CHINMAYA SHIVAM

Ajah: One who is birthless. Birth is one of the 6 modifications of the body. He is beyond that. Hence ajaha.

Birth - cessation of prior non-existence or unmanifest to manifest. He is beyond both.

This quality of the lord is praised in the Vedas . अजात इत्येवं कश्चिद्भीरु : प्रपद्यते रुद्र यत्ते दक्षिणं मुखं तेन मां पाहि नित्यं ajāta ityēvaṃ kaṡcidbhīru : prapadyatē rudra yattē dakṣiṇaṃ mukhaṃ tēna māṃ pāhi nityaṃ

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Khandaparashuh: One who holds an axe which destroys everything. It also means one who holds a broken axe. The Lord's axe broke when he killed Gajasura, symbolic of Lust. He holds the axe as a reminder to us to overcome Lust.

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Shaashvatah: Eternal. In the Vedas Lord Shiva is described as: "I was the one who existed in the beginning, I am the one who exist in the present and I am the one who will exist in the future. Nothing else exists apart from me."

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Shuddhavigrahah: One whose form is pure. Lord Shiva's form is made of pure sattva guna. Due to his destructive role, many think he is tamasic. But the Lord's nature is Pure Bliss and Sattva. Appayya deekshita in bramhatarka stava says

निद्रालुता न तव शंकर शक्यशङ्का

क्रौर्यं किमप्यनुचिते विषये न दृष्टं

नान्योपिकश्चन गुणस्तमसोविकार :

शङ्क्या कथं तव बुधैस्तमसाभिभूति:

O Shankara! You don't have sleepiness, there is no doubt of your capability. Lord! your cruelness is not seen in any unnecessary matters. There are no other effects of tamo guna in you. Then why do scholars doubt you of being tāmasik.

Shuddhavigraha also means one whose form is complete and pure without any defects.

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Saatvikah: One whose body is made up of sattva. Lord uses Tamo Guna to destroy the Universe, but His body is made up of Sattva.

Though Lord Shiva is above all the Gunas. He is Nirguna by nature and He takes up Pure Sattva when manifesting as forms. The Lord also Sattva guna in his devotees by blessing them with gyaana ( wisdom ) and bhakti

(Devotion ).

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Anekaatmaa: One who is in the form of many lives. All the beings are the Lord himself as there is nothing which exists other than the Lord. It is not that One Infinite Truth has split up into many beings. It is the One Truth appearing as many beings. Like the Sun reflecting in thousands of pots of water.

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Ashtamoortih: One who takes eight forms and protects the beings. The 5 elements, sun, moon and Jiva form the Eight-fold Nature or Ashtadhaa prakriti with which the creation is made. For each of these, there is a specific form of Lord Shiva. The eight forms of Lord Shiva are Bhava - water, Sharva - earth, Rudra - fire, Ugra - air, Bheema - space, Mahaadeva - moon, Eeshaana - Sun, Pashuupati - Jiva or embodied soul. All these eight element forms are collectively called as Vishvambhara . In vāyu samhitā तस्य देवादिदेवस्य मूर्त्यष्टकमिदं जगत् भूम्यम्भोऽग्निमरुद्व्योमक्षेत्रज्ञार्कनिशाकरा : अधितिष्ठिता महेशस्य शर्वाद्याभिश्च मूर्तिभि: चराचरात्मकं विश्वं धत्ते विश्वंभरात्मना

There are also Pancha-bhuta lingas in South India where each of the 5 elements is depicted as a linga in a temple.

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Digambarah: One whose clothes are the directions. In the Vishwaroopa or Cosmic form of the Lord, the directions are his clothes or dresses. The word Digambara is also used to express the meaning dress-less or naked. Some forms of Lord Shiva are contemplated on without dress, Eg. Bhikshaatana, Bhairava etc. It also means that He wears such a simple dress like tiger skin that He is almost naked.

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Ahirbudhnyah: Of the form of Ᾱdi-Śeṣa. The word ahi means a serpent; here it is Ᾱdi-Śeṣa. The word budhna means base; here it means the base (bottom) of the Cosmic Egg (brahmāṇḍa), the pātāla. As Ᾱdi-Śeṣa, Śiva supports (pervades and envelopes) the whole Cosmic Egg. The Viṣṇu-Purāṇa says, ‘Rudra, in the form of Saṅkarṣaṇa, bears the three worlds.’ Saṅkarṣaṇa, in the form of Śeṣa, is no other than Rudra. In this name, the two words ahiḥ and budhnya together make one name.

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Sthānu: One who is still and without movement. The Lord in the form of trees is called sthānu. It also means a pillar. In this context it refers to the one who manifested as a fiery column ( the great Jyotirlinga which has neither a beginning nor an end). One who was waiting standing still even without a slight movement to destroy the three demon cities is also addressed as sthānu. We move from one place to another as we are present only in one place at one time . The Lord is omnipresent and is present everywhere all the time. Hence He is still and movement-less. He is sthānu.


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