Adinath is considered the original Guru in the Yoga Nath tradition, who taught 250,000 teachings of Laya Yoga.

Name Lord Shiva, sung in any way, right or wrong, consciously or unconsciously, carefully or carelessly, will surely give the desired result. Greatness of name Lord Shiva  impossible to comprehend by mental reasoning. The name of Shiva can definitely be tested or comprehended through devotion, faith and constant chanting of the Name and singing hymns. Shiva  with bhava. Each of the names Shiva  contains in itself the enormous potential of various shakti. The power of the Name is unspeakable; His glory is indescribable. The efficacy of the name of the Lord Shiva  and the inherent shakti is simply unimaginable.

The constant chanting of Shiva-stotras and the Names of the Lord Shiva  cleanses the mind. Repeating hymns Shiva  strengthens good samskaras. "What a person thinks is what he becomes."

In the mind of a person who strengthens himself in good, exalted thinking, a tendency to good thoughts appears. Good thoughts melt and transform his character. When, while singing hymns to the Lord, the mind is focused on the image Shivamental substance really takes the form of the image of the Lord. The impression of the object of man’s thoughts remains in his mind. This is called samskara. When an action is repeated very often, the repetition strengthens the samskaras, and this contributes to the emergence of a habit. One who is strengthened by thoughts in the Divine, through his thinking, turns into the Divine himself. His bhava (aspiration) is purified and sanctified. Singing hymns Lord shiva in tune with the Lord. The personal mind dissolves in the cosmic consciousness. Singing hymns becomes one with Lord Siva.

Name of the Lord Shiva  possesses the power to burn sins, Samskaras and Vasanas and to give eternal bliss and endless peace to those who chant the Name of the Lord.

Take refuge in the Name   Shiva. Sing Him hymns. We (Named) and Nama (Name) are inseparable. Sing the hymns in honor of the Lord Shiva.  With each inhale and exhale, remember the Name of the Lord. In our cruel age, nama-smarana (singing hymns) is the easiest, fastest, safest, and surest way to reach the Lord and gain immortality and unbroken joy.

Glory to Lord Siva!
Glory to His Name! Ravana appeased Shiva by singing hymns. Puspadadanta pleased Lord Siva with his famous “Siva-mahimna-stotra” (which is still sung by all the devotees of Siva throughout India) and attained full Aishwarya (siddhi of wealth and dominance) and mukti.

The glory of Stiva Shiva is indescribable.

May the blessings of Lord Siva come upon you all!

According to legends, he lived about 5-7 thousand years ago and was recognized by all authorities of his time as the greatest mahasiddh (attaining full perfection) and the avatar (divine embodiment) His wife was also a great practitioner and together with Shiva  fully realized her divine nature. Having reached the highest level of spiritual evolution possible in human body, Shiva transformed his physical body into a state of immortal golden light (in Taoism, such an achievement is called a diamond body, and in Tibetan Buddhism, it is called a rainbow body).

In such an immortal body, Shiva appeared to many prominent masters of tantra and yoga. initiating them into various secret practices. Subsequently, Shiva and Parvati began to be identified with the corresponding deities, and some details of their biography became legends about the gods. Shiva and Parvati.

Many Tantric texts take the form of a dialogue between Shiva and Parvati.
A word has several meanings:

This is the eternal ocean of the Highest Divine Consciousness, the one God.
Shiva  they call one of the three main gods (the other two are Vishnu and Brahman).
  symbolizes one of the three aspects of Divine perfection - the aspect of Divine power (while Vishnu symbolizes Divine love, and Brahman symbolizes Divine wisdom).
Shiva  called Strength. destroying the Universe at the end of its existence (in this case, Brahman is the Force creating the Universe, and Vishnu is the Force supporting its existence).
  - This is the cosmic male principle.
  - This is the highest consciousness of man.
Shiva  call that force that destroys vices in the process of spiritual perfection.
  - This is a historical person, one of the founders of tantra and yoga as a system.
The word is used to name the highest level of a person’s spiritual evolution, as well as the one who has reached this stage.
There are other meanings of the word Shiva.

Here are some meanings of the word Shakti. Shakti is called the great universal infinite Divine energy, which is the creative and executive power of the ocean of Divine Consciousness (Shiva); while Shakti is in continuous merger with Shiva, representing with him two inseparable aspects of one Reality.

