Serving Lord Siva?

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Dear Maharaja

 

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

I'm hoping you may be able to help with a question I recieved lately and

which I am not qualified to answer?

 

> I'm also a bit confused by a statement I read that Brahma

> is jiva, but Lord Shiva, like Lord Vishnu, is isvara. If Lord

> Shiva is also Godhead, then can someone like myself find

> her way back to God by becoming a Shaivi rather than a

> Vaishnavi (which requires a level of purity I don't seem

> to be capable of)? What are the rules and regulations for

> someone who surrenders to and serves Lord Shiva? Are

> the Shiv Sena people in India really servants of Lord Shiva

> as the name of their party implies? (They don't seem to

> have a very good reputation.)

 

Your servant

Bhakta Lyall