The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 22 : Lord Shiva - 1

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 22 🌹

🌴 Lord Shiva - 1  🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. The Three Logoi  🌻

We can make various dishes out of the same vegetables. We create new dishes to keep us from getting bored. Likewise, the many forms of creation have come out of the one divine principle. 

There are innumerable forms of expression of the one principle which is also worshipped with many different names. This way the seers of the Vedic and Puranic lore fabricated three basic symbols to explain the three basic forces of creation. 

They called the creative power Brahma, the preserving power Vishnu, the Lord of existence, and the destructive or merging power Shiva. 

They called the absolute God, who can never be put into words or thoughts, Parabrahman or THAT. The various names only serve our understanding; they don’t mark realities independent from each other. 

However, the adherents of the different concepts of God think there are various Lords of the One Existence and that their understanding is the better one. Time and again their ignorance and their claims to supremacy have led to horrible fights.

For an easier understanding at the present time Master Djwhal Khul gives English expressions for the three basic forces. Instead of Shiva he says “Will”, instead of Vishnu “Love” and instead of Brahma “Light”. 

Instead of Parabrahman he speaks of the “background consciousness” beyond the trinity and their source. It is important to understand the concept instead of sticking to names. 

What is described as Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma is also called the cosmic first, second and third ray or the triangular activity of the cosmic first, second and third Logos.

The first Logos is said to be nude, because he is the original spirit without encasement. 

Therefore, Shiva is also presented naked. The first clothing around the spirit is the soul; the further clothings are the mind, the senses and the body, in the human as well as in the cosmic system. 

Thus, the second Logos is the encasing to the first Logos; the third Logos is a further encasing, whereas the first Logos himself is not an encasing but the original spirit.

Sources: K.P. Kumar: Rudra / notes from seminars. E. Krishnamacharya: Spiritual Psychology.

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