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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 is
always 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 a
person. 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 of
the 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 remembers
the 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 mind
about 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 spiritual
effort. 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 the
embodiment 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 hunter
who 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 possesses
Sattvam 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 rules
of 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 in
Nivrutti 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 of
firmness 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
Tamas
respectively. 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 separate
coloured 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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