Shakti is the motherly love of God that surrounds us with warmth, caring and protection. Shiva is the paternal love of God that gives us consciousness, clarity and knowledge.

Shiva and Shakti are manifestations of the all-in-one divine consciousness - different sides of the same coin. Shakti is the motherly love of God that surrounds us with warmth, caring and protection. Shiva is the paternal love of God that gives us consciousness, clarity and knowledge. Lord Shiva is generally portrayed holding a trident, which represents the trinity of Ishwara, Purusha and Prakriti. Ishwara is the omnipresent, eternal, formless divine principle; Purusha is the Atma and Prakriti is the manifestation, nature. They both are soul mates. Bhavani served him with great love. Bhavani means the wife of Bhava, or Lord Shiva. Bhavani, or Parvati, the daughter of the King of the Himalayas, selected Lord Shiva, who appears to be just like a ascetic, as her husband. In spite of her being a princess, she undertook all kinds of tribulations to win Lord Shiva, who did not even have a house, but was sitting underneath the trees and was absorbed in meditation.

Although Bhavani was the daughter of a very great king, she used to serve Lord Shiva just like a simple down to earth girl. She served him with great love and affection, and knew how to win him. Therefore, she is designated as Sadhvi, which means "a chaste, faithful wife." Her rare example is the ideal of Vedic civilization. Every woman is expected to be as good and chaste as Bhavani. Today in Hindu society, unmarried girls are still taught to worship Lord Shiva with the idea that they may get husbands like him. The girls are not taught to select a husband who is very rich or very opulent for material sense gratification; rather, if a girl is fortunate enough to get a husband as good as Lord Shiva, then her life becomes perfect.

Lord Shivas choice of living as a simple god attracts devotees the most. He is also known as Bholenath, The Innocent god. He easily gets impressed by his devotees and in the scriptures we have seen that many demons worshiped him just for the sake of getting boons. Shiva knew their intentions but still granted them boons. His greatness cannot be described in words. He always think about his devotees before his family. When Devi Sati ended her life , Mahadev himself would have destroyed the Daksha yagna , but no , he sent a small part of him as Veerbhadra to destroy Daksha yagna . because he knew his anger will not only destroy the yagna but the world. It teaches us not to be selfish, always think about your actions before it could hurt others, no matter how much hurt you are.! ✨🌺👁🌀🌙🌷📿🕉🌿🔱🌸💀🍃⌛️🌻🐍🔔🐚🍂⛰🌼🎨🍂🙏✨

Jai Shiva Shakti ~ Jai Shankar Parvati 💖🌷💖