Ardhanaareswara

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Namaste,

 

Stregnth is masculine in nature....Acceptance is feminine in nature

Rajas is quality of stregnth....Tamas is quality of Acceptance...

Shivam is embodiment of stregnth ....as sakthi for Acceptance

Pride is to stregnth ... as shyness is to acceptance

Force is to stregnth......as vulnerability is for Acceptance

 

Every human has to balance the Stregnth with Acceptance ie., Rajas

with Tamas ie., Shivam with Sakthi for daily sustinence.

 

Stregnth simulates acceptance by gaining approval for all its actions

or opinions to survive...If it can get the approval from its own self

its liberated...it can act detatched ie., without expectation from

the outside world and influences...by default others get their

approvals from the external world in many forms...like from head

counts, by elimination method ie., killing other ideas or opinions

from existence or by conversion method ie, forcing or convincing

people to buy into their idealogies or positions. This induces

pocessive quality.

 

Acceptance simulates its requirement for stregnth to carry forward by

gaining stregnth from ones own self (realized souls) or by succumbing

to the size, sound, count, looks etc., for example people look

forward for scientists to talk good about vedanta...Media to talk

about it...Lack of stregnth leads to depressive qualities...

 

Shivam simulating shakthi or shakthi culminating the attitude of

shivam from ones own self through practice is sadhakam.

 

....shivam realizing the nature of shakthi in itself is the state of

Ardhanaareswara ie., Liberation. one gets the sadhviga guna here.

 

How can one achieve that ????

 

Pranams

Srinivasan.V

 

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Namaste:

 

Thanks for providing the insightful symbolism behind the image

of "Ardhanaareswara." Those who have visited the Madurai Meenakshi

temple might have seen the statues of Ardhanaareswara and the

UrthaThandavam of Nataraja. They are situated on the side hall in

front of the inner sanctum of the Swami Sannadhi (deity of Shiva).

The statue of Ardhanaareswara is half-male and half-female. This is a

symbolic representation of the "Ultimate Reality" with simultaneous

presence of Sat and Asat, Brahman and mAyA, Real and unreal.

Essentially this magnificent statue (over 10 feet tall) is a single

stone artistic sculpture with great details. Most importantly, it

symbolizes the Cosmic Image of Brahman. Human perception is the

cause of the apparent presence of duality and they are two sides of

the same single coin!

 

The UrthaThandavam symbolizes the dance competition of Nataraja and

Sakti. According to the story, Nataraja defeats Sakti and becomes the

Ardhanaareswar with half-male and half-female. The represented dance

is the Cosmic dance Cosmic Dance of the Brahman, the representation

of cycle of creation (birth) and demolition (death).

 

Those who stand in front of these statues can feel the vibration and

learn few Vedantic lessons!

 

Warmest regards,

 

Ram Chandran

 

-- In advaitin, "V.Srinivasan <test0001@u...>"

<test0001@u...> wrote:

> Namaste,

>

> Stregnth is masculine in nature....Acceptance is feminine in nature

> Rajas is quality of stregnth....Tamas is quality of Acceptance...

> Shivam is embodiment of stregnth ....as sakthi for Acceptance

> Pride is to stregnth ... as shyness is to acceptance

> Force is to stregnth......as vulnerability is for Acceptance