°Shiva is the crown chakra. His name literally means 7 in the Hebrew language. Mythology gives you spiritual explanations of character traits and drives that modern psychology tend to analyse intellectually, and is often treated bashfully. Shiva for instance, the highest God amongst the Hindus, is the Lord of Yoga--- a meditating ascetic who rests in deep metaphysical thought, especially since the death of his wife Shakti has become primal energy(Kundalini) resting at the base of his spine, that he mates with through his breathing techniques of pranayama. The myth of Shiva and it's practical application is largely veiled from even the majority of Hindus by the Brahmin priests, probably due to its destructive nature to one who's not fully comprehended its meaning. If one incarnates in the west with a Shiva character, I can speak from personal experience that the challenge is to overcome the disassociation complex. Yes. it is true that this world of material form is an illusion. But it is also true that I am here now. That's what Shiva had to realize. Parvati The Reincarnation of his old wife Shakti, and his vow to marry her, is in actuality his commitment to recognize the presence of his body while not falling into the ignorance of believing he is his body. In the body, yet not of the body. It's the same scenario with Set. Why is he so destructive? Why is he said to be evil? Because he destroys the material world and the order with it. He is the Lord of Chaos, which is the first expression of the nothingness. Unaware of his having chosen to manifest himself, feeling victimized by his experience, he wrecks havoc upon the earth, until he comes to the realization--- whatever the cause, it was an emanation from the mind of the all. Lucifer is the Christian version of Shiva. Defiant in heaven, trickster on Earth. In other words, recognizing the illusory nature of even the astral forces, and the even greater illusory nature of the denser forms of matter. So how did Shiva attain balance? He jumped from the Hindu myth to the Greek myth to become Dionysus, the androgynous one. Having perfected the practice of being in the world yet not of the world:::
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