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Supreme Self. (3) Iştalinga has parts and is apprehended by the eye. It is the joy. The first is the highest principle, the second in the subtle form, and the third is Sthūla one.
The Viras'aivas hold like the Vaisnavas that one can attain deliverance by sincere and faithful devotion to S'iva. The way of the attainment of S'iva is called S'ivayoga (frame) which does not consist in the formal worship of images, in the performance of Yajña, or in muttering hymns, but it consists in the sincere devotion, aspiration, and self-concentration, inward and upward, to the Divine Power above and its working to the Divine presence in the heart, and by rejecting all that is foreign to these. This bhakti is self-opening and self-expansive. It is of three kinds — faith (Vidheyabhakti-fãrafii), aspiration (Vicārabhakti-fatu ), and surrender (Vis'uddhabhakti-fayguft). Bhakti essentially consists in prayer (prarthanā) and worship (ārādhana)?
Again the devotion takes three forms -- the Yogānga in which a man obtains happiness by his union with S'iva, it is also known as sarsārabhakti (संसारभक्ति); the Bhoganga (भोगाङ्ग) in it the individual enjoys along with Sliva, and the third is the Tyāgānga (PMI) which implies the abandonment of the world as transient and illusory. The method of attaining deliverance, according to this school, is one
1 Bhandarkar R. G. : Vaisnavism, S'aivism and Minor Religious Systems, p. 135.
a Sakhare M. R.: History and Philosophy of Lingāyat Religion, p. 575.
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