Reading Notes: Shiva's Secret Part 2

Looking at Shiva's side of the love story between him and Parvati.  It is the same story but told in a different way and with a different perspective.  There is an added element that was not in the stories I read last week.

• Parvati induced shiva to become belovolant
• Groom: was a hermit and didn't know how to behave or dress
• drunk
• covered in ash
• came with ghosts and goblins
• scared the people of Parvati's village
• Parvati asked him to accept worldly ways so he did and became a beautiful groom
• Shiva did not discriminate between the beautiful and the ugly but didn't fit in with the social set up: there is judgement and Shiva didn't have any
• His eyes were opened because of Parvati

(the religious poster that is explained through the video I watched this week.  Found on Wikipedia Commons.)

Bibliography:

Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art, Devdutt Pattanaik, Shiva's Secret Part 2