I came to a halt at a book shop to grab some book which will help me pass my time during weekend. I came across a set of two books which I really liked after reading the synopsis (The Immortals of Meluha & The secret of the Nagas). I bought them and came back.
Once I got reading the book, I realized all the childhood stories about Lord Shiva, told by my grand father were challenged!
The book portrayed him as a human being with strong character and leadership qualities that made people believe that he was a God, but all he was a Human.
As we believe Lord Ram was. Now Ram was a mighty King and Shiva was a fearless warrior. Both tried to protect the civilization from evils attacks during their times and help bring order to the society and thus the people started worshipping them as gods.
Every man believes in the history of Indus valley civilization, Mesopotamia, Harappa and other such places. But if someone goes to a priest and says that Shiva was just a human being I am sure there is a large part of our population that will take offense or that person will be termed Atheist!
But this really got me thinking what a myth is? And what is reality?
There is a chant that is said to be given by Shiva himself, ‘Har Har Mahadev’ which means Everyone is Mahadev(another name of shiva).
So if he himself believed that every human being has the potential to be what he is. Why don’t we today believe in that rather than blindly following any religion or priest, why don’t we believe in what god said himself.
I still am not able to find my answers, but I firmly believe,
‘Har Har Mahadev
