god Shiva is a symbol of the human face or personification of
divinity. And it is the Mantra of Shiva that allows the Divine
Universal Consciousness to ‘per-sonify’ itself in another
way – to ‘sound through’ human beings (per-sonare).
Shiva, as Mahadeva or ‘Great God’, is always portrayed
in a state of profound meditation. Who or what then, is
Shiva meditating? He is meditating the Divine Universal
Consciousness that is the very source of his own human
image and form – and that of all beings, human and trans-
human. That source is His Other – none other than the
‘Divine Mother’ – the ‘Great Goddess’ or Mahadevi. She is
the ‘pregnant’ dimension of the Divine Universal
Consciousness – its nature as dark, maternal womb and
seed repository of all possible worlds and beings, and their
power or Shakti of self-actualization and manifestation.
Shiva on the other hand, is the Divine Universal
Consciousness as the pure light of awareness – that which
releases all potential worlds and beings into actuality or
Being from the womb of potentiality or Non-Being.
In Tantric theosophy ‘God’ is the Divine Universal
Consciousness (Anuttara) understood as an inseparable and
dynamic relation of the divine-masculine (Shiva as pure
awareness of all that manifests) and the divine feminine
(Shakti as pure power of manifestation). This is God as Shiva-
Shakti.
“Only a god can save us now.” Martin Heidegger