"The body is Parvati (Shiva's consort) and the Atma (higher self) is God (Shiva, Eshwara).
There was a spiritual aspirant who used to repeat the Mantra Shivoham (I am Shiva) as commanded by his guru. One day someone asked him the meaning of the Mantra he was chanting. He said Shivoham meant, 'I am Shiva.'
But when questioned what is his relationship with Parvati (consort) he slapped his own cheeks and said with a tone of having committed a great sin, blasphemy (Aparadham!).
If he really had faith in the Mantra he was chanting, he would have surely said - 'Parvati (body) is a part of my own being.'
He could not say so as he was attached to his body. Attachment to the body leads to this dualities, because of which man is suffering. Eshwara (God, higher self) and Parvati (body) are present in every individual. The combination of these two aspects constitutes Manavatwam (mankind). Manava (mind) refers to human being. Ma means 'sec'. Nava means 'new'. So mankind is not new, it is ancient and eternal."
Baba. SS. 3/99, p. 72
Shiva and Shakti are the oneness we try to understand, and Baba uses here the example of Shiva and his consort Parvati.
Parvati is Shiva’s Shakti and he very clearly explains above that it is the body, it is made out of nature (Prakriti).
But it is more than the difference between body and Atman, it is the relationship between Shiva and Parvati.
We all know that we have a body and what we don’t know enough is that we think we are the body, in reality there is the indweller of that body and that is unlimited being and consciousness, it is the higher self and Shiva.
If we repeat the Soham mantra, it is the sound of the breath and So is inhaling Ham is exhaling.
Baba said in an interview that it had three meanings. ‘I am that’, ‘I am Shiva’ and ‘I am God’.
And after he explained also that it helped to open up and to get out of limitations of the mind, therefore, it is no blasphemy.
Of course Shiva is not the body and Parvati is not Shiva, but she belongs to him.
It is this question of belonging and the inner marriage.
And it is about understanding that relationship. It is a sacred relationship. If we are in body consciousness we cannot on the mind level figure out that there is a God and we think we are the body and confined to body law.
But if we observe, we will get in touch with the higher self and see that relationship as it really is in the light of the self.
It is love, it is truth, it is beauty and light, and there is only that, nothing else, and nothing matters really but the realization the we are ‘that’.
That is why Baba asked in the interview room, who I was and I had to translate, because I had experienced the higher self, therefore, he asked three times. And he said, what is your relationship? because Shiva and Shakti are in a relationship. It is that relationship which was in question when just ‘going on and on’ in the TM movement, I was related to ‘that’, the national leader happened just to be there.
He was not on a Shiva and Shakti level and not aware of it and when that broke in pieces it was projected on the spiritual level and very troublesome. He had not the right knowledge. I had to understand that relationship, Shiva and Shakti.
After Baba asked those questions I began to question if someone had heard something similar. I should have asked Al, he had mentioned him in the dream, but I didn't understand it. I really had no knowledge at all about the self with the TM background. I mentioned it to my ex and he seized the opportunity and said that I belonged to him.
It was the TM background which put me in that situation that the relationship between Shiva and Shakti had to be understood.
And it is as Baba said, very difficult to understand. Shiva and Parvati belong together, but to know it and to understand it, that are two different things. It is a sacred relationship.
And in that relationship is 'faith' and trust, a divine level, the trust we have in a master. That was the trust lost when a black hole was in the meditation, and that is the level TM-people deal with. Only understanding can heal that and there is no knowledge about it on the level of programs, technique and sutras, therefore, TM-people get lost.
There was a spiritual aspirant who used to repeat the Mantra Shivoham (I am Shiva) as commanded by his guru. One day someone asked him the meaning of the Mantra he was chanting. He said Shivoham meant, 'I am Shiva.'
But when questioned what is his relationship with Parvati (consort) he slapped his own cheeks and said with a tone of having committed a great sin, blasphemy (Aparadham!). If he really had faith in the Mantra he was chanting, he would have surely said - 'Parvati (body) is a part of my own being.'
He could not say so as he was attached to his body. Attachment to the body leads to this dualities, because of which man is suffering. Eshwara (God, higher self) and Parvati (body) are present in every individual. The combination of these two aspects constitutes Manavatwam (mankind). Manava (mind) refers to human being. Ma means 'sec'. Nava means 'new'. So mankind is not new, it is ancient and eternal."
Baba. SS. 3/99, p. 72
It is common to see God on one side and man on the other and that is due to body attachment, it creates duality.
Shiva and Shakti are the oneness we try to understand, and Baba uses here the example of Shiva and his consort Parvati. Parvati is Shiva’s Shakti and he very clearly explains above that it is the body, it is made out of nature (Prakriti).
But it is more than the difference between body and Atman, it is the relationship between Shiva and Parvati. We all know that we have a body and what we don’t know enough is that we think we are the body, in reality there is the indweller of that body and that is unlimited being and consciousness, it is the higher self and Shiva.
If we repeat the Soham mantra, it is the sound of the breath and So is inhaling Ham is exhaling.
Baba said in an interview that it had three meanings. ‘I am that’, ‘I am Shiva’ and ‘I am God’.
And after he explained also that it helped to open up and to get out of limitations of the mind, therefore, it is no blasphemy.
Of course Shiva is not the body and Parvati is not Shiva, but she belongs to him.
It is this question of belonging and the inner marriage.
And it is about understanding that relationship. It is a sacred relationship. If we are in body consciousness we cannot on the mind level figure out that there is a God and we think we are the body and confined to body law.
But if we observe, we will get in touch with the higher self and see that relationship as it really is in the light of the self.
It is love, it is truth, it is beauty and light, and there is only that, nothing else, and nothing matters really but the realization the we are ‘that’.
That is why Baba asked in the interview room, who I was and I had to translate, because I had experienced the higher self, therefore, he asked three times. And he said, what is your relationship? because Shiva and Shakti are in a relationship. It is that relationship which was in question when just ‘going on and on’ in the TM movement, I was related to ‘that’, the national leader happened just to be there.
He was not on a Shiva and Shakti level and not aware of it and when that broke in pieces it was projected on the spiritual level and very troublesome. He had not the right knowledge. I had to understand that relationship, Shiva and Shakti.
After Baba asked those questions I began to question if someone had heard something similar. I should have asked Al, he had mentioned him in the dream, but I didn't understand it. I really had no knowledge at all about the self with the TM background. I mentioned it to my ex and he seized the opportunity and said that I belonged to him.
It was the TM background which put me in that situation that the relationship between Shiva and Shakti had to be understood.
And it is as Baba said, very difficult to understand. Shiva and Parvati belong together, but to know it and to understand it, that are two different things. It is a sacred relationship.
And in that relationship is 'faith' and trust, a divine level, the trust we have in a master. That was the trust lost when a black hole was in the meditation, and that is the level TM-people deal with. Only understanding can heal that and there is no knowledge about it on the level of programs, technique and sutras, therefore, TM-people get lost.
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