have to say the Hindu community is the most peaceful and loving , I have visted some temples , I love going .

Shiva is infinity, eternal core energy ⚡.

I have leaned so much from Dr Nick Sutton and it’s very validating for me about Shiva and my own personal Journey🙏

He is telling the truth , even in ramayana even lord Ram prayed shiva

Om nama sivaya ..iam hinduism java indonesia..

Commenters here please don't jump to conclusions, he speaks facts and he is a true Hindu. Only people who understand truth can understand and experience God

Dr. Sutton's lectures are always enlightening and deeply interesting.

Im a Shaivite scholar and devotee in the Philippines. Aum Namah Shivaya Bum Shiva Har Har Ganja Shivoham Shivoham

I am mathali Brahmin in our community during month of sawon newly married couple are taught how to live there married Life with the story of Shiv and Parvati

Proud to be the shaivism community🕉️

Beautiful lecture on Shaivism, I enjoyed this lecture and learned a lot. I am from Tamil Nadu and I am familiar with most of the things he said but still so much to learn.

Nepal has a strong Shaivite traditiin. Jai Lord Pasupatinath

Father of Shiva is Brahma , Father of Brahma is Vishnu , and father of Vishnu is Shiva . so Shiva is everything. it is eternal. as you can see that is is circle of Shiva , Vishnu and Brahma is a circle. so in a sense all are same without any starting point or any end. Take in any order Shiva is his own grandfather. So Shiva is supreme in Shiva Purana and Vishnu is supreme in Vishnu Purana. so it really does not matter who is supreme and who is not.

Goosebumps to hear from him about Sundaramoorthi, Thirugnaana Sbandhar etc... What a lecturer he is.. salute!

Excellent presentation on Shaivism. Dr. Sutton is a real scholar. I agree with most of the things he said about Tamil Shaivites. I am one of them In Hindu temples in Tamil Nadu, the Vaishnava priests (iyengars)normally would not do any service to Nataraja (Shiva) but the smarta brahmin priests ( Iyer) would not mind doing pujas to any deity in the temple.The Smarta tradition rejects theistic sectarianism. I also agree with Dr.Sutton that in Noth India people are not familiar with Shaivism as in South India. Of course, the Kashi Vishwanath temple is an exception. There are more temples for Shiva in South India than any other part of India. Shaivism is not that popular in North India for whatever reason, Islamic invasion or something else. In early 7th century the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang (Huen Tsang) visited India and wrote a memoir in Chinese that mentions the prevalence of Shiva temples all over North Indian subcontinent, including in the Hindu Kush region such as Nurista. .

I'm following "Shaivism"

For all the followers of Hindu teachings and philosophy and for the world....worship of God in the form of Brahma and Vishnu can only bring you worldly benefits...knowledge and wealth. Only Shiva as supreme can give liberation to the soul. Wealth and knowledge all bring delusion and finally the soul will have to seek its liberation . Do not be tied down by form and name...God is beyond all that. The lessons of all Hindu teachings is to finally worship Shiva...the master of your soul.

Late Yogi Gorakhnath of Gorakhpur mentioned @ 24.45 mins is now famous; as the present popular Chief Minister of UP is ( & present head of the same Temple ); is Yogi Adityanath; Thanks for the brilliant talk.You deserve a Bharat Ratna Award for all your numerous lectures; I have heard.( Most enlightening ) .God Bless You.

always awesome to hear Nick speak

This is the second talk by Dr.Sutton I have listened to and really enjoyed it. It’s been a great learning and his knowledge and passion really comes through. I see there was a long break in videos being posted and they seem to have resumed now?? Hope we get to see more these! Thanks.

Admirable knowledge about Hinduism!

I am impressed by Dr Sutton. Thank you for the informative lecture.

