In Tantric Philosophy Siva is male and conscious. Shakti is female and she is matter. One of the names for the Devine Mother Shakti is Narayani it means she who exposes consciousness. It is matter that exposes consciousness.
From our point of view it is only natural that evolution brings forth consciousness because it is endemic to the very nature of the Cosmos.
Together Siva and Shakti makes Brahman the ONE without a second.
I agree. When one says consciousness comes and goes, one is confused with particular consciousness, which is better called as awareness of diversity.
Scriptures name prajna as
avvayaya -- imperishable.
What is simple to understand is that consciousness itself is unaware of diversity, because of being without boundary -- there is simply no landing for the
awareness that is whole and undivided -- and thus no diversity is known. Consciousness never sleeps or never goes and comes.
Difficulty however, is that, further, there is the ungraspable-uniferrable Self, the Turya, called
shiva (the auspicious) who abides in this state of unparted consciousness of deep sleep as sarvesvara-Lord and who also exists as the world and the jivas of the waking world, both fashioned of this unparted consciousness. Upanishads tell us that though unspeakable, uninferrable, ungraspable, this Self, which is beyond consciousness is knowable and must be known.
For nothing Shiva is not known as Lord of Tamas, Himself being
tamasaparastat -- situated beyond Sleep as slumberless Seer
. And that same truth is viewed as the "I", "They", "Lord" and the "Universe", on this side of sleep.
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