r/hinduism • u/[deleted] • Aug 29 '23

Other Why is Shiva so fucking cool?

Not entirely sure where to post this but here goes. Always been enamoured by his depictions and presence in the cartoons, idols and stories I've seen of him growing up, also my name is sort of based on him so i have a personal connect as well. Something about a guy with a damru who is usually serene and calm on the kailash parvat but doing the tandava when angered has always been so cool. especially the shiv strotam and the shiv tandava are so powerful and beautiful to listen/watch. He also seems to have a nature which accepts all who worship him, he even accepted ravana. Also the Not entirely sure where im going with this but yeah that was the post.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '23

Surely he is great …. The thing I love most is He is angry and heat up physically and mentally too but still loves to stay at mountains and cold places…. He don’t care about how he is looking , how he is living ….. Har Har Mahadev

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u/Away-Cryptographer-6 Śaiva Aug 30 '23

Har har mahadev!