Supreme Soul Shiva

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The term “Supreme Soul” (paramatma) means that He is the supreme among all

souls. It implies that He also is a ‘soul’, though He is the Highest of all.

About Him, it is said that He is above birth and death. Clearly, therefore,

this cannot be said about any being who has a body, whether a human body or

the one that belongs to some other species. Moreover, He is the Supreme

Father of all. Now he, who is the Father of all, must have no father .So,

the fact that He is known as the Supreme Father also points out that He does

not have a body. Since He is incorporeal, that is why it is said that He has

no ears but He hears, He has no physical eyes but He can see and He has no

feet and yet He moves or walks.

 

Also, that’s the reason why all people say that God is Light, a Jyoti

(Effulgence personified) or Noor (a self-luminous object). But they do not

know what form that Light has. Just as a soul is a point-of-light (Jyoti

bindu), even so the Father of souls i.e., the Supreme Soul also is a

point-of-light (Jyoti bindu). There is difference between Him and the other

souls in respect of qualities. God is changeless, being the Ocean of Peace,

bliss and love. He is above birth and death and is immune to pleasure and

pain, whereas the other souls are in the vortex of birth and death and

pleasure and pain. But, in form, the soul and the Supreme Soul are alike

even as we find that, in this gross world, the young one and its parents

have the same form, a child has the same human form as resembles the form of

its parents. So let it be clear in the mind that God is not formless but is

like the souls, a Point-of-Light.

 

We may have observed that all religions have images, idols or memorials,

bearing one name or another, to represent this form of Light that God has.

Everywhere in India, images of this form that Shiva has, are found

installed; these images are without face or ears or feet or body which fact

clearly point out that is the Symbol of an Incorporeal Being. At one place,

it is called ‘Vishwanath’ (meaning the lord of Universe),at another

‘Amarnath’( the Father of souls). At a third place it is named Mukteshwara

(the Bestower of Liberation) and it bears the names Papkateshwara (meaning

the Expiator of sins) at a fourth place. All these names prove that these

images represent the Divine Form of God, because none else but the Supreme

Soul is the Lord of the world, the Lord of the immortal souls, the Bestower

of liberation and the Destroyer of sins. He is God of all Deities, and,

being Rama’s God, is rightly remembers as Rameshwara. Being Krishna’s Lord,

His memory as Gopeshwara is preserved in a town called Vrindavan, by means

of an idol, called ‘Gopeshwara’.

 

Outside India, there is, in Mecca, an image having this form; the followers

of Islam call this image as “ Sang-e-Aswad”. People of India call it

‘Meccaeshwara’. Even these days, Muslims who go to Mecca for a Haj

(pilgrimage), kiss this holy stone. Yet it is not known to them why there

is this custom of kissing this sacred stone and whose memorial or image it

is. Though the Muslims do not worship any idols yet they do not know why

this image or idol stands these and is held to be sacred or worship-worthy.

 

Christ, the founder of Christianity also said ‘God is Light’.

Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism also sang the praise of Him who is ‘All

Light’ and is incorporeal. In olden days, the jews held a stone of this

shape in their hands while taking a solemn oath and it is also believed that

Moses had vision of this form of God when he saw a Flame behind the bush.

 

 

 

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