REL-1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bhagavata Purana, Bhagavan, Lingam
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God for all: especially new ventures. God is one: but, paradoxically, there are 33 million gods. Seeing the linkage between the god and yourself/soul. Movies about ganesh or other things are religious experiences. Siva, recognized by the lingam, took ganesh as his son. Took the fi(cid:396)st a(cid:374)i(cid:373)al head fa(cid:272)i(cid:374)g (cid:374)o(cid:396)th, a(cid:374) elepha(cid:374)t head a(cid:374)d put it o(cid:374) the (cid:271)oy"s body (since he had no head) Saivism (sect devoted to siva as supreme god) His cosmic dance destroys a weary universe to make way for creation and rebirth. Many people revere both of them and understand how their powers are different. Vishnu symbolized with conch shell, lotus flower, septor. Siva it is about sex, fertility, a kind of destructive force: pavarti, ganesh, force of life. Vishnu: krishna/ram, protector/interior self, there is a sweetness to vishnu. Hindus understood jesus to be an avatar of vishnu.
