The deluded intellect
Matrumodakarvatsarvam Pravrutyarthamudahitam
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Consciousness - the state of Shiva has to be understood. Everyone cannot learn it directly. It is like trying to reach the terrace without climbing any staircase. The terrace contains space. To reach that space high above, one has to climb a stairway, constructed in space. The worship of Bhairava in name and form is like climbing stairs.
Shiva says that for those whose intellect is not fully developed, the various names and forms of God are given, watching their tendencies. The names and forms can be fierce or loving images, just as harsh words are used at times to frighten children or the mother cajoling the child into a discipline with sweets. The name and form of idol worship is meant to coax the person to meditate on consciousness with an idol placed before him.
- (Picture: With village children at Ukhimath, Himalayas). - Swahilya Shambavi.
(Bhagavad Gita, Patanjali Yoga Sutra, Tirumandiram, swahilya.soulmate@gmail.com)
4 comments:
to reach higher levels we need staircases, like that to reach higher level of consciousness, you begin with forms then to transcend to formless state. endha prapancham muluvadhum vyabithu irukkum sakthiyai unara uruva valipadu, mudhal padi agiradhu.
Yes fruitu....idol worship is a step towards knowing Consciousness.
Like a symbol, the idol stands like a gateway to consciousness. I feel that is why even when you have experienced the formless, you can still worship the form.Don't know if I am making myself clear.
Meena.
Yes Meena, you are clear. The symbol or an idol is like a pot holding the river water. The river is the formless expanse. The pot too holds the same formless expanse. But while we are able to see it at first sight in the river, we tend to miss it out on the pot as we get engrossed with the image at first sight.
Still, sticking on to idol worship is like saying, I will drink water only from the little pot and not from the river - or rather seeing the water in the pot as different from water in the river.
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