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This Tribe is for discussion of Lord Shiva according to Shaiva philosophies, general Hindu philosophies or related philosophies. I.e that Lord Shiva is the Godhead or a representation of the Godhead equal to all other Devata.
This Tribe is for gathering of all sorts of lovers of Lord Shiva, Tantrikas, Sadhakas, Yogis, Jnanis, ect., and people interested in sharing and learning more about Lord Shiva and Shavism.
Matha cha Parvathy Devi,
Pitha devo Maheswara,
Bandhava Shiva Bakthamscha,
Swadeso Bhuvana thrayam
"My mother is the goddess Parvati,
My father is the Great Lord god (Shiva),
My friends are the devotees of Shiva
And my native place is all the three worlds."
~Shiva Manasa Puja of Adi Shankaracharya Bhagavadpada, shloka 7
What Is the Nature of Saivite Theology?
Saivism proclaims:
God Siva is Love, both immanent and transcendent, Both the creator and the creation. This world is the arena of our evolution, which leads by stages to moksha, liberation from birth and death.
Saivism is a unique religion in which God is both manifest and unmanifest, dual and nondual, within us and outside of us. It is not strictly pantheistic, polytheistic or monotheistic.
Its predominant theology is known as monistic theism, panentheism, or Advaita Isvaravada.
Monism, the opposite of dualism, is the doctrine that reality is a one whole or existence without independent parts.
Theism is belief in God and the Gods, both immanent and transcendent. Saivism is monistic in its belief in alone reality and in the advaitic, or nondual, identity of man with that reality. Saivism is theistic in its belief in the Gods, and in God Siva as a loving, personal Lord, immanent in the world.
Saivism expresses the oneness of Pati-pashu-pasha, God-soul-world, encompassing the nondual and the dual, faithfully carrying forth both Vedanta and Siddhanta, the pristine Sanatana Dharma of the Vedas and Saiva Agamas.
The Tirumantiram states, "Shuddha Saivas meditate on these as their religious path:Oneself, Absolute Reality and the Primal Soul; the categories three: God, soul and bonds; immaculate liberation and all that fetters the soul.
"Rudra by day, Rudra at night we honor with these our songs, the Universe's Father.
Him great and lofty, blissful, undecaying let us call specially as the Sage impels us."
~Rigveda Samhita 6.49.10
Aum Namah Sivaya!
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Other tribes of interest:
tribes.tribe.net/saiva
kalima.tribe.net
ganesh.tribe.net
tribes.tribe.net/skanda-kumara
tribes.tribe.net/aghora
tribes.tribe.net/shrimata
tribes.tribe.net/practicaltantra
bhaktiyoga.tribe.net
Hanuman.tribe.net
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