Download or read book Kingdom of Shiva written by Sivkishen and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 12 long years research of Vedas and decoding the hidden scientific formulas have been put in a story form in easy understanding of the hard to get facts that benefits the readers. The reader will find the critical and vital difference between some of the Prominent Works on Lord Shiva Goddess Parvati and their children in this work that to demystify the myths. This work lucidly brings out the teachings of Ganesh-Geeta and retold the mythology in an amazing way for the benefit of all. The readers will love to chew and remember for the ages. — Sivkishen, Author It is believed that a mere glance at Sri Chakra gives the result of performing hundred Vedic rituals then what if the goddess is Meditated upon, Praised and Glorified as purest form of Consciousness ? This book does exactly that! Imagine the power of her 'Supreme Brilliance' guiding you through the darkest alleys towards all round Success ... Imagine receiving an ocean of Compassion... I urge the readers to give themselves a chance to carve a fulfilling life under the Divine Mother's Cosmic Direction .. Kudos to Kishenji for being the channel and making that happen." —Karuna Gopal (President, Futuristic Cities) "A must-read for anyone who wants to get on the "way of life", this 'Kingdom of Shiva' provides right orientation and knowledge to face the challenges of life by aligning them of valuable life." - Prof. S P Garg "The one book on authentic Mythological classic epic stories is 'Kingdom of Shiva'. This is Eastern Wisdom a must to have at least one." — Prof. Surendera Kala "In the Epic story of 'Kingdom of Shiva', the great Goddess advocates that 'a beautiful mind and beautiful heart sparks bright ideas. One can't just dream but should believe in the self and face challenges of Life Battles with courage. You have the POWER to ACHIEVE IT.' This is the 'Glow of Hope' and every one must read." -Shanti Singh B.Com. LLB, Director, Vidyadayani Junior and Degree College for Women, Hyderabad India

Download or read book Incredible written by Sivkishen Ji Kishen and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author Sivkishen Ji (Pen Name of Kishen SSR) is having both electronic and traditional publishing rights under US copyright registration ISBN TX 8-238-600 dated 15.02.2016 for his work Kingdom of Shiva. This updated literary marvel is the first book 'Incredible' Kingdom of Shiva Series-1 deals with the Amazing recollections of Goddess Parvati, as Dakshayani, the twenty-fourth daughter of Daksha Prajapati. The author decoded the Rig Veda hymn 3.23.4 that postulated on the Cosmic Energy that exists everywhere in this creation. It is the bonding energy between the stars, galaxies, the planets and in all molecules. Both Passive and Active Eternal Energy dwell in the human body too as is at Mount Kailash. This is the wisdom beyond boundaries existing at holiest and sacred Kailash, the higher intelligence, power, energy, and too perfect to be a very natural phenomenon.He also decoded the Rig Veda hymn 7.59.12. The sun moves majestically on the horizon to benefit both living and non-living with heat and light energized by Maruts, the powerful children of Lord Shiva and sacred celestial cow Prisni that detailed in this hymn. Microbes in the Human body functions like Stars in the Sky with different sizes, skin and eye colors. Sivkishen Ji lucidly explained on the generation of the activation energy by Ekadasa Rudra or eleven divine forms of Lord Shiva in the Microbes clan at the Kingdom of Shiva. Maruts move at the speed of thought in the entire creation. The light rays that energized by them travel with maximum universal speed. This is the speed of light and its calculation dealt in the Rig Veda hymn 1.50.4 and rightly decoded in this chapter.The excellent story construction visible as the extremely beautiful Goddess Parvati; an incarnation of Adi Shakti decided to have a son outside her womb without having physical union with Lord Shiva because of the circumstance. She had opted to follow the methodology dealt in Rig Vedic Hymns 7.33.13 and 10.121 and lucidly explained Hiranyagarbha Sukta, on the creative secrets with the scientific base that relates to the Self Fertilization for giving birth outside the womb without having a physical union, which is currently beyond the reach of modern science. The recollections of Goddess Parvati moves forward with an authentic account on the powerful story of Dakshayani, earlier incarnation of the Mother Nature as the twenty-fourth daughter of Daksha Prajapati. Mesha King Astapada trained her in the Chess. The knowledge of the reader is freshened with the Chess strategy consists of setting and achieving long-term positioning as well as advantages during the game. This also reveals the skill of calculating the number of stars in the visible Sky with the usage of Sri Yantra based on the Zodiac movement.Daksha, the father of Sati failed to appreciate many excellent qualities of her husband, nevertheless, resorted to heap abuses. Sati was consumed by rage against her father and loathing for his mentality and was causing dishonour to her husband filled with intense anger made her assume the celestial form of Adishakti and invoked her yogic powers and immolated herself in the yogic Agni. The deed committed by Sati shows was to uphold the honor of her husband. Shiva danced the terrible Tandava, a dance of destruction and the power of particles dance in the cosmos. The Chapter on Merciful called for the study and decoding Rig Veda 9.7.3 with incontrovertible references in Soma Yagnya of Atharva Veda, Shrouta sutra, Taittiriya Aranyakas, Shatapatha and Aitereya Brāhmanagranthas that revealed the procedure on first human Head Transplantation with that of a goat. The legendary name of Swastika Mountain is Mt. Astapada belongs to one of the holiest and most mysterious mountains at Kailash. This named after Mesha King Astapada, who gave gladly his head as well his queen Mesha Surapriya for head Transplantation of Daksha by the most merciful Lord Shiva. Outstandingly useful super-book..Read Now

