And then, one day, Shiva appeared.
He was magnificent.
Tall, and beautifully chiseled. His chest was large and firm.
A cobra wrapped around His neck was peering down at this chest, as if he had being doing that for an eternity.
Sensing Sati’s presence, the cobra arose swiftly from what seemed a blissful slumber, and darting out a forked tongue, looked at her with hypnotic eyes, putting her into almost a magical spell.
Shiva wore a tiger skin and innumerable brown beads. The beads were woven together like rosaries and cosied themselves all along His upper torso. They were also draped around His arms in tight embrace as amulets. In His right hand He held a rustic looking trident, the Trisula.Tied on the top of the trident was a little drum, shaped like an hourglass.
Sati noted that even as the trident was held perfectly motionless and steady in Shiva’s secure grip, the stringed beads on the drum were still in a gentle motion.
It was as if the perfect centerpiece to the forest symphony had arrived, a subtle and strangely seductive rhythm.
The rustle of the leaves was now like a heart beat. Or was it indeed Her own heart that was becoming louder in a most indiscreet way? She realised She was losing control, and that this heart had a mind of its own. How She longed to be that cobra,who was both possessive and possessed; or that Trisula, or even those beads, or somehow, all of them!
She swooned and fell into His empty arm, in a perfect fit, like it was indeed an embrace waiting for Her, as a balance to the Trisula.
~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati
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Art : Mayank Bharti
Shail Gulhati is the Author of the books :
SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.
The Yogi and the snake
Shiva Poetry
NAAM ROOP- A Tribute to the Divine
And Life Said.
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