Re: Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu - Who is Supreme?
Originally Posted by
kd gupta
Parmatma is One , creating nursing and destroying the universe and making a cycle of the creation . Everybody knows the form which nurses and that is Mahavishnu .
Namaste Gupta Ji,
You are correct that Paramatma is One. You are also correct, from your perspective, that Paramatma is Mahavishnu. But that name is not from Vedas. My perspective, based on Vedas and Upanishads, is that Paramatma is unnameble but is called Shiva. We cannot throw away scripture. Paramatma has no need to pervade all, since IT is all. Pervading is from our perspective who see the fragments first and then all pervasive spirit.
Prajapate na twedanyanyo…and Rudra is ru+dra , the Mahavishnu who pleases immediately and Devi or Shakti means , Mayaso annamatti…or Mahavishnu who gives the power of digestion , gita says… Aham vaishwanaro bhutwa .
What digests food in all is agnivaisvanaro. It is true that agnivaisvanaro's highest place is That only. Shri Krishna is revealed Pragnya of Atma, called Sarvesvara. The revealer of Pragnya is called Eko advittiyam Shiva in Upanishads. But i have no problem if the good one is called Mahavishnu -- till two different individuals are not purported. Since Mahesvara Shiva is called paramaM parastaad (beyond Param and beyond any comparison) as shown below:
Svet. Upanishad
6.7 tamiishvaraaNaaM paramaM maheshvara.n
ta.n devataanaaM parama.n cha daivatam.h .
patiM patiinaaM paramaM parastaad.h\-
vidaama devaM bhuvaneshamiiDyam.h .. 7..
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Subjecting Paramatma-Parameshwara to comparison is not possible.
Om Namah Shivaya
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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