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Trinity Gods - Shiva

Shiva is often referred to as the destroyer God among the Trinity Gods. The word "Samhara" in Sanskrit has hundreds of meaning. (Check the word in this dictionary). One of the meaning for it is destroyer among the 1000 meanings. The apt meaning would be transformer or drawing in or bringing together. This is because the Vedic Science says Energy cannot be created nor destroyed but only transformed from one form to another. Death is not destruction it is only a transformation. The atoms of the body are not destroyed, it is only transfored or recycled to another form. The Energy of the "I" that was identifying to one body also is not destroyed but takes up identification to another body with the same Energy vibration or frequency.

So the word destroyer contradicts, but transformer aptly applies to Shiva. Yama, the god of death works under Shiva, who brings about change or transformation. How do we want to change is in our Awareness. This Awareness is pure (without Ego) like white, also attribute to Shiva.

The Awareness state is otherwise called as "Being", which is always in the present tense. The Awareness state is highly developed in Man, the highest evolved being. This is why man alone is called as Human-Being. "Be" denotes now or the "Is", the present tense. The "ing" shows that the "Be" state is a continuous state. This state is always there, there was never a state when it is not present. Past and future manifest when there is Creation. Whether creation is not or there, the present state of Being state always exists. This Being which is independent of creation is called Consciousness or Paramatman.

This Consciousness "Being" is present in everything in this universe, whether living "Being" or Non-living Being. The living Being alone exhibit or reflect that Consciousness as a Self-knowing or expressive state called as Awareness or life.

In Vedic Tradition, this Awareness (Being) is symbolized as Shiva. The Rishi's found that Awareness cannot exist without the Energy (Sakthi) halfshiva manifestation in the body. Similarly without the Energy (Sakthi), this Awareness also cannot exists. When the Sakthi (Energy) manifestation is absent the "Shiva" (Awareness) becomes "Shava" (Dead). So life is this awareness-Energy manifestation state or "Being".

Sakthi (Energy) is present everywhere in the body and she is the wife of Shiva, the Awareness. Thus Shiva and Sakthi are half and half, which means one cannot exists without the other. Puranas says that without Shiva (Awareness) there is no Sakthi (Energy) and without Sakthi (Energy) there is no Shiva (Awareness). This is why they are depicted in Ardha-naareeshwara (Half male half female - see picture) form. The Pancha Bhootas (Bhutas) , the five elements is the manifestation of Energy (Sakthi) and Awareness (Shiva).

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The seat of Awareness is the head and highest point of the body also called "Kailas". This is why Shiva is depicted to be in the highest mountain peak on this planet Earth, the Kailas alias Himalayas.

Crescent Moon on Shiva:

We have discussed earlier that the Mind creates the World. Infact it creates two worlds, the day-light world (waking) and the night-dream-world. Both the worlds seems to be so real when projected by the mind. We cannot deny both these worlds when the Mind projects them every day and night.

In Vedic tradition , the Mind is symbolized by Moon and Consciousness by Sun, because Mind is illuminated by Consciousness, like moon illuminated by the Sun.

Like the Moon growing and waning in two states of brightness and darkness phases, the Mind alternates in two worlds of bright reality (white Sukla-paksha) and dark-dream state (black Krishna-paksha).

As long as we are alive in this body, Awareness is always present, whether mind is fully active or waking or in dream states. When an individual is in Awareness state, the mind does not completely die off, but stays like a crescent moon on Shiva's head. This is proved by modern scientific study that in deep meditative state the number of thought waves decrease considerably, because the individual transcends to the Awareness state.

Shiva Purana

Shiva Purana (links to download from other sites)

About Lgends of Shiva

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About Temples of Shiva

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About Festivals of Shiva

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About Slokas of Shiva

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Good & Evil

All the question about does God exists, did God create evil, is God in heaven etc arise out of the ignorance of our Self. Knowing our self, all these questions vanishes like the mist in the presence of Sun. Hundreds of years back the king of Persia (Iran) had a very logical question, if God who is Good and all powerful is there , then how come evil exist in the world. Who created evil, was it God?. Zoroastrian a powerful teacher explained with a simple example that evil is only another name for the absence of goodness. Its absence only becomes conspicuous when light and shade play hide and seek. Yet shade is not a substantial thing. It is only light that matters and seems to create shadows. Shadows however are not created by light but are the name for its absence. Likewise it is goodness alone which needs to be created, sin will by itself appear whenever goodness is eschewed.

