SHIVA

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OM Namah

Shivaya Maha-

Shivaratri

 

What is Shiva?

 

Shiva is Nataraj--the dance in emptiness

and aloneness -- the Lahiri, the love,

the laya in Kriya Yoga. It is the truth (swadhya), toil (tapas) and transce=

ndance (Ishwara Pranidhan) of Kriya Yoga. He

(Aloneness) is the father to our wisdom

and wonders. He is a tranquil counsellor

and mentor chasing away with his radiant smile all our clouds of gloom and=

 

depression, pointing to the eternal fire

(Kundalini), quiet and preserving,

leading us towards the integrality

of the natural state of human life. In Shivahood, there is no `me´

experiencing and enhancing expectations

of the dualistic brain-cortex.

 

Water does not experience water. Fire

does not experience fire.

All determination is distortion and decoration and therefore negation of

Reality. All propositions about Shivahood (No-mind) are only pervertions an=

d

paradoxes of the mind. The vital energy (Shiva) is perceived when the scre=

en

provided by cultural inputs and

conditioned reflexes is shattered, when

the mental devices created by our

upbringing and untertakings are destroyed,

when the fabrications generated by our

fear and greed are finished.

 

That radical mutation is Shivahood which cannot be brought about by the inh=

erent mischief and utter shallowness of the

mind indulging in all kinds of belief-

systems and their psychic, neurotic and occult dimensions.

 

Shivahood is the new man who is not a follower or a `believer´, but beyond =

all

beliefs and disbeliefs, all `good´ or

`evil´, all `right´ or `wrong´, all

`allies´ or `enemies´,

all `bliss´ or `blows´,

`God´ or `Nothingness´.

 

The new man is the door through which he himself goes without any dependenc=

e, attachment or cravings. Shivahood is

regeneration of mankind and if the

current closed-loop identifications

continue in our daily lives, then the

future of humanity is further

degeneration and destruction.

 

Shivahood is sanity, subtelity, patience

persistence, integral and flawless. It

is not carelessness, negligence and indolence. It is the right instrument,

right condition, right process.

 

a portion of post from an other thread:

message-47 Alfaz-Albir / Spain

March 12, 2002-03-12

 

~k~