सर्व स्वरूपे ........all is one

...Well!!!!!!!!!just felt like writing something about the differences in hinduism regarding the approach to the supreme being!!!!

HINDUISM is divided into 5 principle sects on the basis of the deity to which it pays particular homage...these sects are...vaishnavism(honouring vishnu),shaivism(honouring shiva),shaktism(honouring mother goddess shakti),ganapatyism(devoted to the animal god ganesha),and sauryism(honouring the solar deity)..................................since ancient times there have been competitions amongst these five sects to prove the respective deity better than the others,often these duels would lead to bloodshed and loss of lives...........

........ultimately Adi shankaraacharya took the initiative of combining these 5 schools of practice into what is called the "panchaayatana pooja",the combined worship of the five deities at a single altar,keeping the favourite deity at the centre and the other 4 flanking him/her...............

............So why are these different deities each independently claimed to be supreme??????

..Well, hinduism gives an individual the opportunity to mould the ultimate according to his own conceptions....let the supreme being be imagined as pure luminescence..light.and the minds of the faithful be like coloured glass....those holding a red glass will see the light of red colour,those with a blue glass shall find it blue,yet the light remains colourless all the time......................similarly it is according to the conception of the devotees that the supreme takes on various names , forms and attributes.....the one that transcends the barriers of names ,forms and rituals...is framed in elaborate philosophic caricatures that help the weak hearted to come a little closer to the ultimate!!!!!!!!!!!

.....let the ultimate rule supreme.............

om namah shivay....

om shakti parashakti