[Advaita-l] brahmA, viShNu and rudra

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2021, Shrinivas Gadkari via Advaita-l wrote:

> Namaste,
>
> Lately, there have been quite a few posts that seem to compare
> viShNu and shiva.
>
> It may be useful to refer to the following post wherein
> Shri Jaldhar has shared a translation the prAdhAnika rahasya.
> https://www.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/2009-September/022572.html
>
> Please note that brahmA, viShNu and rudra are special sons
> of Adi mAtA caNDikA. They are involved in continuous
> research and development with focus on vidyAs related
> to the three guNa-s. 
> - brahmA has been assigned to focus more on rajo guNa
> - viShNu has been assigned to focus more on sattva guNa
> - rudra has been assigned to focus more on tamo guNa
>
> Please note, there is no reason to rate one guNa as superior
> and other guNa as inferior. They all are guNa-s meaning 
> (positive) qualities. None of them are called doSha-s 
> meaning defects.
>
> brahmA, viShNu and rudra support and complement each other.
>


Incidently, to me Shravana Purnima which just went by is the most 
significant day of the year because we worship Prajapati (Shravani 
upakarma), Vishnu (In my family we do Satyanarayana katha every purnima) 
and Rudra (I do full abhisheka every day of Shravana.).

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>