Lord Shiva/ Adiyogi quotes by Sadhguru
So when Adiyogi was asked by these seven sages, “How many ways can we attain?” He said “If you use your physical body as a foundation, there are hundred and twelve ways of realizing the divine. But if you transcend the physical body, then as many atoms there are in the universe, that many doorways are there." Do you call this a religion?
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You will see Shiva always sitting in the graveyard to tell you it is your mortality which makes you, If want to know what is the nature of your existence, You really want to know where you came from, where you will go only when it sinks into you, all this drama, one day it will end but right now you think only others appear in obituary columns & you read em
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Shiva is the destroyer, but he is also the very basis of creation. He is the most beautiful and he is the most ugly. He is the most wonderful and he is the most
terrible. Shiva's personality has been created like this because, if you can accept this one man, you will accept the whole creation the way it is. It is a tool, it is a device
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Shiva doesn’t need your devotion. It doesn’t make any difference to Him. It is just that, if you carry devotion in your heart you are devoid of yourself.
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Shiva went through all that a human being can go through. He is most beautiful & the ugliest. A great ascetic & a family person. The most disciplined & a drunkard. If you can accept this man who is a complex formation of every quality, you have crossed life itself
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Shiva has no parentage, no place of birth. Nobody saw him as a young boy growing up. And if you look at the lore, it is very common to refer to Shiva as Yakshaswaroopa. The word Yaksha was used to refer to those kind of beings that are not human.
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If somebody looks pleasant and does terrible things, that would be evil. If somebody has to do terrible things, they should at least look terrible isn't it? So, Shiva put on the right kind of costume and became Kalabhairava to create Bhairavi Yatana for you
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That which is not in your perception is darkness. So we said, ‘Shiva is the dark one’ because he is that which you are yet to perceive. He is that which you are yet to perceive. What you are yet to perceive is darkness. What you have perceived is light.
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If you want to step into the next moment as a completely new being, Shiva is the way
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The Ultimate Mystic Adiyogi wearing the moon as an ornament is an indication that his sense of perception has reached its peak. Keenness of perception determines profoundness of Experience
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Yoga literally means union, to obliterate the boundaries of individuality. Once you obliterate the basic number – one, that is me – million, billion or zillion means nothing, everything is a zero. This is Shiva, or “that which is not.”
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A yogi is one who has experienced union with the whole of existence. What Adiyogi represents, therefore, is knowing, not knowledge
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Shiva is ‘that which is not’ and Shakti is ‘that which is.’ They are two aspects of the same reality.
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Breaking the laws of the physical nature is spiritual process. In this sense, we are outlaws, and Shiva is the ultimate outlaw. You cannot worship Shiva, but you may join the Gang
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Shiva is described as a non-being, not as a being. Shiva is not described as light, but as darkness
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There are innumerable creation myths with Shiva as protagonist because a single metaphor is never adequate to describe the mysteries of the universe
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Shiva was stoned, no question about that. But he was not such a cripple that he needed chemicals from outside. He is not using substance. He is The Substance
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The moon is referred to as soma, the source of intoxication. Shiva has the moon because he's a great yogi who is intoxicated all the time, but he sits in great alertness. To enjoy intoxication, you must be alert. That's how yogis are- totally drunk, but fully alert
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if you read through the Shiva Purana, you cannot identify Shiva as a good person or a bad person. He went through everything any human being could ever go through. A complex amalgamation of all the qualities of existence has been put into one person because if you can accept this one being, you have crossed life itself.
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Lord Shiva is an all-embracing kind, not out of compassion or any other emotion as you might like to think, but simply because he is like life. Life is naturally all-embracing.
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If you really use Shiva as a device to transform yourself, if you just see the evil and the good, the beautiful and the ugly, everything is a part of him, you would revere the ugly and the beautiful the same way
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Shiva means “that which is not; that which is dissolved.
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My fascination for this glorious (Kailash) form only seems to grow by the year. Leaves me incredulous and drenched in what I value most.
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Adiyogi made a dimensional change in the way people perceive and understand the existence and the source of creation. And he made himself a bridge between a simple piece of creation and the source of creation.
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Guru Purnima celebrates the human ability to rise beyond physical nature, and the Greatness of Adiyogi, who made this possible.