My god sir, how informed are you. cant wrap my mind around it

Dr.Nick Sutton it seems to me that u indeed are verily' de 🎉 chosen child of Shivohum just sing it with luv ❤ x2. . . 😢 Shiva is de infinity of Sky encompassing de divine space

I am Neither the body Nor the mind I am neither the spirit Nor life I am Neither existant Nor extinct I am Neither the holy Nor the unholy I am Neither created Nor designed I am Neither here Nor there I am neither the universe Nor a galaxy you can find I am Neither hate Nor love benign I am Neither the anger Nor joy, hidden from the eyes I am Neither misery Nor a defiant monk, somewhere in the wild I am Neither kind Nor cruelty defined I am neither the atom Nor am I fathomable, to your mind I am The soul I live beyond The dimensions You've defined I am Everywhere Yet nowhere I am Incomprehensible I am Beyond time I am Truth I am Bliss I am Ecstasy I am what I am I am Sada Shiva By just a Indian who is from the North... Cheers.. Jai Shiv Shambhu🕉️ Jai Bhole Nath🔱 Har Har Mahadev 🚩 Edit: Shaivism is strong in Himachal Pradesh...which is almost the northern most part of india... Gujrat is not in north india... It is in west india... P.S: LINGAM DOES NOT mean a falice... LINGAM is supposed to signify the nature of Shiva... Shiva embodied is not truly Shiva and that is why a LINGAM is used istead...

Great lecture on Sanatana Dharma

loved this lecture .

Beautiful discission... just like to put my take on shivas 3rd eye opening.. its unstoppable power turns the offender into 'bhasma'(ash), which is to say turns him pure, free of sins and ready for the new cycle of life, as is very characteristics of shiva.

I don't think there exists in Hinduism anymore "tension" on accunt of the competing concepts of worship around Shiva and Vishnu. Now the Saivites and Vaishnavitesn Tamilnadu have come to bury their old hatchets, and united to believe in the oneness of God in the Hindu Triumvirates - Brahma-Vishnu and Shiva. I have visited several temples of Trimurthis, and Shankaranarayana in the South india.

We hindu never seen vishnu shiva and brahma differently

I adore you. Not many tamilians has knowledge of yours. ❤❤❤❤

u speak with pure heart.#devotion

Randhir Singh , right and also we the human ,the most inteligent creature in earth are also not enough to understand who is the supreme of this universe other than GOD.

Nice. Good job Sutton sir

Proud Saiva Hindu, respecting our Vaishnava and Shakti brothers/sisters.

I feel so very enlightened. Ive been wanting to attend one of these sermons by Nick for a long long time. How do I know when and where the next one is ? Help ?

The great scholar who is still undisputed who is also an avatar known by all as shankaracharya clearly wrote that both vishnu and shiva is the same and its like setting sun and rising sun only reflects different to human. Those who see difference in vishnu and shiva is due to lack of knowledge. All knew that advaitha vendanta ie nonduality is the only reality

Narayana (Vishnu) is also worshipped in salagrama form as well as murti form

Every thing came from VEDA. Veda is 100% science, history etc etc. In it you can see all the subjects that we studies in any University. [ Including method of manufacture of rocket, structure of atom, structure of Universe etc]. All the Nobel prizes were given to those subjects which were given in Vedas. It is not easy for common man to follow science. So they wrote it in story form in Puranasa. Thus science terms in Vedas, become characters in Puranas. Here RUDRA in VEDA, became SIVA in Puranas. WE are now going behind these stories and its characters. I wrote 12 books named Kaliyugapuranam which explains VEDA PURANOPANISHEDS mostly on the basis of modern science. Publishing or revealing such things to the world is not easy for a single person. Dear Friends, Don't go behind these stories and its characters. These are STORIES. It is a story form of presentation of Science, history etc etc in VEDAS. The scientific world is misguided by Indian Vedic teachers who taught foreign scholars. Behind these stories there is may science principles. These are not SPIRITUAL THINGS. Those who failed to understand these things, covered all these by the blanket of SPIRITUALITY.

Very great nick

great lecture.

Fascinating. Thanks

Unknowingly, u are indeed ! 😅 i feel strongly, u are returning Britains debt to india verily so❤

Awesome explaination Sir

Accha laga ki ek videshi aadmi, mahadev shiv , shaiva pant evam swetasvatara upnishad varnan kar raha hai.🙏💧🌿

great lecture , most of us ( hindus) forget great traditions of vedic school of thought preached in upanishads, and agmas great works by religious teachers from kashmir to kanyakumari ( like , lakulisa, somanada, utpaladeva, adi shankara , vidyaranya, abhinava guptha, basavanna, mekandwar, thirumalar and many more, sri kanta ) now most of us believe hinduisam is only myth like ( puranas) and history of ramayana and bharatam there are 208 saiva agamas and 108 shakthi thantras most of them lost in the destruction of universities like nalanda and taxila by muslims . now science and scholars across the world is looking to hinduisam and praising it only by the study of great works in kashmiri saivam and pasupatha saivam and other great agamas university of pondicherry is now collecting all the works of great saints from Nepal , India and from Bhutan i hope in future we again got our lost knowledge and think beyond myth and ithihasa understand true philosophy of upanishads as ( aham brahmasmi, tatwam asi, ayam atma brahma, sivam santam advaitam) and lead the world in to peace

