Nishkala Shiva
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The single, formless Supreme Reality of which Brahma, Vishnu, and Rudra are three functional manifestations — viewing them as genuinely separate is described in the Shiva MahaPurana as leading to spiritual bondage.
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What is Nishkala Shiva, and how do Brahma, Vishnu, and Rudra relate to Him?
Shiva assigned Brahma creation, Vishnu preservation, and took the form of Rudra Himself for dissolution — clarifying that Brahma, Vishnu, and Rudra are three functional manifestations of a single, formless Supreme Reality, Nishkala Shiva, and that viewing them as truly separate leads to spiritual bondage.
Moving from sakar to nirakar, all things come to be gathered in one place
This is a matter of dvait and advait, he says. When you begin to move ahead, all things will come and gather in one place; then there is no separateness among Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. This is a true subject that we merely read in the Puranas — that here Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh are all one, that all are manifest from Bhagavati. Actually, when you go from dvait toward advait, that is from sakar toward nirakar, when our bhakti begins to bear fruit, these things really begin to manifest, and then all these statements appear meaningful.
Whom does Bhagwan Shiva meditate upon?
Asked whom Shiva always meditates upon, since his form is always shown in dhyan, he says that whom Bhagwan Shiva meditates upon is only his leela, that dhyan. In reality, if it is seen, he neither meditates upon anyone nor is he himself other than the direct Paramatma; that state of dhyan of his is only called dhyan. He abides in shunya. He compares it to a question asked in an earlier live about the state of Ramakrishna Paramahansa and how he attained the siddhi of Bhagavati, where he had explained how the state of shunya came to him: that state which he was attaining, the state of samadhi, is that state. There is no need to meditate on anyone. And for reading this fully with shastrokta proof, he says, read the Linga Mahapuran.
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