[Advaita-l] Fwd: Brahman has no default form; Only contextual form - Varaha Purana

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Subbu ji
That is the crux of the issue of whether the forms worshipped as Ishvara
are indeed direct manifestation of Ishvara or they are exalted jeevas who
attained those forms and as arthavAda they are praised as Ishvara.

Once we acknowledge that icchAvaShAt, Ishvara can directly assume a
mAyAmaya sharIra (which did not have a prior karma chronology as is indeed
the case with devatAs), then both avatAras of bhUloka like Sri Krishna and
also other forms like vAmana, Narasimha,  Uma Haimavati etc asserted by the
shAstra as available for interaction in other lokas are all direct forms of
Ishvara who is himself kAraNopAdhika and has no one fixed or default form.
The mere fact that these direct forms of Ishvara are bhautika does not
imply jeevatvam.

 "Any intelligent being endowed with a bhautika form (of one or more of the
five elements) is necessarily a jeeva" has hetu vyabhichAra in the case of
avatAras. So once that idea is dismissed, the forms worshipped viShNu etc
., can well be within the bhautika prapancha without any detrimental to
their IshvaratvaM.

Thank you and Venkat ji for clarifying the sAyujya question amongst other
insightful posts.

Om

P S. The pic sent by you looks more like viShNu rather than Shiva but
apparently he is called tri-shira Shiva.


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