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The Shiva Chalisa (Hindi: शिव चालीसा, literally Forty chaupais on Shiva) is a Hindi stotra dedicated to Hindu deity Shiva. [1] Adapted from the Shiva Purana , it consists of 40 (chalis) chaupais (verses) and recited daily or on special festivals like Maha Shivaratri by Shaivas , the worshippers of Shiva.
The name Kāla appears in the Shiva Sahasranama, where it is translated by Ram Karan Sharma as "(the Supreme Lord of) Time". [256] Bhairava "terrible" or "frightful" [257] is a fierce form associated with annihilation. In contrast, the name Śaṇkara, "beneficent" [36] or "conferring happiness" [258] reflects his benign form.
The Shiva Purana contains chapters with Shiva-centered cosmology, mythology, and relationship between gods, ethics, yoga, tirtha (pilgrimage) sites, bhakti, rivers and geography, and other topics. [ 10 ] [ 2 ] [ 11 ] The text is an important source of historic information on different types and theology behind Shaivism in early 2nd-millennium ...
In Hinduism, Shiva is the supreme being regarded to perform the functions of creation, preservation, as well as the destruction of the universe. [1] Hindu texts describe the worship of Shiva and the establishment of temples and shrines throughout the Indian subcontinent, commonly in the aniconic form of a lingam .
Chalis or chalisa may refer to: The number forty in some South Asian languages including Hindi-Urdu The Chalisa famine that hit South Asia in 1783, which is 1840 in the Vikram Samvat calendar; A Hindu hymn of forty verses Shiva Chalisa; Hanuman Chalisa; Ganesha Chalisa; Stefanos Chalis (1796–1821), a chieftain in the Greek War of Independence
Shiva is equated with Sat-Chit-Ananda, described as the screen on which Shakti is projected as the moving picture of the universe. Jivanmukta - one who is liberated while still physically alive, who abides in the blissful peace of Sat-Chit-Ananda. Videhamukta - one who is liberated after death through the continued repetition of "I am Self ...
Shiva then appeared as a second Jyotirlinga and cursed Brahma, telling him that he would have no place in the ceremonies. The Jyotirlinga is the supreme indivisible reality from which Shiva appears. Jyothirlinga shrines commemorate this time when Shiva appeared. [3] [4] It was believed that there were originally sixty-four jyotirlingas.
According to a Shiva legend from the Shiva Purana, once, Brahma (the god of creation) and Vishnu (the god of preservation) had an argument over their supremacy. [2] To settle the debate, Shiva pierced the three worlds, appearing as a huge, infinite pillar of light, the jyotirlinga.