To Karen on Shiva

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Karen Borak wrote:

Shiva? What is Shiva?

Shiva

Divine Dancer

Nataraj

Joined with Shakti

in all Her Forms

She who is the universe

and Life itself

He who dances

the transformation

of all that is

Shiva Ki Jai ~ Linda

This is more ~ from the "Authors Introduction" by Satguru Sivaya

Subramuniyaswami to the book "Dancing With Shiva." This book is now

fully available online at the site of the Himalayan Academy. The

specific website page is:

http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/lws/\

Living with Siva is Siva consciousness. The reconciled past releases

consciousness into the eternal moment in which we see Siva as the

life and light within everyone's eyes. Living with Siva is living

with everyone -- every reptile, fish, fowl, animal and creature, to

the very smallest -- in a consciousness of the one life force within

all of them that sustains this perfect universe. Truly, God Siva is

everywhere. He is the energy within our mind manifesting thought. He

is the thought thus made manifest. He is the light within your eyes

and the feel within your fingers. God Siva is the ignorance which

makes the One seem as two. He is the karma, which is the law of cause

and effect, and He is the maya, which is the substance of evolution in

which we become so deeply immersed that we look upon the outside world

as more real than God. God Siva is all this and more. He is the Sun,

the Earth and the spaces between. He is the revealed scriptures and

those who have scribed the scriptures. He is all who seek the wisdom

of scripture, too. Siva dances in every atom throughout this

universe. Siva dances energetically, ceaselessly, eternally. Siva is

perpetual movement. His mind is all-pervasive, and thus He sees and

knows everything in all spheres simultaneously and without effort.

Siva is the Self, and He is the energy we put forth to know the Self.

He is the mystery which makes us see Him as separate from us. He is

the energy of life, the power in the wind. He is the dissolution

called death, the peace of motionless air. He is the great force of

the ocean and the stillness on a calm lake. Siva is All and in all.