The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 24 : Lord Shiva - 3

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 24 🌹

🌴 Lord Shiva - 3  🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. Lord of the Inner Joy 🌻

Through all changes of state of creation Shiva carries a subtle smile on his lips symbolising the state of bliss. He is also called the auspicious one. We all try to be happy, but besides happiness there also exists the shadow of unhappiness. 

The wisdom makes us understand that happiness as well as unhappiness alternately appear and disappear again. Shiva teaches us to maintain balance. The permanent happiness comes from linking up to the source, THAT. 

Thus Shiva is worshipped as the Lord of inner joy. To meditate on the symbol of the smiling Lord with the crescent moon at his front unfolds the state of bliss.

Allegorically Shiva is represented as riding on the bull Nandi; this is a symbolic illustration that the divine Will rides on the word of God. With enlightening words other people can be uplifted and their souls can be touched. 

Thus, Nandi means somebody who has realised Ananda, bliss, by experiencing God and thus is expressing the direct impulse of Shiva. 

Master EK says that esoterically Nandi means the gap between the pineal and the pituitary, which is filled with the light of self-awareness by a Yogi when he experiences God or highest bliss. In the Mystic Mantrams this is called “Higher Bridge Beginning”.

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

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