SHIVA THE REJUVENATOR
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An expression of the powerful Truth
When you go into your life with trust that life can expand, there is nothing to lose. Understand: there is nothing worthy to lose. Life is far richer than you. So never bother that it will take away something from you. Whatever you have is given by it. Have courage. Nothing can be taken away from you. Everyday, your frequency only increases. Every moment, your life only expands. Even your death is one more expansion. Understand: it is an expansion in a dimension your logic may not be able to relate with. But it is an expansion. We use the word Shiva for the word God in Eastern tradition.
Shiva means 'causeless auspiciousness' - whatever is happening in life is auspicious. What needs to be taken away from you is taken away, what needs to be added to you is added. Constantly the auspiciousness is expressing itself through you. Your mind which is saying no to it is the most inauspicious thing. It only stops you from experiencing this causeless auspiciousness, Shiva.
That is why we portray Shiva as a rejuvenator - a Being who creates space for new things to happen. If you look at him from your mind, with your insecure mind, he will look like a person who destroys. If you look at him with your trust, you will realize He is the one who creates space for new things to happen. Inside your body, if death is not happening, life will not be happening. Constantly millions of cells are dying in you. That is why life is happening in you. Shiva is the person, the energy, which is killing whatever has to be killed and creating a new space for whatever has to come back, whatever has to be created.
Shiva means the most causeless auspicious energy. If you understand that whatever is happening in you is only expansion, trust, suddenly you will realize Shiva! That is why Shiva is described as a being with no security. He is the most insecure person - living in the graveyard with the trishul - trident, with snakes and poison in the neck and what not…! Nothing around him seems to be
giving security. Nothing around him exposes the idea of security. Only a person who is courageous enough to understand can be devoted to Mahadeva, to Shiva, because it is the truth expressed in a particular form. It is a very powerful truth expressed in the form. It is a great philosophy, great truth, expressed in a beautiful visualization.
Paramahamsa
Withdraw and Realize - Shiva Sutras
4 Apr 2007, Seattle, USA
Left page: Haridwar, foothills of Himalayas,
2005. Arati (an offering of lit camphor) to sacred Ganga river at Hari ki podi.
Right page: Same location visited during 2006.
You know to keep clean the place where you live. What about the space where you live? To clean the place, a broom will do. To clean the space, you need meditation.
In a clean place, man can live. In a clean space, God will live.
Paramahamsa
Angkor Wat, Cambodia, July 2007
