Nature of Shiva: part2

Shiva introduced to sex by Prakriti- 

I, in my post earlier said that Shiva was inclined towards sex a wee, which enraged many I know. But, kids out there,” the time now is adequate, of sticking to your bed-time stories, it’s now time you get real!” so, yes, coming back to the sex life of Shiva.    .Shiva who meditated for eons was unaware of the newly formed “Bramhanda”, as he preferred staying detached from the world which never mattered to him. Kalpas (eons)  before he had segregated his better-half “Bhoga”- desire, on the request of Lord Bramha as it was only desire which could help him create, and so he forgets Bhoga (worldly desires) completely. After eons Bhoga takes a female form(goddess Shakthi or prakriti:- nature), appears in front of him naked as "Kali" and tries to attract him towards her, trying to entail him in the process of creation, protection and destruction. As he couldn’t be left idle, ignorant of his job, hence she tries to attract him but fails, she then opts sexual ways to attract him he who was unaware of worldly desires doesn’t understand what she was trying to do, hence she then attempts to teach him “the love making act”. She voluntarily inserts his penis into her vagina and helps him sense the pleasure, yet lord Shiva remains ignorant, during this loving making act, his devotees enter his abode to have a glimpse of their deity, Shakthi was startled by the presence of unexpected guests, covers her face bashfully with a lotus(she was called Lajja Gauri)  

but Shiva welcomes all, having seen this, the sadhus or sages calls the innocent lord “Bholenath”, and creates the symbol “linga-yoni” linga- the upper portion of Shiva linga i.e. the male sex organ and yoni- the lower portion, of the female. After which Shakthi or Prakriti understands that his heart could be won only by Bhakthi or dedication, so she incarnates as Parvati and impresses him with her devotion, he then accepts her and loves her more than one’s-self, she then explains him the importance of nature, society, principles and how important is sex, which is a divine act to bring life of the same kind amongst the clan and yet he forgets them all, as he finds it difficult to adopt them all, which he felt were against his principles of “Vyragya” or renunciation.

To make him understand the importance of copulation and other needs of survival, devi Parvati disappears. Shiva having the feel of being incomplete and having lost something drove him nuts, he also could empathize the difficulty of souls around him, starving for food and without sex the cycle of nature was at the verge to end. He then realizes Shakthi’s importance and what was she capable of, so prays to her for her return, tells her that he understood the importance of prakriti, who was Bhog-shakthi. (He then accepts his addiction for his wife, who was prakriti, the stigma of prakriti involves production which involves sex, parallel to it was destruction to complete the cycle, hence he indirectly is addicted to sex and endorses it too).

 

A Tribute to Shiva: The Bolenath- part1

Shiva a personality , of whom one could debate, of his several identities. The discussions may prolong, for it may never end and yet thrills one, who craves to know about Shiva and that’s so him!!!. Popularly known amongst his devotees as “Bholenath”, meaning the most innocent. This post of mine might be a contradiction of my previous post ”Was Shiva addicted to sex?”, in a few segments, as am just trying to cover various facets of Shiva.

The birth of Shiva:

1.According to Shiva purana he’s the Bramhan himself, he is the “aum-kara”, he is the origin and the end, the infinity.

2.The Shakthi purana states that Goddess Adi-Shakthi creates Shiva, Vishnu and Bramha.

3.According to Bhavishyath purana, Bramha encumbered with ego thinks he’s the almighty himself as he had the opportunity to “create”. To teach him a lesson Bramhan takes the form of a baby and reaches lord Bramha who till then thought that he could cope any situation, handled the baby with ease not knowing that it was the Bramhan, the baby then  cried out loud in hunger, the cries were so shrilling that lord Bramha felt deafened  and named him Rudra. Later surrenders to the almighty.

4.According to a folk-lore of South-India, he was a son of a female dancer, who didn’t know who his father and was being insulted by the society on every occasion. Hence, decides to abandon the rules and principles of the society and the society itself who abandoned him.

5.But, Bhagavathi puran, Bhagavatham, rigved and a few more mentions how in this universe or vyom, when nothing existed it was desire which incited with no roots or origin, as desire is more of a feminine quality it took a female form, due to boredom desires for a companion, she herself tries to become a man of her choice, they then were called Shiva and Shakthi who are both the same of two different sexes, when conjoined results in Bramhan again.(note: Bramhan is different from Lord Bramha)

 

6.There are few more stories and a Tantric philosophy which states how one can attain the echelon of  Shiva or an ecstasy of eternal bliss and one can become Lord Shiva himself. By practicing a few tantric rituals men and women can turn Bhairavs and bhairavis, others have another stand of the same, that one who follows the similar practice of Tantra, strain their body to relieve themselves from worldly desires by practicing the same in excess (in terms of wine, meat, sex etc) which is unlike the regular penance to attain salvation.  By these kind of practices their soul is chosen by the “paramathma” or the almighty to be in him and becomes “Him”. Similarly when this is related to Shiva’s origin, some got to say that one who is victorious in accomplishing these tantric rituals is chosen by Shiva himself and resides in his body, by aiding him to be Shiva himself. Thus are many other notions about Shiva’s origin.