What Is God Siva's Unmanifest Reality? 2

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Om Namah Sivaya A soul passes through the doorway to the inner worlds. Following its final birth on Earth, this soul becomes one with God, merging into the Sivalinga. Lord Siva is really formless. He has no form of His own; and yet, all forms are His forms. All

forms are pervaded by Lord Siva. Every form is the form or Linga of Lord Siva. Siva-Linga speaks to you in unmistakable language of silence: “I am one without a second. I am formless.” Pure, pious souls only can understand this language. Linga is only the outward symbol of the formless being, Lord Siva, who is the indivisible, all-pervading, eternal, auspicious, ever-pure, immortal essence of this vast universe, who is the undying soul seated in the chambers of your heart, who is your Indweller, innermost Self or Atman and who is identical with the Supreme Brahman. The following extract is from an ancient Hindu scripture the Kena Upanishad: `The teacher said: `It is the Ear of the ear, the Mind of

the mind, the Speech of the speech, the Life of the life, and the Eye of the eye. Having detached the True Self from the sense-organs and renounced the material world, the Wise attain Immortality. The eye does not wander, nor speech, nor the mind. We do not know It; we do not understand how anyone can teach It. It is different from the known; It is above the unknown. Thus we have heard from the preceptors of old who taught It to us. That which cannot be expressed by speech, but by which speech is expressed - That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship. That which cannot be apprehended by the mind, but by which, they say, the mind is apprehended — That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship. That which cannot be perceived by the eye, but by which sight is perceived — That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship. That which cannot he heard by the ear,

but by which hearing is perceived — That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship. That which cannot be smelt by the nose, but by which smell is perceived — That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.` The teacher said: `If you think: "I know Brahman well," then surely you know but little of Its form; you know only Its form as conditioned by man or by demi-gods. Therefore Brahman, even now, is worthy of your inquiry. The disciple said: `I think I know Brahman.` The disciple then said: `I do not think I know It well, nor do I think I do not know It.` He among us who knows the meaning of "Neither do I not know, nor do I know" — knows Brahman. He by whom Brahman is not known, knows It; he by whom It is known, knows It not. It is not known by those who know It; It is known by those who do not know It. Brahman is known

when It is realised in every state of mind; for by such Knowledge of the True Self one attains Immortality. By the True Self one obtains fortitude; by Knowledge of the True Self, Immortality. If a man knows the True Self here, he then attains the true goal of life. If he does not know It here, a great destruction awaits him. Having realised the Self in every being, the wise relinquish the material world and become Immortal.`Sivaya Namah

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