shivashakti,
via escapemysoul, esotericalchemy
Please guide me to the shakti that is waning in my bones.
Ardhanarishvara, That effulgent Union of Shiva-Shakti, Consciousness-Energy that is our essential nature. OM NAMAH SHIVAYA!
Hymn to Shiva Shakti
Param Shiva, Shiva Shakti, Thou art the
mother divine. Grant me Thy devotion, remove
all obstacles and show Thy might.
Thou art the transcendental super energy
of the nature of absolute bliss. Thou art the root
energy of the universe and the ordinary nature
of the embodied.
Thou art the power of universal ambition,
all encompassing knowledge, again Thou art the
universal power of execution.
In the form of Brahma, Thou art
responsible for the creation of the world; in the
form of Vishnu, the world is sustained by Thee
and again Thou take the form of world destroying
power.
In the garb of Maya, Shiva, the ultimate
Truth is concealed by Thee, but in the form of
Divine grace Thou revealth the ultimate truth
(Shiva). Again Thou art the independent
sovereign power.
Thou art the Energy in the form of three
Gunas or mental moods, and Thou the ruling
power above these Gunas. Thou art the
conscious power of Shiva.
Manifestation of the mind, intellect and
ego are the wonders of your power. Thou art the
all limiting power.
Thou art the five sense powers, the five
powers of action. Again Thou art the fivefold
prana (vital force) in the human being.
Thou art the five subtle and the five
gross elements, and Thou the power in a mystic
sound formula.
Thou art the four stages of manifestation
of articulate speech. Again Thou art the source
of primal sound ‘OM’.
Thou art the concealed serpent power at
the base of the spine. Thou art responsible for
her play in the middle sushumna channel.
Thou art the very form of nectar in the
spiritual centre at the crown of the head. Again
Thou art all effulgence.
Manifestation of form out of formless is
Thy miraculous power. Thou art knowable
power…. My adoration to thee.
(via rebirth-through-adaptation)
the Union:
pure unchanging Consciousness
pure everflowing Creative energy
Shiva lingam enthroned in divine Shakti
revealing the very Self to be THAT
Ardhanarishvara
Ardhanareeshwara/Ardhanari is an androgynous deity composed of Shiva and his consort Shakti/Parvati, representing the synthesis of masculine and feminine energies. The Ardhanari form also illustrates how the female principle of God, Shakti is inseparable from the male principle of God, Shiva. Ardhanari in iconography is depicted as half-male and half-female, split down the middle.
OM NAMAH SHIVAYA!
I offer obeisance to the God and Goddess,
The limitless primal parents of the universe.
They are not entirely the same,
Nor are they not the same.
We cannot say exactly what they are.
How sweet is their union!
The whole world is too small to contain them,
Yet they live happily in the smallest particle.
These two are the only ones
Who dwell in this home called the universe.
When the Master of the house sleeps,
The Mistress stays awake,
And performs the functions of both.
When He awakes, the whole house disappears,
And nothing at all is left.
Two lutes: one note.
Two flowers: one fragrance.
Two lamps: one light.
Two lips: one word.
Two eyes: one sight.
These two: one universe.
In unity there is little to behold;
So She, the mother of abundance,
Brought forth the world as play.
He takes the role of Witness
Out of love of watching Her.
But when Her appearance is withdrawn,
The role of Witness is abandoned as well.
Through Her,
He assumes the form of the universe;
Without Her,
He is left naked.
If night and day were to approach the Sun,
Both would disappear.
In the same way, their duality would vanish
If their essential Unity were seen.
In fact, the duality of Shiva and Shakti
Cannot exist in that primal unitive state
From which AUM emanates.
They are like a stream of knowledge
From which a knower cannot drink
Unless he gives up himself.
Is the sound of AUM divided into three
Simple because it contains three letters?
Or is the letter ‘N’ divided into three
Because of the three lines by which it is formed?
So long as Unity is undisturbed,
And a graceful pleasure is thereby derived,
Why should not the water find delight
In the floral fragrance of its own rippled surface?
It is in this manner I bow
To the inseparable Shiva and Shakti.
- from Jnaneshvar: The Life and Works of the Celebrated Thirteenth Century Indian Mystic-Poet, by S. Abhayananda
