Vinasham Aaghoram Samharam—the
Terrible dissolver, who ends it all.
This description also crept into the string of epithets that made for prayer,” said Suta.
“But it doesn’t seem to me that Shiva is terrible!” cried Shaunaka.
“Hmm…” Suta said. “It may interest you to know that Aghora is actually the benign; it is Ghora that is used for darkness, but such was the mindset of the fearful, that even Aghora is identified with terrible!”
“So then, Shiva began to be known as the Destroyer; I understand,” said Shaunaka with remorse.
This description also crept into the string of epithets that made for prayer,” said Suta.
“But it doesn’t seem to me that Shiva is terrible!” cried Shaunaka.
“Hmm…” Suta said. “It may interest you to know that Aghora is actually the benign; it is Ghora that is used for darkness, but such was the mindset of the fearful, that even Aghora is identified with terrible!”
“So then, Shiva began to be known as the Destroyer; I understand,” said Shaunaka with remorse.
“Hmm… Yes, but there were other, less opinionated and
therefore more open-minded seers, who, after a great deal of research and
meditation, comparison of notes and deliberation, declared simply, ‘only Shiva
knows what He is, really’, thus affording Him the opportunity to express His
own truth and pass it on, from time to time,” said Suta with a redeeming smile.
“Ah!” the cheerfulness came back on Shaunaka’s face.
“Those, to whom these revelations came, were completely transformed,” Suta continued. “They became confident and trusting of life, shifting to a mode bubbling with high self-esteem. They were always at ease and seemed to know their place in the plan of things. Not that these seers lived in a different time or place, or were exposed to a different reality: The same things that some thought were ominous, these few saw clearly, as the play of life.
They had begun to penetrate beyond duality. They did see how all things arrived in pairs, like light and dark, day and night, heat and cold, but also saw beyond it all, a single source; A Oneness from where all phenomena emanated.”
“Ah!” said Shaunaka again, mesmerised by his master’s articulate skill in storytelling.
“It was actually as if Shiva was the supreme alchemist, transmuting the spirit of the seers with His touch. The very ‘seeing’ of Shiva itself, even when it happened in meditation, drew out a dormant divinity within the seer. A divinity, which they now came to realise, was timeless and present from the very inception of the world. It had to be: Not only was everything made by God, everything was made of God. ‘God stuff’ had been wired into all from the beginning!” Suta declared.
“Ah!” the cheerfulness came back on Shaunaka’s face.
“Those, to whom these revelations came, were completely transformed,” Suta continued. “They became confident and trusting of life, shifting to a mode bubbling with high self-esteem. They were always at ease and seemed to know their place in the plan of things. Not that these seers lived in a different time or place, or were exposed to a different reality: The same things that some thought were ominous, these few saw clearly, as the play of life.
They had begun to penetrate beyond duality. They did see how all things arrived in pairs, like light and dark, day and night, heat and cold, but also saw beyond it all, a single source; A Oneness from where all phenomena emanated.”
“Ah!” said Shaunaka again, mesmerised by his master’s articulate skill in storytelling.
“It was actually as if Shiva was the supreme alchemist, transmuting the spirit of the seers with His touch. The very ‘seeing’ of Shiva itself, even when it happened in meditation, drew out a dormant divinity within the seer. A divinity, which they now came to realise, was timeless and present from the very inception of the world. It had to be: Not only was everything made by God, everything was made of God. ‘God stuff’ had been wired into all from the beginning!” Suta declared.
~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati
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