Why do some, under a “śāstriya darśana” pretext, dismiss basic facts such as that the religion of the Vedasam̐hitās was primarily or started off primarily as Aindra? See below: 👇🏾
Even Skandapurāṇa recognizes & alludes to this rather obvious fact, expressly linking the Ṛṣis’ stutis & vākyas (Brāhmaṇas) with Aindra worship.
This, of course, does not at all invalidate or render artificial or inauthentic later sampradāyas’ attempts to read Śiva- or Viṣṇu- paratvam into those mantras or Brāhmaṇa vākyas. The words of the Veda are latent with several meanings, waiting to be discovered.
The Ṛṣis’ “authorial intent” while seeing/composing that mantra represents just one of those latent meanings (which existed even before that Ṛṣi, waiting to manifest through the Ṛṣi’s mind & voice in the course of ‘real’ time).
Those who came later were privileged to see other meanings. And at the end of the day, there can be no doubt that we attained our civilizational peak under the aegis of the Āgamika forms of the Dharma, primarily the Śaiva & Vaiṣṇava ones.
We can accept the obvious fact of Aindra-Para beginnings without resorting to Indra-larping. We can go back to the perfect or near-perfect synthesis of the various strands of our Dharma achieved by the Āgamikas, while according Indra the respect he truly deserves.
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