Speaking of Shiva: eko hi rudra na dvitiyaya tashtuh

[@rogerthornhill477]

have to say the Hindu community is the most peaceful and loving , I have visted some temples , I love going .

[@harshachiguruvada3331]

Sanathana dharma always welcomes u bro...

[@skylark5249]

I would highly recommend picking up a copy of the "Upanishads"....the philosophy is multilayered, deep and lofty. I was born into it and was a closet agnostic but after a bit of study I am a fan and think its the only one that well and truly explains the nature of our reality and most aligned with our current understanding of the science that deals with it - i.e. quantum physics.

[@amittiwary7432]

Thanks and we all respect your way of life too..

[@sujathat4913]

Yes we don't believe in any kind of violence .hope the world realizes

[@universe5223]

Shiva is infinity, eternal core energy ⚡.

[@SB-iz8sz]

I have leaned so much from Dr Nick Sutton and it’s very validating for me about Shiva and my own personal Journey🙏

[@pradumnpurohit2398]

I can guarantee what Western university teach about Hinduism is caste discrimination and millions of gods.

[@amitrai7744]

He is telling the truth , even in ramayana even lord Ram prayed shiva

[@exthebtv3647]

Om nama sivaya ..iam hinduism java indonesia..

[@himanshukumarsoni3407]

Jai Jai shree Ram 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@RakeshKumar-fc1qr]

Send your number

[@stevenhunter3345]

Dr. Sutton's lectures are always enlightening and deeply interesting.

[@akosaihtravarkahc1527]

Commenters here please don't jump to conclusions, he speaks facts and he is a true Hindu. Only people who understand truth can understand and experience God

[@RANDHIR20SINGH]

Father of Shiva is Brahma , Father of Brahma is Vishnu , and father of Vishnu is Shiva . so Shiva is everything. it is eternal. as you can see that is is circle of Shiva , Vishnu and Brahma is a circle. so in a sense all are same without any starting point or any end. Take in any order Shiva is his own grandfather. So Shiva is supreme in Shiva Purana and Vishnu is supreme in Vishnu Purana. so it really does not matter who is supreme and who is not.

[@govindarajanvenkatesan6154]

RANDHIR SINGH ;shiva is not born to anyone.

[@austin426512]

RANDHIR SINGH Shiva is pure consciousness, Brahman. Vishnu is same as Shiva.

[@shubhamkumar-bz7sl]

Bullshit, go read Durga sapatsathi

[@ghost4613]

RANDHIR SINGH ..Tri Circle....

[@emrao7732]

+Randhir Singh, Please don't go by Puranic literature. All the 18 Puranaas are mere symbolical stories, which are right in their own place. But, they are not part of Hindu Philosophy, which is enunciated in the form of Upanishads, which form the Jnana Kaanda of the four Vedas!

[@cpadman5800]

Beautiful lecture on Shaivism, I enjoyed this lecture and learned a lot. I am from Tamil Nadu and I am familiar with most of the things he said but still so much to learn.

[@niteshjha9125]

I am mathali Brahmin in our community during month of sawon newly married couple are taught how to live there married Life with the story of Shiv and Parvati

[@Noble_Nomad]

Proud to be the shaivism community🕉️

[@jeevanarahasyam]

Goosebumps to hear from him about Sundaramoorthi, Thirugnaana Sbandhar etc... What a lecturer he is.. salute!

[@anbannaidoo3313]

For all the followers of Hindu teachings and philosophy and for the world....worship of God in the form of Brahma and Vishnu can only bring you worldly benefits...knowledge and wealth. Only Shiva as supreme can give liberation to the soul. Wealth and knowledge all bring delusion and finally the soul will have to seek its liberation . Do not be tied down by form and name...God is beyond all that. The lessons of all Hindu teachings is to finally worship Shiva...the master of your soul.

[@theturtwig50]

Then why would someone in Vaishnavism tell me the opposite?

[@GavIsHti]

@@theturtwig50 it doesn't matter if u r following vaishnism than its fine .. finally u r praying to same god ..so it's fine whoever u r praying to ..

