Is Lord Shiva a demigod? aside

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aside:

 

posted by dhani:

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http://gaudiya.net/sbnm/text/y2000/lecture20000305.htm (broken)

 

nm: "...Tamoguna, or the material quality of inertia, the quality of

minuteness of the marginal potency, and a minute degree of the

mixture of Divine Cognizance (Samvit) and Ecstasy (Hladini) - all

these elements combined constitute a particular transformation. This

transformation constitutes the halo (dim reflection of the light) of

the Divinity as the masculine generative organ, the Lord Sambhu form

of Sadasiva. From Sambhu, Rudradeva is manifest...

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interesting to note, its to my understanding of shaiva schools that

what nm calls 'sambhu' they call 'sadasiva' (as prabhupada & bst

appear to do). and they call the higher para brahma as 'para siva'

 

 

posted by K:

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"...This Lord Shiva resides in the material world atop the Kailasa

mountain, is a qualitative incarnation who presides over the material

mode of ignorance, who is the object of worship of the Shiva bhaktas,

and who has Paarvatii as his consort"

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(not saying ur a monist ) this is basically what shaivas who are

monists (like subramuniyaswami, founder of hinduism today magazine)

say, that bhakti is to the lower form of siva (sambhu/sadasiva milk

transformation) & not to para siva