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Is it bad to think that only Lord Shiva is the greatest and no other God or

Goddess can equal him for he alone is the ultimate God.?

 

IF so why?....

 

 

 

 

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Dear Shri Kalika Putra,

 

I asked your question to myself, and my thoughts went like this.

 

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.

 

With whatever name you call it, that is THE ULTIMATE(?) God.

 

? is there because - it is 'Anupama' - non comparable/both 'Samana'

and 'Adhika' varjita.

There is nothing else besides that.So there are NO other/ NO non-

ultimate Gods.

When you can't compare this LORD GOD with any other thing/being;

You can say it is the ONLY existing / ONE and ONLY GOD / THE

GOD /Everything is in it etc etc.

 

By this time, you should be knowing the direction that I am following.

I take leave now.

 

OM Namah ShriMathre ShriMathre Namah OM

Prasada Reddy.

 

, Kalika Putra <dakinic_monk> wrote:

>

> Is it bad to think that only Lord Shiva is the greatest and no

other God or Goddess can equal him for he alone is the ultimate God.?

>

> IF so why?....

[Guest guest]

Dear devotees,

 

This conclusion by Shri Kalika putra raising lot of questions.

 

How far it is necessary to 'tie' a name to that one Great God??

e.g. as Shiva by you, as Holy Mother by me, and something else by

somebody else.

And depending on the name that we tie,Are the qualities of that God

change just like that?

Can one make the ONLY existing as ultimate,not so-so,comparing with

nothing but a part of it by the side of it, comparing a whole with

parts,

giving all different names to whole/parts with in that single

existence; after all by a tiny part in itself (you/me).

where can one find you/me in this Universe - consisting millions and

millions of galaxies.

 

I do not know anything except that ONE existing.

I even do not know all about that ONLY existing.

I am only trying to understand that ever-existing because I see

my existence must has to be atleast a part of THAT existing.

 

There are no numerous 'ishta' daivas.

ONLY ONE ishta daiva or the daiva, seen with innumerable names and

forms including nameless and formless.

 

Om KalyAyai namaha.

Om SarvAbharaNa Bhooshita yai namaha.

Om ShriMathre Namaha.

Prasada Reddy.

 

, Kalika Putra <dakinic_monk> wrote:

>

> I personally think that everyone regards their ishta as the

ultimate since they are just different personalities of that one

great God. Like white light consists of many other colours so God or

shiva would be the make up of all of them.

>

> My ishta is Shiva and mulitple texts that I know of praise him as

the Ultimate God and I think of him in that way. at the end I guess

it would be opinionated rather then factual to deem a diety as the

Ultimate. Since Shiv just is a collection of all the dieties a being

who has all of those qualties.

[Guest guest]

Dear Sri Krishnamoorthy varya,

As we all see,

any given name of God itself tells about some qualities.

And won't tell about all other remaining qualities, on outset.

Other way, each name tells us about only certain aspects of the God.

we can take all 1000 examples(names) from Lailta sahasranama bhasya

to visualize, what I might be thinking of.

 

About this 'changing of qualities' - I am refering to will God

be 'limited' to just those qualities put forth by the name that we

use to call?

 

Like somebody calls God as 'Shiva' and sees shiva aspect first and

theory tells - bhakta goes beyond Shiva(makes Shiva as that Only

God), and finds that he/she is referring to that only God.So when we

eventually seeking the Lord God;

Is there a real cause of worry in this question - "I am considering

Lord God as Shiva, and thinking Shiva as the ultimate.- Is this

right?".

 

I say, whichever name we take, We always pary the only existing

God.Right now,I pray with Shiva name.There is no other God/nothing

else is eligible to receive prayers,as there is nothing besides

it.AND this god as a whole, Gurus say nirguna& nirakara.It is hard to

contemplate on that God as nirguna - right now for me.So I 'START' to

visualize that God as 'Shiva'/'Lalitha'/'Vishnu'/some other name our

grama devata/kula devatha has.By this moment onwards, I am in the

path of reaching that Nirguna brahma.This is how my thought process

goes for the question that I asked.

 

 

Om Shrimathre namaha.

Prasada Reddy.

 

, vishwanthan Krishnamoorthy <krishvishy>

wrote:

> >And depending on the name that we tie,Are the

> qualities of that God

> change just like that?

>

> What qualities?

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

A nice question actually.

 

There is absolutely nothing wrong in that provided the concept of

Lord shiva's divinity is well understood.

 

Though there are multiple divines that get worshipped in Hindu life,

it is the truth of vedas that there is one and only one Supreme God.

(ekam sat viprA bahuta vadanti,

sa eSha eka ekavR^deka eva,

na dvitIyo na tr^itIyashchaturtho nApyuchyate

na pa.nchamo na ShaShThaH saptamo nApyuchyate

nAShTamo na navamo dashamo nApyuchyate

ya etaM devamekavR^itaM veda,

sarve asmin devA ekavR^ito bhavanti.)

 

As per the atharva veda hymn cited above, there is no second in

command, third in command... not even tenth in command and It is the

only one Supreme.

 

Now let us look at the concept of Lord shiva. shiva stands for

Perfection. That Perfect Being, shiva, has the following eight great

qualities.

1. Limitless Grace

2. Limitless potence

3. Without any peer or superior

4. Natural sensed

5. Omniscient

6. Always pure

7. By nature bondless

8. Limitlessly blissful

 

The Lord Who has these eight qualities is our Lord shiva. It is the

Auspicious One, Which is eternal with nobody to accompany except Its

own power. It is the One Which dances blissfully wearing skulls and

besmeared in ashes still being called shiva - the auspicious, as It

does not have the need to derive Its bliss/auspiciousness from

anything external, but It Itself is the source of the bliss.

 

So it iss the Supreme that appears as shiva. There was a question, by

giving the supreme name and form isn't there a contour of limitation.

In the path of shaivism after parashiva which is formless, the

esteemed worship certainly is the shivalinga worship - the symbol of

God. There is no form associated here- no male/female, no colors, no

resemblance of living being to compare to the character of that

being...... The devotee realizes that It is just the symbol that

refers to the parashiva. (This is called sadAshiva mUrtam. The

mahEshvara mUrtams where God appears in various forms become third in

that order, as the forms that exhibited either benevolent Grace or

stern/disciplinarion Grace.)

 

Hence there is nothing wrong in stating the Lord shiva is Supreme,

but due care must be taken to not to malign any of the associated

devines as this could turn out to be maligning the powers of the same

Lord ! In fact the paths of Hinduism are quite mature ones. Reaching

the destination is not for the ones who wastes time in cribbing about

the other paths but it is for one who moves forward after making sure

the path being taken up is the right one.

 

"mahAdevam ekam smarAmi smarArim"

 

namaH shivAya

, Kalika Putra <dakinic_monk> wrote:

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> Is it bad to think that only Lord Shiva is the greatest and no

other God or Goddess can equal him for he alone is the ultimate God.?

>

> IF so why?....

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