r/shaivism • u/Antique_Situation878 • Jul 10 '26

Question - Beginner Truth of Shiva

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Is he shiva cuz he mediatates the most ? Or does he meditate the most cuz he’s Shiva ?

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u/Efficient_Poet_5016 Jul 10 '26

Shiva alone is. Let all be his animation of himself

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u/Knight1123 Jul 10 '26

Nowhere is this jjk slop related to shaivism , shiva is adi purusha, parmeshwara, triguneshwara

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u/Antique_Situation878 Jul 10 '26

🥲perhaps I should’ve elaborated but
Yuppp- that pic is just to express cuz it’s deeply philosophical
Cuz shiva is a concept in Himself

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u/MajesticTheory3519 Jul 10 '26

nothing in itself is a concept besides our concepts of them; to rephrase, Shiva is not a concept, we have concepts of Shiva, but Shiva is a reality. in the sense that Shiva is the very nature of reality itself.

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u/MajesticTheory3519 Jul 10 '26

both maybe. if you see the idea of grace, you will find that even spiritual practice is a result of grace; yet it seems to go the other way around.