Re: Billions of Souls, Many Universes?
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
Originally Posted by
ShivaFan
Today there are billions and billions of souls, here among us.
I look at this a bit differently and take my views from the puruṣa sūktaṃ :
om sahasra̍śīrṣā puru̍ṣaḥ sahasrākśaḥ sahasra̍pāt
sa bhūmi̍ṁ viśvato̍ vṛtvā atya̍tiṣṭaddaśāṅgulam ||
What is called out in the śloka is sahasra = 1,000 . So this says puruṣa has 1,000 heads, a 1,000 eyes and 1,000 feet. Now does He really have this?
It is another way the seer (ṛṣi nārāyaṇa) of this great hymn tells us puruṣa is everywhere and even beyond that . He says this by saying beyond the span of 10 (daśā) fingers (aṅgula). This 'beyond' too can mean transcends.
So, what is my point to offer ? This knowledge informs us there is one univeral soul, one univeral Being, that has thousands ( upon millions and billions) of expressions.
When we look at a tree we see thousands of leaves... yet there is one tree. And this tree can produce more and more leaves, branches and the like.
Like that we see differentiated things, but the truth is there is undifferentated One being, with muliple expressions.
For me , this then changes the shape of the conversation.
praṇām
यतसà¥à¤¤à¥à¤µà¤‚ शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṠśivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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