What does Shiva mean from a Spiritual standpoint of view?

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"As per Modern science, everything that we know as life, everything that we know as matter and existence, everything that we know as the cosmos and galaxies, is just one energy which manifests itself in millions of ways."


▪️ Shiva is neither a person/God nor a He/She.

▪️ Shiva is the supreme energy which is the source of all creation.

▪️ Shiva flows through all the entities which are animate or inanimate in this world.

▪️ Shiva represents the whole consciousness, the consciousness which is beyond all the space, all the time, all the materials and all the beings.

▪️ Shiva is you, Shiva is me, and Shiva is pervading the whole universe. You can call Shiva any name.

▪️ Shiva is an aspiration of every yogi or anybody who is walking the path of spirituality. He is the Adi Yogi & the ultimate yogi.

▪️He is the:
a) One who is absolutely established in stillness, who is behind every activity but at the same time is totally inactive.

b) Somebody who is not pushed into thinking, pushed into talking or pushed into action.

c) Somebody who is established in absolute stillness, but the source of every action.

d) Even when he is extremely dynamic, he is extremely still.

▪️ So Shiva is something which cannot be explained in any terms or can't be understood through the intellect. Shiva needs to be experienced.

▪️ And when you experience Shiva, you become Shiva.

▪️And when you become Shiva, you are absolutely still, the mind completely collapses, dissolves, and you become completely occupied in the state of Shiva i.e. a state of total bliss i.e. Satchidananda.

The night of Maha Shivaratri offers a person an opportunity to experience this. It is a night of enlightenment. We should surrender the darkness which is the ignorance in us . By keeping the inner space clean, we become a temple for the energy called Shiva.


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