We are Mini-Sivas

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From the desk of Veeraswamy KrishnarajHTML clipboard

Five gods emerge first (Siva, Sakti [goddess], Sadasiva, Mahesvara, Suddhavidya Tattva and later the Maya Sakti emerges as the potential source of the individual soul and its limiting adjuncts followed by inanimate matter. You may notice that the Supreme Being of the nature of Pure Consciousness (1st Perfection) sends out five delegate-deities with subordinate power; later Sakti Tattva takes on the function in the creation of the individual soul with human consciousness, far reduced in Light, Power and Splendor with inherent limitations; Sakti goes on to give the soul a body, organs... and other Tattvas to sustain life on earth. The Power, Splendor and Light of a zillion suns of Siva's Consciousness is reduced to one candlelight of human consciousness. Kashmir Saivism says that Siva's Consciousness contracts and abides in PramAtA, the individual soul. Siva's Universal Body (Visva Sarira) contracts and abides in the body of the individual soul. It is like the banyan tree that comes contracted in a seed. Thus we are all Mini-Sivas in consciousness and body.

HTML clipboardPlenitude of Sivatva becomes a stunted power in the individual soul. Samsarin is the embodied soul (We the people) with faded powers. When the powers blossom out into a full bloom, the individual soul becomes Siva.

 

 

 

Intrinsic Powers of Siva or Atman (Plenitude of Siva)

Contracted powers of the limited individual soul (Kancukas)

 

 

Eternity = Beyond constrains of Time

KAla7 (Limitation of life in terms of Time)

 

 

Omnipresence = All-pervasiveness

Niyati8 (Limitation and subjection to Karma and destiny)

 

 

Omnipotence = unlimited Action Power.

KalA9 (Limitation of power or learning)

 

 

Omniscience = unlimited Knowledge.

VidyA10 (Limitation of knowledge)

 

 

Fullness, perfection, Wholesomeness

RAga11 (Limitation of desire)

 

 

Tattvas.

Siva1,

Sakti2, Sadasiva3,

Isvara4, Sadvidya5,

MÄyA6, KÄla7, Niyati8, KalÄ9, Vidya10, RÄga11, Purusa12

Prakrti Tattva13, Buddhi14, Ahamkara15, Manas16, hearing17 tactile sense18, vision and color19, tasting20, smell21, speech22, grasp23, ambulation24, evacuation25, procreation26, sound27, palpation28, form29, taste30, odor31, ether32, air33, fire34, water35 Earth36.

Kashmir Saivism asserts that the Samsarin and the Yogi are the Mini-Sivas performing their own brand of Srsti, Sthiti, Samhara, Vilaya and Anugraha (Creation, Maintenance, Destruction, Obscuration and Grace).