[@ermitanyo777]

Im a Shaivite scholar and devotee in the Philippines. Aum Namah Shivaya Bum Shiva Har Har Ganja Shivoham Shivoham

[@Fit-ronnie]

Great regards to u,😊, bt It needs some correction "Bum Shiva"..... "Bum Bum Bhole" & "Har Har Ganja"....."Har Har Gange". That's all 🙂👍

[@ermitanyo777]

@@Fit-ronnie thank you

[@cpadman5800]

Excellent presentation on Shaivism. Dr. Sutton is a real scholar. I agree with most of the things he said about Tamil Shaivites. I am one of them In Hindu temples in Tamil Nadu, the Vaishnava priests (iyengars)normally would not do any service to Nataraja (Shiva) but the smarta brahmin priests ( Iyer) would not mind doing pujas to any deity in the temple.The Smarta tradition rejects theistic sectarianism. I also agree with Dr.Sutton that in Noth India people are not familiar with Shaivism as in South India. Of course, the Kashi Vishwanath temple is an exception. There are more temples for Shiva in South India than any other part of India. Shaivism is not that popular in North India for whatever reason, Islamic invasion or something else. In early 7th century the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang (Huen Tsang) visited India and wrote a memoir in Chinese that mentions the prevalence of Shiva temples all over North Indian subcontinent, including in the Hindu Kush region such as Nurista. .

[@radoslaw108]

every vaishnava would respect and serve Sambhu,the best vaishnava, Caitanya Mahaprabhu has allready set the example in Caitanya Caritamrita:)

[@nitinbull8720]

In north India we have kashiviswanath

[@prakashtiwari8003]

It's not entirely true. I am from north Indian particularly from Bihar. And my family is shaivite Brahmins. My grandfather built a grand temple in my village. Now, people come to do Puja and for Darshana from more than 50 Km. My grandmother always used to tell bedtime stories about Shiva, Maa Parvati and various gods and goddesses.

[@shailendrabisht9581]

Late Yogi Gorakhnath of Gorakhpur mentioned @ 24.45 mins is now famous; as the present popular Chief Minister of UP is ( & present head of the same Temple ); is Yogi Adityanath; Thanks for the brilliant talk.You deserve a Bharat Ratna Award for all your numerous lectures; I have heard.( Most enlightening ) .God Bless You.

[@prasadpatil1]

Nope ……..Gorakhnath is different……..he was great saint long back

[@aprilblossoms4]

This is the second talk by Dr.Sutton I have listened to and really enjoyed it. It’s been a great learning and his knowledge and passion really comes through. I see there was a long break in videos being posted and they seem to have resumed now?? Hope we get to see more these! Thanks.

[@ayya11790]

I am impressed by Dr Sutton. Thank you for the informative lecture.

[@KBNZ83]

always awesome to hear Nick speak

[@umagenetics3975]

I'm following "Shaivism"

[@nepalihinduforumuk132]

Nepal has a strong Shaivite traditiin. Jai Lord Pasupatinath

[@prakashtiwari8003]

Jai Baba Pashupatinath 🙏🕉️

[@bishalbhattarai5284]

1:04:00 Thats why Pashupatinath Temple still had south indian priests

[@TheVijayalakhmi]

Admirable knowledge about Hinduism!

[@niladrichowdhury4129]

Narayana (Vishnu) is also worshipped in salagrama form as well as murti form

[@blessme-ng9gu]

Dr.Nick Sutton it seems to me that u indeed are verily' de 🎉 chosen child of Shivohum just sing it with luv ❤ x2. . . 😢 Shiva is de infinity of Sky encompassing de divine space

[@call_me_kay]

I am Neither the body Nor the mind I am neither the spirit Nor life I am Neither existant Nor extinct I am Neither the holy Nor the unholy I am Neither created Nor designed I am Neither here Nor there I am neither the universe Nor a galaxy you can find I am Neither hate Nor love benign I am Neither the anger Nor joy, hidden from the eyes I am Neither misery Nor a defiant monk, somewhere in the wild I am Neither kind Nor cruelty defined I am neither the atom Nor am I fathomable, to your mind I am The soul I live beyond The dimensions You've defined I am Everywhere Yet nowhere I am Incomprehensible I am Beyond time I am Truth I am Bliss I am Ecstasy I am what I am I am Sada Shiva By just a Indian who is from the North... Cheers.. Jai Shiv Shambhu🕉️ Jai Bhole Nath🔱 Har Har Mahadev 🚩 Edit: Shaivism is strong in Himachal Pradesh...which is almost the northern most part of india... Gujrat is not in north india... It is in west india... P.S: LINGAM DOES NOT mean a falice... LINGAM is supposed to signify the nature of Shiva... Shiva embodied is not truly Shiva and that is why a LINGAM is used istead...

