My other thoughts [MOT] : Is Manmatha actually dead?

[Guest guest]

AA: Who is Manmatha?

 

MOT : or he just go into anther transformation, as he is Kama ; the

one who have the qualities of taking any form, thus when Shiva burn

Manmatha, he is not dead but just assume another character just like

our desires. When one desires not fulfilled another emerges…

 

AA: yes, I think that is true.

 

MOT : and it continues to do so until it fulfill or get what it

wanted.

 

AA : or you could note that Shiva destroyed desire, seeing it as an

obstacle to spiritual progress and Devi pitied desire and revived

him -- as her aide on the path of spiritual progress

 

MOT : In shakta sense, you cannot destroy desire, when you destroy

desire, you destroy creativity and when you destroy creativity what

happen? Because everything begins with desire. Any start of journey

begins with desire. The urge.

 

AA : Right. again, you have the two main divinities of Hinduism --

one who destroys desire. one who revives it. The world ends --

which is what the Shaiva seeks -- to escape Maya. The Shaiva seeks

to destroy, end, escape the deceptive world. The Shakta loves it as

Devi Herself.........