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Sadhguru looks at the significance of the being we call Shiva, and how his
contribution to humanity is truly unique.
Question: Sadhguru, you place great importance on Shiva. Why do you
not talk so much about other Masters, like Masters of Zen for example?
Sadhguru: Because there is no one crazy enough for me. We are not
talking about Shiva versus someone else. That which you refer to as Shiva
includes everything. There have been many wonderful human beings who
have done great service to humanity. But in terms of perception, there has
not been another being like him.
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Zen Master Gutei
Nothing in this
world is left out
of Shivas life. He
is so complex and
so complete.
So you are talking about Zen.
What greater master of Zen than
Shiva himself? Have you heard of
the Zen Master Gutei? Whenever
Gutei was talking about Zen, he
would always raise his finger,
trying to show, Everything is
one. In these Zen monasteries,
little boys became monks at four,
five years of age. A little boy like
this who was growing up in the
monastery saw Gutei and also
began to raise his index finger
whenever anyone said anything.
Gutei watched this but waited for
the boy to become sixteen years of
age. Then one day, Gutei called the boy and raised his finger. The boy
instinctively also did the same thing. Gutei took out a knife and chopped
off the boys finger, and they say the boy attained. He suddenly saw the
point that it is not about one, it is about nothing.
Shiva went further, a long time ago. One day, after a long absence, he
came back home. He had not seen his son who was now ten, eleven years
of age. When he came, this boy, who carried a little trident, tried to stop
him. Shiva took off his head, not his trident. Parvati was hugely upset
about this. So to fix this, Shiva put a ganas head on the boys body, who
then became very brilliant. Even today in India, before people start
education or anything else, they will first worship this boy. Now people
have kind of modified it and the gana head has become a gaja [elephant]
head, but he became the very embodiment of intelligence and brilliance.
They said there was nothing that he did not know.
That was the first act of Zen.
Nothing in this world is left out of
Shivas life. He is so complex and
so complete. And he did not have a
teaching, he only had methods,
and these methods are one
hundred percent scientific in
nature. He gave 112 ways in which
a human being can attain because
there are 114 chakras in the
human system, but two of them
are outside the physical body, so he said, That realm is only for those who
are beyond. For human beings, there are only 112 ways. And he showed
clear methods as to how you can exploit these 112 dimensions of how this
life is made. Through each one of them, you can realize.
What Shiva was talking is the mechanics of life, no philosophy, no
teaching, no social relevance simply science. From this science,
individual masters make technology. He gave the science of it. Behind the
technologies that you are enjoying today, either in the form of a
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smartphone or a computer or some other gadget, there is a science. That
science is not relevant to you. You are only using the technology. But if
someone had not grasped the science, you would not have the technology.
So what Shiva said is simply pure science. He left it to the Saptarishis to
make the technology as it would suit the people who would sit in front of
them on that day. Technology can be made up. Depending upon what we
need, we produce a particular gadget, but the fundamental science is the
same. Gadgets that are relevant today may be irrelevant tomorrow. So
many gadgets that we once thought were very valuable are no more
valuable because new gadgets have come but the science is the same.
So with the Adiyogi, we are looking at the fundamental science. At a time
like this, when for various reasons, humanity is in the kind of state that it
is in, it is important that the essential science is strengthened.
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yogesh 4 days ago
This is amazing and amusing. Shiva has always been my addiction but I haven't
came across such a simple and free-flowing explanation of Shiva. I am getting
positive vibes just by reading above answer by Sadhguru. Namah Shivay.


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