The Transcendent God – Shiva (शिव as his name is pronounced in Sanskrit) is the timeless God of the universe. He alone exists as an existence itself, even before the creation of our world and can be understood as the ultimate transcendence and the supreme being.
(A PERSONAL GOD)
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This Supreme Being wants to become something. The Upanishads say, in the beginning, there was only one. He looked around and saw that there was no one else. After feeling alone, he thought to himself, “ may I be two or may I, be many?” In reality, even God wanted to be loved and that is why he simply created the world, to love and to be loved.
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An introduction to Lord Shiva – The timeless God of the Universe
The Transcendent God – Shiva (शिव as his name is pronounced in Sanskrit) is the timeless God of the universe. He alone exists as an existence itself, even before the creation of our world and can be understood as the ultimate transcendence and the supreme being.
A Personal God
Image credit – DeviantArt/LOGARITHMICSPIRAL
This Supreme Being wants to become something. The Upanishads say, in the beginning, there was only one. He looked around and saw that there was no one else. After feeling alone, he thought to himself, “ may I be two or may I, be many?” In reality, even God wanted to be loved and that is why he simply created the world, to love and to be loved.
So, he manifests the world as we know it with himself as the projector. But alongside all that he creates, even he enters the project as an embodiment much like the director taking a role in his own play. (This is the step from being to becoming.)
CREATOR OF YOGA
Likewise, once he enters his own creation as an embodied being, he now involves himself in meditating and re-connecting with his transcendent “godness”. Such connecting is termed as “Yoga”. So, Shiva is the Yogi par excellence and is replete with divine knowledge and power. Shiva constantly deploys his powers, wisdom and his godhood to uplift all his children. In this, he is goodness personified and many who have faith in his immanence, worship him as their personal god.
