Originally posted by: angel_juhi04
With the story you told only Om suits Shiv not other two brothers. I hope for other to brothers their alternate name of Shiv are just names not comparison with him otherwise it will be insult to God Shankar.
Actually I had made a post earlier as well, while Shivaaye, Omkara and Rudra all the three are the names of Shiv, but they are all different
Shivaaye is the form to which we pray and ask for some thing, We pray Om Namah Shivaaye, we feel that He is doing everything for us, similarly Shivaaye has been the backbone and the great wall of the family, people reach out to him for anything,
Omkara (actually Omkar) is absolute form of Shiv which is the beginning and the end of the universe, It (since its genderless) is the doer of all the actions and the also the recipient of all the consequences, it is a derivate of "Om" (the doer of Om) which is the ultimate dhwani for the universe (many scientist claim that the noise during the Big Bang was Om), similarly Omkara is shown to be the conscience of the three brothers, practically whatever others do is because of him (Shivaaye is divorcing Anika for him and Rudra had agreed to marry Sonia for him), he is one who is most affected by anything what happens in OM
Rudra is the angry form of God Shiv, its when He opens His third eye and everything in the vicinity is destroyed, although we are yet to see that face of Rudra, but we have had glimpses of the same
So the names do have some similarly and significance, but be it through the name or the analogues, they are clearly making Omkara (the absolute form of Shiv), most closely analogous the Shankar Bhagwan we know