Maybe it depends on the person Rama's dealing with. Shiva is calm with me, but I've known people he's been enraged with.
BTW, "Rama" means "branch" in Spanish. "Sita Rama" sounds to me like "quote branch". Anyway when I'm thinking of the god, I'm not thinking of a branch, so concentration helps. :)
LOL! I also had a vision once with Shiva and cobras. His intention was to get me rid of the fear of death. But it seems in your case Shiva was more violent! I think maybe he scared you so you go on with Rama.
Look I'm not Christian now, it's not my path, I won't write about my opinion and my experience in Christianity, but I will tell you first my way of thinking and second, what you can do as a Christian:
In one of my previous incarnations (I think it was in 1832) my wife died of tuberculosis and I...
What have been your experiences with Sita Ram and other Rama mantras?
Mine have been strange. I've recitated "Ram" in bed sometimes and twice Rama sent me to a forest in the astral plane to fight. "Do you want to be a warrior? Then you need training!" he said, wielding a sword (!). Very few...
My native tongue is Spanish and sometimes I had problems with Hinduism with some words and mantras... I asked forgiveness to the gods sometimes, because e.g. "Nama Shivaya" sounds like "nomás se vaya" (only let it go) or "Vasudevaya" sounds like "vaso de bayas" (glass of berries (!?) ), "Loka...
So far I didn't find any good info on the web about the "Hara Om" mantra (Hara = Shiva), only about "Hari Om" (Vishnu), does someone know the benefits of it?
I recently had a horrible experience with Christianity and to make the story short, I ended up putting Satan on my altar (the goat god). But after a few days I couldn't sleep and couldn't resist the mood he gave me. Let's say I got too much "yin".
This image represents well how I felt:
I...
I'm nowadays in a sui generis Christianity, but sometimes I feel I'm being guided by God/Great Spirit to Shamanism. Maybe because my Christianity has so many differences with the traditional one, that it's almost no Christianity!
But I end up always feeling uncomfortable praying/talking to...
Odin or Týr? Which one do you think is the Great Spirit?
Twice happened to me that I was in bed, tried repeating "Great Spirit, bless me" for a while and I saw a Tiwaz rune in yellow light with my eyes closed. It was clairvoyance; not a dream or imagination, but a Tiwaz of actual light while I...
But wouldn't Allah and God the Father be better associated to Brahma the Creator? The famous old god in the sky with the white beard? AFAIK the Paramatma is god within us.
Something odd happens to me with the Norse gods. Maybe because of a German great-grandfather, Odin gives me signs he wants to be with me. But the times I've tried to stay with Norse gods, the more time I stay with them and the more I miss Celtic things. Besides, once in trance I saw Freya and...
Whether you're a Satanist, a Kali devotee or a Setian, there's always that fact of having to worship (or relate to) some deity that is of a very different culture. In every path I was in, I found myself always with the same problem. I feel at home with the Celtic things, but I have to...
Do you think Santa Muerte is a dark aspect of the Virgin? Many images show Santa Muerte dressed just like Mary or even holding the dead Jesus.
What I mean is, maybe it's Mary the one who really acts when someone prays to Santa Muerte?