"He is the king of the world, the Lord of tears, the great seer from whom the gods are born and into whom they merge in the end. May he, who first saw the birth of the universal Intellect, endow us with understanding"

"He is the king of the world, the Lord of tears, the great seer from whom the gods are born and into whom they merge in the end. May he, who first saw the birth of the universal Intellect, endow us with understanding" ~ Shvetashvatara Upanishad. He is Triyambaka (Three-Eyed), Neelkantha (Blue-Throated), Panchanana (Five-Faced), Chandrashekhara (Moon Crested), Gangadhara (Bearer of Ganga), Girisha (Mountain Lord), Kapalamalin (wearing a garland of skulls), Janardana (Torturer of Men) and Sthanu (Immutable). He is Shuladhara, bearer of the trident, representing the three functions of creator, preserver and destroyer, a living link between the unmanifest brahman and Brahmā. As both substratum and boundless void involved with the beginnings and ends of existence, Shiva is the Divine Darkness beyond all duality, beyond which is non-being. In the words of the Shvetashvatara Upanishad, "Even the Sun lies prostrate before him." His presence stirs the latent potential of saguna brahman, the immanent cause, the reflection of consciousness deposited within the non-evolved nature of Mahavishnu. ‪His desire is not for a world but is Desire absorbed completely into its undivided Self, which extends without measure and is the basis of that existence experienced by man only in the deepest, dreamless sleep. "This being of darkness spreads everywhere like unconscious sleep, shapeless, ineffable, undefinable." ~ Manu Smriti
All Glories to Shiva ~ Har Har Mahadev ~ Jai Nageshwara!