That Lord Siva To Be Adored
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SIVAPARATATTVA AND ITS IMPORT

The following pages shed a ray of light on those important ways, visualizing first the distinct and salient features of the Supreme Reality, and then highlight in brief the procedure to reach the lotus feet of Siva, abiding in numerous forms at hundreds and hundreds of temples.  The scope of this booklet is to acquaint the devotees with basic information to put them on the right path only.  It does not lay claim for all comprehensiveness of the subject to serve an authoritative treatise for reference.  It is more or less a hand book with a little emphasis on the several aspects of Siva to showing the eternal charm of his cosmic form.  Reference books are listed down under the Bibliography for full comprehension of the labour loving aspirants.

Now let us understand something about 'Linga' Siva's representation, the object of adoration seen in all Sivaalayas.  As Siva is the personification of the supreme power of of consciousness - mahachaitanyasakti, permeating the cosmos, he is worshipped fittingly in the form of Linga, that resembles more or less a circle which has neither 'aadi and anta' - beginning or ending.  Does that supreme infinite power possess any beginning or ending?  It is adyantha rahitamahasakti.  A little more probe reveals its full significance.  Read.......

 

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