Talk:Somananda

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I have contributed a little to this article back in 2008, but now I put in a couple day's worth of research and it looks much better. Please contribute with styling and other corrections. Visarga (talk) 05:26, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Cit-ananda

Cit-ananda links to sat-cit-ananda - but it's incorrect... it's important for Kashmir Shaivism to point out that "sat" (existence) is not a necessary predicate of the Absolute; instead, it is only a compact mass of pure consciousness and bliss, and its main predicate is Freedom (svatantrya) and not existence. I will remove the link... it is deceptive. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.212.119.170 (talk) 19:01, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You seem to have forgotten that words have meanings - this is not math (and it is not a competition between sects). The sentence is "Besides being "all-things", Shiva is also cit-ananda - consciousness and bliss."

So you are trying to posit some sort of semantic difference between "existence" and "being all things" ?

And what is this "only a compact mass"? How does one compare this to, say, "only a large loose mass of all things"? And something that is "only all things" implies that it can somehow perhaps become greater than all things!

I won't restore the link, because it is unnecessary (and I dislike wiki wars). But there is no question that Shiva of Kashmir Shaivism is "sat-chit-ananda". Shiva-Sakti in Kashmir Shaivism is "Being-Becoming".162.205.217.211 (talk) 04:47, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]