Re: Incarnation of Shiva
Originally Posted by
Madhavan
Does that mean you consider Shiva and Vishnu different( not that I have a problem with this idea), so that their incarnations are disjoint?
Shiva's incarnations are usually in the heaven, and Vishnu on earth. Ganesha, Kartikeya,Nandikeshwara etc are all incarnations of Shiva. Sages like Durvasa , ashwattama etc are incarnations of Shiva.
We should note that Shiva is usually considered nirguNa which cannot have incarnations. Vishnu(or Shakti) is the form by which Shiva manifests. Therefore, all incarnations are typically that of Vishnu.
Every person in this world is an incarnation of Vishnu, though the degrees of manifestation are different.
Namaskar,
My understanding is similar from reading of Vedas. Vishnu(or Shakti) is the form by which Shiva manifests. To Madhavacharya, Vishnu appeared from Shivalinga.
However, Upanishad says that Shiva resides directly as Brahman in Varanasi -- the place above nasika and between eyebrows and in Hridaya.
Vishnu is from Soma.
Om
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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