Symbols tell their own story, often more effectively than words. Damru symbolises the Universe, always expanding and collapsing. From expansion, it collapses and then it re-expands; this is the ...

Lord Shiva is shown carrying a trident in His left hand. He holds a Damru (small drum), wears serpents around His neck as an ornament. We see mother Ganga (sacred river) entering His hair locks. He ...

Shiva is often introduced as the Destroyer but devotees also call him Shankara, the auspicious one. That “contradiction” is ...

Among all deities in the world’s spiritual traditions, Shiva stands apart. He is wild, untamed, ascetic, compassionate, destructive and protective at the same time. He is adorned not with worldly ...

In Kerala, in the 1880s, inequality, oppression and upper caste rule was predominant. It was Shivratri. Shiva was the God of the upper castes. They worshiped Lord Shiva in different ways as ...