Amritanubhava

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Ovi 63

As the salt by giving up attachment of it,s salty taste becomes sea(by merging

in it),likewise by giving up the ego i became Siva and Sakti.

Note: This verse contains the essence of the spiritual practice of Siddhas.It

means that by compleate surrender of the self at the feet of the Lord shambhu

one can attain the highest status in spiritual field known as Parampada.This is

obtained by spiritual initiation known as Shambhavi practice.It is like

exchanging something triffling for precious treasure. really speaking the

ego-sence is so insignificant as compared to self realisation that anyone should

be ready for such an exchange;but one does not do so on his volition for the

simple that he considers the ego as the most valuable because without it he will

loose his identity.In the ultimate analysis it is a process of merging of a

fraction into totality.

Ego is one of the four unmanifest internal organs of the human body.It is the

principle that creates exclusiveness or individuality---egoism or `mineness' in

every perception ,action,object or feeling. By drawing upon the store-house of

consciousness it feeds the intellect with past imprints and sets in motion

various activities through the instruments of sences.It has two segments `I'and

`mine'which manifest as powar and possessions of things.Agressiveness and

possessiveness are it,s features and they trigger off six temparaments:1)desire

,2)anger, 3) miserliness, 4) sextual passion, 5)inferiority or superiority

complex and 6)vengence.

These bind the individual soul to the wheel of births and deaths.It is

`tamas,i.e, a predominating veil lying between tje individual soul and the

supreme state.

Ego has a unique and valuable funtion to perform.It shows the relationship of

the conscious principle and the individual soul in the form of reflectoin and

the object reflected.The individual soul thus realises himself as the effulgent

knowledge and consciousness.When the ego is still ,it brings about cessation of

the functios of consciousness and the life force,thereby it becomes a means to

establishment of the self in it,s permanent abode.Beyond this leads to

understanding of the causal Sakti and realisation of Siva through the forn of

awareness of the existance alone.Sambhavi is the state of consciousness when the

Absolute state devoid of any differenciation has been attained.This is known as

exchanging the ego for the self realisation (Shambhavi )with the lord shambhu.It

is the complete idetification of the self with the universebeing in it`s

indeterminateAbsolute state.