[Advaita-l] [advaitin] “Shiva, not Vishnu, is supreme” vs Advaita

[Raja Krishnamurti]

Ultimately Man has to go beyond names and forms to realize the Ultimate Truth that is I am Brahman and I appear and disappear as And when it becomes necessary, I am Brahma Vishnu and Rudra all in one. I am the ONE and without a second. It should not be understood that I am ignoring any of these names of Gods or Forms. In fact, one has to discover the best path for oneself to attain that ultimate Realization.
Best Regards,
Raja Krishnamurti

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> On Feb 5, 2022, at 8:55 AM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear Putran ji,
> 
> Very well articulated. In fact
> 
> Shankara has said in the BSB itself:
> Brahman/Ishwara can and does take on a form, to bless/help an aspirant in
> his sadhana.: स्यात्परमेश्वरस्यापि इच्छावशात् मायामयं रूपं
> साधकानुग्रहार्थम् । (1.1.vii.20) (Ishwara, out of compassion, takes on, by
> His Maya, a form to grace the spiritual aspirant.//
> 
> The Uttara Khanda of Padma Purana has a beautiful reference to Panchayatana
> puja. Bhagavan Krishna says the following to Satyabhama in the 88th Chapter
> :
> शैवाः सौराश्च गाणेशा वैष्णवाः शक्तिपूजकाः ।
> मामेव प्राप्नुवंतीह वर्षांभः सागरं यथा ॥ ४३ ॥
> एकोऽहं पंचधा जातः क्रीडयन्नामभिः किल ।
> देवदत्तो यथा कश्चित्पुत्राद्याह्वाननामभिः ॥ ४४ ॥  ( 6.88.43-44)
> Bhagvan says to Satyabhama , "As  rain-water reaches the ocean, so also,
> the worshippers of Shiva,Surya,Ganesha,Vishnu and Shakti attain me. I am
> one, yet manifest in five ways. As one Devadatta is addressed in many ways,
> so also, I am called variously owing to my play. "
> 
> It now comes to my light that the first line directly and the second line
> implicitly form the basis for this shloka of Sri Madhusudana Saraswati in
> his Gudhartha dipika commentary to the Bh.Gita:
>                      शैवाः सौराश्च गाणेशा वैष्णवाः शक्तिपूजकाः।
> भवन्ति यन्मयाः सर्वे सोहमस्मि परः शिवः।।3।
> I am that Supreme Consciousness that Shaivas, Sauras, Gaaneshas, Vaishnavas
> and Shaakta hold to be their upasya devataa. It is well known that the
> Ishta Devataa of Madhusudana Saraswati is Balakrishna. So, we have the
> authority of the Padma purana that the five sects such as Shaiva, Saura,
> etc. are authentic.
> 
> warm regards
> subbu
> 
>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 7:49 PM putran M <putranm4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> This is a wonderful site
>> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC16Lip5huUx63iFX-0J9t_w/featured (from
>> Advaita-l) where Shiva is seen as the Supreme Godhead or Personality.
>> 
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