Shakti  is the Divine Mother. Shakti is the manifested world. Shakti is called Mother Nature.
Shakti  called the goddess the wife of god Shiva.
Shakti  - This is the internal energy of man.
Shakti  - This is the cosmic female principle. Shakti is the feminine principle of man, his feminine half.
Shakti  - This is a woman - a partner of a Tantric yoga practitioner.
  , Durga, Chamunda, Devi, Bhavani, Chandi, Tara, Meenakshi, Lalita, Kamakshi, Rajarajesvari- are various forms of shakti; each of these forms represents a particular aspect of shakti.

Shiva Purana  contain many descriptions of how, from time immemorial, sits, immersed in meditation, on Tibetan mountain. He is worshiped by all yogis as God, and by all gods as the Supreme God. The history of the Siddha tradition dates back millions of years and begins with the story of how in a huge cave in Amarnat (Kashmir Himalayas) Shiva dedicated his wife Shakti Parvati Devi to Kriya Kundalini Pranayama (the art of achieving control over breathing).
Later on the Tibetan mountain Kailash, the yogi Shiva gave initiation to others, including the siddhas Agastyaru, Nandi Devara and. Subsequently, Agastiar gave the initiation to Babaji ...

South Indian Tradition Highlights eighteen siddhaswho have perfected their spiritual, intellectual, mental, vital and physical bodies. In different sources there are different names of these eighteen siddhas, but, apparently, these are variations of those names that are listed below in the table. Next to each person’s name are indicated the place where he reached the Soruba Samadhi (state of perfection), the names of his gurus, disciples, and the contribution that he made to spiritual science.
In addition to these siddhas, commonly known as “pattinetta” (eighteen), there are a number of others mentioned in various sources. These are Konkeyar, Punnakesar, Pulastiyar, Punaykannar, Puli-pani, Kalangi, Alukkani, Agapayer, Therayyar, Romarishi and Avvay.

After merging with God, or the ultimate reality, on the spiritual plane, which is like dissolving a salt doll in the waters of the ocean, Tamil Yoga Siddhis went through a gradual transformation of their intellectual, mental, vital and, finally, physical bodies.

Having achieved such an integral realization, they carried out the divine transformation of their entire human nature. Although what they have achieved is incomprehensible to the ordinary human mind, studying their biographies and texts gives us invaluable awareness of the inner potential of man.

All these 18 siddhas and Babaji have gained thanks to the grace of God (which the siddhis called Shiva, Murugan, Vishnu or Shakti) and the use of special kriyas (techniques) to prepare their lower bodies for the descent of the divine. These techniques are collectively known as Kriya Yoga Siddhanta, that is, the practical techniques of yoga that contribute to the perfect realization of Truth, or God.

SHIVA  (Skt. Siva \u003d “good, kind, supportive”), one of the three gods - the destroyer god - in Trimurti; in addition, Sh. is traditionally revered by the creator of Yoga and the patron of the schools of Yoga and all, one way or another, yoga practitioners.

“The patron of all yogis is considered to be the god Shiva - the oldest deity on Earth, revered by the previous civilizations that existed on Earth. Shiva is the first Cosmic Teacher, he once lived on Earth and was a Teacher. It was Shiva, according to legend, who gave people yoga. Everyone who practices yoga is required to honor Siva as the first Yoga Teacher. ”

“The third party of Trimurti is the Destroyer
The world, the prototype of which can be considered Rudra, and even more ancient is the image of him as the lord of the animals of Pashupati on a sign from Mohejo-Daro (III millennium BC). Shiva gained importance only in the Hindu pantheon of the Puranic era. Although Shiva does not have an avatar, but he received a lot of the most diverse types and aspects.

Shiva Images

  portrayed by a deity, bringing both good and distress. In the early Shaivist temples, he is represented only by his symbol - the lingam (phallus), on which his high-relief image is sometimes found.

The only deity (except   and sometimes Ganesha), which usually has three eyes (the third eye in the forehead). His hair is collected in a conical hairstyle (jata-mukuta).

If depicted in a dance pose, then he can have more than four hands and he is with a weapon, under one of the legs is a spread out figure of the dwarf-demon Apasmar-Purush, or Miyalak.

Shiva murti  can be represented in a standing, sitting and dancing poses, and in the aspect of a yogi - in a frightening and many more diverse forms than other deities ..

A very interesting and important group of images is the sculptures of the dancing Shiva - Nritya-Murthy, which includes the most significant form of this image - Shiva Nataraju (“Lord of the Dance”). The cult of Nataraja is especially developed, and its images are especially common in southern India. If there is no flaming halo around the figurine, then this is Shiva Natesha.

