all<\/strong> could be what all is.<\/p>\nShiva may not be anyone\u2019s fact, but \u201cIt\u201d is everyone\u2019s Truth.<\/p>\n
Existence is whole and complete. Where all its qualities are but its own expression. Shiva is our attempt at personification of how creation moves into the non-creation. The cusp of creation and non-creation \u2013 where the intuitive expression of dance and music merge with the eternal sound \u2013 the Nada Brahman (Eternal Sound).<\/p>\n
When the need to express for someone reaches its highest and the expressor merges with expression such that body, dance and the music are synonymous. One is incomplete without the other, yet each is expressed completely by the other. The harmony of the expression and expressor is in the dissolution and merger of both.<\/p>\n
Shiva resides in Its own madness and wild-ness of existence. It creates and destroys at will. Reality of any moment is not in its existence, but in its continual creation and destruction. The wild and blinding movement between the two creates the illusion of an existence. Duality of destruction and creation, however, is the foundation of what seems as existence. When the continual coming and going ends, the primal is<\/em>. However, in that sense, It is<\/em> and is not<\/em>. There expression loses its meaning and potency. Madness of expression, that is Shiva has reached a level, where expression has ceased or it is the only \u201cthing\u201d.<\/p>\nExistence is the expression of the Primal\u2019s urge to explore itself. White light\u2019s exploration of its own colors, which are part of it, yet non-existent. There is no reason, for there is no purpose for there is no separation as such. Separation may be a \u201cfact\u201d of the parts but it is not the \u201cTruth\u201d of the whole.<\/p>\n
Shiva is where the Demon and the Divine become one. Shiva\u2019s concept is unique in its totality \u2013 the demons are part of the divine. Everything that is ugly comes together to express itself as the ultimate beauty. And that is the Truth.<\/p>\n
Satyam, Shivam Sundaram. <\/em><\/p>\nBeauty cannot wish away Ugliness, just as the Divine cannot separate itself from the Demonic, both are the expression of the same Truth. One is because the other is. When One reaches its pinnacle, its existence remains no more.<\/p>\n
In the midst of the dualities of the two eyes (visions) lies the \u201cThird Eye\u201d \u2013 the Vision where all dualities merge\u2026 where all that the Duality can perceive vanishes. When the \u201cThird Eye\u201d opens, existence, epitomized by its dualities, remains no more. It ceases. Yet lives. Lives as One Dynamic, Vibrant, Primal Truth.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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