Download or read book Mysterious Kailash written by Sivkishen Ji and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sivkishen is a Vedic scholar. He authored Mysterious Kailash.. Writing is his passion and Vedic research is a vehicle for his work contributing a broad range of resources with a focus on Vedas and their interconnections that helps to unfold the most acclaimed Vedic Hymns. He had surfaced the fascinating and interesting facts for the first time in this universe with authenticity by decoding the hidden sciences in Vedas after a deep Vedic research of 12 years to bring back the entire Vedic Tradition to its pristine and original form. These original research contributions have a great purpose of promoting time-tested Vedic traditions cultural values to benefit the present generation. These works offer points of identity between science philosophy and spirituality and will pave the way furtherance of advance in the current scientific field.His transfixing style of bridging the huge gap between the ancient Vedic knowledge and Modern science and explaining on those concepts of present advanced sciences don't have and bringing out as a most interesting and fascinating literary marvel with visual imagery with great authenticity in a Mythological story form is really "wonderful" that the readers love to chew, digest and remember for ages!His focus on the book's purpose, contents, and authority was recognized by Scientists Spiritual Leaders Philosophers and Great Scholars. He has been acclaimed internationally as best Indian Author. He is rightly titled as Vishwamitra, Rishi, Abhinava Vyasa, and Shabad Brahma as well Sahiti Sourabhoma etc., Both geography and mythology play roles in the sacred significance of Mount Kailash. It has been universal interest on discovering the hidden, mysterious, and unknown wisdom of the world at Mount Kailash. Recent studies of Russians reveal that the Mount Kailash could be a vast; it is like a human-built pyramid, the center of an entire complex of smaller pyramids, a hundred in total. This complex, moreover, is the center of a worldwide system connecting other monuments or sites where paranormal phenomena observed. Mount Kailash is the axis Mundi, world axis, the center of the world, and the navel of the world as confirmed by Google Maps and NASA pictures. Even the satellite images cannot capture this most mysterious Kingdom of Shiva. Yet, several intellectuals tried to discover the world hidden, mysterious and unknown wisdom of Mount Kailash. Many researchers believe that the foot and at the middle level of the mountain has voids. The researchers have found the presence of cavities inside the sarcophagus, means "flesh-eating" that serves as a refuge in which a state of deep meditation. This adventure is one that tops many people's bucket list. Those who want to climb to the top of it, all of a sudden get set to go in the opposite direction. Those who walked up the mountain never returned.Several intellectuals tried to discover, "Why this world pillar is the mysterious mountain in the world?" Moreover, why all earthly forces of power and greed forever are sealed and why its knowledge kept hidden? "What is there on the peaks of Mount Kailash?" is the wonder of the doubters since there have been no recorded attempts to climb Mount Kailash. "Is this geographic site like energy vortices that can either uplift physical and mental states or degenerate the chamber?" Mysterious Kailash replies as an accurate version of Rig Veda hymns and details on why so. All questions and doubts, contentions of various schools of thought or views of contemporary science summed up in this Mahagranth. Only the enlightened mind, free from the passions can claim the Kailash as it is not possible with the physical body. The person who destroyed the ignorance and illusion can reach Kailash within the mind, the Manas as the source of soul and takes a dip in the Manasarovar as the consciousness. Just as the physical mountain, Kailash considered as the center of the known world, so Shiva is the center of the Self!

