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Shiva's Caste || Acharya Prashant (2022)
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Nirvana Shatakam
Adi Shankaracharya
Vedanta
Atma
Brahma
Consciousness
Upanishads
Satyam Shivam Sundaram
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Acharya Prashant addresses a query regarding the caste of Shri Shiva, clarifying that such a concept is fundamentally flawed. He explains that Shri Shiva represents the highest consciousness, which is entirely devoid of bodily identification. Drawing from Adi Shankaracharya's Nirvana Shatakam, he emphasizes that the true self is not the mind, intellect, ego, or any physical organ. Since Shri Shiva is not a body, he cannot possess a caste, gender, or history. These attributes are products of human ignorance and the ego's tendency to project its own physical limitations onto the divine.