Shiva Technology

 In the moment of destruction of All constructs is the Unconstructed revealed - Roshan Mohandas Palat

1. Neo Bharat and Humanity’s Crisis

India is on a path of self-discovery following 700 years of constant invasions and colonisation. What India finds in her path of self-discovery is going to change India and the World. Why? Because the World is knowledge, running on knowledge systems. And Bharat, as it is rediscovering, is starting to understand that it has within her cultural source the only Knowledge systems known to humans, which are comprehensive, integrated and Universally applicable in their structure and scope for human evolution. 

This ancient, secret Knowledge of Bharat is what I will term here as Shiva Technology. Why Shiva Technology? Because it is revealed by Access(Prajna) to Shiva/ Singularity level of Consciousness  and techne+logos(Greek origin) is the knowledge or study of applied systems/ tools. In other words, Shiva Technology is simply put, a practical and applied system for the Evolution of Intelligence.  

In Samskritam, this would be called Shiva Yantram, the application of the collection of the Shiva Vidya-from the Samkhyas, to the Yogas, to the Shiva Puranas to the Saiva-Sakta tantras. 

Shiva Technology, as we shall see in this article’s final section, is going to be the knowledge theory underpinning future advancements in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive sciences, Psychology and Psychotherapy. 

For you see, gentle reader, the secret is not in the knowledge, or in knowing something, anything, for the knowledge can always be right or wrong, and is always limited. The great secret is the Way or Method of knowing.

If the method (Upaya) is right, then the knowledge is right. Further , with the right methods, the limiting extremities of knowledge get expanded, in circles, till there is no more idea of limitation.

There are 4 levels of Upayas in the Shiva Sutras, an essential text of Shiva Technology systems, namely: 

1. Anupaya- Beyond Limitations/ Shiva Avastha level of Prajna/ Access Consciousness

2. Shambhava Upaya-Mind-only methods of attaining Prajna

3. Shakta Upaya-Energy methods of attaining Prajna

4. Anava Upaya- Sensory methods of attaining Prajna

 Due to the wrong Upayas being used for knowing things, society, in Bharat and globally, finds itself facing the great existential crisis that all intelligent species will face, wherever they may rise in this sentient Universe. 

In brief, since the discovery of language and mathematics, we can transmit and pass on information from one generation to the next. And the next generation iterates and develops upon the information of the last. Therefore, we have a constantly progressing information or knowledge society and now we are in the technological stage of that progress. 

But there is a problem, the normal Human individual, you and me, our parents and their ancestors are psychologically only progressing at the rate set by nature. The very slow rate of natural evolution. We are using the wrong, instinct and fallacy driven Upayas while using this technological Knowledge. And the leaders who govern us reflect our instinctive fallacies.

This is why the brilliance of Relativity theory ends in nuclear war, the growth of productivity with technology ends in massive income inequality, increased global ‘progress’ ends in global warming and the wonders of the Internet end in polarised societies brainwashed through social media.  

So in this post-modern technological society, we as humans still have our fallacies, biases, misconceptions, illusions and delusions as our ancestors had before us. Only their nature has changed, to suit the times.

For example, in the cavemen days, greed would have meant hoarding food, whereas today the same fallacious, greed instinct is manifest as excessive capital or asset accumulation.

The existential nature of the problem is that when you combine technology that has high destructive potential, such as nuclear, AI, nanotech, biotech,etc. with a fallacious society, you get total self-annihilation.

The extermination of all life on the planet Earth.

This is a Damocles Sword that hangs above us, and the only way to escape the Evolution trap is to evolve out of it faster than the speed allowed for by Nature. And the Method, is Shiva Vidya applied as Shiva Technology.

2.  Defining Fallacy/ Klesha 

Jnanam Bandhaha Siva Sutras Upaya 1. Sutra 2

Knowledge BInds.

But, what does knowledge bind us to and why? Why, to what is known, to the knowledge itself. To the Fallacy, gentle reader. If you know one thing, you do not know what is outside that one thing. If you see one perspective, you don’t see other perspectives. 

