Re: śivaḥ & destruction
Namaste yajvan ji,
I love each of your thread, they are of plenty of knowledge. I am confused in this thread, in last you asked some questions, so you wanted answers from other members or part of posts are still coming? This thread left my mind with lots of question and as you are not online to solve my confusion I am just posting all my questions here.. So I am sorry if I put my post in between your incoming posts..
My limited knowledge don't get the idea of destruction, there are many stories and beliefs behind this like-
1. Lord Shiva does tandav and whole universe get destroys
2. He opens his third eye and everything destroys
3. Actually he is just destroyer of our miseries
But what he really destroys? Is anything destructible, I didn't find anything related to truth which can be destroyed.
He destroy universe, we are living in universe it means he destroy us? But we are indestructible soul! He destroys sun, moon, earth, pancha tattvās? But we worship them as God or Demi God and gods are also immortal!
The main fact is that God is omnipresent, what is there which is not god? Sun is god, moon is God, air is God and even we are God (or according to dvaita we are part of God) then he destroys himself or his own creation?
If I think about process of creation, preservation and destruction and role of prakriti in it and if one assume it like just play of god then I will like to.compare it with so much inferior example like play of child.. Child plays with his toys and then after playing he put them in the box.. So here process of playing is destroyed, play is destroyed but toys are there and he can again resume play..
Many examples coming in my mind, it is just a process of dismantling, bringing the elements back to their core form so one can create something new which is better. It is just like process of death. After death we still are there as we are indestructible but then we are in our pure form. Our body dissolves in its original elements (prakriti) and from that same elements new body is form.
So no creation can happen without destruction! But I think it's not a destruction it's just bringing the universe into its core essense, into its basic form so he can combine and create the new universe.
How can one who drink poison for universe destroy it,
But I think we can call it destruction of illusion, destruction of Maya.. As what we are perceiving now is just maya, our real essense is lies in our true nature, without form, without elements.
When Shiva opens his third eye illusion destroy and there is possibility for creation.
Likewise when we open our third eye I.e. wisdom, all ignorance and illusion vanish and our true self start shining.. And then we are not who we was... We will become extremely new person..
Pranam. Sorry for long description and thank you for reading..
Aasato ma sat gamay
tamaso ma jotirgamay
mrityorma amrutamgamay
(Bring me from asat to sat, bring me from darkness (ignorance) to light (knowledge), bring me from death to immortality)
Om Namah Shivay
Om Vishnave Namah
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