It amazes me how easy Satan’s arguments and thinking are for humans to understand; everybody finds them completely intuitive and resonating with their own. Whether that’s due to spiritual kinship with him, or the fact that they are immersed in the global astral field that’s created by him, living in a civilization that was created according to his designs, or living in a physical vessel that’s been designed by him, I can’t really tell, but it’s clearly a reason for concern.
However, let’s talk about something on the opposite pole of Creation for a change. Some of it will be Vedic stories, but I will supplement them with my own knowledge when necessary.
In the beginnings, Gods were churning the waters of Creation, and all kinds of things turned up. One of those things was a poison that threatened to overwhelm all of Creation, and they felt great fear, not knowing how to deal with it. Then Lord Shiva came and drank the poison, sacrificing himself to save everybody. As the poison scarred his throat, it revealed the blue light of vajra, and the Lord thus gained a new name, Nilakanta (Bluethroat). That’s one of the things the Christians never seem to get about Hinduism. They think their “gods” are some kind of silly idols that primitive people worship because they don’t know better. No. Lord Shiva is a Christ figure, someone who accepted suffering and a heavy burden upon himself so that others might live. He’s someone who bestows excessive and completely unearned gifts of mercy upon those who give him even insignificant signs of respect and kindness (which is why he’s known as Shankara, the Benefactor), thus disturbing the normal currents of Divine Justice, and occasionally creating trouble when souls who gained his great gifts misuse them. However, other Gods would never want him to change and stop doing it, because his actions are so wonderful; instead, Lord Vishnu always keeps an eye on him and watches his back, and occasionally jumps in to intervene, saving Lord Shiva from sinful souls who try to turn his gifts against him.
Lord Shiva is portrayed as a reclusive ascetic, meditating upon transcendence, incinerating all illusions, attachments and impurities with his third eye of spiritual insight, and is thus known as Yogeshvara, the Supreme Lord of Yoga. This, however, is merely the surface. Shiva is also known as the Pillar of Creation, that ascends into unknown heights and descends into unknown depths, providing the foundation from which all Creation is derived, which is why he is known as Mahadeva or Maheshvara, the Great God, or the Great Lord. He is the principle of supreme transcendence, that sees through all illusions and manifests a constant presence of the Absolute, which is the true meaning of that vertical Pillar within Creation, which is the Light of God. As such, he is destruction of all that is limiting, sinful, worldly and deceptive, shining a bright light of the Absolute Reality on the other side of Creation. Simultaneously, he is the object of constant observation and meditation by his wife, who is known by many names – Shakti (literally “Power” or “Energy”), Maya (“Creation”), and so on. As he meditates on the pure reality, she spins out the Relative Creation and corrects it back in time if she sees any sign of displeasure in the Lord, and so creates only that, which the Lord sees as good. When they are together, his Great Transcendence and her Great Omnipotence, the Night of Shiva and the Day of Shakti, they form tandava natyam, the golden energy that is the Throne of God, the dance of Creation and Destruction. Every part of Creation that recognises the authority of God is under the Throne, which pervades it and maintains it in a God-pleasing state, as the fires of the Throne manifest through lesser energies and create, maintain, change or destroy as necessary.
I said that Lord Shiva has a tendency of bestowing great and unearned gifts upon lesser souls, and that this has a tendency of creating trouble, that later has to be addressed. That might have been an understatement, because, remember The Jewel? The rendering engine that can create new Universe-types and Universes? Its energy struck me as familiar when I first saw it – he’s white, of the energy type Goddess wields, and she never does anything if Shiva didn’t will it or envision it, which means…
Yeah. Oops.




