AWAKE AS ONE
The Union of Shiva and Shakti
I offer obeisance to the God and Goddess,
The limitless primal parents of the universe.
They are not entirely the same,
Nor are they not the same.
We cannot say exactly what they are.
How sweet is their union!
The whole world is too small to contain them,
Yet they live happily in the smallest particle.
These two are the only ones
Who dwell in this home called the universe.
When the Master of the house sleeps,
The Mistress stays awake,
And performs the functions of both.
When He awakes, the whole house disappears,
And nothing at all is left.
Two lutes: one note.
Two flowers: one fragrance.
Two lamps: one light.
Two lips: one word.
Two eyes: one sight.
These two: one universe.
In unity there is little to behold;
So She, the mother of abundance,
Brought forth the world as play.
He takes the role of Witness
Out of love of watching Her.
But when Her appearance is withdrawn,
The role of Witness is abandoned as well.
Through Her,
He assumes the form of the universe;
Without Her,
He is left naked.
If night and day were to approach the Sun,
Both would disappear.
In the same way, their duality would vanish
If their essential Unity were seen.
In fact, the duality of Shiva and Shakti
Cannot exist in that primal unitive state
From which AUM emanates.
They are like a stream of knowledge
From which a knower cannot drink
Unless he gives up himself.
Is the sound of AUM divided into three
Simple because it contains three letters?
Or is the letter 'N' divided into three
Because of the three lines by which it is formed?
So long as Unity is undisturbed,
And a graceful pleasure is thereby derived,
Why should not the water find delight
In the floral fragrance of its own rippled surface?
It is in this manner I bow
To the inseparable Shiva and Shakti
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A man returns to himself
When he awakens from sleep;
Likewise, I have perceived the God and Goddess
By waking from my ego.
When salt dissolves,
It becomes one with the ocean;
When my ego dissolved,
I became one with Shiva and Shakti.
Amritanubhav (The Nectar of Mystical Experience)
The opening chapter of Amritanubhav, is undoubtedly one of the most strikingly beautiful poetic expressions of duality-in-unity ever written. In it, Jnaneshvar, the poet, portrays, with symbol and metaphor, that mystery which remains forever inexpressible in the language of philosophy and logic. - S. Abhayananda
Sense of Touch
The Kashmiri masters speak of the preeminence of the sense of touch. For them, a human being naturally recovers his unity when he is touched deeply -- that is, when contact is no longer a sexual strategy. When nothing is "wanted." This kind of contact is established within a sort of grace, because it gives back to anyone touched in this way a sense of his own spatiality. To touch another in this way necessitates living in a state of non-duality. To have been touched in this way restores to the body its sacred vibration and will sometimes render it intolerably sensitive to all the "programmed" contact of unaware partners. From that moment on, the body will insist on being approached with veneration and true presence. Excerpt from the translation and commentary of one of the most important texts on Kashmirian Shivaism; Yoga Spandakarika by Daniel Odier
Working with the densest aspect of your Being to the most subtle. Structural Integration (shiva) in union with Craniosacral Energy Healing (shakti) will get you out of your head and into your body. The integration and union of body consciousness and life-force energy, will balance your nervous system and change your psycho/physical patterning at the root.
Union of Shiva~Shakti (Body & Spirit) As Above, So Below (69)
The union of Shiva & Shakti is transcendental, therefore asexual. The fruit of the union is not bodily "orgasm", but perpetual bliss, beyond anything the human nervous system (Body-mind) is capable of producing.
~ Bodhi Shivashaktipat
"Open-Eye"
"Open-Eye" - a Perfect Abiding as Consciousness (Shiva) and It's own Love-Bliss (Shakti) in the face of all arising conditions. There is no higher Realization.
Botticelli's "Primavera" painting, displayed on the website Welcome page is located in the Galleria Degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy. It hangs next to his famous Venus painting the Goddess of Love and Beauty. Venus the Divine Goddess, or Shakti represents vital life energy, attention, fertility and the source of experiential seeking for the ultimate "object" or "state" of experience. The underlying emotional hearts longing for prior union with God or the Self and the ILLUSION of Ultimate Fulfillment through experience. Both worldly and spiritual. She is also paradoxically symbolizing the Divine HEART or Self and the END of seeking, Divine Enlightenment or God Realization. The ego-self searching for it's Source, the true Self. In the Primavera painting, Spiritual life (spirit) is represented on the left by the Greek God Mercury reaching his Caduceus into the Heavens, symbolizing internal Esoteric Reality. Heaven or Nirvana, (the Transcendental Spirit Reality). The right side of the painting symbolizes Hell or Samsara (the conditional manifest body-mind existence) or the exoteric external Reality. Desire and the pull of the senses. Venus as the Divine HEART stands in the middle between both worlds. The union of body (shiva) and shakti (spirit). It is said that Boticelli's inspiration came from Dante's Divine Comedy on Heaven and Hell. Do you think you can tell Heaven from Hell? The Non-dualistic true Nature of Reality. All is One. There is no "other". No "point of view".
WITNESS OF ATTENTION
Thus, good and bad, the sacred and the profane, the sensual and the spiritual, the worldly and the transcendental, ignorance and Enlightenment, samsara and nirvana, etc., are not absolute opposites, or concepts of entirely different categories, but two sides of the same reality."
Anagarika Govinda
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