Re: Do Shaivas accept this?
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Eastern Mind
sm78 : ----- to quote Yogaswami, Subramuniyaswami's guru when in a bookstore looking at a browser "Its not in books, you fool!" Not that scriptural study is a waste. I once dug myself through Pope's translation of Tiruvacagam. Quite the chore I might add. And I agree: truth is one, paths are many, sticking with a parampara is helpful. Aum Namashivaya
Namaste,
Finally the ego will be cut down anyway, whether one likes it or not. So, it may be better to study scripture. But it is said that ego of a pundit is harder to cut down than the ego of a rustic. In this I think SM has a valid point, though you are also correct. There is no jiva who is devoid of ego.
Thiruvachakam has been put to music by Illyaraja. It is a good experience to close eyes and listen to it, though the language is foreign to me.
Regards to all.
Om Namah Shivaya
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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