Reading Shiv Puraan.

Reading “SIVA” the Siva Purana retold by Ramesh Menon, brings me to a state of disbelief.

I have been a Shiv follower since childhood; the mythological stories surrounding the lord were fascinating enough to grab my attention. Some time close to 1998 I began fasting on Monday’s and I still do, with time I found myself become firm with the fasting; hoping it will bring me a good husband just like Parvati found lord Shiva himself as her husband. I also started fasting for a month long from year 2001.

My grandparents always had stories related to him to tell me. I use to sit beside them when they use to perform pooja’s for Vishnu, Krishna, Ma Amba, and Mahadev. They use to read kathas (stories) related to them and their worshippers.

The togetherness, lifetime bonding, love are the keywords that drove me to idealize lord Shiva and Parvati. As told theirs was a love story that happened in the age of ‘satyug’ quite a surprise isn’t? Also I must add that this is definately before Romeo & Juliet happened (Oh! Yes that’s the fact and an interesting one that Hindu lords created the forever love story).

So now when I read Shiv Puran (am still on chapter 9) it brings me an expression of astonishment, the story begins where an old man has lust for a young girl, Lord Brahma sleeps with his own daughter (isn’t this the biggest sin in our own Hindu shastra (principles)?), lord Shiva desires for Sati who is a mahayogi himself (a person who spends his life in dhayn) is not suppose to do so.... these mahagyani’s/creators are not suppose to perform any sin. The preacher has to be the performer at once to make the theory work, that’s what I feel personally.

I was always taught that the elders begin what is to be followed. So now when I read to what our own creators did, I ask myself that can they set a guideline to which they themselves never followed.

There are so many sins performed by the creators themselves and solution to those are given as well; like to take a bath in Ganga (the sacred river) or chanting Shiva’s 1000 names or may be do some dhyan for particulars years to please the Gods.

I only happen to ask myself that is so easy that one does a sin and there is a solution available to it? Why are we introduced to hell’s pain and happiness that heaven bring?  Why we are always introduced to the good side of our lords and the awful stories are secreted?

Even if you happen to watch these sagas on television they also happen to do the same, where as the audience believes they are watching the reality (about the lords) but the fact remains in the books.