Large Poster 19 x 27" / 0.2 lbs 4 color Mandala's art prints are renown for their high-quality five-color lithography and appear as vibrant as the original paintings. Each print is beautifully laminated and printed on fine-quality linen-textured stock at 200 line screens. Additional Information Published by Mandala. Originally published in 2001. Siva is one of the Hindu trinity along with Lord Vishnu and Lord Brahma. He is the destroyer. At the end of Kali-yuga (the present age), he will perform the dance of destruction and the entire universe will be destroyed. Lord Siva is in charge of tamo-guna, or the mode of ignorance. He may be depicted holding a trident, as do many of his followers. He may also hold a mace or battle-ax, an antelope, or an hour-glass drum known as a damaru. He may have two or four arms. He has three eyes. The third one, situated between the eyebrows, is normally closed, except at the time of destruction. He has a crescent moon in his matted hair, and his body is smeared with ashes. He has three horizontal lines on his head, and he wears a cobra around his neck. He has fair skin. He wears a tiger skin, and he sometimes wears a garland of skulls. While he is meditating he sits on a tiger skin. He never accepts luxurious dress, garlands, ornaments, or ointments. Lord Siva has a blue throat, because he once drank the poison produced from the churning of the milk ocean. He held the poison in his throat to save humanity from being destroyed. Siva is worshiped in the form of the Siva-linga, or phallus, in most temples. His carrier is Nandi, the bull. Most Siva temples have a trident on top of the temple tower. Siva is also known as Gangadhara, or one who bears the weight of the Ganges River as it falls to earth from the heavens. When the Ganges descended to earth, it fell on his head and through his jata (matted hair), forming many small streams. Eventually these streams combine and form the Ganges at Haridwar. He resides at Mount Kailash, which is a mountain located in the Himalayas in Tibet. He sits facing south. Siva is known as Nataraja, the cosmic dancer. He is also known by other names, such as Rudra, Mahadeva, Sankara, Pashupati (the lord of the animals), and Bhairava, his terrible form. He is also known as Ashutosha, or one who is easily pleased, and Bhutanatha or lord of the bhutas, or ghosts and spirits. He is called Mahadeva, or the greatest of the demigods, because no one is equal to him in the material world. Hari Hara is a form that is half-Vishnu and half-Siva. His consort is Parvati, also known as Kali or Durga. Lord Siva is the husband of Durga, goddess of the material energy. Because Lord Siva is her husband, he is known as the controller of the material energy. Lord Siva's duty is dangerous because he has to employ the energy of goddess Durga. In pictures Goddess Kali (Durga) is sometimes seen standing on Lord Siva's prostrate body, because Lord Siva has to fall flat in order to stop Kali from killing the demons. Since Lord Siva controls the material energy, worshipers of Lord Siva attain opulent positions within the material world. Durga is described as keeping all living entities in the darkness of ignorance. He is also known as the husband of Sati (also called Gauri), who entered the fire at the sacrifice performed by her father, Daksha. She was then reborn as Uma, and again married Siva. The story of the third eye is that one time Uma, Siva's consort, playfully held her hands over Siva's eyes. At once darkness spread over the entire universe and not even the sun or moon could be seen. At once Lord Siva produced the third eye so that light could return to the universe. Siva can see the past, present and the future. One of his eyes is like the sun, another like the moon, and his third eye, which is between his eyebrows, is like fire. He can generate fire from his middle eye, and he is able to vanquish any powerful living entity, yet he does not live pompously in a nice house nor does he possess any material properties, even though he is the master of the material world. He is unstained by material contamination. Lord Siva is not connected with anyone, nor is anyone his enemy. Since he is one of the three controllers of the universal affairs, he is equal to everyone. |
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