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Some things we are told about the Supreme (maheśvara, paramaśiva, paramaīśvaraḥ etc)...


First and foremost the Supreme is mahāpracaya – unlimited and unexplainable, supreme totality. That is, to even try to describe this Being we are in a pickle because it is akathya or unspeakable, un-utterable. So the wise do the best they can to inform us. They tell us this Being is prakāśa, vimaṛśa and svātantrya.

It is light, prakāśa ( code for consciousness) it is Self-awareness (vimaṛśa) i.e. aware of itself, and it is totally and absolutely Self-reliant , complete freedom (svātantrya).

Because of this Supreme status it can operate in both differentiated ( fractured, field of things, of limited actions) and undifferentiated ( whole, full, without boundaries whatsoever) levels of existence and non-existence. On one level it is existence itself, and what then can possibly exist if there is no existence ?

You see being totally and absolutely free it even can enjoy , exist, thrive in a limited world as that is really being totally free. That not even finite existence can cause this Being any limitation because IT created this condition too. If we are informed that this Being is total that means both boundless and bounded, limited and unlimited – that must be the ‘total’ part of the equation.

I can go further but sometimes its like trying to take a drink from a fire hose... there is so much one can say. Yet, if you think there is you and there is the Supreme
some place else, this is the root of our ignorance. Thinking that we are not part of this totality is the blemish. According to kaśmiri śaivism just this one thing of āṇavamala gets the ball rolling for the Supreme’s march into the finite level of being. So, this term āṇavamala is the blemish (mala) of smallness (āṇava), of limits. We have the capacity to live in limits as a human being, or in the infinite as Being itself. Either way we cannot be outside of totality , outside of Being (maheśvara, paramaśiva, paramaīśvaraḥ).


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