Jagadguru Sri Sri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamiji cautioning against futile debates :

Jagadguru Sri Sri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamiji cautioning against futile debates :

Even though God is beyond attributes and forms, the Shastras point out that He sports various forms and names for the welfare of devotees.

Though water is tasteless, it tastes sweet when mixed with water, and sour when it is mixed with the essence of lime. Similarly, God who transcends names and forms, appears in various names and forms out of His own power. Sporting the Trishula and Damaruka, He graces devotees as Shiva and sporting the Shankha and Chakra, He graces everyone as Vishnu. He further graces devotees as Shankaranarayana merely to indicate that these two forms of God are not distinct. Those who do not realize this fact fight over the supremacy of Vishnu over Shiva or Shiva over Vishnu. The Shastras when describing the result of sins committed in past lives, state that chronic stomach ache arises in this birth when one has committed the sin of trying to establish one form of God over the other forms.

Hence it would be foolish to argue over the relative greatness of the various forms of God. Sri Adi Shankara Bhagavatpada in His simple and lucid work, PrashnottaraRatnamalika, poses a question: “Which God must we worship?” and provides the answer as – शङ्करनारायणात्मैकः – He who is of the form of #Shiva and #Vishnu. This must be remembered and imbibed by everyone. Sri #AdiShankaracharya in His Bhashyam describes Bhagavan as the Controller of the Universe and is the instrument behind its creation, sustenance and annihilation. There cannot be two such Controllers. For if there were two, then one might wish that it rain now, and another wish that it not rain now. So would it rain then or not. If some say, let there be two Gods and let them have the same wish at the same time, then there is no need for a second God. Hence Bhagavan is one. People usually accept that it is Vishnu who has taken the Avataras such as Sri Rama and Sri Krishna. That being the case, it is also imperative to understand that the same Lord appears as Vishnu and Shiva.

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