SIVA ENDS BRAHMA – VISHNU DISPUTE AND SHABDA BRAHMA

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SIVA ENDS BRAHMA – VISHNU DISPUTE AND SHABDA BRAHMA

 

Brahma says:"I asked him as to who he was. Vishnu replied that he

was the fulfiller of all of his desires. But I replied to him that I

only was the creator, nurturer and the supreme soul of this world.

Vishnu became angry and said that undoubtedly I (Brahma) was the

creator of this world, but he (Vishnu) was the one, who had created

me (Brahma) and the whole world. Vishnu also ordered me to take his

refuge and promised to protect me. But being an ignorant I did not

believe him. A fierce battle was fought between both of us. A

Shivalinga manifested between us to end the battle. We requested

that Shivalinga to show its real identity. That Shivalinga had

destroyed our pride."

 

We heard a sound OM. We became curious to know the origin of that

sound. Vishnu saw a letter 'A' towards the south of that Shivalinga.

He also saw the letters 'U' and 'M' center towards the north of the

Shivalinga and in its center respectively. He also saw the

mantra 'OM', which was dazzling like a Sun. There was no beginning

and end to this mantra OM. As we were making efforts to know about

its origin, suddenly Shiva appeared in the form of a sage. He gave

us the knowledge regarding OM. He also revealed to us that I

originated from the letter 'A', Vishnu originated from letter 'U'

and Shiva himself originated from letter M. The letter A signifies

creation, U Signifies nurturement and M signifies salvation.

 

The three letters A, V and M also symbolizes the basic causes of

creation. A or brahma also symbolizes the semen, U or Vishnu

symbolizes the Vagina and the sound of OM is Maheshwar- the combined

sound of A, U and M. All the three united from which manifested a

golden egg. This golden egg remained submerged in the water for one

thousand years. The almighty then cut that egg into two halves, from

which appeared heaven and Earth. We also saw the divine beauty of

Maheshwar."

 

Then we saw all the vowels and consonants emanating from the

physique of Mahadeva. Vishnu saw the forty eight letters within

OMKAR, which in fact were the two following mantras- "TAT PURUSHAY

VIDDYAMAHE MAHADEVAY DHIMAHI, TANNO RUDRAH PRACHODAYAT." And "TAT

SAVITUR VARENYAM BHARGO DEVASYA DHIMAHI DHIYO YONAH PRACHODAYAT."

 

"After that we also received the Mahamrityunjay mantras like 'OM

JOOM SAH", "HRAUM HRIM JOOM SAH" and "TRAYAMBAKAM YAJAMAHE". After

that we received the five lettered mantra "OM NAMAH SHIVAY", the

chintamani mantra 'KSHAMYAUM', the Dakshainamurti mantra - "OM NAMO

BHAGAVATE DAKSHAINAMURTAYE MAHYAM MEGHAM PRAYACHCHHA SWAHA. At last

we received the great mantra TATVAMASI. Vishnu was so enchanted by

this mantra that he started chanting this mantra. We then prayed to

Shiva-the creator, the nurturer and the destroyer.

 

"Shiva became very pleased with both of us. He preached us the

contents of Veda. Shiva told Vishnu about the methods by which his

(Shiva's) worship could be done. He revealed to us that Vishnu

actually had manifested from the left portion of his Shiva's body

and myself from the right portion of his body. He also blessed us

that he would manifest his incarnation of Rudra from our body and

also that the purpose of this incarnation would be to do

annihilation. Lord Shiva revealed to us that his consort Uma, was in

fact mother Nature and her power in the incarnation of Saraswati

would be my consort. Lakshmi, who would also manifest from the

nature would be the consort of Vishnu."

 

Brahma told Narada:-

 

"Lord Shiva informed us that my day consists of four thousand eras

and similarly my night too consists of four thousand eras. Since a

month consists of thirty days and a year consists of twelve months.

In this way my age was fixed to be of one hundred years. One day of

Vishnu is equivalent to one year of Brahma. Vishnu's age too was

fixed to be of one hundred years. The day of Rudra is equivalent to

one year of Vishnu and his age also was fixed to be of one hundred

years.

 

Taken from gita soceity

 

With warm regards

Prasanna Kumar