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Shaiva Upanishads (A Critical Study)

by Arpita Chakraborty | 2013 | 33,902 words

This page relates ‘Shiva is All and in All� 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 Upaniṣads are ancient philosophical and theological treatises. Out of the 108 Upanishads mentioned in the Muktikopanishad, 15 are classified as Saiva-Upanisads.

9. Ś is All and in All

[Note: Cf. Merging with Ś p. xxv]

This brief survey ultimately reveals that Ś is all and in all. God is all and in all one without a second, the Supreme being and only Absolute Reality. He is pati, our Lord, immanent and transcendent. To create, preserve, destroy, conceal and reveal are his five powers. Aum, God Ś is a one being, yet we understand Him in three perfections: Absolute Reality, pure consciousness and primal soul. As Absolute Reality, Ś is unmanifest, unchanging and transcendent, the self God, timeless, formless and spaceless. As pure Consciousness, Ś is the manifest primal substance, pure love and light flowing through all form, existing everywhere in time and space as infinite intelligence and power. As primal soul Ś is the five fold manifestation: , the creator, վṣṇ the preserver, Rudra the Destroyer, Ѳś the veiling Lord and Sadāsiva, the Revelaer. He is our personal Lord, source of all three worlds. Our divine Father-Mother protects, nurtures and guides us, veiling Truth as we evolve, revealing it when we are mature enough to receive God’s bountiful grace. God Ś is all and in all, great beyond our conception, a sacred mystery that can be known in direct communion. When Ś is known, all is known. The Vedas state: “That part of Him which is Characterized by tamas is called Rudra. That part of Him which belongs to rajas is . That part of Him which belongs to sattva is վṣṇ.

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