Shaiva Siddhanta Vedas Advaita 2 Difference

The term’Siva” or rather His Attributes of appear in only in The later part of The Rig Veda.

 

‘Rudra’, literally meaning ‘howler’ appears as The personification of The Destructive Power in the early part of the Rig Veda.

 

Only in the later part of the Rig Vedas does the term’Siva’ appears  and he is called “Maha Deva’

 

In Svetevara Upanishad,Siva is shown as knowable through Bhakti.

 

Personal Theistic concept is introduced thus regarding Siva.

 

At best  Shaivism can be called as Theistic Non Dualism as an instrument of Realization and not as a System of Non Dualism per se.

 

The Essentials of Indian Philosophy -Professor Hiriyanna,pages 33-34,175)

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In the Vedic text, ‘Ekam‘ means that there is only one and that one is the Pati (Lord). You who say ‘There is one ‘ is the Pasu, bound up in Pasa. The word ‘Advaita’ means that beside God nothing else will exist, as when we say that there will be no other letters (consonants) when the vowel ‘A’ is not.” And the meaning will be clear when the illustration is fully understood. The illustration is that of vowel and consonants i.e.,andormeaning soul and body.

“Thevowelbecoming one with the consonants is natural union,” is the Nannulsutra.

And the illustration of body and mind or soul was what was stated in the first stanza.* So that we have two

*We are glad to extract the following from Mr. Armstrong’s book, ‘God and the Soul’ wherein he brings out the same analogy.

“But I would much rather put it in this way: the relation of the physical universe to God is, within certain limits, analogous to the relation of my body to myself. The movement of my tongue as I speak, of my eyes as I glance at my friend, of my hand as I write these words, proceeds from that stream of conscious energy which you may call my mind, my soul, my spirit, my will, or myself- Instantaneously the command of my unseen self flows through my seen self and modifies its attitudes, its gestures, its several and separable parts. But the intimate connexion between myself and my body does not imply that I am my body or that my body is myself, the ‘Ego.’ If they are in absolute alliance they are also in absolute antithesis. Nor, even if you went on to imagine my body the absolute product of my own will, and its automatic and reflex action, the breath, the circulation of the blood, the beating of the heart, the growth of the hair and the nails to be the effect of my will, and my consciousness to be perpetually engaged in conducting these processes, would you be one step nearer identifying me, the’ Ego,’ the self, with this body, but it would be other than the body, above andbeyondit, transcending it, of a nature belonging to a superior order to it, in another and a higher plane than it.”

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In essence The Reality arrived at by Neti Nyaya is given a Name and Form because the Human Mind can not operate in vacuum and this our Rishis have understood.

 

Therefore an Easwara is necessary .

 

But in the final analysis, ‘Realization is the goal and the paths are many.

 

‘Ekam Sat, Vipra Bahuta Vidanti’

 

Truth is One,Learned say it is Many’

 

Lord Krishna observes ‘Panditas say a lot about Reality, but only one in a thousand really earns after it, yet scarce are people who attempt it’

It is my conviction that our job is to attempt at Realization rather than which system  precedes which.

 

My reply continues on the other points.