The word “yoga” means “union.” A yogi is one who has experienced the union. If you go progressively like this, ultimately you will see it is only nothingness that can hold everything. The solar system can hold these few planets and the sun, but it cannot hold the rest of the galaxy. This planet can hold an ocean, but it cannot hold the solar system. If you have to contain the existence within you even for a moment as an experience, you have to be that nothingness. This being, who is a yogi, and that non-being, which is the basis of the existence, are the same, because to call someone a yogi means he has experienced the existence as himself. So “Shiva” refers to both “that which is not,” and Adiyogi, because in many ways, they are synonymous. Before people devised divisive ways of fracturing humanity to a point where it seems almost impossible to fix, the most powerful tools necessary to raise human consciousness were realized and propagated.
This first transmission of yogic sciences happened on the banks of Kanti Sarovar, a glacial lake a few miles beyond Kedarnath in the Himalayas, where Adiyogi began a systematic exposition of this inner technology to his first seven disciples, celebrated today as the Sapta Rishis. Yoga is the science and technology to know the essential nature of how this life is created and how it can be taken to its ultimate possibility.
Yoga does not mean standing on your head or holding your breath. On another level, when we say “Shiva,” we are referring to a certain yogi, the Adiyogi or the first yogi, and also the Adi Guru, the first Guru, who is the basis of what we know as the yogic science today. He talks about it without even knowing the science behind it. Almost every peasant in India knows about it unconsciously. I have been talking about this in scientific terms without using the word “Shiva” to scientists around the world, and they are amazed, “Is this so? This was known? When?” We have known this for thousands of years. In fact, in some places in the West it is being propagated that Shiva is a demon! But if you look at it as a concept, there isn’t a more intelligent concept on the planet about the whole process of creation and how it has happened. It is the only thing that is all pervading.īut if I say “divine darkness,” people think I am a devil worshiper or something. Nothing needs to burn, it is always – it is eternal. Darkness is a much bigger possibility than light. It is always a limited possibility because it happens and it ends. Light is a limited happening in the sense that any source of light – whether a light bulb or the sun – will eventually lose its ability to give out light. Otherwise, the only thing that is always, is darkness. Humanity has gone about eulogizing light only because of the nature of the visual apparatus that they carry. Shiva is not described as light, but as darkness. So Shiva is described as a non-being, not as a being.
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