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    HISTORY OF YOGA

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    In Indian tradition, Shiva


    has many forms, each
    representing a powerful
    possibility for inner
    evolution. Sadhguru looks at a few forms,
    and explains the basis underlying each of
    them.

    Bholenath

    Sadhguru: Shiva is always seen as a


    very powerful being, and at the same
    time, as one who is not so crafty with the
    world. So, one form of Shiva is known as
    Bholenath, because he is childlike.
    “Bholenath” means the innocent or even
    the ignorant. You will find that most
    intelligent people are very easily taken for
    a ride because they cannot subject their
    intelligence to petty things. A very low
    level of intelligence that is crafty and
    shrewd can easily outsmart an intelligent
    person in the world. That may mean
    something in terms of money or society,
    but it doesn’t mean anything in terms of
    life.

    When we say intelligence, we are not


    looking at just being smart. We are
    looking at allowing that dimension which
    makes life happen, to be in full flow.

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    Shiva is like this too. It is not that he is
    stupid, but he does not care to use
    intelligence in all those petty ways.

    Nataraja

    Sadhguru: Natesha or Nataraja, Shiva


    as the Lord of Dance, is one of the most
    significant forms of Shiva. When I visited
    CERN in Switzerland, which is the
    physics laboratory on the planet, where
    all the atom-smashing takes place, I saw
    that there is a Nataraja statue in front of
    the entrance, because they identified that
    there is nothing in human culture which
    is closer to what they are doing right now.

    The Nataraja form represents the


    exuberance and dance of creation which
    self-created itself from eternal stillness.
    Nataraja standing in the Chidambaram
    temple is very symbolic because what you
    call Chidambaram is just absolute
    stillness. That is what is enshrined in the
    form of this temple. The classical arts are
    to bring this absolute stillness into a
    human being. Without stillness, true art
    cannot come.

    Ardhanarishvara

    Sadhguru: Generally, Shiva is referred


    to as the ultimate man, but in the
    Ardhanarishvara form, one half of him is
    a fully developed woman. What is being
    said is that if the inner masculine and
    feminine meet, you are in a perpetual
    state of ecstasy. If you try to do it on the
    outside, it never lasts, and all the troubles
    that come with that are an ongoing
    drama. Masculine and feminine does not
    mean male and female. These are certain
    qualities. Essentially, it is not two people
    longing to meet, it is two dimensions of
    life longing to meet – outside as well as
    inside. If you achieve it inside, the outside
    will happen 100% by choice. Otherwise,
    the outside will be a terrible compulsion.

    This is a symbolism to show that if you


    evolve in your ultimate context, you will

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    be half a man and half a woman – not a
    neuter – a full-fledged man and a full-
    fledged woman. That is when you are a
    full-blown human being.

    Kalabhairava

    Sadhguru: Kalabhairava is a deadly


    form of Shiva – when he went into a
    mode of destroying time. All physical
    realities exist within the span of time. If I
    destroy your time, everything is over.

    Shiva put on the right kind of costume


    and became Kalabhairava, to create the
    Bhairavi Yatana. “Yatana” means
    ultimate suffering. When the moment of
    death comes, many lifetimes play out –
    with great intensity, whatever pain and
    suffering needs to happen to you, will
    happen in a microsecond. After that,
    nothing of the past remains in you.
    Undoing your “software” is painful. But
    this happens at the moment of death, so
    you have no choice. But he makes it as
    brief as possible. Suffering has to end
    quickly. That will happen only if we make
    it super-intense. If it is mild, it goes on
    forever.

    Adiyogi

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    Sadhguru: In the yogic tradition, Shiva
    is not worshiped as a God. He is the
    Adiyogi, the first Yogi, and Adi Guru, the
    First Guru from whom the yogic sciences
    originated. The first full moon of
    Dakshinayana is Guru Pournami, when
    Adiyogi began the transmission of these
    sciences to the Saptarishis, his first seven
    disciples.

    This predates all religion. Before people


    devised divisive ways of fracturing
    humanity, the most powerful tools
    necessary to raise human consciousness
    were realized and propagated. The
    sophistication of it is unbelievable. The
    question of whether people were so
    sophisticated at that time is irrelevant
    because this did not come from a certain
    civilization or thought process. This came
    from an inner realization. It was just an
    outpouring of himself. You cannot
    change a single thing even today because
    he said everything that could be said in
    such beautiful and intelligent ways. You
    can only spend your lifetime trying to
    decipher it.

    Triambaka

    Sadhguru: Shiva has always been


    referred to as Triambaka because he has a
    third eye. A third eye does not mean a
    crack in the forehead. It simply means
    that his perception has reached its
    ultimate possibility. The third eye is the
    eye of vision. The two physical eyes are
    just sensory organs. They feed the mind
    with all kinds of nonsense because what
    you see is not the truth. You see this

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    person or that person and you think
    something about him, but you are not
    able to see the Shiva in him. So, another
    eye, an eye of deeper penetration, has to
    be opened up.

    Any amount of thinking and


    philosophizing will never bring clarity into
    your mind. Anyone can distort the logical
    clarity that you create; difficult situations
    can completely put it into turmoil. Only
    when vision opens up, only when you
    have an inner vision, will there be perfect
    clarity.

    What we refer to as Shiva is nothing but


    the very embodiment of ultimate
    perception. It is in this context that the
    Isha Yoga Center celebrates
    Mahashivarathri. It is an opportunity and
    a possibility for all to raise their perception
    by at least one notch. This is what Shiva is
    about and this is what yoga is about. This
    is not religion, this is the science of inner
    evolution.

    May this Mahashivarathri night not just


    be a night of wakefulness, but let this also
    become a night of intense aliveness and
    awareness for you. It is my wish and
    blessing that you make use of this
    wonderful gift that nature offers us on
    this day. I hope all of you ride this
    upsurge and know the beauty and ecstasy
    of what it means when we say “Shiva.”

    Editor's Note: Download Sadhguru's


    ebook, Shiva - Ultimate Outlaw, along
    with Vairagya, an album of sacred chants
    (also available as an Android App).
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    Ambedkar Podeti
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    Shambho!!! Excellent artistic
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    Jaya • 3 months ago


    Not to understand seek
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    Lord Sundareswarar I bow
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    when is mahashivarathri?
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