The only response to Cheeni's words is....silence, as I begin to digest them.
On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com> wrote: > BTW, asaivam does not equal vaishnavam. Siva and Vishnu are not opposite. > This term asaivam/Saivam isn't about Siva vs Vishnu. > > Vaishnavism considers Vishnu to be Brahman, just as Siva is Brahman in > Saivism, Shakti is Brahman in Shakti-ism. > > Brahman is an infinite quantity, far beyond the capacity of humans to > describe. So it was deemed convenient to take one quality of Brahman and > describe it as a deity, like Siva or Vishnu. After all, every point in an > infinite space could be considered its center.
