How To Worship the Non-Dual Shiva

Author: Nishanth Selvalingam ("Nish the Fish") Year: ~2023 (podcast episode, Śivarātri season) Original file: /CLIPPINGS/How To Worship the Non-Dual Shiva - For the Love of Yoga with Nish the Fish.md Source type: video/podcast-transcript (auto-generated; names heavily garbled) Original URL: For the Love of Yoga with Nish the Fish (Spotify)

Core Argument

A line-by-line teaching on the opening (jñāna-pāda) verses of the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra: to "worship the non-dual Śiva" is a paradox dissolved by recognizing that the deity IS your own I-am (antaḥ-svānubhava-ānanda). All forms, mantras, and pūjās are the "kindergarten of religion" — useful sweets for confused intellects — while the real worship is recognizing Śiva in every act and being.

Key Contributions

• The worship-paradox (Devī rejects every form because to name God is to limit God).
• "Who is to be worshipped?" (vimala + viśva-pūrṇa) — the Vivekananda "everyone/everything" answer.
• Guru-is-not-a-person-but-transmission (the wire is not the guru, the electricity is).
• Śakti as the natural I-amness; Śakti as the face-and-gateway of Śiva.
• The devotional-mechanics layer: pray only "cut my doubt" (chindi saṃśayam); the bite-of-the-holy-man.

Limitations

• Auto-generated transcript: Sanskrit/names mangled — all claims [PARAPHRASED].
• Practitioner-Tier 2 devotional voice; the Buddhist-anātman polemic is jocular/document-don't-endorse.

Images

• Spotify episode cover art (remote URL, may break).

Cited By (warrant added 2026-06-16)

• Guru Tattva and Dīkṣā — the Kaula-Sūtra "the wire is not the guru, the electricity is" + guru-as-unbroken-transmission-ray. [PARAPHRASED]
• Nada and Bindu: The Eternal Dance of Formlessness and Form — the nine-level sound-emanation ladder (Unmanā→Ma); Bindu=seed; the Big Bang as an explosion of sound, not space. [PARAPHRASED]
• The Vijñāna-Bhairava: 112 Doorways Into the Vast — the jñāna-pāda worship-paradox opening (how to worship a non-dual Śiva who can't be an object). [PARAPHRASED]