Why should we have different forms of deities?

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kaushik(s.krishnamoorthy) --- chokkalingam rm

<mrchokku wrote: >

> Dear all,

> My doubt is about different forms of the prabhraman.

>

> In the analogy said,milk takes the shape of the

> container.Before starting any pooja, instead of

> assuming the prabhrama in the form of ganapathy,why

> shouldn't we take up some other form to pray like

> say kali or any devi form when we start the pooja?

> why specifically said as Ganesha?

>

> The same milk analogy again, whatever the vessel

> shape you use to serve,the milk inside remains the

> same.So though the forms are different, the GOD is

> the same.If it is true,Why do we have different

> forms of devis or gods and say one form is powerful

> than the other? If you take any purana of any deity,

> it will say the deity concerned is powerful and how

> all other forms of gods and goddess worshipped it.

> Why does this discrimination still exist? Why are we

> saying Lalitha as a separate goddess and other devis

> like Shyamala,Kula sundari or Kama kala etc... as

> separate goddesses serving to her? Are they

> subordinates to the master

> Lalitha?Master-Subordinate concept comes into place

> only if the master is supreme to the subordinate.

>

> In Srichakra pooja also, we say different

> gods,devis, chakreswari(deity head),some rahesya

> yoginis etc are in every petal of the lotus, in

> Bindu etc... If all these are one and the same, why

> should we have different mantras?

>

> People say Kameswarar and Kameswari who reside in

> the bindu, are the powerful and if one assumes that

> they are different they are ignorant.Who is that

> Kameswarar and Kameswari in the bindu? Are they

> different from Shivan and Sakthi?

>

> In mantras also, people say one mantra is powerful

> and the other is lesser than that? Assume one person

> chants the name "Sri vidya,Sri vidhya" myriad times

> and another chants "Maha Sodhasi".People say the

> power difference is there.Why that difference should

> be there? Everyone chants the namahs of the

> parabhramam (same God in different forms) and if the

> GOD gives more power for the person who chants "Maha

> Sodhasi" and lesser power to the other, it means

> that she discriminates. In Lalitha Sahasranamam it

> is said she won't discrimate "Nira patha,Nir peda,

> Petha Nasini". Is that true that a mother will

> discriminate?

>

> Could anyone clarify my doubts.If you believe the

> questions have come out of ignorance please bear

> with me and help me in getting them clarified.

>

> Chokks.

>

> Let us get ourself surrendered to the

> supreme(Paramathma) and relish the time we are with

> him.

>

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