hare krishna to one and all devotees
is lord shiva is the devotee of lord krishna as i have heard it from any other devotee
so if he is a pure devotee so we have to worship him or not
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Hare Krishna, Prabhuji!!! Shiva is a great devotee of Shri Hari and he is always engaged in His service. He assisted Lord in successfully performing His pastime in his incarnation as Bhakt Hanuman. When Krishna played flute and danced with gopis, Shiva was so attracted that he took the form of a gopi to join the Rasa-leela. Shiva is param-gyani since he always meditates on Krishna, the Supreme Truth and he is a protector of all devotees of Krishna!!! Hope, the conversation below will be helpful-
(ROOM CONVERSTATION, CHICAGO, 9TH JULY 1975)
Devotee: Shrila Prabhupada, in Winnipeg there is one very pious east Indian man who for many years has been worshiping somewhat, worshiping Lord Siva. And his wife is also a very quite chaste woman and sincere follower—and so were her parents—of Lord Siva. And he is reading your Bhagavad-gita. He visits our
temple. And I have given him the first volume of Canto Four which discusses Lord Siva a great deal. And he has read in one of your purports that Krishna is more pleased when you worship His devotee than when you worship Him directly. And Lord Siva is a very great devotee of Krishna. So he has now interpreted that
to mean that if he worships Lord Siva so nicely, then actually he is pleasing Krishna more. So he is experiencing some difficulty because of this and I'm not quite sure how to instruct him that actually...
Prabhupada: Difficulty?
Brahmananda: That... Our Godbrother has difficulty in replying to this interpretation that Krishna says, "You can please Me by worshiping My devotee," and Lord Siva is the devotee of Krishna. So therefore this man says, "Then I shall worship Lord Siva. In that way I shall please Krishna."
Prabhupada: But if he accepts Lord Siva is devotee of Krishna, then by worshiping Lord Siva he will be benefited. If he thinks Lord Siva is independent, then he will not be benefited.
Devotee (3): I've got him to accept that Lord Siva is devotee of Krishna, but there's no practical instruction in his worldly activities coming.
Prabhupada: No, vaishnavanam yatha sambhuh: "Amongst the Vaishnavas, Sambhu, Lord Siva, is the greatest Vaishnava." So we worship Lord Siva as Vaishnava. We gives respect to Vaishnavas. So why not Lord Siva? Lord Siva is a big Vaishnava. But generally, the devotees of Lord Siva, they take Lord Siva is independent God. That is offensive. If you know that Lord Siva is also a devotee, you can give more respect to Lord Siva. Krishna will be pleased. Devotee (3): Shrila Prabhupada, he does not chant Hare Krishna, he chants Om Namah Shivaya
Prabhupada: That's all right.
Devotee (3): It's all right?
Prabhupada: He will gradually become devotee. When God, Lord Siva, will be pleased upon him, he will advise to worship.
Devotee (3): He is already trying to tell him to follow in your footsteps surely, so just before I left he said he will try once again to chant sixteen rounds of japa, Hare Krishna. He has tried already. He has a taste for...
Prabhupada: If he simply understands that Lord Siva is a Vaishnava and if he worships Lord Siva, then he will get the benefit.
Hare Krishna raghav andotra prabhu
yes Lord Shiva is described as top most devotee of Krishna in all scriptures like Srimad Bhagwatam, Ramayan etc. He himself always meditate to Krishna and worship Him. Lord Shiva and all demiGods like Brahma, Ganesh, Indra etc are totally dependent on Krishna for all their energy. Krishna is the root of everything. So srimad Bhagwatam suggests us to water the root only ,there is no need to satisfy other DemiGods individually .By only serving Krishna we can satisfy everybody.
yes for getting advancement in Devotional service towards Krishna, we can worship Lord Shiva.Since he is topmost Vaishnava he can definitely help us in Bhakti.But he must be considered a superior Vaishnava not God. Neither we should worship him for getting material benefits.
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