Being and Becoming

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yes"> Individualizing forms, souls, one from another. This is ever happening, as

simultaneously struggling souls remove their bondage through the grace of God

Siva to come into Satchidananda, later to be absorbed into ParaSiva. This, too,

is a great mystery without a reason why. The existence called ParaSiva

pervades the infinite Satchidananda, sustaining it just as the Divine Light of

God Siva's

mind pervades and sustains the gross forms of this world. ParaSiva does not

create Satchidananda, yet Satchidananda is sustained because of the existence

of nonexistence. Now, you might ask, "Why?" The answer is that this is the will

of our great God Siva.

mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt">Therefore, first we seek

to gain an intellectual clarity as to the path we are on. This purified

intellect gives a philosophical clarity and should not in any way be mistaken

for attainment. In the technological age there are thousands who are

intellectually clear as to the task at hand, how to obtain the objective, and

they have the necessary skills to begin. They do not delude themselves that

they have already begun or attained anything until failure has been many times

encountered, that failure conquered and success achieved in its place. Thus, we

draw a distinction between the seasoned yogi whose knowledge has its source in

Superconsciousness and the armchair Vedantist who often thinks his intellectual

comprehension is some kind of advanced attainment. It is not. Peoples of the

West have come too far in technology, too far in the understanding and use of

the mind, too

far in personal study of Vedanta to be impressed by this anymore. The two

perfections explain well the deep questions man asks himself, questions which

bring forth far too few answers. Through meditation upon the two perfections

inherent in the soul, we can penetrate the mystery of the oneness of man and

God. Man and God are one, yet God Siva has yet a third perfection, Maheshvara,

the Primal Soul, already perfect and complete, whereas

man's soul body is still maturing, still evolving. One day, the soul body of man

will merge with God Siva in this third perfection. So, we see that man is both

being and becoming. He is already perfect, for the essence of his soul,

ParaSiva and Satchidananda, exists eternally within him as him, having never

been created. Yet, man is evolving, becoming, for his individual soul body,

created by God Siva, is not yet perfect, is still evolving through time,

eventually to mature into the image and likeness of the Primal Soul and

Creator, Maheshvara. I might surprise you when I say that man's soul is

created and not created. True, the soul body of light was created by God Siva

Himself. Within this body of light and consciousness exist, without beginning

or end, the two perfections of ParaSiva and Satchidananda. We find the

paradoxes of oneness and twoness, of being and becoming, of created and

uncreated existence subtly delineated through an

Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt">Understanding of

the three perfections of our great God Siva.

-----Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Sivaya

Namah

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