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Siva's Infinite Forms

Though we do not get to see Siva's amazing diversity in our normal, patterned life, it is there, hidden in the recesses, crouched in the forest, swimming in the depths, hiding under a rock. Today we share a gallery of creatures to amaze the mind and spark our love of life's diversity. With it, a quote from the white-maned Lion of Dharma, our Gurudeva:


Living with Siva is living with everyone every reptile, fish, fowl, animal and creature, to the very smallest in a consciousness of the one life force within all of them that sustains this perfect universe. Truly, God Siva is everywhere. He is the energy within our mind manifesting thought. 

He is the thought thus made manifest. He is the light within your eyes and the feel within your fingers. God Siva is the ignorance which makes the One seem as two. He is the karma, which is the law of cause and effect, and He is the maya, which is the substance of evolution in which we become so deeply immersed that we look upon the outside world as more real than God. God Siva is all this and more. 

He is the Sun, the Earth and the spaces between. He is the revealed scriptures and those who have scribed the scriptures. He is all who seek the wisdom of scripture, too. Siva dances in every atom throughout this universe. Siva dances energetically, ceaselessly, eternally. Siva is perpetual movement. His mind is all-pervasive, and thus He sees and knows everything in all spheres simultaneously and without effort. 

Siva is the Self, and He is the energy we put forth to know the Self. He is the mystery which makes us see Him as separate from us. He is the energy of life, the power in the wind. He is the dissolution called death, the peace of motionless air. He is the great force of the ocean and the stillness on a calm lake. Siva is All and in all.


7 Responses to “Siva's Infinite Forms”

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  2. Shanti Srinivas says:

    This made my day. Thanks for posting these exquisite photos along with written entry. Yes, every exotic creation and every minute cell is Siva Manifest. I have been told a beautiful saying – “There is Nothing That is Not Siva.”

  3. Haya says:

    4,5,9,&10 are the most exotic…

  4. Adi Srikantha says:

    Third paragraph below lion, forth sentence ending,
    ,and He is my
    ???

  5. Anjali Sundaram says:

    These paragraphs state so clearly what I believe.
    OM Namah Sivaya!

  6. shakti mahadevan says:

    Those pictures were beyond beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing them! Magnificent, Divine art! Love those birds!!!!!!

  7. Chandrika Shantinatha says:

    And He is my Beloved Gurudeva.

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