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Lord Shiva - One of the Twelve Mahajanas
Lord Shiva is known as the greatest devotee of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. He is known as the best of all types of Vaishnavas
(vaishnavanam yatha shambhuh (Shrimad Bhagavatam 12.13.16)). Lord Shiva is a
great devotee of Lord Sankarshana. This is the reason why Lord Shiva is often
found in a chanting or meditating posture. He instructed the Prachetas about
how to glorify the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Narayana. This appears as
the celebrated Rudra-gita in the Shrimad-Bhagavatam canto 4, chapter 24. Shiva
is one of the twelve great personalities called as mahajanas, authorities in
preaching Krishna consciousness as stated in the Shrimad-Bhagavatam (6.3.20) by
Yamaraja to the Yamadutas:
svayambhur naradah shambhuh
kumarah kapilo manuh
prahlado janako bhishmo
balir vaiyasakir vayam
"Lord Brahma, Bhagavan Narada, Lord Shiva, the four Kumaras,
Lord Kapila (the son of Devahuti), Svayambhuva Manu, Prahlada Maharaja. Janaka
Maharaja, Grandfather Bhishma, Bali Maharaja, Shukadeva Gosvami and L myself
know the real religious principles." In the Padrna Parana, Lord Shiva
tells his wife Sati :
sri rama rama rameti rame rame manorame
sahasra namah tat
tulyarn rama nama varanane
Thus Lord Shiva himself gladly proclaims that he constantly
relishes chanting the holy name of Lord Rama.