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Lord Shiva. The king was a Shiva devotee. Acharya Hemchandra was taken to the Shiva temple. "Why do I not bow?" he asked and folding his hands in the namaskar gesture, he said,
Bhavabijamkurujanaha ragadhyaha
kshayamupagata yasya
Brahma va vishnurva haro jino va namastasmai. In other words, there are two seeds of the life and death cycle: attachment and aversion. In the One in whom these two emotions have been totally wiped away, be He Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva or Jain, I salute all of them.
The use of the third eye
The one whose third eye is opened does not stop with the name. He goes towards the nameless.
The one whose third eye is opened, does not stop with the form. He goes towards the formless.
The one whose third eye is not opened gets stuck and entangled with name and form. Name and form...these two factors have kept all religions and philosophies entangled. The man caught in its web can neither be spiritual nor can he be one who practices meditation. The knot formed by the name
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