SrI:

The same is the case with many SrIvaishnavas. I doubt whether this group has any
moderator. The group name lured me to join. I would like to leave now.

The writer (could be the so called svamiji himself) has so many lists to publish
such articles other than SrIvaishnava lists. I know that many lists ban these
articles.

adiyen.
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[divya_desam] worshipping Lord Shiva
Q.196) I was told that worshipping Lord Siva isinauspicious because He is
related to the destruction.Is it true?Ans.) The very meaning of the word Siva
is that He isalways auspicious. It is stated that Lord Siva is thefirst Guru
who gives divine knowledge (JnanamMaheswaraat). The divine knowledge is said to
be veryauspicious in Gita (Nahi Jnanena Sadrusam). He isindicating destruction
of the world or the death of aperson. One should always remember that this
worldwill be destroyed and is not eternal. By this you mustknow that death is
inevitable for the body and for thebody relationships. The old person must be
aware ofthe death that is going to come shortly and mustbecome spiritually
alert. Even the young man mustthink about untimely accidental death and that
thereis no guarantee of the old age. Thus if one remembersthe death constantly,
he will be spiritually active.The human being is not turned to spirituality
becausehe thinks that he will live forever or live for avery long time. He
should constantly remind his mindabout the death and thus should become
spirituallyactive. Generally people think that death isinauspicious. But it is
the most auspicious Guru thatgives knowledge about the temporary existence of
thebody and makes the human being alert in the spiritualeffort. In Mahabharata
it is told that one shouldconstantly remember death as if it is walking by
ourside catching hold of our hair. Lord Siva also appearsinauspicious
externally. But internally He is theembodiment of the divine knowledge and
mostauspicious. Lord Siva represents the quality of Tamas.Any quality turned
towards God is always good. Tamasgives rigid firmness in the spiritual path.
Prahladawas firm due to Tamas quality only. Kannappa, a hunterwho is the
embodiment of Tamas attained salvation bydonating eyes to Lord Siva. Even
Sattvam when turnedtowards world is bad. Dhritarashtra was very politeand was a
devotee of Lord Krishna. He possessesSattvam quality. But he never followed the
word ofLord Krishna. All his Sattvam quality was divertedtowards the world and
he was very greedy. The Lordpunished him. In Nivrutti one has to cross the
justicealso by using Tamas. Even the Lord crosses the rulesof justice to
protect His real devotee due to theTamas quality only. Lord Siva protected
Markandeya inthis way. Datta appears as a drunkard and fond ofprostitute due to
Tamas only. Datta preaches that inNivrutti the devotee shall not leave the Lord
even ifthe Lord harms him. This is like the drunkard notleaving the harmful
wine and the harmful prostitute.At that stage to have such a firm desire on
the Lord,Tamas is required. Dharmaraja was the embodiment ofSattvam quality.
But he was not having firm faith onLord Krishna. Therefore, even if Lord
Krishna forcedhim to tell a lie he refused. This is due to lack offirmness in
the faith and the firmness is always dueto Tamas. Thus the importance of Siva
is very much inthe spiritual line. Moreover the same Brahman iscalled Brahma,
Vishnu and Siva based on theassociation with Sattvam, Rajas and
Tamasrespectively. The same Lord is in three shirts ofdifferent colours. The
Lord is not having any colour.Brahma, Vishnu and Siva are only the three
energeticbodies of the same Lord, which are like three separatecoloured shirts.
If you scold Siva, you have scoldedBrahma and Vishnu. Veda says the same
(BrahmachaNarayanah, Sivascha Narayanah). The greatest sin is todifferentiate
Brahma, Vishnu and Siva and todifferentiate their corresponding incarnations
i.e.,Madhva, Ramanuja and Sankara.
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