[@onlytruth308]

Appreciations 🙏

[@eyeamraj]

Excellent characterization of Shiva

[@call_me_kay]

@@onlytruth308 thanks

[@call_me_kay]

@@eyeamraj thank you

[@anandbm7715]

My god sir, how informed are you. cant wrap my mind around it

[@mainakdeb8322]

Beautiful discission... just like to put my take on shivas 3rd eye opening.. its unstoppable power turns the offender into 'bhasma'(ash), which is to say turns him pure, free of sins and ready for the new cycle of life, as is very characteristics of shiva.

[@tmmenon1947]

I don't think there exists in Hinduism anymore "tension" on accunt of the competing concepts of worship around Shiva and Vishnu. Now the Saivites and Vaishnavitesn Tamilnadu have come to bury their old hatchets, and united to believe in the oneness of God in the Hindu Triumvirates - Brahma-Vishnu and Shiva. I have visited several temples of Trimurthis, and Shankaranarayana in the South india.

[@danman202]

go to Mathura/Vrindavan and say Ram Ram lol you will see there is even tension between worship around Vishnu haha

[@dearkrish1]

Anbe Shivam (Love is Shiva, Love is God)! Sathyam Shivam Sundaram! (Truth is shivam & Beauty is Shivam & Infinite bliss is Shivam). Lord of Meditation! Hariyum Shivamum onru ariyathavan vayil mannu (Shiva & Vishnu are the same, if one does not understand, that one ignorent enough to have mud in his mouth). Saivaites are more moderate but vaishnavaites are fanatics.

[@adityalocopilotecorly6111]

in ramayana lord rama worshiped lord shiva at rameswaram.in bhagbad gita lord krishna says among 12 rudras i am the shiba

[@dibakarsinha7753]

Randhir Singh , right and also we the human ,the most inteligent creature in earth are also not enough to understand who is the supreme of this universe other than GOD.

[@dharmayogaashram979]

Proud Saiva Hindu, respecting our Vaishnava and Shakti brothers/sisters.

[@sudeepa6146]

The great scholar who is still undisputed who is also an avatar known by all as shankaracharya clearly wrote that both vishnu and shiva is the same and its like setting sun and rising sun only reflects different to human. Those who see difference in vishnu and shiva is due to lack of knowledge. All knew that advaitha vendanta ie nonduality is the only reality

[@Arunava_Gupta]

Interesting. I would love to have the name of the work.

[@AstrologerPromod]

Every thing came from VEDA. Veda is 100% science, history etc etc. In it you can see all the subjects that we studies in any University. [ Including method of manufacture of rocket, structure of atom, structure of Universe etc]. All the Nobel prizes were given to those subjects which were given in Vedas. It is not easy for common man to follow science. So they wrote it in story form in Puranasa. Thus science terms in Vedas, become characters in Puranas. Here RUDRA in VEDA, became SIVA in Puranas. WE are now going behind these stories and its characters. I wrote 12 books named Kaliyugapuranam which explains VEDA PURANOPANISHEDS mostly on the basis of modern science. Publishing or revealing such things to the world is not easy for a single person. Dear Friends, Don't go behind these stories and its characters. These are STORIES. It is a story form of presentation of Science, history etc etc in VEDAS. The scientific world is misguided by Indian Vedic teachers who taught foreign scholars. Behind these stories there is may science principles. These are not SPIRITUAL THINGS. Those who failed to understand these things, covered all these by the blanket of SPIRITUALITY.

[@emrao7732]

You will never get anywhere near Hinduism by mere reading the scriptures; you may even get confused instead of getting any clarity! Three minimum steps are prescribed to conduct your spiritual journey: (i) "sravana", i.e., hearing or studying coupled with assimilation of spiritual truths; (ii) manana, i.e., critical evaluation of what is heard, which is a mental process; and (iii) nididhyaasana (dhyaana), i.e., deep contemplation or, say, meditation. These three are indispensable steps. Once you take your first step, all blessings will come from within, and also the strength needed to take future steps!! There is no such thing as "ENLIGHTENMENT WITHIN A WEEK", which is being offered by some QUACKS in USA and a few Western countries.

