Re: Do you think Parabrahm is more like Shakti than a Deva?
Originally Posted by
ranjeetmore
Parabhrahm is necessarily a masculine form of God and Prakriti,His internal energy.
Are you sure Parabrahman is necessarily masculine ?, I thought infinity is beyond the definition of feminine and masculine. It seems vaisnavites take purusha suktam of rig veda, as purusha the male and shakti as female. In any ways, I have no problem with vaishnava beliefs. But for me the God is definitely beyond male and female.
In mahanarayana Upanishad, there is a very beautiful verse.
XXIII-1: Supreme Brahman, the Absolute Reality, has become an androgynous Person in the form of Umamaheshvara, dark blue and reddish brown in hue, absolutely chaste and possessing uncommon eyes. Salutations to Him alone who is the Soul of the universe or whose form is the universe.
Also it is not a established fact that Mahadevi refers to shakti of purusha/shiva/vishnu. According to vedas,
अदितिर्द्यौरदितिरन्तरिक्षमदितिर्माता स पिता स पुत्रः ।
विश्वे देवा अदितिः पञ्च जना अदितिर्जातमदितिर्जनित्वम् ॥१०॥(Rig veda, book 1, chapter 89, verse 10, visvedas)
Aditi is all the heavens. Aditi is the space. Aditi is the mother, father, children. Aditi is all the gods and goddesses. Aditi is the five bases of creation. Aditi is the birth and Aditi is the source of everything.
So surely, It is not a rule in Hinduism that shakti refers to power of purusha, shakti is infinite supreme , param brahma
Even in purusha suktam it says,
5 From him Virāj was born; again from Virāj was born purusha.
Namo Nama Shankara
Parvateebhyam
When the light has risen, there is no day, no night, neither existence nor non-existence; Siva alone is there. That is the eternal, the adorable light of Savitri, - and the ancient wisdom proceeded thence (Svetasvatara Upanishad IV-18). :)
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