Is there a difference between Shiva and Krishna? || Acharya Prashant (2016)

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Is there a difference between Shiva and Krishna? || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Questioner (Q): What is the difference between Shiva and Krishna? What is the symbolic difference?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Shiva is more fundamental than Krishna.

Krishna contains a lot of both Shiva and Shakti. So unless you are watchful, you will get confused. Shiva is simple and pure. Shiva has the benefit of just being Shiva, with Shakti expressed totally as a different entity, which though emanating from Shiva, yet is very different from Shiva.

In Krishna, you find Shiva and Shakti both and you do not know which is which; you do not know what is what.

Q: So, Shakti is more into the world…

AP: Yes.

Shiva is pure stillness. In Krishna, you see both stillness and dance.

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