[@balamurli5207]

I adore you. Not many tamilians has knowledge of yours. ❤❤❤❤

[@venkateshsharma3180]

Wonderful lecture sir. Plz read Appaih Dikshitendra's works on Shiva. And if you have already, plz give lectures on the same. Thank you.

[@hariharaissame]

*Ekō hī rudrō nā dvitiyāyā tāsthuryā* 🔱

[@nitai154]

Great lecture on Sanatana Dharma

[@mohanram8249]

AUM or OM is the combination of the trimurthis beegakashara ..... vishnu and shiva are not different but 1, because when bhrama was arguing with vishnu on who is superior and when the met shiva later according to the purana shiva says u both are from me born from my energy we are 3 but one ....the forms where taken in order to maintain the balance of the creation and perform an induvidual duties /maya /wonders

[@psyane.e]

The Mind , The Body and The Soul. Lord Brahma ,lord Vishnu , lord Shiva 🙏🔱

[@Vivek-sq5ux]

Shiva in Upanishads mean Ultimate truth or Bliss. The Shaivism is offspring of this to common man in Pauranik who finds it difficult to understand the philosophical stand point. For Advait Vedantic Vishnu and Shiva are they all are same, but different manifestations. Its like looking at same elephant from different angles.

[@prakashdensil3686]

Hinduism is the oldest religion and the best ❤️👍🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️👍🙏😘🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@prakashlb2984]

great lecture , most of us ( hindus) forget great traditions of vedic school of thought preached in upanishads, and agmas great works by religious teachers from kashmir to kanyakumari ( like , lakulisa, somanada, utpaladeva, adi shankara , vidyaranya, abhinava guptha, basavanna, mekandwar, thirumalar and many more, sri kanta ) now most of us believe hinduisam is only myth like ( puranas) and history of ramayana and bharatam there are 208 saiva agamas and 108 shakthi thantras most of them lost in the destruction of universities like nalanda and taxila by muslims . now science and scholars across the world is looking to hinduisam and praising it only by the study of great works in kashmiri saivam and pasupatha saivam and other great agamas university of pondicherry is now collecting all the works of great saints from Nepal , India and from Bhutan i hope in future we again got our lost knowledge and think beyond myth and ithihasa understand true philosophy of upanishads as ( aham brahmasmi, tatwam asi, ayam atma brahma, sivam santam advaitam) and lead the world in to peace

[@thethreespikes9737]

No This dude said There is not much Shaivism in North india.. He thinks Gujrat is north.. tell him to come further north for example, Himachal and Uttrakhand where spirituality actually exist. Its not called abode of gods for nothing.. Dude did not even mention these to states where thereis only Shiva that is worshipped..

[@skylark5249]

I feel so very enlightened. Ive been wanting to attend one of these sermons by Nick for a long long time. How do I know when and where the next one is ? Help ?

[@vishalaaa1]

Vishnu prays - Shiva Shiva prays - Vishnu In Ramayan even Ram worshipped - Shiva

[@Chairman_LmaoZedong]

Vishnu is Shiva, Shiva is Vishnu. Both are one and same. Both are Non dual.

[@raghunandan9290]

Many arguing here r Silly. What they don't understand or realise it, is that it's the Brahman who is the One ultimate atma among whom we all reside . 🔖But Hindus have various denominations. Its Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism, Shaktism etc. *** Depending upon which one you are following, the Brahman is defined selectively. Brahman becomes Vishnu in Vaishnavism. Shiva in Shaivism. Kali or Durga in Shaktism. Etc.

[@jathiratnalu5956]

If whole world Hindus no more wars no more terrorism

[@govindarajanvenkatesan6154]

Gorakar is one among the 18 sidthars. The student of Bogar(main speciality is alchemy ). Bogar built navapashana murugar(converted 9poisonous substance and made it into purest form of medicine, the murugan idol). And Bogar attained jeeva samadhi in pazhani. And told korakar to attain jeeva samadhi(making his consciousness one with light and leaving the body) in vadapoigainallur in nagapattinam district of tamilnadu.

