And in the rest of the half, all the creatures of world and all deities including her wife Lakshmi lives!

In Bhagwata Purana also, there is a story about Lakshmi Devi's unhappiness with Vishnu because Vishnu told her that half area of his heart is dedicated to Lord Shiva only. If Krishna was Vishnu against who nothing will happen, why he said that 'Shive Sarvadhi Sadhike' means nothing happens without Shiva's will, so please bless me with son!! when the Mahabharata was about to be battled he asked Pandavas to have bliss of Shiva first and arranged a Pooja of Shiva Linga. Also when Krishna wanted to have a son, he asked sages and from their advice he prayed to Lord Shiva to get a son. In Krishna avatar when Krishna wanted to bring some tree Kalpa Vriksha from Indra, he worshiped Shiva for blessings and that is known as Gopeshwara Mahadeva in vrindavana meaning Ishwara (God) of Gopal (Krishna). If Lord is himself able to cut sins, can't he cut his own sins?

In Ramayana, when Lord Rama wanted to do Prashchatap because he considered killing Ravana as sin of killing a brahmana, he asked Hanumanji to organize to establish a Shiva Linga and asked again Shiva for mercy and to cut his sin. Now, Lord Rama established Shiva Linga when he was marching towards Lanka which is known as Rameshwara Mahadeva meaning Ishwar (God) of Rama. Brahma's son Daksha Prajapati was against Shiva because of this reason only. In this story Brahma lied that he reached beginning, So Shiva banned his worships in Hinduism, which is true. Vishnu traveled downwards to reach end and Brahma traveled upwards to reach beginning, but both of them failed and considered there is no end of Shiva and asked Shiva to guide them. When there was a dispute between Brahma and Vishnu about who is more supreme, at that time, Shiva appeared as Jyotirstambha and asked both of them to reach start and end of it. Shiva Purana says that Vishnu and Brahma were created from Aadi Anant JyotirStambha of Shiva. But if that is so, why does Vishnu worship Shiva in all of his incarnations, whereas Shiva never worships anybody? There is a difference between Bhagwata Purana and Shiva Purana:īhagwata Purana states that Vishnu is more supreme than Shiva, and from Vishnu, Brahma and by Brahma, Shiva was born.

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