Lord Shiva beckons sweetly and that is felt according to our own individual perception. One cannot borrow the belief and perception of another. The Lord is to be seen in your own eyes, even if your way appears to be idiosyncratic. What is sense to you may be nonsense to another but the Lord would be the adjudicator, not humans. So there is no need to fake your belief to please someone else. The Lord is not taken to cosmetics so just be. It is ideal to know basic rituals and mantra but let that not be an impediment. But it would not be too difficult to chant Om Namah Sivaya. When He is felt and known in one’s heart, the Lord inspires awe.
The Trishula is symbolic of the foremost of Ascetics. In a general sense, the Trishula represents aspects of Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer including the three principles of Pasa - Lordship, the divinity of Shiva, Pasu - man’s base animal nature and Pasa -bondage, including illusion and karmic debt central to Shaivite doctrine. The three also represent the three Shaktis or powers; will, action, and wisdom, and the three main Nadis or energy channels; ida, pingala, and shushumna, which allows kundalini energy to travel through the chakras.
The Trishula is the symbol of His love, the One who is the greatest of all lovers as He is Himself the embodiment of Shakti’s love also. The Lingga is the Lord’s perfect symbol but the Trishula stands to be mobile from the heights of Kailas to the golden sands of Rameshawaram and millions of places on earth where bhaktas stand
in devotion to shower their love in their own way. Hara Hara Mahadeva.
By Yogi Ananda Saraswathi
The Trishula is symbolic of the foremost of Ascetics. In a general sense, the Trishula represents aspects of Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer including the three principles of Pasa - Lordship, the divinity of Shiva, Pasu - man’s base animal nature and Pasa -bondage, including illusion and karmic debt central to Shaivite doctrine. The three also represent the three Shaktis or powers; will, action, and wisdom, and the three main Nadis or energy channels; ida, pingala, and shushumna, which allows kundalini energy to travel through the chakras.
The Trishula is the symbol of His love, the One who is the greatest of all lovers as He is Himself the embodiment of Shakti’s love also. The Lingga is the Lord’s perfect symbol but the Trishula stands to be mobile from the heights of Kailas to the golden sands of Rameshawaram and millions of places on earth where bhaktas stand
in devotion to shower their love in their own way. Hara Hara Mahadeva.
By Yogi Ananda Saraswathi
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