Shaiva Upanishads (A Critical Study)
by Arpita Chakraborty | 2013 | 33,902 words
This page relates 鈥楽haivism is a Unique Religion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.
10. 艢补颈惫颈蝉尘 is a Unique Religion
[Note: Cf. Dancing with 艢颈惫补 p. 14]
艢补颈惫颈蝉尘 is a unique religion in which God is both manifest and unmanifest, dual and nondual, within us and outside of us. It is not strictly pantheistic, polytheistic or monotheistic. Its predominant theology is known as monistic theism, panentheism, or Advaita 莫艣惫补谤补惫腻诲补. Monism the opposite of dualism, is the doctrine that reality is a one whole or existence without independent parts. Theism is belief in God and the Gods, both immanent and transcendant. 艢补颈惫颈蝉尘 is monistic in its belief in a one reality and in the advaitic or nondual, identity of man with that reality. 艢补颈惫颈蝉尘 is theistic in its belief in the Gods and in God 艢颈惫补 as a loving, personal Lord, immanent in the World. 艢补颈惫颈蝉尘 expresses the oneness of Pati-辫补艣耻-辫腻艣补, God-soul-world encompassing the nondual and the dual, faithfully carrying forth both 痴别诲腻苍迟补 and 厂颈诲诲丑腻苍迟补, the pristine San膩tana Dharma of the Vedas and the 艢补颈惫补 膧gam膩s. The Tirumantiram states, 鈥�艢uddha 艢补颈惫补s meditate on these as their religious path: oneself, Absolute Reality and the Primal soul;鈥� the categories three; God, soul and bonds; immaculate liberation and all that fetters from the soul.鈥� Aum Nama岣� 艢iv膩ya.