Anbe Shivam (Love is Shiva, Love is God)! Sathyam Shivam Sundaram! (Truth is shivam & Beauty is Shivam & Infinite bliss is Shivam). Lord of Meditation! Hariyum Shivamum onru ariyathavan vayil mannu (Shiva & Vishnu are the same, if one does not understand, that one ignorent enough to have mud in his mouth). Saivaites are more moderate but vaishnavaites are fanatics.

You are great sir.

in ramayana lord rama worshiped lord shiva at rameswaram.in bhagbad gita lord krishna says among 12 rudras i am the shiba

Wonderful lecture sir. Plz read Appaih Dikshitendra's works on Shiva. And if you have already, plz give lectures on the same. Thank you.

Om Namah Shivay

Very good and nice presentation.

एको रुद्रो न द्वितीयाय तस्यु:।

Jai Shiv Shankar

Vishnu prays - Shiva Shiva prays - Vishnu In Ramayan even Ram worshipped - Shiva

Gorakar is one among the 18 sidthars. The student of Bogar(main speciality is alchemy ). Bogar built navapashana murugar(converted 9poisonous substance and made it into purest form of medicine, the murugan idol). And Bogar attained jeeva samadhi in pazhani. And told korakar to attain jeeva samadhi(making his consciousness one with light and leaving the body) in vadapoigainallur in nagapattinam district of tamilnadu.

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You will never get anywhere near Hinduism by mere reading the scriptures; you may even get confused instead of getting any clarity! Three minimum steps are prescribed to conduct your spiritual journey: (i) "sravana", i.e., hearing or studying coupled with assimilation of spiritual truths; (ii) manana, i.e., critical evaluation of what is heard, which is a mental process; and (iii) nididhyaasana (dhyaana), i.e., deep contemplation or, say, meditation. These three are indispensable steps. Once you take your first step, all blessings will come from within, and also the strength needed to take future steps!! There is no such thing as "ENLIGHTENMENT WITHIN A WEEK", which is being offered by some QUACKS in USA and a few Western countries.

Very knowledgeable person

#Om_namah_shivaya...

Many arguing here r Silly. What they don't understand or realise it, is that it's the Brahman who is the One ultimate atma among whom we all reside . 🔖But Hindus have various denominations. Its Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism, Shaktism etc. *** Depending upon which one you are following, the Brahman is defined selectively. Brahman becomes Vishnu in Vaishnavism. Shiva in Shaivism. Kali or Durga in Shaktism. Etc.

Even in ramayan lord ram installed a lingam called ram nath and worshipped shiva before going to the war with Ravan

If whole world Hindus no more wars no more terrorism

Sir 🙏🙏🙏 thank you

Shiva and Kali worshippers will take care of the taurean prethas. Har Har prethanath. Har Har boothanath.

Om

Shiva was originally a Dravidian deity as seen in the proto Shiva in the 'Pashupati Seal' of the Indus Valley Civilization.

Professor another correction for you , I am kashmir Hindu and Kashmiri Shaivism is alive . It’s still exist and just not about tamtra. Sharda Peeth , adobe of Sharda Devi is kashmir and In Hinduism the prayer start with Prayer to ma Sharda . The first reference to peeth at kashmir

Hinduism is the oldest religion and the best ❤️👍🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️👍🙏😘🇮🇳🇮🇳

AUM or OM is the combination of the trimurthis beegakashara ..... vishnu and shiva are not different but 1, because when bhrama was arguing with vishnu on who is superior and when the met shiva later according to the purana shiva says u both are from me born from my energy we are 3 but one ....the forms where taken in order to maintain the balance of the creation and perform an induvidual duties /maya /wonders

Very nice.

The reason a shavist never say he is a shavist because the sri vishnu is shiva himself "namah girishaya cha shipivisthay cha" salutation to god of mountains and god who is the form of vishnu. You know people come to shiva by themselves he don't need any conscious moments etc may sri Rudra bless you.

12:29 - Somnath Temple, Gujarat.

