The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 23 : Lord Shiva - 2

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 23 🌹

🌴 Lord Shiva - 2  🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 The Cosmic Dancer 🌻

The first Logos is also represented as sleeping or described to be as stable and undisturbed as a stone. After having brought forth the creation, he happily sleeps as its basis and allows the work of the second and third aspect. 

In India there is the representation how Shiva sleeps and the Mother dances on him. For intellectuals this representation is irritating but for an intuitive person it contains many secrets. 

Wisdom is always like that - it appears incomprehensible to the intellect but for the sincere seeker, who looks behind the blind, it gives many clues.

In another poetic expression Shiva as Nataraja is dancing in an eternal dance while he keeps on creating one universe after the other; and if he stops, the creation will collapse. 

Therefore, Shiva is considered the highest lord of music; in India those who learn music and dance first touch the feet of the dancing Shiva. The rhythmic, dancing movements of the waves of the ocean of space are formed by the Gandharvas, whose king is Soma. 

Soma is regarded as an incarnation of Shiva. He is the reflective principle in creation. All words are nothing but reflections of the absolute Light through the lunar principle.

In the Puranas there is an allegory according to which Daksha cursed the moon to wane until he is dead. Lord Shiva protected him of this curse and took him as the crescent-jewel on his head. The crescent moon represents the potential of awareness. 

The thin line, with which the crescent is illustrated, indicates that even if you don’t see the moon any longer at new moon, Soma, the moon principle, is still there. 

The potential can manifest itself from time to time; otherwise it remains pure universal existence.

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

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