[@prakashdensil3686]

India india india india india india india india india india india india india india india india india india india india india india india india india india 👍🙏😘🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@nitinbull8720]

We hindu never seen vishnu shiva and brahma differently

[@ND-gm8zj]

The reason a shavist never say he is a shavist because the sri vishnu is shiva himself "namah girishaya cha shipivisthay cha" salutation to god of mountains and god who is the form of vishnu. You know people come to shiva by themselves he don't need any conscious moments etc may sri Rudra bless you.

[@jayanthd740]

Shiva and Kali worshippers will take care of the taurean prethas. Har Har prethanath. Har Har boothanath.

[@blessme-ng9gu]

Sir , what was de true. Cause of the closure & deserted site of de Kashmir's Shaivism 😢 Centre of (mr abhinav gupta).

[@Balharbor28]

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, when asked if He was a composite of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, he said no, that they were his Managers, and He was the Proprietor of everything, meaning that all consciousness, including the eternal witness is centered in Him. However when we speak as Hindus we must keep in mind that all is maya or delusion to be understood as real but unreal and unreal at the same time

[@sueme111]

Professor another correction for you , I am kashmir Hindu and Kashmiri Shaivism is alive . It’s still exist and just not about tamtra. Sharda Peeth , adobe of Sharda Devi is kashmir and In Hinduism the prayer start with Prayer to ma Sharda . The first reference to peeth at kashmir

[@Chairman_LmaoZedong]

Is tantra still alive ????

[@beyondinfinite275]

What is there in the book was gain through mind and dyan. Book is there for those mind that struggle and to guide them ,but it's not necessary to be followed. You can also do that on your own like rishi's has done. Remember the eklavya story he didn't have a guru who guided him, it was his determination,hardwork, and devotion.

[@percygovendr4485]

Why is the oldest religion is the only religion peaceful ...others are in turmoil sin and vanity?

[@raghunandan9290]

In density of Shiva Temples, South have more density of temples then North. Also South has few Sri Krishna Temples We have Venkateshwara or Balaji Temples,...

[@blessme-ng9gu]

Unknowingly, u are indeed ! 😅 i feel strongly, u are returning Britains debt to india verily so❤

[@itzdstrange]

Accha laga ki ek videshi aadmi, mahadev shiv , shaiva pant evam swetasvatara upnishad varnan kar raha hai.🙏💧🌿

[@balamurli5207]

Even in ramayan lord ram installed a lingam called ram nath and worshipped shiva before going to the war with Ravan

[@sivareddy4937]

Shiva and Shivani are represented in the form of two inverted triangles as in Abrahamic religion. Adi Sankara describes Shivani as sitting on Shiva seat in soundarya Laharj ( Shivakare Manche Parama Siva paryanka Nilayam). This is nothing but two dimensional form of Shiva Linga. This form also refers to represent tetrahedron (fire) and octahedron ( air ) as per Plato ‘s two of panchabhuta. After a while water pot is kept above linga to represent water. The linga is installed on earth. A hole is made on Gopuram to represent sky directly. Thus Shiva is known as Bhutanatha.

[@devannayar6456]

Shiva was originally a Dravidian deity as seen in the proto Shiva in the 'Pashupati Seal' of the Indus Valley Civilization.

[@Phoenix-King-ozai]

There are roughly equal situations where either Lord Vishnu or Lord Siva are extrolled as the one supreme deity if we consider all Scriptures That said, Lord Siva/ Rudra is arguably the older God Vaishnava puranas also treats Siva as a partial but important expansion of Vishnu Similar to the Saivaite puranas

[@karoshabudhram8219]

Ksmasutra temple is temple of test to overcome lust. That's why they are outside of the temple not inside.

[@arkapravadas5344]

the concept of shiva and shakti are far early than vedic or aryan invation in indian subcontinent........it dates back to indus valley civilization where we see shiva as pashupati and we find clues about an ultimate mother or shakti..........

[@landgabriel]

Please link to the books that guest lecturers reference in videos!

[@landgabriel]

And all these videos are great BTW thanks for sharing.

[@Ramachandra-fd7mv]

Very good and nice presentation.

[@AbhinavShah]

12:29 - Somnath Temple, Gujarat.

[@raghunandan9290]

🔖Thanks. 1st time I new Abhinav Gupta. Shaivism is Advaita ism like and different from Shaivism elsewhere.

