THE LOVE OF SHIVA PARVATI

Just as great an enigma as He was, so too was Parvati. It was She who was Sati, in a previous life. She it was, who was Shakti, the Goddess of power, in eternal wedlock with Shiva, making Him Shaktiman, the wielder of all the power there was in the Universe. She was always present in His presence. Even if that meant being reincarnated from one lifetime to another.

Where had this cosmic love story actually begun? Was there a starting point at all? Or had it been a timeless trance with no beginning and perhaps with no end?

She was always present in His presence; and yet there had been times when Shiva and Parvati were separated. Times, that constituted the nadir of Shiva’s life; the absolute pit of the universe itself. Shiva had looked to the skies from this pit and noted how an infinite canvas painted blue by His own hand, could turn melancholically into an equally infinite grey.

Thus it was, that whenever a lover looked to the skies in the anguish of a torn love, his cry would pierce straight into Shiva’s heart as a resonant and lethal arrow. And He had seen this story repeat itself not only with lovers whose names had become immortalised, but also those, whose tears had been shed unsung.

When Laila, a woman who had become the object of love for a young man, called out his name in utter despair, Shiva heard whispers of “Majnu, beloved Majnu” in His own ear.

It was no different when a young lad called Romeo sang as he ran down the cobbled streets of Verona; Shiva found Himself whistling happily into the air! It could not have been different; the same story happened across the sands of times, not only in deserts, but also in the mountains, the forests, across oceans and, as Shiva knew, sometimes, even beyond the planet.

With each story, He felt an immense upheaval, an immense empathy.

He had been the greatest Lover in the world.

Love was the essence of what they were; love was existence.

Love, it was, that was in the beginning, love, that sustained the present, and love it would be, in the end.
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SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. part 2 (Humesha)
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