ANANDA-TANDAWA - Shiva performs the dance of ecstasy, trampling the dwarf demon Miyalaku with one foot. In another version of the TANDAWA dance, Nataraja has ten arms and he is armed; the deity rests on the right foot, and the left is raised. The dance of NADANTA differs from the dance pose of ananda-tandava only in that Nataraja stands on his left foot and the right one is raised. In the fourth version of the dance, Shiva's left leg stands on the defeated demon, and the right leg is thrown up so high that it almost touches the dancer's head. In the next three variations, Shiva is depicted in the same way as in the dance of ecstasy, only the number of hands and sometimes the eyes changes. In the ninth variation of the dance, Shiva has four arms and ordinary emblems.<т. е. атрибуты>but the demon under his feet is missing.

There are six other types of special dances, of which CHATURA is most interesting when Shiva stands with the right foot on the top of the seated demon. These difficult-to-representational poses in the statuettes are conveyed with great grace and dynamism, combined with a wonderful balance of the figure. ”

There is a beautiful legend about the dispute of the three gods of the pantheon - Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, who is the main one. In the midst of a quarrel, a flaming linga-phallus of the god Shiva suddenly appears. To determine its size, Vishnu is a wild boar bites into the ground, and Brahma geese takes off to the clouds. Returning sloppy, they unanimously acknowledge that powerful god  - Shiva.

“Shiva as Nataraja (King of Dance). This bronze sculpture (circa 1000 CE) is one of several sculptural images of the Hindu god Shiva, made during the Indian Chola dynasty (from the 10th to the 13th centuries).

Another traditional image Shiva:
Shiva has an elongated male earring in his right ear, and a round female one in his left ear. Shiva's right leg rests against the dwarf demon, the material creation of illusion (Maya). Surrounded by a ring of matter, Shiva rests on his key link and dominates this fiery ring, brings him into a circular motion. Necessarily coming into contact with matter, but not going beyond its limits, he thereby clearly demonstrates to us the inextricable unity of spirit and matter.

In his upper right hand, Shiva holds a double-sided drum Damaru, a symbol of the awakening of the universe. In his left hand he holds the symbol of purification and renewal of the world - the flame of Agni. Shiva's second right hand is bent at the elbow and with his palm facing forward in a gesture of approval. Shiva's second left arm is drawn obliquely across the chest, parallel to the raised and in approval, which means power and strength, with his palm points to the defeated demon.

On both sides of the head there are 30 strands of snake hair flying in the dance, symbolizing the energy emitted by the deity.

The two eyes of Shiva Nataraja are the Sun and the Moon, and the third most important eye in the forehead is Fire. Shiva’s loin is surrounded by a cobra, and the cobra is also wrapped around its neck. ”

Vasily Shukshin

Dancing shiva

There was a fight in the tea room.

It was like this: carpenters, seven people, received an advance (chopped selmag) and after work went to the tea house, as they say, to sit. They took seven bottles of port wine (there was no vodka in the tea room), seven cutlets, moved two tables, sat down and began to skip and eat cutlets little by little. We passed three glasses each, they started talking about the fact that they still want to cheat them, with this counter. The fact is that when they rallied in price, they overlooked the counter: should carpenters do it or is it already carpentry? Selpovskys, the customers, were missed, and the carpenters were silent then (the foreman in their case in this dock). Now it turned out that the Selpovs wanted the carpenters to make a counter, too, they, it turned out, had in mind that this goes without saying and so on and so forth. But this clause is not marked in the contract, and the carpenters stood on their own legs: the counter is not our business! That is, they can, of course, do it, but for this - a separate fee.

“I'll show them a guide,” the brigadier, a dry man, all black from the sun, said with obvious danger. - I will poke their nose where it is written in black and white: which carpentry works, and which carpentry. They are not boom-boom in this.

Everyone agreed with the foreman. Moreover, everyone was indignant, while others, like Kolka Zabaluev, were even offended and sad, sighing bitterly. They forgot one cheerful conversation when they, seven, sitting right there in the tea room, interpreted ...

But this is later. Now they said:

- And if, then, this: would they have itched to make some kind of figured counter now?

- Yes, any counter! This is a special job ...

- What a cunning people went to! Something they make us and knit frames!

- Our business now: to lay the floor, to mow, hang the doors - and that’s it, period.

- One more thing, one at a time?

- Let's.

Chipped, they took another seven bottles.

- I will say so ... you listen here! Listen!

- Well? Well? Well?

- Yes, not "well" - listen! I chopped a bath Daria Kuzovnikova ...

