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Saiva Dharma Mandala

 

 

 

Saivite Hinduism

 

 

 

What Is the Nature of Saivite Theology?

 

SHLOKA 11

 

Saivism proclaims: God Siva is Love, both immanent and transcendent,

both the creator and the creation. This world is the arena of our

evolution, which leads by stages to moksha, liberation from birth and

death. Aum.

 

BHASHYA

 

Saivism is a unique religion in which God is both manifest and

unmanifest, dual and nondual, within us and outside of us. It is not

strictly pantheistic, polytheistic or monotheistic. Its predominant

theology is known as monistic theism, panentheism, or Advaita

Isvaravada. Monism, the opposite of dualism, is the doctrine that

reality is a one whole or existence without independent parts. Theism

is belief in God and the Gods, both immanent and transcendent. Saivism

is monistic in its belief in a one reality and in the advaitic, or

nondual, identity of man with that reality. Shaivism is theistic in its

belief in the Gods, and in God Siva as a loving, personal Lord, immanent

in the world. Saivism expresses the oneness of Pati-pashu-pasha,

God-soul-world, encompassing the nondual and the dual, faithfully

carrying forth both Vedanta and Siddhanta, the pristine Sanatana Dharma

of the Vedas and Saiva agamas. The Tirumantiram states, "Shuddha Saivas

meditate on these as their religious path: Oneself, Absolute Reality and

the Primal Soul; the categories three: God, soul and bonds; immaculate

liberation and all that fetters the soul." Aum Namah Sivaya.

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