Question

shiva eassy paragraph about 100 words

Answer 1

Shiva is the most difficult of the ‘Holy Trinity’ to describe. His character is the most complex amongst the three aspects of the ‘Unmanifest Supreme Lord’. He is at once merciful and dreadful — most benevolent and most ruthless when angry. He is attired in just a tiger skin with snakes round his neck and arms — a necklace of human skulls and another of his favourite bead Rudraksha — His body is covered with ash.


His hair is in matted strands and hangs down to his chest — but also has it piled up on top of his head in a ‘jatta’ on which rests the moon (on the left side). The sacred river Ganga falls on his head from the heavens and then flows down to the earth. He visits the cremation grounds and has ghosts and spirits as his entourage.

He dances the ‘Tandav’ when angry — a dance that can destroy the entire world and even the Universe. His third eye in the middle of the eyebrows can burn anything and anyone — when opened in anger. This angry aspect is named ‘rudra’ synonymous with the name of the child that came out of the forehead of Brahma when he was very annoyed with the four rishis — Sanskra, Sanayatak, Sankada and Sanat Kumar for not appearing to populate the world.

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This aspect is awesome but being a part of the ‘Unmanifest Supreme Lord’ He cannot be divorced from the benevolence of ‘Ishwar’. The real meaning of ‘Rudra’ is to relieve from sorrows. Perhaps death is a release from all sorrows of life and living, hence the name.

The Aryan mind did create the destroyer in the form of Shiva, but they could not take away the Godliness from him, otherwise he would be wholly evil — which no aspect of the Almighty can be — as the paramount nature of God is merciful and loving and yet in the nature of things what has been created must have an end and that is also the doing of the Almighty. That aspect due to the fright of death and destruction — was given the garb of an austere, frightening and ill-kept God.

Yet in the true Hindu belief, creation and destruction are a continuous cycle, and death is not the end as it opens the door to another life which could and should be for the betterment of the ‘Being’ — depending on his or her ‘karma’ — so the work of Shiva as destroyer is a natural course of events in the existence of every created being or thing. And death is as natural as birth and creation. Therefore, the nature of Godliness in Shiva does not differ from that of Brahma or Vishnu.

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In fact, Shiva is portrayed as being really ‘naive’ and is called ‘Bholenath’. He is the one that circle around the world on his vehicle ‘Nandi’ the bull, along with Parvati, his consort, to see if all is well down here and if at that time a person asks for a boon it will be granted, but the wish should be right in the heart of the person at that very moment, when Shiva and Parvati are passing the spot where he or she is.

Shiva and Parvati do not have a fixed time for each place, so a person must devote himself absolutely to that wish for the entire twenty-four hours. It can, of course, just happen by a coincidence that Shiva and Parvati are just there when a wish is being expressed and the wish does come true however unimaginable it could be! Does that not happen once in a while!!

Since Shiva has much to do with this world, He is equally worshipped by the Hindus of all sects and temples to Him and his consorts are as numerous as the ones to Vishnu and Laxmi.

The idea of Shiva being equal to the Creator is accepted by the Hindus even as the creative form of the Unmanifest, as his accepted form is