SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

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Who
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Who
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That
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What
94 ASHTAMUHURTAM.
often identify our own body with ourselves, God is frequently
spoken of as the universe itself, and is accordingly addressed
as Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Sky, the Sun and the Moon, and
Soul.
But there are clear passages to show that He is none of
these. No one could seriously contend to day that where
these Upanishats identify God with some of these inanimate
forms, that earth or fire or any of these elements, and not the
Ruler within or the Puller as He is called in Brihadaraiiya, is
really God. But the texts identifying the Jlva with God has
caused no amount of confusion, and these texts are quoted as
standing authorities by a whole school of Indian philosophers,
though texts can be quoted as frequently in which God is
spoken of as different from the Jlva. As being none of these
Eight and transcending all, He is called Visvadika.
"VisvadikoRudra," (Svetas).
of the Gods is both the source and growth, the lord
of all, the Rudra, mighty seer whoever sees the ; shining germ
come into birth may he with reason pure conjoin us."
of the Gods is over-lord, in whom the worlds are
based, who ruleth over his creatures of two feet and four ;
to
God, the
r ho,"
with (our) oblation let us worship give."
These follow naturally the text sure is fire, That
sun, That air, That surely moon, That verily the Bright, That
Brahm, the waters That, That the Creator."
In the previous adhyaya, occurs the passage
is this
all, far, far beyond, That Formless, griefless
That." "What
God in fire, in water, what doth pervade universe entire,
what in the plants, what in the forest lords, to Him, to God,
Hail all
Hail."
"This God, in sooth, all the quarters is; long, long ago,
indeed, he had his birth, he verily (is now) within the germ.
He has been born, he will be born ;
behind all who have birth
he stands, with face on every side."