[@PriyaRaina-tq9wo]

Being a kashmiri pandit I can confirm what u were saying about us and it is almost lost now . Thanks to Islamic invasion.

[@nsvdmuraliprasad2316]

Nice. Good job Sutton sir

[@emrao7732]

Please understand that Brahma, Vishnu and Siva are not three, separate, embodied entities. It is one "principle" playing three "roles" in different contexts, in the same way each one of us play different roles, such as, a husband, a father, a brother, a manager, an employee, and so forth. The Vedas say: "tvam yagjnah, tvam vashatkaara, tvam Indrah, tvam rudrah, tvam vishnuh, tvam brahmah, tvam prajaapathih, tvam tad aapah, jyotih, rasah, etc." You are the fire sacrifice, you are the vashatkaara, indra, rudra, vishnu, brahma, prajapathi (progenitor), you are water, fire, the essence of every thing, and so forth.

[@luckyrasotra5534]

एको रुद्रो न द्वितीयाय तस्यु:।

[@rogerthornhill477]

loved this lecture .

[@nitinbull8720]

Shiva is ultimate god of devil and devas,shiva workes subordinate of vishnu to protect devas,shiva is knows everything abt positive and negative energy yet innocent that's why we call them bhole bhandari

[@kaustavnath296]

a sect of yogis....titled as Nath. belongs to shaiva tradition. their gotra is also shiva gotra....though its true that in north india social and financial status as well as number and modern education is not possess by them....and the sect of shaivism has became unpopular...... I belong to that sect of Nath yogis..

[@nitinbull8720]

Afgani people used to pray shiva larger than s.India,gandhari was great devotee of shiva

[@vishalaaa1]

There is a similar war in Andhra Pradesh also sir ! But its during british empire between vasihnavaite and shivites - Its palanadu

[@onlytruth308]

I have not read any where in my entire reading life of 55 years that there was a war between shaivaits and vaishavaits, the war happened between two kings and one king was happened shaiva and another was vaishnava, the war was between two states not between two matas.

[@lucanthunder]

Silly question, but may be a profound one: is it ok to chant Om Namah Shivaya and Hare Krishna as well as others like the Gayatri Mantra?

[@tonym4371]

Those Mantras are the same power, It's absolutely fine to chant all the mantras.

[@nitinvirat]

Not really, but eventually you will choose the one for you. Gurus also tell mantra to their students that suits their temperament.

[@GavIsHti]

Absolutely ..we do that ..we chant all three of them

[@hsram1985]

Hare Krishna is not mantra.. OM kleem is Krishna mantra. OM namo narayanaya is the Vishnu mantra. OM namah shivaya is Shiva mantra. Gayatri mantra should be chanted properly.

[@Chairman_LmaoZedong]

You can meditate on mantras. You will definitely reach Samadhi.

[@raghureddy3237]

Neither shiva nor vishnu is the supreme. The supreme diety is the goddess(formless ofcourse), shiva meditated so long to be the next manifestation in a different form. All the world, matter, motion and mind comes from there.

[@radoslaw108]

so you say-formless female you are so f.....stupid moron

[@devashishsonowal1505]

Vedic scriptures couldn't be understood single hand.....We have to go to a self realized spiritual master... otherwise it's all theory n jugulary of words....and in the mist we r lost Haribol 🙌 GAURPREMANANDEEEE 🙌

[@mysteriousbeing3249]

The hunter that Arjun(from mahabharat) fought was shiva in the form of kirat(mountain people) tribe. And kirat are also called Gorkhali or Gurkhas(student of sage Gorakh).

[@devannayar6456]

Hindus have so many deities but they never disrespect, much less fight among themselves. But it is not the same in Islam or Christianity. They have only one god or rather only one manifestation of Godhead. But they have sects and have quarreled violently among themselves and still do !

[@SanjeevKumar-jv9kh]

Sari man aap kon se des k ho

[@saurabh9m]

great lecture.

[@praveenhegdeinfo]

+Saurabh Yadav :) , Good Lectures by Rajiv Malhotra , please do go through it ..

