"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end" (Revelation 22:13; New American Bible).
What, precisely, is this "Alpha and Omega", this "beginning" and this "end"? The Indic Shivology of Shaiva Siddhanta may be of some help. Shaiva Siddhanta classifies all reality into 36 categories of existence, or 36 "tattvas", from beginning to end. The first 5 tattvas are purely Spiritual:
1) Siva tattva: Parashakti-Nada (Satchidananda, pure consciousness)
2) Shakti tattva: Parameshvara-Bindu(Nataraja, Personal God), energy, light and love
3) Sadashiva tattva: the power of revealment (Sadashiva)
4) Ishvara tattva: the power of concealment (Maheshvara)
5) Shuddhavidya tattva: dharma, pure knowing, the powers of
dissolution (Rudra), preservation (Vishnu) and creation (Brahma)
The next 7 tattvas are a mixture of Spiritual and Material:
6) maya tattva: mirific energy
7) kala tattva: time
8) niyati tattva: karma
9) kala tattva: creativity, aptitude
10) vidya tattva: knowledge
11) raga tattva: attachment, desire
12) purusha tattva: the soul shrouded by the above five tattvas
The last 24 tattvas are purely Material:
13) prakriti tattva: primal nature
14) buddhi tattva: intellect
15) ahamkara tattva: external ego
16) manas tattva: instinctive mind
17) shrotra tattva: hearing (ears)
18) tvak tattva: touching (skin)
19) chakshu tattva: seeing (eyes)
20) rasana tattva: tasting (tongue)
21) ghrana tattva: smelling (nose)
22) vak tattva: speech (voice)
23) pani tattva: grasping (hands)
24) pada tattva: walking (feet)
25) payu tattva: excretion (anus)
26) upastha tattva: procreation (genitals)
27) shabdha tattva: sound
28) sparsha tattva: feel/palpation
29) rupa tattva: form
30) rasa tattva: taste
31) gandha tattva: odor
32) akasha tattva: ether
33) vayu tattva: air
34) tejas tattva: fire
35) apas tattva: water
36) prithivi tattva: earth
Not delimited by any of these categories of existence is the "non-tattva", or "atattva":
Atattva: Parasiva (Sivalinga, Absolute Reality), beyond all categories
Yeshu Christos, speaking from the position of Atattva, embraces all tattvas, from Shiva tattva to Prithivi tattva, from beginning to end, Alpha to Omega. Only He Who is aware of all tattvas, and thus non-identical to, yet non-separate from, the tattvas, can include the tattvas. Yeshu Christos is Shiva and Shakti; Creator-Brahma, Preserver-Vishnu, and Dissoluter-Rudra; desire, knowledge, and time; intellect, instinct, and the senses; all the elements, from ether, to air, fire, water, and earth; energy, atoms, molecules, life, plants, animals, man, and woman.
When the Name is spoken, everything is consumed.
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