Gandhaari??

As we all know that gandhaari was a great devotee of lord shiva... and he gave her a boon of 100 children to her...

rubbish...shiva end bad evil...doesn't mean he comes and everything ends...when shiva gave gandhari 100 sons she cud have given them ood principles and made hastinapur gr8 but no she let her lunatic bro influence her kids pampered them ignored their bad/shit behaviour so much so they stooped to the level of trying to disrobe a woman , if they cud maybe they wud have even attempted raping her had it not been for krishna saving the honour.

Originally posted by: shinningstar

rubbish...shiva end bad evil...doesn't mean he comes and everything ends...when shiva gave gandhari 100 sons she cud have given them ood principles and made hastinapur gr8 but no she let her lunatic bro influence her kids pampered them ignored their bad/shit behaviour so much so they stooped to the level of trying to disrobe a woman , if they cud maybe they wud have even attempted raping her had it not been for krishna saving the honour.

its not shiva's fault to have given her 100 sons but her own fault for having raised hyenas.

as for krishna he was cursed by gandhari and he knew the end was sure so he asked his best friend lord shiva to have a son like him through whom the end would come. how is that shiva's fault

if we have to think of boons given by shiva then y not bhagirath who brought ganga to earth to cleanse the evil and bring purity.

shiva gives what we ask. after we get the boon whether we turn it into a bane or not is our thing not shiva's.

the thing is ...shiva is the most bhola and can be easily pleased...hence all the evil ones go to him to get their boons...they know that vishnu is smart and will give them boons with super loopholes, or not give it to the wrong ones more like strict parent, where shiva is the sweet parent who gives in to his child's love tantrums.

Ashwathama was also begotten after boon from shiva, he is an amsh of rudra. And he made sure eveey single one of paneava progenies die and all women become barren.

thts wat i don't understand...after getting boons from shiva...do these ppl go nuts or something...y misuse it. Ashwathama was not an ansh of shiva ...he was a boon tht drona got as a son. doesn't make him ansh .

our shiva is so innocent and free from prejudice! though I am not much knowledgable person abt mythology but he granted wish without any partiality. he saw good in everyone. while vishnu is a tricky god(and really clever) .I don't remember him giving boons. that's why I find his krishna avatar more closer to his divine personality. one thing I really admire abt both gods is the mutual respect they have for each other. btw I don't know but I find that it was always vishnu avatar who incarnated to lessen earth burden mostly but then why shiva is called destroyer?

Originally posted by: gupta.aditi20

hey .. its not that i have offended lord shiva... i too am a devotee of krishna... but shastras say bhramha is the creater... vishnu the interpreter .. and then shiva the destroyer...

like a life cycle... one takes birth.. then lives and then goes... and shiva is the one to give moksha.. which is the ultimate achievement and for which we humans take so many births...

and i was only asking phlosophically...

shiva give boons... but ultimately it becomes one of the things for destruction and start of something new...

you can take history ... in ramayana too.. the boons given to raavana.. leads to destruction... but ultimately he too achieves the moksha...

in mahabharat too... though kauravs cause all the destruction and were the cause or instruments in kurkshetra war.. but they did caused destruction and it is written in shashtras that they too achieved moksha!!!

i am just saying its all god everywhere.. and all the things he does means something...

Originally posted by: shinningstar

thts wat i don't understand...after getting boons from shiva...do these ppl go nuts or something...y misuse it. Ashwathama was not an ansh of shiva ...he was a boon tht drona got as a son. doesn't make him ansh .

while we at the topic of ansh ...what i don't understand is evensome of the anshs of shiva like jalandhar (tulsi's husband), andhak who were the the ansh of shiva too misused the powers man...really shows tht power is a dangerous thing ppl go crazy, blind and out of control with it leading to their own destruction

for me ansh is incarnation of shiva...because only an incarnation of the lord is a as pure as the lord...anything else has impurity mixed hence the problems-like andhak ,jalandhar ,ashwathama etc for me these are not ansh as they had demonic qualities though they arose from shiva or his boon.