Even imagination is only an expansion of knowledge and its outer limits. You cannot go outside your imagination and even that is based on your knowledge. Therefore knowledge binds us to itself. Our knowledge defines our radius of experience of life and self. And the binding force is due to Attachment/ Raga to this self-limiting Knowledge/ Jnana.

All the Universe is Information, experience is information. Information wrongly processed is wrong experience and consequently wrongly classified memories/ wrong knowledge. Based on the wrong memories/ knowledge, one processes further information.Think about this vicious loop for a moment.

 This ‘wrong information processing’ results in the wrong knowledge of ourselves, our thoughts, feelings, ideas of species, family, and our World. These then are the Kleshas or Fallacies, starting with the prime fallacy, the erroneous idea of self. The Fallacies are 5 and are sequential:

1. AVIDYA/ WRONG KNOWING

2. ASMITA/ I-NESS

3. RAGA/ ATTACHMENT

4. DVESHA/ REPULSION

5. ABHINIVESHA/ PRIMAL FEAR

The destruction of these fallacies, one by painful one, in clusters or as a whole, shows your level and intensity of Shiva Vyapti or the Shiva-state Co-Mergence. The destruction of these Fallacies is the very objective of Shiva Technology. 

Remember, gentle reader, Fallacies are also ways of knowing, though wrong. And wrong knowing (information) or wrong ways of knowing (processes) are called Avidya. Relatively correct knowing is called Vidya. But this Vidya is also Maya in the face of Shuddha Vidya/ Pure Knowing. So normal knowledge or Jnana is made up of Avidya and Vidya.

Now, fallacies(avidya) and knowledge(vidya) exist in ‘circles’ (Chakra). 

The Circles correspond to the Elements as described in the Samkhya Darshanas and are reflected as experience through our Manas(cognising mind)-Chitta(memory) complex . The 5 Circles are:

1.  Instinct/ Earth, 

2. Self Identity/ Water, 

3. Intellect/ Fire, 

4. Emotional/ Wind and

5.  Higher Self/ Space.

Let us give an example here- A person who believes in judging people based on their caste/ religion, class or gender, and not based on their actions and words is obviously suffering from a complex fallacy, which is composed of  a) Instinctive Fear, b) Weakness of Self identity, c) Intellectual lack of analysis of social tropes, d) Emotional cowardice and e) Disassociation from and negation of Higher self 

All these circles/ Chakra contain fallacies as well as vidya. The first work is to convert these fallacies/ avidya to vidya and then to convert the ‘vidya chakras’ to their pure Shuddha Vidya essence. This is the alchemical process of turning lead to gold within. The movement to Kaivalya or True Freedom.

 These Fallacies or Kleshas are extant in our soul based Samskaras as deep impressions and rise as Vasanas or traits, with each birth, depending upon the nurture/type of upbringing and nature/ type of birth body.

But the great problems dealing with the Kleshas are twofold:

1. Acknowledging the Kleshas and

2. Detaching from the Kleshas

Take an example of a memory that makes you feel bad or sad. The memory is just wrong classification and storage/ knowledge of past events, dead events, with no life. But the ATTACHMENT to the emotion generated by the fallacious memory is ALIVE. These Attachments (Raga) to wrong knowledge are the problem, not the wrong knowledge (Klesha) itself. These negative attachments create fallacies in our thinking processes that are not directly seen or understood by us. 

But as a matter of fact, we all know that negative events, though painful during the actual event, tend to strengthen us, making us wiser or more resilient, stronger. As the old saying goes, ‘What doesn’t kill me , will only make me stronger’. So, instead of ATTACHING the negative emotion to the memory of the negative event, if we instead attached the strengthening emotion to it, we would have transformed the memory from a negative to a positive one. 

This has a transformative fallacy-destroying effect on our personality, as our personality is simply a collection of attachments to wrongly processed memories. This is an example of a technique from the Shambhava Upaya method of Shiva Technology.

