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Re: The third eye of Lord Shiva
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: The third eye of Lord Shiva
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From: lokes@selway.umt.edu (Lokeswara Rao)
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Date: 27 Dec 1994 16:55:27 -0700
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From lokes@selway.umt.edu Tue Dec 27 18: 45:50 1994
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: University of Montana, Missoula
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References: <3da7lp$4l7@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
In article <3da7lp$4l7@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, VasuN <vasun@aol.com> wrote:
>Can anyone tell me
>1) How Lord Siva got his third eye?
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>and
>2) What is the siginficance of the third eye?
The third eye is said to be the spiritual eye. With our two physical eyes
we see physical things. With the spiritual eye, we see matters of
spirituality. My opinion is the third eye represents the spiritual
knowledge we have/gained.
There are stories of Lord Shiva burning a damsel (forgot the name) to
ashes with the third eye. This I take to mean, with the spiritual
knowledge we gain, anything desireable in material world fades and loses
its desirability.
Please correct any mistakes I made.
Lokes.
