Namah Shivaya Shantaya

Namah Shivaya Shantaya or Namah Shiváya Shántáya ("Salutations to Shiva the Tranquil") is a 1982 non-fiction book that collects twenty discourses by the philosopher and social reformer Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, who was also known under the name Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.The book was published on November 1982 in Kolkata India.
Contents
Through his speeches Shrii Shrii Anandamurti describes the figure Shiva that, according to the author, played a crucial role in propelling human society on a forward path in education, medicine, social code, music, dance, phonetics and intuitional science.
The text
As stated by the publisher on the book's preface: "The first eight talks were given by the author in Kolkata as pravacans, or speeches (mostly at weekly intervals), in April and May, 1982. These eight were recorded on tape. The series (sometimes referred to by the author as a work of “Shivology”) then resumed in Patna in the form of dictations given throughout June and July. The concluding dictation was given in Kashi, adjoining Varanasi, on August 13. All the speeches and dictations were given in Bengali.
The first editions of Namah Shiváya Shántáya, both in Bengali and in English, came out in 1982.
In his research dedicated at the Shrii Shrii Anandamurti's view on sound Onm in different cultures, the researcher Chien Hui Liu mention this book when explaining the sound "aum" and its use in Vajrayánii Buddhism and the state of Turiiya or eternal bliss without any external expression.
The movie
On the basis of this book Abhijeet Kumar directed the the movie "Namah Shivaya Shantaya" with Kumar Amlendu and others produced by Dia Entertainment.

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