3.  Personality and Fallacy-A Laya Yoga understanding

Shaktichakrasamdhane VishwaSamhara Siva Sutras Upaya 1. Sutra 6

(By the) Collection of the Chakras of Power, (the) Universe (is) destroyed.

Your identification with ‘your’ personality is your limitation. Shiva Avastha is the liberator. Allow me to prove and expound upon this.

Did you design your personality from birth? Or did you simply land up with a personality at the age of 17-20 due to nurture/upbringing and nature/ genetic disposition, both factors which are largely outside your control as a child.

If you did not design your personality, how can you say that the desires and fears attached to this personality are your own? But these desires and fears that are not designed by you, nevertheless control you. Many people think that expressing and living by their desires is the real Freedom. Now that you know better, what would you say true freedom really is?

Let us try to answer this with a visualisation- consider that your personality is a collection of ‘domains of identity’, across the 5 Circles or Chakras mentioned above. Imagine graphically that your personality traits, clearly identified across the 5 Chakras are like petals or segments of each Chakra. Further imagine, as you move, in your mind’s eye, from the extremities to the centre of the Chakra, that each Chakra has a straight column running through it’s hollow centre.

This Central Column is the Sushumna channel of experience.

The ‘movement’ from the extremities of the Chakras to the ‘centre’ is the movement of the personality from it’s clearly defined traits to it’s subtle traits, to the samskaras of the soul, to blissful Emptiness.

As this ‘movement’ is happening, the Fallacies/ Kleshas get reduced

‘tannukarana’ from their manifest state to their ‘seed’/ bija states. 

This ‘movement’ is Evolution within a Chakra, and as the 5 Chakras are gradually combined through the Sushumnas, it becomes Integral Evolution. Freedom from all fixed personality traits and freedom to be the ideal persona as befits any situation in life. This is true Freedom in Life.

There are 4 Upayas or systemic methodologies, mentioned above, for attaining this ‘movement’  or self-evolution as per the Shiva Vidyas. The type of Upaya chosen should be based upon the extant Personality type and evolutionary level of the adhikari/ sadhaka/ practitioner.

Your evolutionary level,as per the Shiva Vidya are defined by the extent of three Shaktis/ powers:

1. Ichha Shakti / Power of Resolve or Will

2. Jnana Shakti/ Power of Cognition

3. Kriya Shakti/ Executive Power

These 3 Shaktis are the Trident or Trishula of Shiva.

In Shiva, these 3 Shaktis are of an unlimited nature, but each of us can define our evolutionary level by seeing the levels of these 3 Shaktis within us.Now, the way to increase our evolutionary level is by increasing our TriShaktis through one of the 4 Upayas. As we rise through the Upayas, in sequence, we attain to higher Avasthas/ States of Being till we attain the ultimate Shiva Avastha/ Shiva Consciousness.

Shiva consciousness is attained by  raising of the Kundalini in Shiva Vidya systems. There are other ways, but this Raising of the Kundalini is the single most effective method and is therefore defined as Anuttara Yoga Tantra or the HIghest Yoga Tantra system of the Shiva Vidya systems. The simplest and most direct way of understanding Kundalini is as the Collected whole of our powers, known and unknown. 

The highest or Raja Upaya/ Method for this is the Collected Mind/ Ekagrata. The Ekagrata mind, by itself belongs to the Kundalini and causes it to Rise.

In Her Rising in Ekagrata state, through the Sushumna of the Collected mind and senses,  the Kundalini or the Power of the Collected Chakras destroys all Fallacies, their subtle forms and even their deep impression forms in the Soul. And then She/ Kundalini goes to Her Abode, attaining union with her natural State of Consciousness, the Shiva Avastha. 

In doing this, our Universe as we understood it and imagined it, our sense of self, our fallacies are all destroyed. It is replaced by absolute Freedom, the legacy of all humankind.

