Shiva Purana 3 by Bibek Debroy

Author:Bibek Debroy [Debroy, Bibek]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2023-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 393-8.1(6) (Jnana about Shiva’s Tattva Continued)

‘“The sages asked, ‘You have spoken about Pashu. What is the Pasha that is spoken about? Please tell us about the signs whereby Pati is distinct from these two.’”’

‘“Vayu replied, ‘There is an entity who enables one to cross over this receptacle of the gunas. He is Pati, the creator of the universe, who frees Pashu from Pasha. In this absence, how could the universe have been created? Both Pashu and Pasha are insentient and lack jnana. Without an intelligent cause, nothing is seen to have created itself—Pradhana, an atom,1793 or anything insentient. There are different constituent parts in the body of the universe, but their action is dependent on a creator. The ownership over this action vests with Pati, not with Pashu or Pasha. Any ownership over action by Pashu, which is actually an instrument, is like an ignorant and blind man walking. When a person forms the view that the atman is different and the one who urges the atman is different from it, he is thought to be worthy of immortality. In truth, Pati is the supreme destination and is beyond Pashu and Pasha. A person who knows him as the brahman, becomes free from being born as species. Isha illuminates the universe and also frees the universe, consisting of the union of Kshara and Akshara, the manifest and the unmanifest. The enjoyer, the enjoyer and the one who urges—these three separate entities should be thought about. For those who seek to know, there is nothing superior to this knowledge. Oil exists in seeds of sesamum. Ghee exists in curd. Water pervades any flow. Hutashana exists in arani. In that way, the signs of the great atman exist in one’s own atman. A person who is always engaged in austerities and pursuing the truth sees this. Isha alone, along with his own Shaktis, the Ishanis, creates this illusion. He creates all the worlds. That is the reason he is known as Isha.1794 Thus, Rudra is alone and has no second. He creates the universe with its worlds, protects them and withdraws them. His eyes are everywhere around the universe. His faces are everywhere in the universe. In that way, his arms are everywhere in the universe. His feet are everywhere in the universe. Maheshvara alone is the divinity is the one who created heaven, earth and the space between them. He is the origin of all devas, and they dissolve into him. He created Hiranyagarbha as the first among all devas. The shruti texts say that Rudra is the maharshi who is superior to everyone else. I know this great Purusha, who is amrita and fixed. His complexion is that of the sun and the lord is stationed beyond darkness.1795 There is nothing superior. There is nothing superior to the paramatman. There is nothing smaller and there is nothing larger. The entire universe is filled by him. His faces, heads and necks are everywhere. He resides in the cavities within all beings.

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