Rama vs Shiva

• People recently I went to Rameshwaram and have been wanting to write a small write up.
• I wanted to visit inside the temple but could not.
• I went upto Dhanushkodi as far as the vehicle goes and turned around.
• On that road we saw ocean and water on both sides.
• One side water was sea blue colour and other side it was turquoise green.
• Almost same case was on Pamban bridge. The bridge on the ocean. One side blue water and other side was green water. Rail bridge was also visible from the road bridge.
  
• The question about the temple.
• Did some research and found out that the temple is "Ramanathaswamy temple". It is a Shiva temple.
• It comes as 12 Jyotirlingas which are the prominent Shiva destinations for the devotees which as as under (Source)
• Somnath in Gujarat (1)
  
• Mallikarjuna at Srisailam in Andhra Pradesh (2)
  
• Mahakaleswar at Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh (3)
  
• Omkareshwar in Madhya Pradesh (4)
  
• Kedarnath in Uttrakhand (5)
  
• Bhimashankar at Pune in Maharashtra (6)
  
• Viswanath at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh (7)
  
• Tryambakeshwar at Nashik in Maharashtra (8)
  
• Vaijyanath Temple in Deoghar District of Jharkhand (9)
  
• Aundha Nagnath at Aundha in Hingoli District in Maharashtra (10)
  
• Rameshwar at Rameshwaram in Tamil Nadu (11)
  
• Grushneshwar at Ellora near Aurangabad, in Maharashtra.(12)
•  As a matter of fact Rameshwaram also classifies as "Char Dham" which means the 4 holiest places for Narayan or Vishnu Bhakts which as below :(Source)
• (1) Dham of Satyuga- Badrinath, Uttarakhand 
• (2) Dham of Tretayuga -Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu 
• (3) Dham of Dwaparayuga - Dvaraka, Gujarat 
• (4) Dham of Kaliyuga - Jagannatha Puri, Odisha.
• Now Rameshwaram is a unique place which qualifies both as 12 Jyotirlings as well as 4 Dham.
• But Rameshwaram temple is a Shiva temple where is Vishnu temple as main deity in Rameshwaram. That is the question. 
• So now a small write up I found in Wikipedia came to my notice. I know Wikipedia has its shortcomings as one could edit it as many times as one wants. But one also quotes the sources in Wikipedia and that is important. First the writeup as below:
• In the Puranas Hari (Vishnu) and Hara (Shiva) are referred as eternal friends. It is said wherever Lord Vishnu resides, Lord Shiva resides nearby. The Char Dham follows this rule. So Kedarnath is considered as the pair of Badrinath, Rama Setu is considered the pair of Rameswaram, Somnath is considered as the pair of Dwaraka and Lingaraja is considered the pair of Jagannatha Puri. However, according to some traditions, the Char Dham are Badrinath, Ranganatha-Swami, Dwaraka and Jagannatha-Puri, all of which are Vaishnava sites, and their associated places are Kedarnath, Rameswaram, Somnath and Lingaraja Temple, Bhubaneswar (or maybe Gupteshwar) respectively.
• As per the above write up since Rameshwaram temple is Shiva temple it cannot technically be a Char Dham. So Ranganathaswamy temple near Trichy is the Vishnu temple which can qualify as Char Dham.
• The fact that Vishnu and Shiva are so closely related will defeat Isckon and their devotees including new so called "Hinduism adopters".
• Related fact is one can only be born as Hindu one cannot became Hindu by conversion.
• Only one who was born as Hindu and went to another religion can return back as Hindu also called "Ghar Wapsi" or return to ones roots.
• One who was born into another religion can never ever become Hindu. And that is a fact.
• Maybe a woman can become Hindu after marriage if she is of other religion. But that is not compulsory as Hinduism is a very lenient religion. 
• But what I meant by "new Hinduism adopters" or "Iskcon devotees" is they consider the "Supreme Personality of God head" as Vishnu or Narayan or the Ten Avatars of Vishnu
• And they totally ignore Shiva.
• The fact is there is no Vishnu without Shiva and Shiva without Vishnu.
• The fact of the theory that there is only one God (Monotheism) is defeated once one understands the relationship between Shiva and Vishnu (or Rama).
• Here, people will always land in confusion especially the people of Tamil Nadu.
• There is a scene in the movie Ponniyin Selvan movie where the hero asks the Pandit as who is greater Shiva or Vishnu and there is no clear answer.
• That is a mystery no one can ever solve.
• And here the so called "proponents of Hinduism" get defeated.
• Even Hanuman is called as Avatar of Lord Shiva.
• And in several photos they have shown Hanuman at the feet of Lord Rama.
  
• But in Rameshwaram, Lord Rama prays to Lord Shiva as he had committed a sin of killing a brahmin king Ravana Source
• So those who follow Hinduism blindly should know that there is no "one God" in Hinduism.
• There are at least "two Gods" Ram and Shiva.
• There is third God Brahma and who is not to prayed to.
• And there is a story behind that too. Why Brahma is not worshipped
• So those people who think that they will worship only Vishnu or Narayana or Rama and are saved are never are.
• They have to give up the concept of "one God" and keep belief in Shiva to survive in Hinduism.
• And they have to worship others as well, Gods like Ganesha, Murugan, Ayappan and Durga amd Hanuman for which there are separate festivals and temples. They are also known as "demi-gods".
• Okay we can say they are demi gods but we cannot say Shiva as demi God. That would be a sacrilege  to some. Is Lord Shiva a Demi-God