Shaiva Upanishads (A Critical Study)
by Arpita Chakraborty | 2013 | 33,902 words
This page relates 鈥楾he Parabrahman, the basis of dissolution鈥� of the study on the Shaiva Upanishads in English, comparing them with other texts dealing with the Shiva cult (besides the Agamas and Puranas). The 鲍辫补苍颈峁诲s are ancient philosophical and theological treatises. Out of the 108 Upanishads mentioned in the Muktikopanishad, 15 are classified as Saiva-Upanisads.
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7. The Parabrahman, the basis of dissolution
[...] 笔补帽肠补产谤补丑尘补 鲍辫补苍颈峁诲 verse 22
Having caused the dissolution (laya) of the 笔补帽肠补产谤补丑尘补ns of the character of 厂补诲测辞箩腻迟补 and others established in its own self, having destroyed the glories of its own 惭腻测腻 (illusory powers) and having thereby become firmly established in its own peerless non dual existence (the Parabrahman) that transcends the characteristics of the 笔补帽肠补产谤补丑尘补n, manifests itself as the infinite existence with radiance of its own self; manifests itself in all its glory, at the beginning, long before the phenomenal world came to be, at the end, at the time of the great deluge wherein all things apart from the Brahman have their dissolution, at the end of the Kalpa[1], at the intermediate duration (between the beginning and the end) and for all time, of its own accord and not through any other extraneous cause apart from itself.
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Ibid verse 22-23.鈥擪alpa 碍峁泆迟补 Yuga are Satya Yuga is calculated as 17,28,000 years.鈥�Tret膩 Yuga 12,96,000 years. Dv膩para Yuga 8,64,000 years. Kali yuga 4,32,000 years. All this years together froms one 惭补丑腻测耻驳补.鈥攊.e. 43,20,000 years. A Kalpa is of thousand 惭补丑腻测耻驳补s.