Parvati

Who is Shiva's wife? Let me have a look.

No, it's actually Parvati.

So she's a benevolent mother goddess of Hinduism representing love, fertility, and devotion.

And Sati was his first wife.

It often becomes the focal element of the story, and your player characters will have fun with it.

Shiva has a wife named Parvati.

And Parvati is my favorite.

I love Parvati.

Everything about Parvati is awesome in this book.

Parvati is kind of similar to Krishna.

Sorry, Parvati is kind of similar to Vishnu in a way because she has other deities that have spawned off of her.

Her personality is just so strong.

Mm-hmm.

So if we please Lord Shiva or Pa- you know, then Parvati naturally pleased.

Mm-hmm.

So therefore, we need blessing of Mahadeva.

But according to the Advaita philosophy, God is one.

All these different, uh, gods, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Krishna, um, Ganapati, um, um, uh, Subramania, uh, and the various goddesses, uh, um, Parvati, um, Lakshmi, Saraswati, all these different forms o- of gods and goddesses, they're all forms, different names and forms of the one reality because the ultimate reality is devoid of form.

We cannot know...

So long as we limit ourself as a form, that is our present experience of ourself is, "I am this body." So long as we experience ourself as a form, as something finite, we cannot conceive the infinite.

According to the story of Jnanasambandar, he was a small child.

At one time he was crying out for his mother's milk.

And seeing him, the goddess Parvati, she felt, um, she, sh- her motherly heart was, was melted hearing his, uh, crying and she came and gave him her own breast milk.

And as soon as she gave her breast milk, he became a, um, he became a great Tamil poet and he's composed so many hundreds of songs in praise of different, uh, uh, Shiva kshetras including Tiruvannamalai.

Kali with destruction, death, time and liberation.

And Parvati with marriage, motherhood, tapas.

relationships and divine power and I believe every person is a combination of all of these and these aren't simply different personality types you can't walk around saying I am more Parvati I am more Saraswati today I am maxing out my Durga in me They are different manifestations of the sacred.

And this means a lot to millions of people.

And it is a deeply intimate relationship for people from this tradition.

Can you transcend with that dark side and move towards light? So Kali is another Hindu goddess that is often misunderstood, especially on social media.

So when we worship Kali, we are looking at the absolute disillusion of the ego, the destruction of our self-identity, of all those attachments you tell yourself, who you are, all those stories, the things you hold on to, the patterns that you cling to, pretty much removing everything and discovering yourself on the other side without all those labels and attachments are important.

And now lastly, let's get to Parvati.

And in the course of the dance, he plays the Damaru.

The moment Mother Parvati hears the sound of the Damaru, she burns the whole thing down.

So this goes to show that even if your prayer is noble, see on one side, if your prayer is something which is not noble, which is for selfishness, that prayer also can be wrong.

But if there is a prayer that is selfless, even that prayer can be wrong.

I mean, this was a selfless prayer of Mother Parvati.

But even that prayer can go wrong because we do not know why things are the way they are.

In fact, I was talking to one devotee who was saying that Swami was giving them this explanation that you all come to me and you make prayers to me.

One of those associates is Durga Devi.

She has many other names, such as Parvati and Girija.

As it pertains to Kamsa's story, she appeared as the divine energy known as Yogmaya.

She appeared from the womb of Yashoda, who was the wife of a cowherd leader named Nanda.

So what happens is that one day Shiva was sitting and meditating, and then something happened.

He said, I will go and bring Parvati back.

So when he was about to send Parvati, the rest of the people who were there, including Vishnu and Shiva, saw a tree on the side of their house, and they started to look at it, and they started to scream, and they started to scream, and they started to scream, and they started to scream, and they started to scream, and they started to scream, and they started to scream, Parvati saw Shiva and opened his eyes and saw that it was fire.

When he told Shiva what he had done, he said that he had put fire in his mouth and spit it out.

He gave his entire seed to Agni.