The Dynamic Corpse by Arghya Dipta. Shiva was bearing the corpse of the Devi. It was above his head.

The Dynamic Corpse by Arghya Dipta. Shiva was bearing the corpse of the Devi. It was above his head. Sati, his beloved wife had immolated herself in the grand sacrifice of Daksha, her father. Torn asunder by grief, her passionate lover rent apart the skies with his fury. The earth trembled with his mad dance of annihilation. Though the world around, the gods, saints and even Brahma cried aloud, ‘O Lord, what delusion is this? This, what you are carrying is a mere lifeless corpse. The Goddess who resided within has left It forever’, Shiva did not pay any heed to them; for who other than himself knew Her truth fully? He, the great Kaula alone knew that Shakti’s body was but Herself, Her own Consciousness-Force in a condensed form, as matter and spirit were but bipolar extensions of Her unitary being. In Her world of self-manifestation, nothing was absolutely inert or devoid of consciousness. Ever vibrant with her divine energy, Her body embodied all what was lying latent in Her transcendental Brahman-form. It was the Whole (पूर्ण) only that was separated from the Whole, so that nothing remained but the Whole in its wholeness par excellence. Shiva’s ecstatic dance with Her corpse on his head marked the culmination of the sadhana that had begun long back on the causal waters. The Goddess was awakened in the corpse and it turned its head towards him. Her boon granting hand touched his head. He experienced Her non-dual presence in the undivided oneness of Brahman, the same non-duality now burst forth in infinite plurality as the corpse was soon severed into fifty one parts by Vishnu’s discus. All the letters from अ to क्ष now played around in multiple forms as the Goddess was now luxuriating in the plurality and multiplicity of her body parts. The body, so long treated as a finitizing principle was itself rendered infinite now. Dismembered, yet it was never fragmented as every part embodied the whole of her being. सर्वं सर्वात्मकम्। Every single Matrika when realized in its fullness, embodied all the other fifty letters so that each one was nothing but the Whole and Perfect Aham (अहं), the all encompassive ‘I’-hood of the Supreme Lady. The Whole itself emanated from the Whole. This was the secret of the Shaktipithas that were formed from the severed parts of Sati’s corpse, not a static one like that of Shiva when bereft of Shakti, but a fully dynamic and living corpse.The blessed earth, whom Shiva chose to be the stage for his mad fury and grief, which were but his secret yoga in disguise, itself turned into a holy house for the great yantra of thedivine couple, Shiva and Shakti as they both resided in the Shaktipithas as the presiding goddesses and their Bhairavas. Yet, this time the Bindu of this yantra seemed to be plural, as the wholeness where the cosmic consciousness reaches its final perfection was plural and infinite, though eternally undivided and non-dual. -- source link

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