Saguna And Nirguna Aspects of God

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yes"> --------Sri Ramakrishna

God is both with form (Sakara), like ice, for His Bhakta, and without form

(Nirakara), like steam, for the Jnani. Just as water can exist in two

states, viz., Nirakara (formless) in the form of H2O, Sakara (with form) in the

form of ice, so also Siva is both Nirakara (SIVAM) and Sakara (Lord Siva). He

can take a form also as an Avatara. Microcosm is Pinda; Macrocosm is

Brahmanda. Samashti means sum-total. Vyashti means individual. A tree is

Vyashti, while a grove is Samashti. A single match stick is Vyashti; a match box

is Samashti. He who identifies with the macrocosmic causal body or the sum-total

of all causal bodies of Jiva is Isvara. He who identifies with the macrocosmic

subtle body is Hiranyagarbha or Sutratman; with the microcosmic or individual

subtle body is Taijasa. He who identifies with the macrocosmic or collective

gross body is Virat or Vaishvanara; and with microcosmic or individual body is

Vishva. Isvara Himself assumes the forms of Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra through

Sattva, Rajas and Tamas and becomes the creator, preserver and destroyer of the

universe. Brahma is included in Virat, Vishnu in Hiranyagarbha and Rudra in

Isvara. Tirumantiram by Rishi Tirumular

0pt">Verse 104: Trinity--One Continuity He, the Being First, and He, the

Emerald-hued,And He of the glowing, original Lotus-seat--Are these three

separate or one continuous whole?Thus the world in divisions many wrangle!

Verse 105: God Is One Beyond the Two Karmas (Good and evil deeds) is Isa

(Siva) seated,The seed of this world, the mighty God become;"This" and "That"

is Isa--so the thoughtless contend,The dross but know the basest sediment low.

Verse 109: All Gods Are But The One Siva It is only by the grace of Siva

decked with konrai flowers, That the celestials and the humans who are in

essence the same exist. There is no God except He, Our

only duty is to enshrine Him in our heart. Verse 112: Siva Is Jiva In one

Part, He, Sadasiva my Lord;One heavenly Part in Heaven resides;One Kingly Part,

the spirit that the body heaves;One His Part to all motion transformed.

Sivaya Namah

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