How Is Our Soul Identical With Siva?

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mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt"> One gift of spiritual awakening is to see

oneself in all things, animate and inanimate. A bhakta experiences this

Satchidananda, realizing his soul's essence as the core of existence,

witnessing the truth that he is, and always was, That--God within all.

black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt"> The essence of our soul,

which was never created, is immanent love and transcendent reality and is

identical and eternally one with God Siva. At the core of our being, we already

are That--perfect at this very moment. Aum. At the core of the subtle soul

body is

ParaShakti, or Satchidananda, immanent love; and at the core of that is

ParaSiva, transcendent reality. At this depth of our being there exists no

separate identity or difference--all are One. Thus, deep within our soul we are

identical with God now and forever. These two divine perfections are not

aspects of the evolving soul, but the nucleus of the soul which does not change

or evolve.

>From an absolute perspective, our soul is already in nondual union with God, but

to be realized to be known. We are That. We do not become That. Deep within

this physical body, with its turbulent emotions and getting-educated mind, is

pure perfection identical to Siva's own perfections of ParaShakti and ParaSiva.

In this sacred mystery we find the paradoxes of oneness and twoness, of being

and becoming, of

created and uncreated existence subtly delineated. Yea, in the depth of our

being, we are as He is. The Vedas explain, "The one controller, the inner

Self of all things, who makes His one form manifold, to the wise who perceive

Him as abiding in the soul, to them is eternal bliss--to no others." Aum Namah

Sivaya. -----Satguru Sivaya

Subramuniyaswami Sivaya Namah

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