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nice information

Shiva in Upanishads mean Ultimate truth or Bliss. The Shaivism is offspring of this to common man in Pauranik who finds it difficult to understand the philosophical stand point. For Advait Vedantic Vishnu and Shiva are they all are same, but different manifestations. Its like looking at same elephant from different angles.

Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, when asked if He was a composite of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, he said no, that they were his Managers, and He was the Proprietor of everything, meaning that all consciousness, including the eternal witness is centered in Him. However when we speak as Hindus we must keep in mind that all is maya or delusion to be understood as real but unreal and unreal at the same time

Vedic scriptures couldn't be understood single hand.....We have to go to a self realized spiritual master... otherwise it's all theory n jugulary of words....and in the mist we r lost Haribol 🙌 GAURPREMANANDEEEE 🙌

Being a kashmiri pandit I can confirm what u were saying about us and it is almost lost now . Thanks to Islamic invasion.

1:04:00 Thats why Pashupatinath Temple still had south indian priests

Okay thanks

What is there in the book was gain through mind and dyan. Book is there for those mind that struggle and to guide them ,but it's not necessary to be followed. You can also do that on your own like rishi's has done. Remember the eklavya story he didn't have a guru who guided him, it was his determination,hardwork, and devotion.

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Please link to the books that guest lecturers reference in videos!

There is a similar war in Andhra Pradesh also sir ! But its during british empire between vasihnavaite and shivites - Its palanadu

Sari man aap kon se des k ho

Shiva and Shivani are represented in the form of two inverted triangles as in Abrahamic religion. Adi Sankara describes Shivani as sitting on Shiva seat in soundarya Laharj ( Shivakare Manche Parama Siva paryanka Nilayam). This is nothing but two dimensional form of Shiva Linga. This form also refers to represent tetrahedron (fire) and octahedron ( air ) as per Plato ‘s two of panchabhuta. After a while water pot is kept above linga to represent water. The linga is installed on earth. A hole is made on Gopuram to represent sky directly. Thus Shiva is known as Bhutanatha.

Sir , what was de true. Cause of the closure & deserted site of de Kashmir's Shaivism 😢 Centre of (mr abhinav gupta).

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Have just started listening, also seen many comments here. My humble take on exclusively saivism followers in tamilnadu: it's true that smarthas (iyers) worship vishnu as well, but they do identify themselves as predominantly shiva followers thru how they adorn their forehead: with a vibhuti pattai rather than a thirumann naamam. If this be accepted as membership of saivism, I would bet they easily outnumber vaishnavites. The point being, how the murthi's of siva and vishnu themselves are depicted, is how the devotee identifies himself.

Eko devo nityah Narayanah na brahmaa na ishana (Mahopanishad)

Silly question, but may be a profound one: is it ok to chant Om Namah Shivaya and Hare Krishna as well as others like the Gayatri Mantra?

Ksmasutra temple is temple of test to overcome lust. That's why they are outside of the temple not inside.

In density of Shiva Temples, South have more density of temples then North. Also South has few Sri Krishna Temples We have Venkateshwara or Balaji Temples,...

There are roughly equal situations where either Lord Vishnu or Lord Siva are extrolled as the one supreme deity if we consider all Scriptures That said, Lord Siva/ Rudra is arguably the older God Vaishnava puranas also treats Siva as a partial but important expansion of Vishnu Similar to the Saivaite puranas

the concept of shiva and shakti are far early than vedic or aryan invation in indian subcontinent........it dates back to indus valley civilization where we see shiva as pashupati and we find clues about an ultimate mother or shakti..........

Neither shiva nor vishnu is the supreme. The supreme diety is the goddess(formless ofcourse), shiva meditated so long to be the next manifestation in a different form. All the world, matter, motion and mind comes from there.

a sect of yogis....titled as Nath. belongs to shaiva tradition. their gotra is also shiva gotra....though its true that in north india social and financial status as well as number and modern education is not possess by them....and the sect of shaivism has became unpopular...... I belong to that sect of Nath yogis..

There is no such a thing as superiority of SHIVAISM OVER VAISNAVISM AND VICE VERSA type of certain cult is meant for different level of UNDERSTANDING and maturity.

Your knowledge about Shiv is commendable But one thing that uave missed is that all Hindu deities including Brahmaa, Vishnu and Shiva are products of mythology hence it's difficult to correlate them with the Supreme or the ultimate reality.Kalidas, in his epic entitled 'Kumar Sambhav' has described how Shiva failed to promote his progeny through Parvati.