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Similarly
the Moon-God standing for the Chandramurti, one of the Ashtamurthis
of Siva is to be adored, and offering worship to him should be
deemed worshipping Lord Siva only. Comparative diminutive size and
power should in no way hamper our fervor for veneration.
If the Sun scorches us with the intensity of heat, or blindens with
immensity of effulgence, the Moon with the extremity of coolness
freezes us for our own good. It only refreshes, rejuvenates us for
further work and progress. Imagine for a while the Sun's domination
round the clock. "Oh horrible !" saying so we at once
close our eyes as a mark of our intolerance. The Sun and the Moon
are like the object and shadow exist together, one does not exist
without the other, nor bear separation. Persistence for singleness
sniffs out subsistence of either. The Chandramurti aspect standing
for one of the Sivashtamurtis is given form, size and attributes for
adoration. In several places temples are built for regular worship
with rituals, but rarely this fact is given due emphasis. Yet the
Moon-God is receiving worship. Some point out that the Somanath
temple in the Prabhasakshetra of Sourastra enshrining the beautiful
linga is the Chandramurti aspect of that Ashtamurti of Siva. (For
exhaustive information vide No.l of AGS). Contradicting it, a few
affirm that the Chandranathaswami icon 'installed and worshipped in
the temple of Chatgaon in Bengal is representing that aspect of
Siva. In fact, when that auspicious aspect is quite visible for
twelve hours and lighting up the dark worlds, regularly and
eternally, why straying into the dominion of disputes and hear the
hairsplitting arguments that only lead into darkest caverns to
searching for a black cat laboriously in its absence at it, aver,
the wise. It is enough if worship is made to that cool-beamed,
soft-lighted Moon, and it invariably goes to that Ashtamurti Siva.
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