Lord Siva giving the Sudarshana Cakra to Lord Vishnu.
As we all know there is so much of chaos in this world, to add to this misery is religious warfare, in our day to day life have you observed anywhere anything that is true or pure in its approach towards its goal the answer is NO, my question to our society is, is it so difficult to observe truth in one’s life and is it difficult to propagate truth???My quest here today is to restore or uphold the truth that has lost its way, far behind aegis, one can actually trace the path back, by reading and better understanding of the scriptures,comtemplating and analyzing the art and artistic works of ancient India ,the ancient Indian temples which depict the events occurred in the Vedas and puranas on their temple wall, speak for a mammoth legend and culture that occurred aegis ,leaving behind an astounding legacy ,which I honestly believe is on its way to perish ,due to various factors which I would not like to get into because of the vastness of the subject and requires time and better explanation, however one such thing I would like to discuss or thoroughly examine is the inter religious warfare ,I want to give it a scholarly approach and layman based as well as the practical application to human society.
Hinduism has many sects of all the most prominent are;
-Shaivism (Followers of Lord Siva, Lord Siva being the supreme )
-Saktaism (Followers of Godess Sakti Consort of Lord Siva, Devine Mother Sakti being the supreme)
-Vaisnavism (Followers of Lord Visnu, claiming Lord Visnu to be the supreme)
Of all ! the oldest and the still surviving religious faith is the Shaivism ,from time immemorial ,dating back to don’t know when ,the excavations at Mohenjodaro and Harappa has taken Shaivism to the place where it can call itself the oldest and yet living religious faith on earth or the worship of Lord Siva to be oldest and still surviving God. The other two being the derivative's of the former.
Analyzing the current religious patterns in the recent centuries, Shaivism has lost its prominence as a standalone faith, but still continues to survive. Thanks to Sri Adi Sankara Charya Expounder of the Advaitha Vedanta .
People today have largely given up on religious values and moral codes ,not only giving up the two but have also given up themselves to the ongoing worldly drama-changing their life styles and values accordingly, to almost a point of no return... subjecting themselves to Euthanasia
In a course of time all that is true will now appear as untrue like the life style that is currently prevailing ;we like to talk like an American, dress up like a Brit, eat like the French and drink like the Germans ,giving up our own identity of being Indian .Not only are we giving up our identity, but also influencing others by means of writing unwanted and unnecessary books which ultimately become the best sellers, selling millions of copies .All of which will not come to your rescue at the time of your death ,leaving you in deep bondage and tears in your eyes.
Shaivism which was predominantly the single faith has survived various religious riots (Vaisnava, Buddhism and others) and attacks from other sects , leading to a great chaos, by this religious riots,until Lord Siva himself manifested as Sri Adi Sankara Charya to clean the mess created by the religious riots, unable to control the torture created by the Vaisnava Kings and Vaisnava Acharya’s, Sankara dragged the Vaisnavism close to Shaivism through his philosophy called Advaitha (Monoistic school of thought) singing hyms to both Visnu and Lord shiva after a due course of time Sankara composed a beautiful hymn and received one from the Lord himself (Sivanadalahari and Soundaryalahari(Given by the Lord)) which till today remains a master piece and and speaks for itself the greatness of Lord Siva and The divine Mother(who are one and the same) !!! but Sankara remained neutral while commenting on the Brahma Sutras calling the all mighty Lord Siva as Brahman, to avoid chaos once again.Since then Vaisnavism took a stand and was influenced by people like Ramanuja charya ,Madhawa Charya ( Dwaitha and Visistadvaitha) who always contradicted Sankara’s philosophy,and wrote a Vaisnava version,manipulating the text to prove Vishnu to be the Supreme, to Adi Sankara the almighty is Sri Parameswara only by whom a soul(jivatma) can escape the vicious cycle of birth and death and can get back to Paramatma (SadaSiva or Parameswara) having reached this far the vaisnava’s continue their attack till today, one such example is ISKON ,the worst part is all the hopeless saints except a few like Bagawan Ramana Maharshi, Ramakrishna, Vivekanada. Others have continued to remain passive to the attacks of vaisnava’s and like fools noded their stupid heads ,may be they were born in a vaisnavite family or had incomplete knowledge of the scriptures or didn’t know anything at all ,all though some knowing the truth for themselves remained silent and said adwaitha adwaitha lord Visnu and Lord Siva are one(playing safe) Saturudriya which occurs in the Black Yajurveda clearly states “I’m one without the second” and that form of Visnu is Siva himself.
Some of the Victims of Vaisnava attacks
Dikshitar travelled widely, entering into philosophical disputations and controversaries in many centres of learning. He had the rare good fortune of being revered and patronised in his own life-time by kings of Vellore, tanjore, Vijayanagara and Venkatagiri,he was also a practitioner of Siva-Advaitha.
Dikshitar threw himself heart and soul into this mission for several years and often had to face grave personal danger, which he did with courage and faith. He preached, organised and wrote incessantly, enlisting the cooperation of several enlightened monarchs. He undertook frequent travels and challenged his adversaries to open disputation, as was the custom of those days. He brought to bear on his widespread activities, his resourceful personality and created an atmosphere of tolerance and goodwill, in the place of the prevailing antipathies and narrow-mindedness.
These works called Ramayana tatparya Sangraha, Bharata tatparya sangraha and the two commentaries on the same by Sri Appayya Dikshita are, as their names indicate, works on the two great classics and profess to expound their inner meanings.
These two works and their commentaries are based on the assumption that in both the great epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata, it is only the greatness of Lord Siva that is being propagated.
