Question: We see that Lord Rāma worshipped Lord Śiva. Does this mean Lord Rāma was not powerful Himself ?

Author: Anonymous
Date: 2022-07-30
Jayapatākā Swami: Rāma has every right to worship Śiva.
Just like Kṛṣṇa, He is driving the chariot for Arjuna, therefore he is known as Pārtha-sārathi.
Because Śiva is vaiṣṇavānāṁ yathā śambhuḥ – he is the greatest devotee of Lord Rāma.
He is chanting Rāma’s name, always on his rudrākṣa, he is always chanting Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare,
because he is the expansion of Mahā-saṅkarṣaṇa, who is only the expansion of Rāma.
So Rāma has every reason to worship His devotee.
Because the Lord is always known as bhakata-vatsala.
He always like to put His devotee in the superior place.
Kṛṣṇa is only taking the inferior position with Yaśodā, but how about all the times?
Even in that particular līlā, Śiva came out and said, “There’s no need for You to worship me, You Yourself a Lord.”
And even Śiva himself, just like he did tapasyā to be admitted as a gopī in Kṛṣṇa’s rāsa-līlā.
And he was made as the gatekeeper, Gopeśvara for Kṛṣṇa’s rāsa-līlā.
And like that, there are so many pastimes in the Purāṇas.
So actually, Lord Brahmā in his Brahma-saṁhitā said, “There is no difference between Viṣṇu and Śiva;
Viṣṇu is like milk, and Lord Śiva is like yogurt, like dūdh, dadhi.
So, from milk only, dadhi is made.
And dadhi and milk are all milk– there is no other substance.
There is no other second material there; only that the yogurt cannot be rechanged back to milk.
There’s a slight difference in the quality, but… or you can say in the taste or the flavor, but the substance is more or less the same; same thing, milk product.”
Category: [Kṛṣṇa (Godhead) / Kṛṣṇa's Incarnations]

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