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| THE UNITY OF THE VEDIC AND
SHAIVITE RELIGIONS |
Only one basic
and universal teaching can be found in India from early ancient times and characterized
the essence of the tradition. Vedic deities like Indra, Agni, Soma and Rudra are as freely
identified with each other as are Puranic deities like Shiva, Vishnu and Devi (the
Goddess). It shows no real understanding or appreciation of the tradition or of any of
these deities to make them opposed to one another or to try to make one into the only true
deity.
The Hindu approach has always allowed devotees to regard their form of the Divine as the
supreme-whether Shiva, Vishnu, Devi or anything else. Yet at the same time it insists that
devotees of one form allow devotees of another form to have the same freedom of view. The
idea that there is only one God and his true name is Shiva, Vishnu, Allah, Christ or
anything else, reflects exclusivist patterns of though imported from non-Hindu religious
beliefs and should not be applied to the Hindu tradition. |
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