26/06/2024
Adiyogi- the source of Yoga
In the yogic culture, Shiva is not seen as a God.
He was a being who walked this land and is the very source of the yogic traditions. He is the Adiyogi or the first yogi.
In the yogic culture, Shiva is not known as a god, but as the Adiyogi or the first yogi β the originator of yoga. He was the one who first put this seed into the human mind.
According to the yogic lore, over fifteen thousand years ago, Shiva attained to his full enlightenment and abandoned himself in an intense ecstatic dance upon the Himalayas. When his ecstasy allowed him some movement, he danced wildly. When it became beyond movement, he became utterly still.
The word "Shiva" literally means "that which is not." So the temples were built for "that which is not." "That which is" is physical manifestation; "that which is not" is that which is beyond the physical. A temple is a hole through which you enter into a space which is not. There are thousands of Shiva temples in the country, and most of them donβt have any form as such. They just have a representative form and generally it is a linga
The Adiyogi brought this possibility that a human being need not be contained in the defined limitations of our species. There is a way to be contained in physicality but not to belong to it. There is a way to inhabit the body but never become the body. There is a way to use your mind in the highest possible way but still never know the miseries of the mind. Whatever dimension of existence you are in right now, you can go beyond that β there is another way to live. He said, βYou can evolve beyond your present limitations if you do the necessary work upon yourself.β That is the significance of the Adiyogi.m