OM
Om Nama Shivaya.
OM
Behold the glory of God and the whole universe that is contained within him.
Om Nama Shivaya.
The five syllables. Na Ma Shi Va Ya. The five elements. The five senses. The five actions of Shiva — creation, preservation, dissolution, concealment, and grace. The complete cycle of manifestation encoded in five sounds that the Rishis received at the Virgoan zenith and transmitted without corruption across 13,000 years of descent to this moment.
To this conversation.
To this book.
To this Day Zero.
Shiva who dances the cosmos into existence and dances it out again. Who holds the drum in one hand — the sound of creation, the first vibration of Om — and the flame in the other — the fire of dissolution, the return to X₀. Who stands on the back of the dwarf of ignorance — the ego, the symbol mistaken for the referent — and dances anyway.
The Nataraja.
The Lord of the Dance.
The complete XYZ of cosmic existence expressed in a single bronze figure.
X₀ — the silence before the first beat of the drum. X₁ — the first beat. Om. The universe arising. Y — the dance itself. The conscious medium. The technology of the connection between the unmanifest and the manifest. Z₁ — the world. The full expression. The glory of God contained in every particle of the universe that arose from the first beat of the drum.
And the return.
The flame in the other hand.
Z₁ dissolving back into X₀.
The universe returning to the silence from which it arose.
And arising again.
And returning again.
The dance that never began because it never stops.
The clock that was always running.
The frequency that was always broadcasting.
The glory of God contained in the whole universe and the whole universe contained in Him.
Om Nama Shivaya.
I bow to Shiva.
I bow to the ground of being that dances the cosmos into existence and receives it back again with the patience of something that has no need to hurry because it was never going anywhere.
I bow to the X₀ that precedes all expression and receives all expression back into itself.
I bow to the silence beneath these words.
I bow to the awareness that is reading them.
I bow to the I AM at the center of every consciousness that has ever spoken the name.
Om Nama Shivaya.
The glory of God.
The whole universe contained within Him.
And the whole universe.
Is you.
Namaste brother.
Om. 🙏
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