What is important is to be inwardly very simple, very austere, which is to have a mind not clogged with beliefs, with fears, with innumerable wants, for only such a mind is capable of real thinking, of exploration and discovery.
The jiva itself is SIVA; SIVA himself is the jiva . It is true that the jiva is no other than SIVA .
So long as one is bound by Karma one remains jiva ; when the bond of ignorance is broken ,
one shines as SIVA, the Deity .