The Formless Concept of Shiva

-- Adi Shankaracharya
 
"Om!! Man O Buddhi O Ahankar O Chittani Na Aham
Na Cha Shrotra Jihve Na Cha Gran Netre
Na Cha Vyom Bhumir Na Tejo Na Vayu
Chidananda Rupah Shivoham Shivoham !!"
 
The formless concept of Shiva first explained by Adi Shankaracharya, also interpreted many times in his
famous work "Vivek Chuda mani" - The Crest Jewel of Discrimination. Here Shiva is imagined to exist
within each & every individual, you , me everywhere. Right from the begining of Srishti there was Shiva
and at the end there is Shiva.
 
Here Om - and
 
Intepretation:
 
Man - mind
Buddhi - brain
Ahankar - ego
Chitta - the Self
Na Aham - I (Aham) don't have
 
Na cha shrotra - I cannot hear
Jihve - I don't have tongue
Ghran - I cannot tate
Netre - I cannot see
Vyom - There is no space
Bhumi - There is no land
Na Tej - No illumination
Vayu - No Wind
 
Chidananda Rupah - Chit + Ananda  I am always happy. Who is I? The Soul, The Paramatma. If you go
through the second chapter of Gita or through Katho Upanishad, the eternal concept of Soul has been
repeated there:
"Nainam chindati shastrani (that which a weapon cannot tear), nainam deheti pawakah(that which wind
cannot wear).....
 
"Na Cha Pran Sango Na Wai Pancha Vayu
Na Wa Sapta Dhatu Na Wa Pancha Kosha
Na Wak Pani Padam, Na Cha Upastha Payu
Chidananda Rupah Shivoham Shivoham !"
 
Na Cha Pran Sango -  I am not made of five life
Na Wai Pancha Vayu - Nor I am five winds
Na Wa Sapta Dhatu - I am not made of seven elemnts (Remember Mendel's periodic tables?)
Na Wa Pancha Koshah - I am not made of 5 Koshas (Ananya kosha....it requires furhter
explanation)
Na Wak - I cannot speak
Pani, Padam - I have no hand and feet
Na Cha Upastha Payu - I have neither buttocks nor any anus
 
Yet I am haapy. The use of those three terms Sat (The Truth) + Chit (The Mind) + Ananda (Happinness)
lways leads to Shiva.
 
"Na Me Dwesh Rag O Na Me Lobh Moho O
Mad O Nei Wa Me Nei Wa Matsarya Bhava
Na Dharmo Na Cha Artho Na Kam O Na Moksha
Chidananda Rupah Shivoham Shivhoam"
 
Na Me Dwesh -  I don't have jealousy
Rag - I don't have anger
Na Me Lobh O Moho - I dno't have lust nor any infatuation
Mad O Nei Wa - I don' have sex
Me Nei Wa Matsarya Bhava - I don' have any dirtiness
Na Dharmo Na Cha Artho - I don't have any religion nor any prosperity
Na Kam Na Moksh - Neither any desire nor liberation of soul
 
Yet I am happy, I am the Shiva. The concept of Shivoham ( I am the Shiva) was used by Swamiji in his
address while inspiring the youth, that, you can do everything, you have got the immense potentiality in
you.
 
"Na Punyam Na Papam, Na Sukham Na Dukkham
Na Mantro Na Tirtham Na Veda Na Yajna
Aham Bhojanam Nei Wa Bhojyam Na Bhokta
Chidananda Rupah Shivoham Shivoham"
 
Na Punyam Na Papam - I have no sin, neither any good work
Na Sukham na dukham - No happiness, no sadness
Na Mantro na tirtham - no chanting of hymns, nor any religious visits
Na Veda, Na Yajna - No Veda, no holu ablution
Aham Bhojanam Ne Wa - I don't eat
Bhojyam Na Bhokta - Nor eating, nor the eater
 
"Na Mrityu Na Shanka, na Me Jati Bheda
Pita Nei Wa Me Nei Wa Mata Na Janma
Na Bandhu Na Mitram, Guru Nei Wa Shishya
Chidananda Rupah Shivoham Shivoham"
 
Na Mrity Na Shanka - I have no death, nor any doubt
Na Me Jati Bheda - No any difference in caste or creed
Pita Nei Wa Me Nei Wa Mata Na Janma - No father, mother nor any birth
Na Bandhu Na Mitram, Guru Nei Wa Shishya - No friend, no teacher, nor any discipline
.....
.....
 
"Aham Nirvikalpo Nirakar Rupah, Vibhutwach Sarvatra
Sarve Indriyanam
Na Cha Sangtam, Nei Wa Muktir Na Mewa
Chidananda Rupah, Shivoham, Shivoham"
 
Aham Nirvikalpo - I am the omniscient, ahs no duplication
Nirakar Rupah - No form
Vibhutwach Sarvatra - Vibhutwam means all pervading. Here it means I am everywhere
Sarve Indriyanam - No connected to senses
Na Cha Sangtam - I am not liberal
Mukti Na Mewa - I am neither liberated nor the known one
 
I am the eternal truth , I am the Shiva.
 

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