The Auspicious Shiva, whose very presence was able to transform humans into demigods.

He was Shiva, the Auspicious. Shiva, whose very presence was able to transform humans into demigods.
The very ‘Seeing’ of Shiva was like a revelation of the Self; a Darsana.“Those, to whom these revelations came, were completely transformed,they became confident and trusting of life, shifting to a mode bubbling with high self-esteem. They were always at ease and seemed to know their place in the plan of things. Those to whom the Darsana ‘happened’, came to be called rishis.