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This work that Adiyogi did, in terms of contributing to human consciousness, no other being has ever made such a huge contribution
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Mahashivratri celebrations are an example that spiritual process need not be burdensome. One can go through every aspect of life, including spirituality, in a joyful & celebratory way
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Adiyogi predates all religions. He is not a being from the past. He belongs to the present and more significantly to the future
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I am not a devotee of Shiva. I never worshiped him. But he invaded me & became my life breath. There is no way I can shake him off
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This is what Adiyogi is - he's absolute exuberance at the same time equanimity
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Adiyogi spells not religion but responsibility, the very source of yoga. A scientific approach to human wellbeing.
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When Shiva opened his third eye, fire came out of it. This fire indicates that within himself, he burnt everything.
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The freedom to believe or not believe is one of the tremendous contributions of Adiyogi to the spiritual culture of the world
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In the yogic tradition, Shiva is the unfathomable emptiness from which creation springs and into which it collapses.
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Adiyogi is the world’s first yogi. The only yogi. The rest of us are just his sidekicks.
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Adiyogi is not one more monument but a galvanizing force to transform the world from a mass of believers to seekers of truth
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Adiyogi will leave an imprint on your consciousness. His image will stick with you in such a way that you will turn inward.
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Moving the world from outdated belief to seeking truth is Mission Adiyogi
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Shiva is just born out of reverberation. He has no parentage, no antecedents, no lineage
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Holding on to my breath only to bring the Grace, knowledge, energy and Enlightenment of Adiyogi to all
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Nothing in this world is left out of Shiva's life. He is so complex and so complete
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Shiva is not described as light, but as darkness..Darkness is everywhere. It is the only thing that is all pervading
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The basis of existence and the fundamental quality of the cosmos is vast nothingness. The galaxies are just a small happening - a sprinkling. The rest is all vast empty space, which is referred to as Shiva. That is the womb from which everything is born, and that is the oblivion into which everything is sucked back
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Light is not eternal. It is always a limited possibility because it happens and it ends. Darkness is a much bigger possibility than light. Nothing needs to burn, it is always - it is eternal. Darkness is everywhere. It is the only thing that is all pervading.
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Shiva is not a god up There but a living presence Here
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The lore says Shiva opened his third eye and burnt Kama. But desire does not happen outside, it happens within you. If you burn the desire within you, if everything you know as yourself dies, you become Living Death - an eternal existence
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The most significant aspect of Shiva is that he opened his third eye. What it means is, through these two eyes you can only see that which is physical. So this arousal of a new dimension of perception, through which one can perceive that which is beyond the physical, is referred to as- The Third Eye
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The snake indicates that Shiva's energies have reached the peak. Snake is a symbolism of Kundalini, the unmanifest energy within you. A coiled-up snake is hard to see unless it moves. Kundalini is also such that only when it moves, you realize there is so much power within you
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Nandi is not expecting Shiva to come out tomorrow. He is not anticipating or expecting anything. He is just waiting. He will wait forever. That quality is the essence of receptivity
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You would have no problem with anything if only you could accept Lord Shiva who is a terrible combination of everything put together.
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Ghora means “terrible.” Aghori means that which is “beyond terrible.” Shiva is an aghori - he is beyond the terrible. The terrible does not touch him, nothing repels him.
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He is the most beautiful and he is the most ugly. He is the most wonderful and he is the most terrible. His friends are all demons and freaks and goblins and all other kinds, but he is the highest God.
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Everything that we’re doing here in this culture is essentially towards Mukthi, that there is a possibility of transcending all limitations and getting there. There has never been a more revolutionary idea on this planet. That you can transcend the very limitation… the very dimension in which you exist.
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Shiva means absolute acceptance. Not an iota of resistance
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Shiva is Bholenath, the lord of ignorance
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Adiyogi is a symbol, a possibility, and a source of tools to transform yourself and create your own Destiny
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I am not your destination, just an open doorway. A doorway to all that Adiyogi stands for – all his knowing and all the possibilities
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Absolute stillness and ultimate movement are the nature of Shiva, and that is the way
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The science of liberation Adiyogi transmitted 15,000 years ago is as alive & vital as ever
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Adiyogi predates all religion. He can become a unifying phenomenon on the planet.
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We recognized Adiyogi as Shiva because he perceived “that which is not”.
