🔅Secrets of SHIVA & SHAKTI

Parvati is the active, creative life force within us, and Shiva is the silent, witnessing awareness that gives that life direction and meaning.

☯️ Shakti is movement in the stillness. Everything moves around the still center (Shiva). What moves is Shakti.

She rises because she is the desire to experience (Icha shakti)
She has wisdom of manifesting her desire (Gyan Shakti)
She moves to put her dream into manifestation (Kriya Shakti)
Movement is Shakti.
What moves in you, the stillness, is what you call ego or Shakti.

🔅 In all this, Shiva is simply the pure witnessing awareness that is present in all of creation (Shakti).
Shiva is that pure space of awareness (Chidakasha) in which floats all moving creation (Shakti)

In the stillness (Shiva) there is movement (Shakti)
In the movement (Shakti) there is stillness (Shiva)

Shakti represents the ego, the “I” from which is born desire to experience and thus births the conscious creation.
She represents us – the ego/mind (Chit Shakti)
Shiva represents our Self – the pure witness – pure awareness

⛰️ Around the still Shiva moves the whole creation. Arunachala hill is considered as the physical center of the creation. The center is always still, like the center of a moving wheel.

⚡️Ego is born from this stillness and moves around stillness. This stillness is symbolised as Shiva in the light form. The subtle light center is the Tejo Linga (Self) from which emerges Shakti (ego) to create.

☯️ Parvati doing tapas is us (ego) doing tapas to realise the Self (Shiva). Balancing the Shiva and Shakti is when the “I” realises the Self (self-realisation) from where the “I” was born. This state of realisation is expressed as Ardhanarishwara.

💥As the ego consciousness (Parvati) refines itself, it moves from the extreme ends of creation to the epicenter. Physically this is what is Arunachala, where all beings of creation in their last stages of dissolution, comes closer to the epicenter for Ego hovering around Self or Shakti hovering around Shiva. What Bhagwan Ramana refers to as abiding in the Self. All consciousness is eventually pulled towards the center for dissolution. This pull is known as grace.

🙌 Grace brings Shakti (us) to the center (Arunachala). Bhagwan Raman writes in his devotional poems about this grace that pulled him to the epicenter. He explains many times to seekers how this compassionate force or grace does all the work, who ego feels it is the doer.

🔱 The “I” (shakti/ego) gets purified of its identity (known as Parvati doing her tapas in Arunachala in order to win Shiva). The more the ego thins, the more silent and still it becomes. From movement to stillness. From noise to silence. This happens when the 3 gunas (attributes) are completely anhillated which is what symbolises as the trishul or trident of Shiva.

⛰️ What Bhagwan Ramana wrote in his poem “When it (Arunachala) stilled my mind and drew me to itself and I came near, I saw that it was stillness absolute.”

Finally, thus the ego (Shakti) dissolves into the Self, which is commonly referred as merging into Shiva or moksha, liberation. This process of destruction of the desirous creative force and destruction of all its illusory creation and sustenance is known as Pralaya – dissolution, which is what is Giripradakshina. That is the meaning that Arunachala Hill is fire – the destroyer of ego.

☯️ Consciousness (Shakti) is born out of pure awareness and into it will it again dissolve back into. What will always remain is pure awareness. Arunachala Shiva!

🍁 These are directly either from the internal insights of Jake Light from his inward journey of Light or from his Satsangs. Please avoid plagiarism. Modifying or editing or reusing contents without permission is prohibited.