SHIVA TRIOLOGY

I recently finished reading the shiva triology series by Amish. The book has got fare script to keep you connected throughout the series. And the most interesting thing is to visualize your gods and goddesses as a normal human being.

Though it’s a fiction and you know it’s all imaginary but while reading you would actually start feeling that, yes this can be the way it has written. After all to whom you worship? People with great did? Whose work inspires you and yes it’s good in your perception. Yes, your perception. Because things you will feel right might have proved so wrong for others. Might be that’s the reason we hate Ravan as evil and Shrilankan’s worship him as a god.

The concept of Naga’s is quiet interesting. After reading the book, I just started thinking how in practical sense Lord Ganesha could have mouth of an elephant. It’s something exaggerated description of someone’s face with long nose and teeth coming out of mouth. How could a human being exist with eight hands like Goddess Kali. I do agree that there has to be something odd to describe her like that. Then what logic you would like to give for Ravan having ten heads? Well that’s not the point to argue. Definitely we can think of someone coming with a book giving some logical explanations about it.

The most interesting part of the series, evil is none but a Medicinal liquid which is being worshiped for years saving people’s life but has been turned as an evil over the period of time. It’s good that Amish have given some scientific explanation for this. The thought process here is an invention for a great cause would not necessarily prove beneficial all the time and excessive use of something is always harmful. Take the example of Atomic Bombs. It’s a great invention showing how powerful humans can be if needed. But think in another way. How harmful it would be if it’s been used. We already have an example of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before us. It has never proved correct for Human welfare.

Your questions like God Mahadev having third eye or why his neck has turned blue are also answered in tricky way. The concept of mind reading for Vasudev is also explained wisely. The only question that Amish have not focused in this book is why Shiva has got snake around his neck. Probably he couldn’t get any logical reason to match with his theory of somras which says Shiva blue throat was the result of ill effect of Somras. But definitely you can ignore that stuff and even practically you couldn’t think of a person walking with poisonous snake around his neck. J

To summarize shortly it’s an interesting series to read.  Looking forward to the movie release based on this. I hope they won’t focus much on the romantic part between sati-shiva or Parvteshwar-Anandmayi and will not make love story out of it like they did some years ago for “Ashoka The Great” movie.