The Shiva : Cosmic Valentine of Adishakti as Ardhnarishwara ( on mahashivratri )

The Ultimate yogi 
Om Namah shivaye 
Shiva the symbol
Essence of symbols 
The cosmic chant 
The power pf love 
The mirror of manifestation
the rule of living with femininity and masculinity with in and out .

 Enjoy the description  of shiva holds symbols (trishul , eye , nandi moon and snake )  provided  by Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev 

Third Eye

Shiva has always been referred to as Triambaka because he has a third eye. The third eye does not mean someone’s forehead cracked and something came out! It simply means another dimension of perception has opened up. If your perception has to evolve and enhance itself, the most important thing is that your energy has to evolve and enhance itself. The whole process of yoga is to evolve and refine your energies in such a way that your perception is enhanced and the third eye opens.

The third eye is the eye of vision. The two physical eyes are just sensory organs. They feed the mind with all kinds of nonsense, because what you see is not the truth. You see this person or that person and you think something about him, but you are not able to see the Shiva in him. You see things the way it is necessary for your survival. Another creature sees it another way, as is necessary for its survival. This is why we say this world is maya. Maya means it is illusory. We are not saying that existence is illusory. We are only saying the way you are perceiving it is illusory. So another eye, an eye of deeper penetration, has to be opened up. The third eye means your perception has gone beyond the dualities of life. You are able to see life just the way it is, not just the way that is necessary for your survival.

Nandi

Nandi is a symbolism of eternal waiting, because waiting is considered the greatest virtue in Indian culture. One who knows how to simply sit and wait is naturally meditative. Nandi is not expecting Shiva to come out tomorrow. He is not anticipating or expecting anything. He is just waiting. He will wait forever. That quality is the essence of receptivity. Before you go into a temple, you must have the quality of Nandi – to simply sit. You are not trying to go to heaven, you are not trying to get this or that – you simply sit.

People have always misunderstood meditation as some kind of activity. No – it is a quality. That is the fundamental difference. Prayer means you are trying to talk to God. Meditation means you are willing to listen to God. You are willing to just listen to existence, to the ultimate nature of creation. You have nothing to say, you simply listen. That is the quality of Nandi – he just sits, alert. This is very important – he is alert, not sleepy. He is not sitting in a passive way. He is sitting, very active, full of alertness, full of life, but just sitting – that is meditation.

Trishul

Shiva’s trishulrepresents the three fundamental aspects of life. These are the three fundamental dimensions of life that are symbolized in many ways. They can also be called Ida, Pingala and Sushumna. These are the three basic nadis – the left, the right and the central – in thepranamaya kosha, or the energy body of the human system. Nadis are pathways or channels of pranain the system. There are 72,000 nadis that spring from the three fundamental ones.

The Pingala and Ida represent the basic duality in the existence. It is this duality which we traditionally personify as Shiva and Shakti. You can simply call it masculine and feminine. When I say masculine and feminine, I am not talking in terms of sex – about being male or female – but in terms of certain qualities in nature. You could say the logical and the intuitive aspect of you.

Bringing a balance between the Ida and Pingala will make you effective in the world; this will allow you to handle life aspects well. Most people live and die in Ida and Pingala. Sushumna, the central space, remains dormant. But Sushumna is the most significant aspect of human physiology. Life really begins only when energies enter into Sushumna. You attain to a new kind of balance, an inner balance where whatever happens outside, there is a certain space within you that never gets disturbed and cannot be touched by outside situations.

Moon

There are many names for Shiva. One name that is very commonly used is Soma or Somasundara. Soma could literally mean the moon, but soma essentially means inebriation or intoxication. Shiva uses the moon as a decoration because he is a great yogi who is intoxicated all the time, but he sits in great alertness. To enjoy the intoxication, you must be alert. Even when you drink, you try to stay awake and enjoy the intoxication. And that is how yogis are – totally drunk, but fully alert.

