The Triadic Heart of Siva

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by Unseeking Seeker

Quote worthy from the book:
Note to Admins: Less than three sentences!

I'm proud of you! xo

In 2017 this quoting of more than 3 sentences for Copyright issues was overlooked on occasion or missed!
Since then, Lynn has had emails about -''No more infringing on copyrights."
Please take note, everybody. :)

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by jonesboy

I think the next quote is very important for people to understand.
Your body is light as well.. within the tip of your finger is all that there is in all of the dimensions and galaxies that are beyond counting..as you.
It is not separate or something different from the Heart.. it is also the Heart which is Siva, which is you.

Reminds me of the example I often give ...if you have a Hologram Bookmark....
cut it into many many pieces ...take a magnifying glass, in each piece is the whole ...say, a colorful giraffee!

[Unseeking Seeker]

Another noteworthy extract from the book, said to be affirmed by Abhinava Gupta:

“The self-referential capacity of consciousness is united with all things. From within its very self, this capacity of consciousness differentiates the other,
and from the other it actualizes itself again, It then unifies both of them, the self and the other, and having unified them, it submerges them both back into itself."

[Unseeking Seeker]

About the world being real or an illusion, the following is written:

“The tradition never denies, however, the reality of the manifestation of appearances as a phenomenon that occurs within the Ultimate reality of Siva; the light is real and the phenomena that it displays are real. These manifested phenomena enjoy a reflected status of reality. At the same time, there is a final sense in which they are not ultimately real because they do not enjoy, as separate phenomena, the eternal existence and freedom of Siva.”

[jonesboy]

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Reminds me of the example I often give ...if you have a Hologram Bookmark....
cut it into many many pieces ...take a magnifying glass, in each piece is the whole ...say, a colorful giraffee!

Yes, Fractals.

Here is a really good spiritual movie about the topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXuTt7c3Jkg

Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds - Part 1 - Akasha

[txsha]

Wow, thank you for sharing this. Excited to read through the thread and the different passages 🙏

[Unseeking Seeker]

What is meant by the Heart? The text says:

“When the Heart is free of stains and a light occurs which illuminates the Supreme plane, by immersion in this shining light, one obtains identity with the Supreme Siva, that is, with consciousness.

Only the light of the Heart truly exists; in creative activity it is the active agent and this activity, when it reposes in itself, is the self-referential capacity of consciousness, whereas when it begins to spread outwards it causes the manifestation of the universe.”

In my understanding, as of direct experience, the ‘self-referral capacity’ is essentially the Self renewing itself within itself, luminous and complete, resplendent in its innate luminosity.

[Unseeking Seeker]

What is the ultimate? The text says:

”The Ultimate is spanda: it vibrates, it expands and contracts; it manifests and reabsorbs; it is full of waves and waveless; it is full of bliss and yet suffering occurs; it plays a game of hide-and-seek with itself in which ignorance alternates with knowledge, and in which enjoyment and liberation can coincide.”

[Unseeking Seeker]

Another noteworthy extract:

“Examined from the point of view of Siva (or of a liberated being), the entire manifestation in its most concrete form has never really departed from Siva; it has never sundered the absolute reality. The entire play of manifestation occurs safely ensconced in the bosom of the Supreme. It is a coagulation of forms that in their essence are nothing more (or less!) than absolute consciousness.”

[Unseeking Seeker]

and in continuation ….

“The entire manifestation is nothing other than the Ultimate.

The powerful movements of manifestation and reabsorption are nothing more than the Emission of the Lord. The level of the Emissional is a projection of the Self, from the Self, in the Self.”