Thus we are constrained to view Shiva as
‘para-brahman’ and ambaaL as ‘para-brahma-shakti’. Though neither of them
exists without the other, we may allow ourselves the privilege of speaking of them AS IF
they are different. Without para-brahma-Shakti, the
world would not be there. Now we have to
consider two more cosmic functions in addition to the three well-known to all
of us. We were nothing but the calm Shiva-svarUpa once; from that state somehow
the real nature has been forgotten and we have arrived at this ignorant state of a jIva and we find
ourselves in a revolving cycle of
samsAra without the knowledge of our true state. The power which has
done this to us must also be the same para-brahma-Shakti.
(Continued...)
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