Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Week 11 Reading Diary: Ardhanari and Shiva's Secrets


  • God can be visualized with and without form
  • Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the sustainer, Shiva is the destroyer
  • Male trinity is associated with verbs. Female trinity is associated with nouns
  • Males make action and women are acted upon, according to Hinduism
  • Men represent spiritual reality
  • Women represent material reality
  • There are 2 truths. Changing and unchanging. 
  • Triangles are used to show stability and movement. Upside down is stability. Right side up is movement
  • There are opposites to everything. That was said in many different ways
  • Everything has a material and a spiritual half
  • Ash is the symbol of destruction and permanence. It is the leftovers of destruction, but cannot be destroyed
  • Shiva destroys by shutting his eyes. He is not an observer, so it doesn't exist
  • Why is Shiva worshiped but not Brahma?
  • Kali dances on Shiva as his opposite
  • In society, there is good and bad, right and wrong. This means that society has judgement
Author: Epified
Year 2015


Shiva (image info)

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