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03 July 2010, 01:56 AM
NAMAHSHIVAYA.
This page is intended for spreading the fragrance of SanAthana Dharma - Hinduism and Saivism in specific.
Shaiva Siddhantham is the philosophy of Shaivism that has its roots in the thirumuRais along with the vedas and siva Agamas. This philosophy which suggests the truth of existence of God, souls and the inanimate bondages as different entities altogether has been elaborated more with the philosophical texts called santhAna nUlkaL. This site deals with this aspect of Shaivism.
namaHshivAya
srI dakshiNAmUrthaye namaH
Shaiva Siddanta - Introduction
Though for learned persons this may not seem a good introduction to shaiva sidhdhantha, this page is out of the wish to talk about that. This is similar to a kinder garden boy trying to explain the construction of a nuclear reactor. Still there will be persons who enjoy the efforts of a kid to act matured.
In shaiva sidhdhantham God is called pathi, all the souls (creatures, all lives except pathi) which take birth and die are called pachu(pashu)s, the bondage is called pAcham (pAsam). The pAcham can be classified into three - ANavam, kanamam, and mAyai (ego, deed and effects, illusion). Only these three things exist. Now the relation between them. It is the pAcham that brings suffering to the affiliated things. Due to the affiliation with pAcham the pachu suffers, and the affiliation is without origin. (that is by nature pachu is impure with pAcham). The pathi is never affected by pAcham. (pathi never gets affiliated to it). When pathi approaches pachu (blessing the pachu) the pAcham that binds the pachu making it suffer, is driven off. It is like a leaf loaded with snow. Due to the weight the leaf is pushed down (to suffer). When the sun, pathi comes the snow of pAcham escapes with the leaf coming up and smiling with the sigh of relief. In the presence of pathi pAcham won't stay with pachu. (like in the presence of sun snow disappears from the leaf). The thiruman^dhiram, which is one of the very old scripture that talks in detail about the sidhdhantham, explains further,
Among the three things of pathi, pachu, pAcham, like the pathi the pAcham of pachu is without origin. pAcham of pachu will not affect the pathi. If pathi approaches (the pachu) then the pAcham of pachu won't stay (with pachu).
It is this concept of driving away the pAcham of pachus which surrendered to pathi, which is seen in many holy deeds of Lord Shiva like tripurasaMhAram. The three demons are like the three components of pAcham (ANavam, kanamam, mAyai). Lord Shiva, pathi, destroys them by His smile of grace. Thus when the three impurities are reduced to ash pathi dances there, bliss remains. Same is with the sUrasaMhAram. Lord subramanya is the form of grace of Lord Shiva. On the prayer of pachus pathi's grace destroys tArakan (mAyai), siN^gamukan (kanmam) and sUrapadhman (ANavam).
This page is intended for spreading the fragrance of SanAthana Dharma - Hinduism and Saivism in specific.
Shaiva Siddhantham is the philosophy of Shaivism that has its roots in the thirumuRais along with the vedas and siva Agamas. This philosophy which suggests the truth of existence of God, souls and the inanimate bondages as different entities altogether has been elaborated more with the philosophical texts called santhAna nUlkaL. This site deals with this aspect of Shaivism.
namaHshivAya
srI dakshiNAmUrthaye namaH
Shaiva Siddanta - Introduction
Though for learned persons this may not seem a good introduction to shaiva sidhdhantha, this page is out of the wish to talk about that. This is similar to a kinder garden boy trying to explain the construction of a nuclear reactor. Still there will be persons who enjoy the efforts of a kid to act matured.
In shaiva sidhdhantham God is called pathi, all the souls (creatures, all lives except pathi) which take birth and die are called pachu(pashu)s, the bondage is called pAcham (pAsam). The pAcham can be classified into three - ANavam, kanamam, and mAyai (ego, deed and effects, illusion). Only these three things exist. Now the relation between them. It is the pAcham that brings suffering to the affiliated things. Due to the affiliation with pAcham the pachu suffers, and the affiliation is without origin. (that is by nature pachu is impure with pAcham). The pathi is never affected by pAcham. (pathi never gets affiliated to it). When pathi approaches pachu (blessing the pachu) the pAcham that binds the pachu making it suffer, is driven off. It is like a leaf loaded with snow. Due to the weight the leaf is pushed down (to suffer). When the sun, pathi comes the snow of pAcham escapes with the leaf coming up and smiling with the sigh of relief. In the presence of pathi pAcham won't stay with pachu. (like in the presence of sun snow disappears from the leaf). The thiruman^dhiram, which is one of the very old scripture that talks in detail about the sidhdhantham, explains further,
Among the three things of pathi, pachu, pAcham, like the pathi the pAcham of pachu is without origin. pAcham of pachu will not affect the pathi. If pathi approaches (the pachu) then the pAcham of pachu won't stay (with pachu).
It is this concept of driving away the pAcham of pachus which surrendered to pathi, which is seen in many holy deeds of Lord Shiva like tripurasaMhAram. The three demons are like the three components of pAcham (ANavam, kanamam, mAyai). Lord Shiva, pathi, destroys them by His smile of grace. Thus when the three impurities are reduced to ash pathi dances there, bliss remains. Same is with the sUrasaMhAram. Lord subramanya is the form of grace of Lord Shiva. On the prayer of pachus pathi's grace destroys tArakan (mAyai), siN^gamukan (kanmam) and sUrapadhman (ANavam).