[Advaita-l] Shankara authenticates Shiva

[V Subrahmanian]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:43 PM, D Gayatri via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> I dont know you who you are but I did not see you objecting when
> others were posting that
>

Not many people in this forum know who you are and where you come from and
what you have claimed as what you are in other forums.

>
> (i) Shiva is alone fit to be worshipped by vaidikas
>
> or that
>
> (ii) Vishnu lives under Shiva's grace
>
> or that
>
> (iii) Krishna begged Shiva to forgive him (for God knows what)
>
> or that
>
> (iv) Vishnu pulled out one of his eyes and offered it to Shiva (you
> can see all the posts in this forum).
>
> After posting all this, these posters pay lip service sometimes and
> say - oh and by the way Shiva and Vishnu are equal!
>

The above posts were made with the sole intention of exposing the bigotry
in the propaganda of vaishnavas who want to show Shankara as a vaishnava
and accepted only Vishnu as the supreme.

>
> I suddenly don't understand what is the problem when Vishnu is praised
> and Shiva is shown as brahma's child when Sri Adi Shankara himself
> authenticates this.
>

Adi Shankara has never authenticated this. He has authenticated Rudra as
Brahman in the Prashnopanishat.



>
>
> On 18 August 2016 at 21:49, Ravi Kiran via Advaita-l
> <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> > Dears
> >
> > Thanks for your clarifications.
> >
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