SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

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ASHTAMUHUKTAM.
Antarichchanti Tamsena Rudram Promanishaya Krinanti
Chikbatiya Chacham. (Rig-Veda,)"
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".Those who meditate with love on the Supreme Rudr/x
which is within all, they eat food.
It is a noteworthy fact that our sages have often
compressed a whole philosophy in a single word or phrase.
We once before illustrated how pregnant was the naming
of vowels and consonants as e_u5?/r and QUDSU, Sariri and
of the relation of God to
Sarira, in regard to the question
the world. We take up to day another word which is the
expansion of the same subject. This word is Ashta Murti
It means Being having Eight Forms and is
a synonym of Siva
or Rudra. These Eight Forms are, Earth, Water, Fire, Air,
Akas, the Sun and the Moon and Soul or Jiva or Pau.
By these Eight names are comprised the whole universe,
both animate and inanimate. The only substance which these
terms do not comprise is God ;
and when therefore God is
spoken of by His having these eight forms as His Body, then
the relation of God-to the world is clearly brought out, namely
that* of soul and body, which relation, of course, we have fully
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explained in our article on and Body."
As soul in a
body, He is in every thing, and hence called Visvantaryami ;
and we have quoted a Rich verse above in which God (Rudra)
is called Antaryami ; and innumerable passages are also
scattered about in the body of the various Upanishats. As
having the universe for His Form, God is called Visvasvarupi
Visvarupaya
vi Namo NamaK
As giving rise to the whole universe from Himself, He is
called Visvakarana or Visvayonih. By the same way,
as we