The Vaishnavas consider the Ramayana as a supreme work extolling this greatness of Prapatti or Surrender. In this work, the above view point is refuted. Sri Appayya Dikshita tries to establish that Vibhishana who is generally held to be the symbol for surrender or Saranagati to the Lord does so only on account of his desire to regain his kingdom and not on account of any desire for salvation.
In the same manner, Sri Appayya Dikshita also proves with a great deal of authority that in the Mahabharata also Bhagavan Sri Vyasa tries to prove that Sri Lord Siva only is the supreme reality. He also explains that in both the Bhagavat Gita and the Anugita also, it is only the greatness and supremacy of Lord Siva that is explained in detail.
Brahma Tarkastava and its commentary :
In these two works suitable replies have been given to the arguments advanced by those who were condemning Lord Siva and his worship. Sri Appayya Dikshita and a number of interesting technical debating points and on the basis of a dialectical analysis of the evidence of the Puranas that Lord Siva is supreme and is the Parabrahma. He also shows in these works the difference between Lord Vishnu and Lord Siva.
A short Poem composed by Swami Sivananda about Appayya Dikshitar :
There had ris’n the Moghul Empire
From the glowing ashes and fire
Of the Battle of Panipat,
When in a southern Brahmin’s hut
Was born a lad that blew again
The Vedantic bugle amain,
And stirred from slumber and from sloth
With the urge of righteous wrath
The guardians of the Vedas,
Heirs of the Upanishads,
And made them stand alert intent
To hear the tune of sad lament
Break forth from India’s anguished soul.
No longer may they sprawl and loll
On downy beds of idleness,
Complacent with their past greatness
When loud the manly bugle blared,
And the need for action declared.
The great Appayya Dikshitar
Was a saint, a sage and scholar.
He it was the clarion sounded,
Our hearts then with éclat bounded;
He it was that called in that age
To us to guard our heritage.
Versed was he in philosophy,
And e’er did he win the trophy
In duels and combats of learning,
Leaving, savants with shame burning.
In rhetoric peerless was he,
And his fame Pundits did envy
And on him much mud they slung;
The aspirants to him they clung.
Sweet in praise, of Siva he sang
Hymns that with rich melody rang,
And devotees still love to sing
Hymns by him, among poets a king.
For aspirants and learned men,
With learned skill and acumen,
The four schools of thought he surveyed,
And their tenets to all conveyed
In learned treatises and books,
Unblemished by jaundiced looks,
And in commentaries bejewelled,
With Vedic wisdom unexcelled.
Like a golden ring on the spire
Of the Vedantic shell of fire,
Appayya Dikshitar did glisten
Among the wheel of lesser men.
Once to Tirupathi the sage
Went on a lonely pilgrimage,
And there the Mahant to him told:
"Enter not the fane; it can’t hold
Within its precinct a Saivite;
To enter here you have no right."
Wrath was the saint and quietly he
By occult power did o’ernight change
The fane’s image of Lord Vishnu
To Siva. The Mahant turned blue
When in the morn he, aghast, saw
Vishnu’s image changed to Siva.
To the great sage he now did run
And of him humbly beg pardon,
And asked the image be restored
To the shape he loved and adored.
Such was the great saint Appayya,
An incarnation of Siva,
Whom men still love and have reverence
For his wisdom and intelligence.
Swami Sivananda
Devara Dasimayya was said to be born in Mudanuru in the tenth century, a village full of temples ,out of which one of the temples was dedicated to Ramanatha (Lord of Rama).He was one of the earliest of the Vachana poets
Dasimayya addressed his poems to Ramanatha, or "Rama's lord," a reference to Shiva who was worshipped by Rama the epic hero, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The Vaisnava Brahmins attacked him by saying ,your Siva is the chieftain of demons; he covers his body with ash, give him up and worship our Vishnu and find a place for yourself, he replied your Vishnu in his incarnation has come through the womb of a pig, and stolen butter from villagers was that right and proper ? In the course of an argument he said Siva was everywhere ,the Vaisnavas challenged him to show Siva in their Vishnu temple, Dasimayya accepted the challenge and invoked Lord Siva ,when they entered the shrine it was not Vishnu who was present but a Siva Linga, struck by the miracle the Vaisnavas apologised and changed their attitude.
I will pour insects in the mouth of one who identifies, Hari(Vishnu) with Hara(Siva)
Hari has ten births and death,
Brahma has countless births and deaths,
Is Hara subject to such Births and deaths???
Siva (“KUDALA SANGAMA” Lord of the meeting rivers) is unborn and eternal.
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Vishnu is bound by duty
But Rudra is free from duty
You argue without knowing the essences of scriptures.
Vishnu is born in countless wombs,
Can you ascribe any such births to Rudra, or have you ever heard of Rudra being born in any womb??
Your rites and duties are futile....
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Indra is born of his parents
Amritamati and Soma Shambhu,
Brahma is born of Satyarisi and Jesthadevi,
Vishnu is born of Vasudeva and Devaki
Aruhan is born of Nabhiraja and Marutadevi.
Three worlds know that all the above have mortal origins ...
Can anybody tell me who were the parents of Siva?????
Who transcends birth, growth and death.
(Aruhan is the god of jains a perfected soul)
And to add to all this ongoing misery is the Bagawat Gita which I shall discuss in the next disclosure
As to how and why lord Vishnu and vaisnavites have got a prominence’s Bagawat gita no doubt is a master piece ,but I shall discuss some key factors that will give you a better understanding ,as the topic is vast and requires a complete analysis.
Jai Shiva Omkara !!!!
