"There is one thing God cannot do
- He cannot separate Himself from the soul."

Dakshinamurthy is Siva in his aspect as the universal teacher. He is the embodiment of knowledge and the destroyer of ignorance as represented by the demon being crushed under His feet. He is portrayed as being in a yogic state of abstract meditation which is beyond the comprehension of time, mind and matter. He represents the import of the mystic syllable 'OM' and is the absolute reality.

His uniqueness as a teacher lies in the fact that he teachers through silence. The beginning to Spirituality starts with silence and has often been treated as simply a negative phenomenon rather than as a communicative device.

Four aspects of silence include:

1. negative silence, which is the experience of silence as having no positive value;
2. primordial silence, the phenomenon out of which utterance arises;
3. silence as a mode of being; and
4. silence as a destination.

Close attention to a number of moments in ones life indicates that an understanding of silence is central for comprehension of any communicator's silence. In fact, it is possible to conceptualise the imagination as, at least in part, the translation of silence into the ones life. We set the stage for the relationship established with nature through silence, asserting that silence is necessary for genuine understanding. The complex, often enigmatic relationship of silence to speech demonstrates the unsaid. Perhaps this faith that the unsaid is not unsayable sustains not only, but also nourishes the desire of ones soul being.

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"Man's progress in the world goes from infancy to a boy at play, to an adolescent in love and lust, to a married man with family and worry and eventually results in death. At no moment he thinks of the Supreme Almighty. The body, mind and senses are catered to, but the spirit is neglected and happens to be the most important for salvation."

Who is Siva?

Lord Siva is among the most mysterious, complex, compassionate and profound conceptions of the one Supreme Being. He is looked upon as the Creator, Preserver and Destroyer of all existence, the Cosmic Dancer who animates the universe from within. He is honored as Pure Love, Light, Energy and Consciousness. He is contemplated as the timeless, formless and spaceless Absolute Reality.