O destroyer! The burning ghat is your playground, Your companions are monsters, Besmeared are you with the ashes of funeral pyres, Your garland is a string of skulls, Your name and nature seem inauspicious . Yet, O giver of blessings!Those who meditate on you, Are supremely auspicious. “SHIVA MAHIMA S TOTRAM ” The thirteenth night […]

s Mahapralaya—the night of Brahma when nothing existed. There was neither night nor day, no light or darkness, neither joy nor sorrow. All animate and inanimate creation had merged into the infinite essence. There was neither sun, nor moon, nor planets. The whole firmament was one complete void, pulsating with life.          […]