- What does Daria have to do with it? That is a private person, and that is an organization: compared ...

- I for example! Listen here! ..

- Long ...

- Guys, stop barking! Shouted the barmaid. - And then I’ll expose all of them! .. They dismissed their tongues.

- You listen here!

- Wildebeest! If it weren’t for the woman here, I would have said ...

In general, the conversation took on a lively character: Selpovsky fell for it — for impudence and treachery.

Then Arkasha Kebin came to the teahouse, nicknamed Dancing Shiva.

It has long been called so, at school yet. He also took a “portage” for himself, a cutlet (he had a fight with his wife and did not supper at home in protest), sat down at a table next to the carpenters, listened to their conversation ... And he said aloud:

The carpenters were silent. We looked at Arkashka.

“Trepachi,” said Arkashka. He is also Shiva, because he sticks his nose everywhere. - Crooks.

Carpenters at first did not understand that this applies to them. Unbelievable! Even with Arkashkin’s tongue, and that - in seven tipsy drinkers so to speak ... What is he, foolish, or what?

“It's me, you,” said Arkashka. - Poor ones - they deceived them. Fool you! He has not yet been born who will deceive you. Fuckers.

One hefty carpenter, Vanka Selezneva, even opened his mouth.

- You are perplexed why you called prokhendeyami? I explain: a month and a half ago, you seven khmyrov sat right there and were glad you had abused the Selpovskys with an agreement: they had not inserted a paragraph on the counter there. Now you sit and shed crocodile tears - like you were deceived. No, you deceived it!

- Yes? The brigadier asked. And this “yes” was - confusion, not a threat in any way. Helplessness.

“Yes, yes,” Arkashka squeezed a piece of the patty with a barrel of fork, picked it up, dipped it in the sauce and put it in his mouth — everything was very neat, cultured, even the little finger was protruded. Then (as artists who depict gentlemen and arrogant officials in movies) like to do it - without chewing, he continued to say: - I heard this with my own ears, so do not show me childish surprise on the face, but have the courage to listen to the bitter truth. For example, I don’t care, but where is the truth, comrades ?! - Arkashka reveled, enjoyed himself, as if in the July heat, plunged down his throat into cool water and throttled, and slightly moved his toes. Great power is true: knowing it, you can be calm. Arkashka was calm. He judged the crooks. - It's a shame, comrades. And, most importantly, they themselves are indignant! Have you seen such crooks? Well, okay, we’ve decided to deceive Selpov’s, but why sit here and breed nurses that they want to deceive you? - Arkashka was sincerely interested, wanted to understand. - After all, you were laughing at the same place ... - but here Arkashka saw that Vanka Seleznev was not showing childish surprise on her face at all, but was taking up the bottle. Arkashka jumped up from his seat, because he knew this lip-sleeper well - it would break. - Vanka! .. Put the bottle in place, put it, Vanyusha. I’ll take you to a pontoon! Tell him to put a bottle!

The carpenters were speechless.

“Why are you worried, Shiva?” Roly, put the bottle down - come to us, Arkashka.

“True, why are you sitting there alone?” Come to us.

- Let him put a bottle.

- He set. Deliver, Ivan. Go, Arkasha.

Arkashka, grabbing his unfinished bottle, moved to the carpenters and only wanted to nudge himself half a cup and already protruded his little finger, as Vanka stretched out his powerful robust paw across the table and caught Arkashka by the breasts.

- Ah, Shiva! .. Take a show off, right? Wait, you’ll dance with me. Dance!

Arkashka fought a little with his hand, but the hand ... this is not a hand, a birch branch with fingers.

“Drop it ...” said Arkashka with difficulty.

- Dance!

- Let go, bad! ..

- Will you dance?

Then the carpenters began to tell the local brigade leader how great Arkashka was dancing. Legs that make! .. Hands! And then - he stands, but his head is dancing ...

- The head?

- The head! Itself is motionless, and the head walks with a shaker.

And Vanka kept Arkashka by the breasts, pleased that he had thought up his comrades with the dance.

- Will you dance?

The monstrous fingers tightened.

“I will ... Let go!”

Vanka let go.

- Such a bastard. Rejoiced - healthy? - Arkashka rubbed his neck. - I dismissed the rake ... Ask for it as a human - I’ll dance, I must definitely stare my filthy hands!

- Do not be offended, Arkashka. Dance for a man - he never saw. Vanka will be gone.

- Dance, be a friend!

Arkasha swelled a glass of their bottles.