Shiva yoga is a spiritual path towards enlightenment that draws from the Vedas and is dedicated to Lord Shiva. It involves meditation, breathing techniques, yoga, chanting, and contemplation. Shiva is seen as the remover of impurities and obstacles, and the universe is described as divine.
Shiva yoga is a living path of inner transformation towards enlightenment. Drawing from the Vedas, Shiva yoga addresses our perpetual questions about our origin, destiny, purpose, the purpose of the cosmos, love, and faith. This particular form of yoga (or union) is dedicated to Lord Shiva.
Shiva yoga explains Shiva as one of the three main gods, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Shiva is the destroyer of ignorance and suffering. Everything in creation is always changing and giving way to something else. This is the energy of Shiva.
Through Shiva yoga, the student realizes that within the constant changes, it is the “always” factor that holds the key. It is that constant that is and explains the universe, God and our role in life.
The practice of spiritual discipline is called sadhana. Shiva yoga offers special techniques, used as aids and guide posts to help the student on his way. This sadhana involves meditation, breathing techniques, yoga techniques, chanting, study, devotional service (seva), and contemplation, to name a few.
Shiva yoga uses a mantra in meditation as a vehicle for shaktipat (the descent of grace). This spiritual energy is transferred from the guru to the disciple and gives life to the kundalini (the latent spiritual energy of self-realization). This process is spontaneous when the student experiences his mantra in pure form. Shiva yoga explains that Shiva plays the role of paving the way by removing impurities and obstacles from the body and mind.
For this reason, Shiva is seen as the perfection of austerity, penance, and meditation. In this state of pure awareness, the student is saturated with the awareness of awareness and comes to understand that matter is not separate from awareness, but is all one.
The Vedas say that there is only one Truth, but the sages call it by many names. In the case of Shiva yoga, it is the model for the spiritual life. The universe is described as luminous and everything is divine. The wind and the rain, the sun and the sky, the light and the dark, all of nature is that one God.
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