Shiva and Advaita - What's the connection?

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On a completely different note from my other posts, I have been

recently been trying to understand if there is a connection between

Shiva and the Advaita theory. From what I know, the Advaita theory

was given (or lucidly interpreted from the Upanishads perhaps) by Adi

Sankaracharya, and he is regarded as an incarnation of Shiva. In my

limited understanding, Advaita is the theory of non-duality - that

the sensory world is nothing but an illusion and that the reality is

that everything is Brahman. Without provoking people into unnecessary

conflict on the personality or impersonality of the final truth, I

still want to know: How can an incarnation of a God expound a theory

which takes away from the God himself. It seems to me that Advaita

implies that even the images of God (Shiva included) are an illusion,

no? Or am I misunderstanding something? And in general why (if at

all) is Shiva seemingly and however indirectly connected to Advaita?

And from an astrological point of view, does Shiva yoga (Sun & Ketu

in trines to Lagna or AK) imply similar tendencies in a person (i.e.

toward Advaita or the search for the fundamental truth?).. Please

elaborate..

 

Thank you and hope I didnt offend anyone by making illogical

connections,

 

Sundeep