Bethel to Benares - Kasi Viswanath Temple & Its Biblical Connections: In 2011, I made a video about Varanasi and uploaded it in YouTube (youtu.be/JE_KdQBCHNw). During my recent visit to Kashi Viswanath Temple, I noticed the following: 1. There is no statue of Shiva in the temple complex; one could see only a Linga (a replica of the Pillar of fire (Joythilingam), with which God was leading the Israelites at night. 2. The devotees take a glass of milk to anoint the linga in the similar fashion Jacob was anointing the stone with oil on his return journey at Bethel, wherein he had the dream of angels ascending and descending from heaven. 3. Those who anoint the Pillar of Fire (Jyothilingam) has to garland themselves with madar flower. The mortal remains of a bachelor are garlanded with garland made of Madar flowers. Madar symbolizes the death of a person. Similarly, the devotee garlands himself with garland of Madar flowers only to symbolically go through the death of the Old Adam in oneself and attain Dvij (Twice born) and restore one’s Swadharma (natural and original state of creation), by becoming Immanuel Conscious. From this itself, one can understand that Saivaism is an off-shoot of Manichaeism [Manichaeism was a Gnostic faith with combination of Vedic religion (Zoroastrian), Buddhism, Christianity, and other pagan religions of the Greek, Babylonian and the Egyptian]. To know more about the Divine Lingas, please visit my Photo Album at: https://facebook/ravikumar.stephen/media_set?set=a.10151994557240476.510896.617495475&type=3 Diane Rousseau Ph D / Ashtar-Athena SherAn / Ishwara Devi / Anita Hedal Mary / Penelope Becker / Bob Hungerman / B Hella Hellmunt / Bede Griffiths Sangha Brasil / BrotherThomas Chennai / Cynthia Stephen / Ralph Garlin Clingan / Alex Harris / Catriona Macleod / Director J Ramesh / Elizabeth Marin / Brigitte Elerick / Iks Shantidevi / Ivan Silovic / Interfaith Coordinator / Ingenorg Strålberg / James Chellappa / Karin Johansen / Somphong Khunakaro / Deva Evu Lawrie / Divine Love / Marcos Monteiro Monteiro / Emmanuel Vajra Nguyen / Melody Lyons Newlun / Rama Devi Nina Marshall / Ragnar Mats Rune Oborn / Oxana Buschmina / Lawrance Prabhahar / Stephen Prince / Sudheer Raj / Joice van Dulken /
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