4. Prajna and Self-Willed Evolution

Udhyamo Bhairava Siva Sutras I.5

Then arise, suddenly, Bhairava/ Shiva State

This Sutra of the Siva Sutras describes the instantaneous process of the ‘rising’ of the Shiva Avastha. The moment clarity comes, delusions vanish. The moment Universal clarity comes, the Universe of Fallacies vanishes.

Shiva is the cognitive force, the 3rd eye, the TriNetra that destroys what was wrongly or heuristically known (Avidya) and in it’s place is revealed the true. (Prajna Jnana). This Prajna Jnana can only be seen or experienced in the state of Prajna or Access Consciousness. 

Ask yourself, where do ideas or discoveries come from? 

It is clear to the cogniser of the Idea that ideas are ‘seen’ Whole, not in parts, like a chain of thoughts, but as a sudden Whole. But where are these ideas ‘seen’? In the Mind, of course, but not in the normal mind of fallacies, biases, illusions and delusions. 

The State of Mind in which the idea is ‘seen’ is ‘special’. The idea already exists, as knowledge which is part of a higher dimensionality in this higher level of consciousness. There are different levels of this ‘Special Mind’ which is in fact the Collected/ Ekagrata mind. Depending upon the level of Prajna through ‘Collectedness’ of the Mind, different levels of this consciousness or ‘Special’ mind are ‘accessed’.

That’s the good part, as we don’t have to attempt directly for the ultimate state of Shiva Avastha. Rather we climb up gently through the 7 stations or levels of Prajna or Access Consciousness. At each level our thoughts, ideas, feeling and personality undergo metamorphosis. This is the process of Self-Willed Evolution.

Vismayo yoga bhumikaha Siva Sutras I.12

Wondrous are the Levels of Yoga

So, as practitioners of Shiva Technology, we never stop evolving. This is the secret code to detaching ourselves from Nature’s enforcement of Maya and to experience the amazing miracle of truly being human. It would be a true negligence, even a crime, to not experience the wonders of true access consciousness of higher states, a gift uniquely available to us humans. 

Tasya saptadha prantabhoomihi prajna YogaSutras II.27

Seven are the dimensional extremities of Prajna

From a subset dimension of Prajna, a higher dimension is not accessed and not known to exist. 

For example: Before we understood, through the Prajna of scientists such as Planck, Einstein and others, the Atomic nature of reality and Nuclear forces, the atomic nature of reality was unknown to us and Nature did not exist atomically, as far as we were concerned. With the discovery of nuclear forces in theory, we now have functionalised that discovery to actually be able to see atomic structures through electron microscopy and we use nuclear forces for therapeutic, energy producing, time keeping as well as destructive purposes.

But from this level of Prajna, higher level Prajna levels, needed for example to discover the GUT (Grand Unified Theory), one single theory that can explain everything, are not accessible, because those Prajna dimensions are beyond the extremities of the atomic knowledge prajna level. Einstein attempted futilely to ‘discover’ or have Prajna of the GUT, the natural successor to his Theory of Relativity, because he had Adhikar/ Right to access only the atomic level of Prajna. 

The Rishis were called the Seers because they were the Witnesses/ Darshakas of the 7th level Prajna, the highest dimension or Shiva Avastha/ Shiva State of Consciousness or ‘Special’ mind. That is why every yogic text names Shiva as the Revealer of the Text. Because Discovery is Revelation. The revealer is the discoverer.

 Therefore the darshanas/ (state of seeing) or original texts of Yoga and Samkhya are given by Shiva, through the tool of the receiving Rishis. The Ultimate Level among the higher ‘special’ states of Mind is Shiva level/ Shiva Avastha or Shuddha Vidya.

Since only Shiva Avastha is without Fallacy (Niranjan) of simulated realities (Maya), the Knowledge coming from that Level is called Shuddha Vidya (Pure Knowing). Only Shuddha Vidya can be considered as Pramana or Authoritative. The Rishis had Access Level Consciousness to this, the highest, the Shuddha Vidya. 

