Sloka
Again and again in the Vedas and from satgurus we hear “Aham Brahmâsmi,” “I am God,” and that God is both immanent and transcendent. Taken together, these are clear statements of monistic theism. Aum Nama˙ Sivâya.
Bhâshya
Monistic theism is the philosophy of the Vedas. Scholars have long noted that the Hindu scriptures are alternately mo nis t ic, describing the oneness of the individual soul and God, and theistic, describing the reality of the Personal God. One cannot read the Vedas, Íaiva Ågamas and hymns of the saints with out being overwhelmed with theism as well as monism. Monistic theism is the essential teaching of Hinduism, of Saivism. It is the conclusion of Tirumular, Vasugupta, Gorakshanatha, Bhaskara, Srikantha, Basavanna, Vallabha, Rama krishna, Yogaswami, Nityananda, Radhakrishnan and thousands of others. It encompasses both Siddhânta and Vedânta. It says, God is and is in all things. It propounds the hopeful, glorious, exultant concept that every soul will finally merge with Siva in undifferentiated oneness, none left to suffer forever because of human transgression. The Vedas wisely proclaim, “Higher and other than the world-tree, time and forms is He from whom this expanse proceeds—the bringer of dharma, the remover of evil, the lord of prosperity. Know Him as in one’s own Self, as the immortal abode of all.” Aum Nama˙ Sivâya.