The primordial deity is Sastha - Part 1
It is a scientific fact that humans have lived in groups on this earth for 200,000 years. Before that, they may have lived as apes and ape-men for several million years.
When humans adopted social behaviour and learned to coexist, they witnessed how their anger led to their destruction. Even today, we can see that the reason for the destruction of ape communities is their uncontrollable anger. In the human communities that sought to prevent this destruction, an enlightened being created a system or process cycle to punish and control, and that is Dharma Sastha.
It can be interpreted as one who wields a weapon and rules/protects!!!
There are armed Sastha idols/worship practices all over the world.
For example, Mount Shasta is located in North America. Sastha worship has existed here from the time of the Native American tribes to the present day (for several million years). The methods have changed, but the deity remains the same!!
Sastha exists in all tribal systems/religions (Asian, Indian, Pacific, Maori/Australian Aboriginal, African, South American/Mayan/Aztec, Red Indian/Native American, Pagan/European, Russian)
Hawaiian
Pacific Islands
South American/Amazon
Polynesian
Easter Islands
Native Indian/Red Indian
Pagan
Australian Aboriginal
Egyptian (Ra - sun god)
Asian/Indian - Mohenjo-daro
Hindu tribal god/community saviour
At the time of the formation of the Hindu religious community, there must have been many contradictions, because Jainism, Vedic and tribal (approximately 10,000 tribes) Hindu traditions have undergone changes through acceptance and rejection. For example, old Jainism did not accept many practices of the Hindu system, including animal sacrifice.
Not all aspects of today's Hinduism originated solely from Shaivite or spiritual practices.
When the true meaning of the deity was understood through many transformations, the Dharma Sastha and Manikanta Swamy that we see today emerged. The Hindu religious system neither rejects the primordial deity Shasta, like the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism), nor accepts him without change. Shasta is constantly transforming before our eyes, along with the civilizational development of human life. The Puranas depict these 200,000 years of transformations as Shasta's many incarnations. For him, the Lord of the Ganas (celestial beings), the host of Ganas has only increased, not decreased.
This is the fundamental characteristic of Hindu Sanatana Dharma.
Today, when we worship Dharma Shasta along with other attendant deities, we remember this continuous spiritual journey.
No matter how much we have grown, just as we appear as children to our parents, he simultaneously appears wielding a sword and as a great sage.
Western religions criticize the worship of Shasta as devil worship, attempting to conceal its scientific nature.
Scientific/science-oriented religious systems neither conceal what happened in the past at every stage, nor deny contemporary life.
Even though the aforementioned armed, many ancient religious systems (Red Indian, South American, Australian Aboriginal, European Pagan, ethnic African, Pacific Islander) were destroyed, the Hindu society has absorbed the essence of those religions within itself and moves forward, adapting to contemporary life.
This is why it is eternal and Sanatana.
Advaita Vedanta declares/explains this as various levels of Brahman or Jiva or life.
This is the foundation of divine life!!!
Hari Om, Tat Tvam Asi, Shivoham
(To be continued)