Therefore, we gain Dik or Direction from the scriptures of these Rishis, to understand the direction that Evolution and Humanity must take in our journey of progress, if we are to avoid self-destruction.   

Every State of Mind below Shiva Avastha has Fallacies (Kleshas) of some sort or the other and are experiencing the simulated dimensions of illusionary Reality corresponding to the types of Fallacies. 

So to give a simple example, the Ant has its fallacies and is experiencing Reality as per its State of Mind corresponding to it’s fallacies. Similarly for the Human and higher level beings, we experience the World and our own selves through the filters of our fallacies, where Reality is filtered out and illusions re-constructed by fallacies are experienced instead. These illusions then form our very real sense of ‘Reality’.

Shrutanumana prajnabhyam anya vishaya vishesharthatwat Yoga Sutras 1.49

Access Consciousness(Prajna) is ‘special’ in relation to the objective cognition of the senses and inference,etc.

How do you identify Prajna experience and why is it ‘special’ in relation to normal experiences?

The answer :

1. Prajna is not a thought, so it has no chain of thoughts leading up to it. It is sudden and has immediacy.

2. There is the feeling combined with the knowledge that the object of the Prajna thought is ‘revealing’ itself , rather than thoughts revealing the object. 

Simply put, we stop thinking where thought has no use. Life Decisions should come from Prajna consciousness. Then there is no indecision, no doubts or fears. Only synchronicity. This is the true Laya of the Laya Yogas. Similarly understanding of people and ourselves should come from Prajna consciousness, then there is no confusion of identity or misunderstandings. All is seen with clarity without any feelings of being judgemental.

Thought is left for learning processes, analysis and for execution of the decisions given to us by our Prajna. This is the way to live in Laya, in synchronicity with Shiva states through the exercise of Prajna mind.

5. SHIVA TECHNOLOGY

Today’s technological world is rising to its next evolute, the AI-Human symbiosis. If AI, with it’s power of scale and function, suffers from the very same fallacies that we as normal people do, then our movement towards self-destruction, as a species, will be accelerated. The biggest problem in AI is that it tends to amplify the user’s fallacies, because the Reward Function algorithms of the AI are coded to do so.

In short, we need an AI ecosystem that heals and helps to evolve the user and through users, society. If AI can be coded algorithmically to reward the system when it assists in healing or correcting a user’s fallacies, then we will have a system that can reverse the self-destructive traits in humanity. 

But what will this algorithm be based on?  What are it’s parameters? Where is the psychological system that can help evolve the individual mind, in it’s entirety, in all it’s infinite complexity, across all societies?

This system, gentle reader, does exist and has for millenia, the Shiva Vidya. 

Modern psychological theories, largely occidental in origin, are unable to penetrate the causalogy between the layers of consciousness, the modes of attention, the states of mind and their relation to what is termed the ‘personality’. Instead most of these theories, working on ICD/ DSM in clinical frameworks attempt to identify the co-relation between symptoms as co-morbidities and address these, mostly through pharmaceuticals.

Shiva Vidya can help us open up towards a new world of psychology that will have real impact regarding positive patient outcomes. We can, through the scale and learning capacities of AI, personalise this healing process for millions in India and across the World.   

The first of the manifestations of Shiva Technology is the 0 Point System which we have developed at AryaMarga Yoga research Institute (www.aryamargayoga.org), being deployed through an AI project called Mitra AI under the aegis of the newly formed Profundis AI. But this by itself will not be enough. One group cannot change the World, it requires all of us to have the will, desire and courage to be able to transform and evolve.

The great battle for the future of humanity is going to be fought between fallacy increasing and fallacy reducing systems. India’s deep desire to reclaim it’s ancient position as Vishwaguru, and saving the World from Auto Destruction, both these needs are intrinsically related. It is in the education of a new generation through Shiva Technology systems that both needs will find their satisfaction. And this is not a preference or a choice, it is a necessity for our survival as Human Species.

Hari Om. Tat Sat.