar which is an icey lake located few miles away from Kedarnath in the Himalayas. Here Adiyogi started giving systematic details of this internal technique to his first seven pupils. These seven sages are today known as Saptarshi. This happened before all religions came. Before people were designed to divide humanity badly, the most powerful means to lift human consciousness were proven and spread. Today humanity is divided in such a way that it seems almost impossible to reunite.

Shiva - Two meanings of the same word-

So the word Shiva points to both "he who is not" and Adiyogi, because in many ways they both are synonymous. These creatures, which are a yogi and that emptiness, which is the origin of the universe, both are the same. Because calling someone a Yogi means that he has experienced that the universe is himself. If you have to settle this universe within you even for a moment, you have to become that void. Only emptiness can contain everything within itself. Everything that is not zero cannot be contained within itself. Can't contain the sea in a pot. This planet can accommodate the ocean, but not the solar system. The solar system can accommodate the planets and the sun, but the rest of the sky cannot accommodate Ganges. If you move forward step by step like this, you will eventually see, that only emptiness can contain everything within you. The meaning of the word Yoga is union. Yogi is the one who has experienced this union. It means, at least for a moment, he has become a complete void.

The two meanings of the word Shiva - Yogi Shiva and Void - are synonymous, yet they are two different aspects. Because Indian culture is full of duality, we keep coming from one side to another. One moment we talk about the supreme element Shiva, the next moment we start talking about that Yogi Shiva who has given us the gift of yoga.

Om Namah Shivaaya