Total Freedom

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Ananda,

Page 43 from Nothing Exists That is Not Shiva:

 

Siddhah svatantrabhavah

 

A Siddha lives in total freedom.

 

The state of a Siddha is the state of freedom.

For the embodied soul there are only two possibilities. One is the state of

bondage in which he loses the awareness of his nature, his glory, his power of

understanding, and becomes contracted. he feels, "I am small, I am a sinner, I

am subject to birth and death." His own outlook is the thing that shrinks him

day by day. As he meditates on and ponders his own limitations, he becomes

completely bound.

 

The other possibilty is the state of absolute frredom. By the grace of the

Guru, a person's inner Shakti is awakened through the process of shaktipat.

Unfolding, his Shakti fills him with consciousness, and he gradually is freed

from craving and disires, the pull of the sense organs, and from all limited

states. He achives total union with the supreme Self.

 

A person who has achieved mastery over his senses and their objects is

called a Shiddha. One who sees this world, which the ignorant experience as full

of sorrow, to be the outer sport of Parashakt is a Siddha. One who has risen

above the three bodies and their corresponding states is a Siddha. One who has

rid himself of notions of accaptance and rejection and has burned away the

imaginary distinctions of virtue and sin, enjoyment and liberation, worldliness

and spirituality in the fire of inner knowledge is a Siddha. That great soul

regards all the thoughts that rise within him, whether good or bad, as the

stirrings of the Self. One who has become the universe, the Lord of the

universe, and the Soul of the universe; one who is his own path and his own

distination; one who is fully active and yet supremely inactive; one who is

aware "I am Shiva"--he is a Siddha.

 

Premabhakti

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