The Shiv tattva is not experienced by an ordinary person because he does not need it. A basic person spends his life in the pursuit of the five senses, which pertain to the five basic elements and the five basic chakras. Sense of smell is controlled by Mooladhar, sense of taste by Swadhisthan, sense of sight by Manipoorak, sense of touch by Anahad and sense of sound by Vishuddhi.
These five are sufficient for the daily pleasures, which one indulges in from morning till night. There is no need for anything beyond for experience of basic pleasures. When there is no need, then there is little incentive to look further, and so, an ordinary person remains unaware of the Shiv tattva.
Shiv is beyond the five tattvas, the partattva, in which all the tattvas reside. Experience of Shiv requires the awakening of Agya through yog. You may be given the experience a couple of times forcefully, but till you have control over your basic senses, till you elevate to the level of Agya, it will not happen to you naturally. Till you keep evaluating everything in life with these five senses, you will not be able to go above them.
Even the thought to find Shiv will not come to you. Even though Shiv is right here, sakshat, but you will not be able to see Shiv because that vision is not there; the third eye has not opened because you are bound by the other five senses.
Shiv is in the whole of brahmand and the whole of brahmand is in Shiv. A yogi has the sakshatkar of Shiv; a yogi is above the domain of five senses and their related pleasures. An ordinary being is tied to one or more of the basic senses, because of which this experience eludes him. Let us understand this with an example from daily life. If you see a man and a woman walking, holding hands.
A person at Anahad will see them as brother and sister, the one at Swadhisthan will think of them as lovers. A yogi, the one who is at Agya, will call it a relationship of Shiv-Shakti. He just will not see anything except Shiv and Shakti.
The merger of Shiv and Shakti is creation and separation is dissolution.
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