Shaiva Upanishads (A Critical Study)
by Arpita Chakraborty | 2013 | 33,902 words
This page relates 鈥楽hiva as Consciousness鈥� of the study on the Shaiva Upanishads in English, comparing them with other texts dealing with the Shiva cult (besides the Agamas and Puranas). The Upani峁ds are ancient philosophical and theological treatises. Out of the 108 Upanishads mentioned in the Muktikopanishad, 15 are classified as Saiva-Upanisads.
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3. 艢颈惫补 as Consciousness
艢补颈惫颈蝉尘 depicts an absolute God who is both pure consciousness and soul consciousness and both actively passive and unconditionally dynamic. It projects a vision in which there is a place for both the individual will and divine will.[1] 艢颈惫补 having manifested the worlds through His dynamic energy, He remains in the back ground, as a knower of the past, the present and the future, watching the events unfold themselves and letting things go by. For the mortals, He is there, yet He is not there. He is with us and yet He is not with us. He is the same and yet He is different. He hides Himself behind a thick veil of ignorance, beyond the senses, the mind and the objective world. He willfully lets 笔谤补办峁泃颈 or 艢补办迟颈 do her work. He is the master of the worlds. This conception of God centric cosmic drama in which the destiny of individual beings stretched beyond time and space made 艢补颈惫颈蝉尘 particularly popular among inquisitive minds in the ancient world.[2]
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