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WORSHIP the sand not the castle | Yoga of Immortals | Ishan Shivanand

Name: WORSHIP the sand not the castle | Yoga of Immortals | Ishan Shivanand
Uploaded: 2022-10-19T10:07:59+00:00
Duration: 2 min 46 s
Channel: Aarti Samani
Description: In this monologue, the speaker addresses common misconceptions about spirituality, focusing on Shiv Yog. He argues that Shiv Yog is often mistakenly…

19 Oct 2022 · 3 min

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In this monologue, the speaker addresses common misconceptions about spirituality, focusing on Shiv Yog. He argues that Shiv Yog is often mistakenly labeled as a religion because it acknowledges God, but it actually transcends religious worship. Using a beach metaphor, he likens transient deity forms and historical avatars to sandcastles that are built and washed away by waves, while the sand itself represents the eternal, infinite essence. He emphasizes that worship should be directed toward this underlying sand (the infinite) rather than the temporary castles (specific gods or avatars). The speaker cites Lord Ram and Lord Krishna as examples of forms that ultimately return to the sand, and explains that even his teacher (Baba) can assume any divine form because he identifies with the whole beach, not a single castle. The core claim is that Shiv Yog believes in the infinite beyond all forms, rejecting the notion of worshipping particular deities as the essence of spirituality.

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What are the misconceptions that a person may have through spirituality? Hmm, one, that it could be religious. Shiv Yog believes in God, but I won't call Shiv Yog religious because Imagine if you are on the beach playing and suddenly you make a castle out of the sand. A wave will come and the castle will break, so you will make another castle. In the same manner, all the gods that you see around you today, they did not exist a few hundreds or thousands of years ago. All these concepts of God Or in India, what, Avtar Purush, the kings which we worship. When they came, they were all castles which were made from that sand. And you can either worship the castles or you can worship the sand. And that is what I want you to realize. Even Lord Ram was not attached to his form. He wasn't attached to the castle. He left his body before he left the planet. Even Lord Krishna, he left his body before he left the planet. All the forms that existed in the third dimension— there were castles made, and the castles gone to that eternal sand from where they arrived. And in Shivayog, we believe in the sand, and we believe beyond the castles, because the castles were made long ago, and the castles are lost, they are long gone. And a person who holds just the castle, he has just held on to a very fraction of the infinite. So the biggest misconception that a person may say is that Shivayoga is religious. No, not at all. Religious is a person who will say worship this God, worship that castle. But in Shivayoga, we never say the castle, we say the sand. And that is why my Baba can take the form, the name of any form of God. When he sings to the glory, you will find he will sing to any and all forms under the blue sky. Because people say that you belong to that castle, Baba says, no, I belong to the whole beach. So Shivayog believes in God, but just not the concept of God which is commonly propagated. We believe in the infinite.