| Temples & Legends Of Somanatha |
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| Temples & Legends Of India |
SHIVA - AND HIS WORSHIP |
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noblest conception of the spiritual unity of man and wife, ever-loving and eternal,
achieved by a joint sublimation of the sex instinct is immortalised in
Parvati-Parameshvara, to quote Kalidasa, as 'indissoluble as word and sense' or the
Ardhanarishvara of the Shaivite literature. No higher example of the aspiration which
Shiva worship provides is afforded than by the hymn of self-realization, Nirvanashataka,
composed by Shankaracharya, the greatest of Indian philosophers and religious reformers: I am not the mind or the intellect, Nor am I the Self nor the cognising power; Neither am I the ear, the tongue, the nose, the eyes; The sky is not I, nor the land, Neither light nor wind am I; |
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