Similarly concepts of heaven and hell are the creation of the ego mind. Heaven and hell are our own states of mind. When we are away from the light of our consciousness, we then live in the realm of the Ego which is nothing but hell because through the Ego we inflictpain and suffering to own self and as well as others. However when we transcend to the realm of the Self, we have peace or heaven in us and radiate that to others also. Hell and heaven are experienced right now when we live and not after death.

There is no judgmental day waiting for us after death. When God itself is beyond judgments (Judge ye not), then how can God have a judgment day and punish and reward. All these concepts arise when the Ego mind project God (Consciousness) as a person sitting some where in a place called heaven and controlling everything. God or pure Consciousness is like the light of the Sun that we have seen in the previous illustration which has nothing to do with the shadows.

Without God or pure Consciousness, there is nothing, but God has nothing to do with whatever is happening in this world. Like the light, that is unaffected by the play of the shadows. It is all the shadow play of the Ego. This concept of God is confused vastly in all religions, however spiritual traditions are very clear about it. Not understanding this concept is ignorance and leads to all confusions, pain and suffering. All the problems that we suffer are our own creation. We create thoughts with our own free will and suffer from it. This is why from the beginning we have been insisting on creating positive thoughts to create a blissful life.

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Trinity Gods - Vishnu

Behind the creation is intelligence. This Cosmic intelligence is represented as Vishnu. It is this intelligence that is the source for creation as well as to maintain the creation. This is why Vishnu is the Trinity God of protection or preservation or sustenance.

Everything in this universe has a specific pattern and there is Intelligence in every bit of creation. This intelligence that is manifested in the creation has beauty in it. This intelligence is represented by Vishnu and beauty (pattern) that is present as the core (heart) of Creation is represented by his wife Lakshmi.

Intelligence is slightly different from the Intellect. Intelligence is in every creation and is the fundamental of creation. The Intelligence is unchanged but is expressed as intellect and changes over time. We seek intellect (Buddhi) in us when there is a crisis and needs restoration of order. Then the intelligence manifest in us, like the avatars of Vishnu that comes often to restore order.

This also holds good for our inner faculties. By keeping the mind in a creative mode and focused, the intellect sharpens or deepens or evolves. This intellect is that sustains (balances) the whole mind. Without intellect there is no order of the mind. Without the intellect, there will be only thousands of random thoughts. But it is the intellect that sustains the mind to be in order, otherwise random thoughts will only be chaotic.

It is the cosmic intelligence that manifest as intellect, which changes or evolves. This is the beautiful symbolism behind the 10 avatars (Dasavatar) of Vishnu. Intelligence is present in every being, but the intellect evolves as different species , which is highest in human being.

Vishnu Legends in Tamil

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Vishu Devotees life in Tamil

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GOD

Ego projects a concept of God

When Ego suffers in pain and sorrow, it looks for a temporary solace. This is how it makes the concept of God. It is out of its own weakness and fear that it creates a concept of God. We shall discuss about the concept of God.

Claims of the Ego

The irony is the reflection of the Sun take claims that it is the real Sun, and it was who that melted the glaciers and formed the streaming mountains and now it is the one that is floating on this river. "I" "I" "Mine" is the way this Ego reflection uses the maximum. One's you realize your true Self, then you understand what a fool this Ego was, claiming all work to itself. The biggest foolishness was to think that it was floating on the river and it was part of the river. In reality it was not the river, its reflection just fell on the river. The Ego is mere a reflection and has no substance in reality.

But this reflection does not want to away. The Ego does not like to think that it is a reflection. it tries all means to protects its false identity. To achieve this it makes all the concepts and tries to prove its reality. This is what we see in this world that is happening. It tries to establish its power in every means and moments of life.

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Son's of Brahma.

(Please read body mind intellect given in the previous sections to understand concept of Trinity Gods like Brahma).

Daksha: The seventh Brahma's son was Daksha. He came out from the big toe on the right leg of forefather. From Brahma's toe on the right leg a daughter Virini came out. Her name means "Night"; she became Daksha's wife. http://library.thinkquest.org/C006238/eng/main_india.htm

Daksha, the Son of Brahma, the first Ego thought.