[@mithunkumar-sh1uz]

u speak with pure heart.#devotion

[@pnutalapati]

So many people happen to have this question: Is the siva linga represents phallus, or what it is. I too once had that question, and I read many normal as well as nasty answers to it. But today I believe I found a more reasonable answer.Please refer to the picture of big bang given here in this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKiVgIGsfpadbJo When the big bang happened and the creation started from nothing(Sunya), the electromagnetic waves started traveling the space and along with it galaxies, milky ways, planets started forming. So the above picture is a scientific representation of that bing bang and aftermath phenomenon. 'Si' 'va' means which is 'nothing'. So 'Siva' is the state with lot of potential(before bing-bang) and from which every thing started emanating. The energy released out of the big bang is the 'Devi Parvathi', who is in-separable from 'Siva' as they are one and the same. The above picture even though shown with vertical lines, actually represented more accurately as a horizontal stack of donuts, continuously expanding in diameter. So 'Siva Linga' is representation of ever expanding consciousness as an object as a cylindrical solid, which is inherently present in every atom of the universe. By pouring liquids on the Siva linga, you are recollecting and respecting the original big bang and the whole consciousness which has spread this entire cosmos, forming various dimensions or Lokas, thus you're praying to the whole universe.

[@sueme111]

Another correction , Kashmir Has records history of 5000yr in RajTarangni . Kashmir Shivsim has history much before abhinyagupt

[@niladrichowdhury4129]

Eko devo nityah Narayanah na brahmaa na ishana (Mahopanishad)

[@prakashlb2984]

But it is not principal Upanishads like Svetaswara Upanishad

[@sirfin459]

Mahopanishad is not Mukhya Vedas declare Eko hi rudra na dvitiya kaschit "Rudra is the sole One, there is no second"- Taittiriya Sanhita 1.8.6 Also, Mahopanishad verse was quoted and refuted by Sri Srikantha Sivacharya in his Brahma Sutra Bhashya

[@Chairman_LmaoZedong]

Every upanishads are equally important.

[@AnanthNat]

Have just started listening, also seen many comments here. My humble take on exclusively saivism followers in tamilnadu: it's true that smarthas (iyers) worship vishnu as well, but they do identify themselves as predominantly shiva followers thru how they adorn their forehead: with a vibhuti pattai rather than a thirumann naamam. If this be accepted as membership of saivism, I would bet they easily outnumber vaishnavites. The point being, how the murthi's of siva and vishnu themselves are depicted, is how the devotee identifies himself.

[@AnanthNat]

Again, as someone mentioned, the saivism vaisnavism divides are nothing like Catholic protestant divide. Most followers of Hinduism accept that god is one, but simply choose to worship in a form which has been traditionally followed by their ancestors.

[@nilanjanaghosh3432]

You are great sir.

[@radoslaw108]

There is no such a thing as superiority of SHIVAISM OVER VAISNAVISM AND VICE VERSA type of certain cult is meant for different level of UNDERSTANDING and maturity.

[@ayya11790]

The current chief minister of Karnataka is a Veera Shaiva.

[@SsvGkPoint.]

God made by old human, so today no need any God .. today need the humanity for human.

[@laxmangc9710]

Om

[@vishalaaa1]

Awesome explaination Sir

[@Balu-abcdef]

Very great nick

[@ashuraam]

Although it's good to see your efforts into understanding hindu knowledge and traditions sir. Yet, I would like to put it out that one can only understand Indian philosophy by living it. Anything other than that is mere distorted image of what is.

[@harishji6447]

"एकं सत् विप्रा बहुधा वदन्ति" means the truth is one but wise (learned) people says in different ways.This is the main teaching of Vedas, all followers of sanatan dharma should know this main teaching of Vedas.If they learned this they will be able to make understand to other believers ,different gods which are described in our scripture ,are the manifestation of same supreme but defined differently according to their action,just like different organs of our body in different names but the power hidden behind these organs are one.This is dualism under non dualism.The four commandment of Vedas are,"अयमात्मा ब्रह्म"-" अहम् ब्रह्मास्मि"-"तत्वमसि" and " प्रज्ञानम् ब्रह्म" " This soul is Brahma, secondly I am Brahma, thirdly U are this supreme Brahma, and Fourth is The soul (in vedic scripture soul or self also called as Pragyan that is knoledge, actually can not be defined in English accurately) is Brahma. It is higher philosophy which are unknown to most of the Hindu people,so that they are confused.