For All the Others! [was Importance and usuage of shaligram

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Hi mahahradanatha,

 

I feel it is far more valuable to recognize that these elements are

all within. I haven't recognized such stories as information on how

not to not allow one's energy to be subject to manipulation. In

fact, I think we are all conditioned to allow our energies to be

manipulated in certain ways. It keeps the world going on the way it

has been. I have felt that telling these stories as they are, via

projecting things onto male and female, continues that pattern

of "manipulation in certain ways."

 

You have done well in expressing the meaning of the story, and I

would much rather just read the paragraph below than try to sort

that meaning from that whole shaligram story. The Ardhanareshwari as

my Ishtadevata. No wonder the below paragraph appeals

 

Keep up the good work!

 

MAV

 

, "mahahradanatha"

<mahahradanatha> wrote:

>

> It is said that everything outside in the story of the gods is

also

> happening inside yourself, if you look that way please remember

also

> a female consist of both siva and shakti parts.

> To exert "magic power" your shakti part must be chaste (not be

> subject to the manipulation of another being) If you can be like

> this you follow the path of your own will as i have recently

> mentioned in other postings-this exertion of own will is called

> sveccha , this is Iccha shakti the primal creative mover. (sveccha

is

> a compound of sve and iccha)

>