The science of yoga gives this pleasure to you to be internally drunk all the time, but one hundred percent stable and alert. There has been a lot of research in the last couple of decades, and a particular scientist found that in the human brain, there are millions of cannabis receptors. If you simply keep your body in a certain way, the body will produce its own narcotic, and the brain is waiting to receive it. It is only because the human body produces its own narcotic that feelings of peace, pleasure and joy can happen within you without any stimulus from outside.

When the scientist wanted to give this chemical an appropriate name, he came down to India and found the word ananda, or bliss. So he called it Anandamide. If you generate a sufficient amount of Anandamide in your system, then you can be drunk all the time, but fully awake, wide awake.

Snake

A snake is also very sensitive to certain energies. Shiva has the snake around his throat. It is not just symbolic. There is a whole lot of science behind it. There are 114 chakras in the energy body. Out of these 114, people are usually talking about the seven fundamental chakras in the system. Among these seven fundamental ones, the vishuddhi chakra is located in the pit of your throat. This particular chakra is very strongly associated with the snake. The vishuddhi is about stopping poison, and a snake carries poison. All these things are connected.

The word vishuddhi literally means “filter.” If your vishuddhi becomes powerful, you have the ability to filter everything that enters you. Shiva’s center is supposed to be vishuddhi, and he is also known as Vishakantha or Neelakantha because he filters all the poison. He doesn’t allow it to enter his system. Poisons are not necessarily that which you may consume through food. Poisons can enter you in so many ways: a wrong thought, a wrong emotion, a wrong idea, a wrong energy or a wrong impulse can poison your life. If your vishuddhi is active, it filters everything. It saves you from all these influences. In other words, once vishuddhi is very active, that person is so powerful within himself that whatever is around him does not influence him anymore. He is established within himself. He tends to become a very powerful being.

thank you on behalf of readers  and me to  the Guru Jaggi Vasudev ,to explain so well till here  ! 

Adi Black Shiva  is the God  of Oneness  who get fulfilled-

with Ardhnarishwara swaroopa which is cos of  manifestation of love 

the result of  manifestation of brahmand and  our planets  atmosphere  and  mother Earth  and we are  with  Original all oneness of lord Shiva 

Om 

Om shivay shivay Om shivay shivay 

Only One chant 

"Om namah shivaye "

Maha Shiv-Ratri  The Cosmic-Love

-: Happy Valentine day to all, celebrate valentine day  with divinity :- 

Universe involve in love and evolve with love , " the happy love day " is only symbolism to celebrate our existence born from love and for spread love , will end one day with passing bow to next generation ...

it's the love chain of humanism .. gifted  by  cosmos 

Look the beauty of Mother Earth ( symbolism of adi shakti ), she is feminine , she is rotating on her axis continues without get tired , her rotation says she wants love light on entire earth ... as whole, for that love she do not want any compromise and love vibrations of shiva give to her divine bath from universe , love-indications or vibrations are comes from the center of Sky ( vishv / brahmand) adi-shiva .

Real Love is very much soft tender and flexy and unconditional / not rigid , not harmful , not killer , not forcee , not selfish , not person selective . love manifestation is everywhere on Earth . enjoy this manifestation . its a pure energy .

All rigidity are mind's product which woven through the name of  religion to make  complicated  by minds  to regulate socially  among human pure loves in the virgin sheet of divine love ... though true LOVE is pure  and divine . ( kindly  follow the reading of the difference  among wordily  and  divine love )  link is :-

Wise - Love (not Impulsive) 

Ardhnarishwara is the symbolism of divine love of manifestation ,other than couple worship also takes important positions in Hinduism , established lords shankar-parvati , ram-sita , krishn-radha ..... etc etc .(if we understand undercurrent of basic religion)..it says many aspects , which get starts from very-self-inner-masculinity-and-femininity , than its moves towards outer world to make beautiful balance in the form of masculine and feminine energy. the entire earth is covers with this description . and the V day is not detached with that love , its a only Glanced-up & reminder to live to celebrate , cos celebration is also Important factor of happiness ... which is Hinduism already celebrate throughout year in the form of many festivals ! Hinduism not rigid in love exposure .but not talking about human political minds .

be happy ,  be in peace  , be in divine love .

Om Om Om Om Om Om Om Om Om Om Om