Namaste.
Recently, I have subscribed to the website Indiadivine.org:
https://www.indiadivine.org/
I have been getting notifications in my notifications tray, which basically corresponds to the level of awareness I'm at and answers specific questions I ask the Universe at any given time.
Today, I decided to just browse and graze at the many offerings...then stumbled across a beautifully written article on Vedic Yoga and the Svetasvatar Upanishad:
https://www.indiadivine.org/vedic-or...oga-upanishad/
It helped to re-stoke and rekindle the passionate love-affair I have with Lord Shiva.
There was one word...just one word in the whole of that essay which peaked my focused attentions...
Pranidhana.
I had a vague concept of the term in its Sanskrit etymological sense as being 'devotion' which took shraddha...which etymologically corresponds to 'faith'...but my attempts to find any English equivalent for the Devanagari always seems to fall quite short of the mark.
So, off I went on another online search and found another beautiful article called "Ishvara Pranidhana":
https://jivamuktiyoga.com/fotm/ishva...wer-surrender/
Pranidhana can thus literally be translated to "the power of surrender".
It is
exactly what I needed to hear and to read at the current time...as if my eyes...my hands...my online searches were being guided by Lord Shiva Himself, with me just being the puppet through which that happens.
I eventually mentally interposed and married the two articles, and came up with the essence of Parabhakti, Advaita Vedanta and basically the whole of Hindu thought in one neat nutshell of a package.
Please take time to read it, leave your comments below and I look forward to having some enjoyable discussions on the nature of content. With kind regards.
Om Namah Shivaya