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Saiva, Vaishnava and
Christian Teachings
“A Creed of Saivite Hindus
1.
We BELIEVE Lord Siva is God, whose Absolute Being,
Parasiva, transcends time, form and space.
2.
We BELIEVE Lord Siva is God, whose immanent
nature of love, Parasakti, is the substratum, primal substance or pure
consciousness flowing through all form as energy, existence,
knowledge and bliss.
3.
We BELIEVE Lord Siva is God, whose immanent
nature is the Primal Soul, Supreme Mahadeva, Paramesvara, author
of Vedas and Agamas, the creator, preserver and destroyer of all that
exists.
4.
We BELIEVE in the Mahadeva Lord Ganesa, son of
Siva-Sakti, to whom we must first supplicate before beginning any
worship or task
We BELIEVE in the Mahadeva Karttikeya, son of SivaSakti, whose vel of grace dissolves the bondages of ignorance
6.
We BELIEVE that each individual soul is created by Lord
Siva and is identical to Him, and that this identity will be fully realized by
all souls when the bondage of anava, karma and maya is removed by
His grace.
7.
We BELIEVE in three worlds of existence: the Bhuloka,
where souls take on physical bodies; the Antarloka, where souls take on
astral bodies; and the Sivaloka, where souls exist in their own selfeffulgent form
8.
We BELIEVE in the law of Karma — that one must reap
the effects of all actions he has caused — and that each soul continues
to reincarnate until all karmas are resolved and moksha, liberation, is
attained.
We BELIEVE that the performance of charya, virtuous living,
kriya, temple worship, and yoga, leading to Parasiva through grace
of the living satguru, is absolutely necessary to bring forth jnana,
wisdom
We BELIEVE that there is no intrinsic evil.
We BELIEVE that religion is the harmonious working together of
the three worlds and that this harmony can be created through
temple worship, wherein the beings of all three worlds can
communicate.
12.
We BELIEVE in the Panchakshara Mantra, the five
sacred syllables “Namah Sivaya,” as Saivism's foremost and
essential mantra.”
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The Nicean Creed
“ We believe in one God, the Father All-sovereign, maker of heaven
and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, and the only-begotten Son of
God, Begotten of the Father before all the ages, Light of Light, true
God of true God, begotten not made, of one substance with the
Father, through whom all things were made; who for us men and for
our salvation came down from the heavens, and was made flesh of
the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man, and was
crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried,
and rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures, and
ascended into the heavens, and sits on the right hand of the Father,
and comes again with glory to judge living and dead, of whose
kingdom there shall be no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and the Life-giver, that
proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and Son is
worshipped together and glorified together, who spoke through the
prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church.
We acknowledge one baptism unto remission of sins.
We look for a resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to
come. “
“Taproot of the Hindu religion:
• Doctrine of Avatar - God becoming a man in order to redeem human beings.
(Unborn Prime God was born in order to give us eternal pleasure)
• Trinity or Triune doctrine - God in triune stage - Appan, Ammai, Makan
(Saivism); Siva, Vishnu, Brahma (Vaishnavism)
• Doctrine of fulfillment of sacrifice - The offering of sacrifice has ceased even
though there is sacrificial altar in the temple. People do not offer sacrifice while
they worship God.
• Doctrine of forgiveness of sin - There is forgiveness for the sins of human
beings by the grace of God and this doctrine is totally controversial to the saying
that ‘the actions of one person would definitely yield its fruits’.
• Doctrine of bhakthi - Appreciating the bhakthi which is in ones heart
irrespective of one’s appearance, color, culture etc. (Kannappa Nayanar) “
The Revival Movement of Dravidian Religion
Dr. M. Deivanayagam, Dr. D. Devakala
Pillayar Concept
Appan, Amma and Makan
This is an image of
the rock cut
Karpaka Vinayakar
Shrine at
Pillayarpatti near
Karaikkudi at one
of the oldest Cave
Temples (Rock Cut)
temples of
Tamilnadu.
Pillayarpatti is
situated between
Pudukkottai and
Karaikkudi.
Over 15 inscriptions are found within the temple, that
help establish the age of the temple.
The Stalapuranam published by the temple classifies
the growth of this temple into three distinct stages.
The first stage - 400 AD.
During this period, the innermost rock cut shrines
housing Karpaka Vinayakar and Tiruveesar came into
being.
The pillars within the shrine are of pre-Pallava origin.
Karpaga Vinayakar is one of the oldest Vinayakar images in
the world for it has only two arms.
The significance of the two arms is that the first god evolved
by ancient man was in the shape of man.
This male god created out of stone was called Yaksha and
the female god was called Yakshi.
Later on to show the superiority of god to man the head of
the man was removed and in its place a head in the shape of
OM was fixed.
The OM head was similar to that of an elephant.
There are only two images of Vinayakars with two arms in
the world.
Valampuri
Vinayagar
Vaishnavism
Trinity
'Moovaraahiya Moorthiyai' (Triune God)
'Moovaraahiya Oruvanai' (Triune person)
Sacrifice
'Thaanae thanakkumavan than uruve evvuruvum
thaanae Thava Vuruvum'
(He himself is his comparison,all images are his images,
He himself is the image of sacrifice)
'Vanakkudai thava neri vali ninru'
(By following the adorable path of the one who sacrificed
himself )
Thavam means 'Thannuyir thaanara peruthal’ (offering
once own self as sacrifice) says Thiruvalluvar which
means sacrificing ones ownself.
Deliverer
There are references about
Original Sin (Janma bhandham)
and individual sin (Karma bhandham)
in Bhagavad-Gita.
And God delivers us from these
"I will deliver thee from all sins".
Krishna is not Vishnu
He has not sacrificed himself
He cannot release you from Janma
bandam
Nor
Karma bandham
Krishna is not the author of Bhagawat Geeta
All documentary evidence thus
suggest that both Saivism and
Vaishnavism
are the offshoots of
Early Indian Christianity
Six-fold religions based on Siva worship
Siva,
Sakthi,
Kumarakkatavul,
Pillaiyar,
Vishnu,
Brahma
and
Ayyappa.
Brahma is a
cheat and a lier
Discarded as
god
Siva's roots are from Isa
Isa
8th c A.D, Adi Sankara
amalgamated the Six-fold religions
Saivism, Vaishnavism, Saktham,
Gaumaram, Ganapathyam and Sauram,
by
using monism
and
the caste system
In the early period t
he Christians Churches of Kerala
has the same model as of Hindu temples,
Piravaom Church
Aranmula Temple