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If you do anything intensely and strongly enough, Adiyogi insisted, you will at some point hit a dead end. and Divine is the dead end
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Adiyogi is here to liberate you from disease, discomfort, and poverty - above all, from the very process of life and death.
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Adiyogi does not spell religion. Adiyogi spells responsibility - our ability to take our very life process in our hands
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Adiyogi represents an ancient, state-of-the-art technology, predating religion, for inner wellbeing
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Adiyogi offered the science of yoga - tools for self-transformation that endured because of their sheer efficacy, not enforcement
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The ultimate possibility that we refer to as Shiva is very alive and accessible, and it has always been
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Shiva is uncouth, but people couldn't help worshipping him because he's intense
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MAHAKALA is the lap in which creation happens
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Shiva is the peak of perception. May an element of Shiva become a part of your life
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May you taste the Abandon and Bliss of the dimension called Shiva
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The spine of knowledge that the Adiyogi created is the source of almost everything you can call spiritual on the planet.
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Like His dreadlocks, a million strands of knowing cascade. Knowing beyond the grasp of any being, but the shower of Grace is free
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In the yogic culture, Shiva is not known as a god, but as the Adiyogi or the first yogi - the originator of yoga
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India is a dialectical culture, we shift from this to that and that to this effortlessly. One moment we talk about Shiva as the ultimate, the next moment we talk about Shiva as the man who gave us this whole process of yoga
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In the Hindu way of life, it is said that Kailash is the Abode of Shiva. It does not mean he is still sitting up there dancing or hiding in the snow. It means he deposited his knowing there.
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Thrishul symbolizes the three fundamental aspects of life. This can be called Pingala, Ida, Sushumna or man, woman & divine. These are the three basic nadis- the left, the right & the central - in the energy body of the human system
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Nandi symbolizes eternal waiting. One who knows how to simply sit and wait is naturally meditative. Nandi is sitting, very active, full of alertness, full of life, but just sitting that is meditation
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He is the most beautiful, but he is also the ugliest. He is a great ascetic, and also a family person. He is the most disciplined, but also a drunkard and a drug addict. He is a dancer, and he is also absolutely still. Gods, demons and all kinds of creatures in the world worship him.
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Even though Dhyanalinga resembles the shivalinga, which represents a Hindu icon of Shiva, it is not limited to Hindu symbolism but is a science of establishing eternal energies.
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Among all the Gods you can see, you will see Shiva is the most athletic-looking God. He is a fit God. Not an old man who'll bless you.
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In the yogic lore, we never saw him as God. We see him as 'Adiyogi' that is the first yogi. Because he never introduced himself, we gave him a name. We said he is 'Adiyogi', because he is the first yogi we saw. He never bothered to introduce himself, he is that kind.
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O' Shambho what to say of the power of Ignorance. A wisp of life called Man who lingers in your lap, lives and dies by a puff of Breath, Says you are just stone, If you are stone what is man
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Dhyanalinga is not to be worshiped – it needs to be experienced. The linga is a doorway to the unlimited nature of existence
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Shiva means "that which is not." Nothingness is the basis of existence and the fundamental quality of the cosmos
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Coimbatore - a city of culture, commerce and civilization, a city of heart and heritage, where Dhyanalinga and Adiyogi reverberate as a spiritual possibility for all that seek
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For a human being, the visual impact is the largest. In that sense, it is not about the size of the Adiyogi, but the geometry. We needed a certain size to get the geometry in place easily
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When a being beyond time and space touches you, you also become beyond time and space
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Adiyogi destroyed the idea of heaven before it was created, saying, “You are the problem - you are the possibility.”
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I want the world to know that the originator of yoga is the Adiyogi, Shiva himself
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I want you to take the calendar God out of your mind and understand that Shiva means limitless expanse of existence
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In the yogic culture, Shiva is not seen as a God. He was a being who walked this land and lived in the Himalayan region
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Kedarnath itself is a tremendous space. The utterance of the sound "Shiva" attains a completely new dimension and significance in Kedar. It is a space which has been specially prepared for this particular sound.
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Shiva's Trishul represents the three fundamental aspects of life. In the yogic tradition it is called Rudra, Hara and Sadashiva
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In the yogic tradition, Shiva is held as some who started the yogic process. On the path of yoga, we do not consider Shiva as a god, but as a Guru
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