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Yes Kasturi rangan swami,
 
There had been a fight for supermacy between Shaivas and vaishnavas.
This was all to get the patronage of the rulers of the era and all these
were done with the aim on that only.
 
But when you take the works of either Shankara or Ramanuja or seers of that 
order
and this kind of animosity is not there.
 
In fact it is Shankara who gave us the Bhaja Govindam. Let us take this kind of
Satvik views. You have Krishna premi's and not shiva premi's as sect.
 
Let us build on the premise of Love, respect and righteousness everyone will 
come to
that.
 
Dasan/raghavan

kasturirangan_k <kasturirangan_k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Devotee,
> I also see a sculpture ,irking my eyes always, every time , I see 
> that pillar where a sculpture depicts like this. It has brahma , in 
> the form of holy-Swan flying up ?. and our almighty In the form of  
> Boar trying to go down and  in the center of which Shiva is there.  
> They try to depict a story that Our beloved almighty and Brahma 
> tried to find the origin of Shiva one trying to see his head and 
the > other tail.  

If this one merely irks your eyes, wait till you read accounts from 
shiva/linga puranas & sharabhopanishad. The story of Nrsimha slain by 
rudra in the form of sharabha. They twist the whole meaning of "harim 
harantam..." yajurvedic mantra as "shiva who killed Hari (in the form 
of Nrsimha)". In tamil nadu there is a shiva temple, if I remember 
correctly, where he is called "sattainathar" - shiva who is wearing 
the skin of vishnu for clothes!

You have to take them as the hostility of shaivas & vaishnavas in 
yesteryears channelized through literary means. Vaishnavas have given 
the shaivas their due in their puranas. For example, in Harivamsha, 
there is a story on how shiva became nIlakanTha - Vishnu choked shiva 
to such an extent that shiva started begging for mercy. The mark from 
the choking became permanent on Shiva's throat.

Regards,
Kasturi Rangan .K




azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam



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