Download or read book The Kingdom of Shivas Irons written by Michael Murphy and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Murphy's Golf in the Kingdom is one of the bestselling golf books of all time and has been hailed as "a golf classic if any exists in our day" (John Updike) and "a masterpiece on the mysticism of golf" (San Francisco Chronicle). Golf in the Kingdom introduced Shivas Irons, the mysterious golf pro and philosopher with whom Murphy played a mythic round of golf on Scotland's Burningbush links, a round that profoundly altered his game--and his vision. The Kingdom of Shivas Irons is the enchanting story of Murphy's return to Scotland in search of Shivas Irons and his wisdom about golf and human potential. Murphy's quest takes him from the mystical golf courses of Scotland, across the world to the first Russian Open Golf Championship, and finally to Pebble Beach on the California Coast. The result is a delightful exploration of the inner game of golf and a provocative inquiry into our remarkable possibilities for growth and transformation.

Download or read book The Age of Shiva written by Manil Suri and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India, 1955. As the scars of Partition are beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured: in the spotlight is Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. But when Meera's reverie comes true, it does not lead to the fairy-tale marriage she imagined. Meera has no choice but to obey her in-laws, tolerate Dev's drunken night-time fumblings, even observe the most arduous of Hindu fasts for his longevity. A move to Bombay seems at first like a fresh start, but soon that dream turns to ashes. It is only when their son is born that things change and Meera is ready to unleash the passion she has suppressed for so long.

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Download or read book Shiva written by Vanamali and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional understanding of Shiva told through stories and teachings from the Shiva Mahapurana • Explains Shiva’s contradictory forms, such as destroyer or benefactor, and how his form depends on the needs of the devotee • Reveals how Shiva’s teachings allow one to see through the illusions at the root of all grief and alienation in human life • Explores Shiva’s relationships with Durga, Shakti, Sati, and Parvati and with his sons Ganesha and Kartikeya Shiva, the most ancient and complex deity of the Hindu pantheon, has been portrayed in many contrasting lights: destroyer and benefactor, ascetic and householder, wild demon slayer and calm yogi atop Mount Kailash. Drawing from the Hindu sacred text the Shiva Mahapurana--said to be written by Shiva himself--Vanamali selects the essential stories of Shiva, both those from his dark wild side and those from his benevolent peaceful side. Vanamali discusses Shiva’s many avatars such as Shambunatha and Bhola, as well as Dakshinamurti who taught the shastras and tantras to the rishis. She explores Shiva’s relationships with Durga, Shakti, Sati, and Parvati and with his sons Ganesha and Kartikeya. Examining Shiva’s acceptance of outsiders, Vanamali explains why ghosts and ghouls are his attendants and why his greatest devotees are demon kings, like Ravana. She includes famous Shiva stories such as the Descent of the River Ganga and Churning the Milky Ocean as well as those that reveal the origin of the festival of lights, Diwali; his creation of the cosmic couple, or hierogamos; and how Shiva and Parvati taught the world the secrets of Kundalini Shakti. The author also draws upon Shaivite teachings to illustrate the differences between Western science and Vedic science and their explanations for the origins of consciousness. Integrating Shiva’s two sides, the fierce and the peaceful, Vanamali reveals that Shiva’s form depends on the needs of the devotee. Understanding his teachings allows one to see through the illusions at the root of all grief and alienation in human life, for Shiva is the wielder of maya who does not fall under its spell. While Ganesha is known as the remover of obstacles, Shiva is the remover of tears.

Download or read book Stunning written by Sivkishen Ji and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sivkishen Ji, author lucidly dealt in this "Stunning Kingdom of Shiva Series-6", even more widely, with the delivery of Vedic Wisdom admittedly a difficult subject being the essence of Vedas, Samhitas, Upanishads, Puranas, and Epic Literature that benefits every branch in bettering lives. More stress given to the licensed Color Images to provide the readers with the rare collection and to let them know the true postures of the forms of the Divinity. Sure I am, they will enjoy supreme bliss. The Story moved forwards as Parvati remembered the curse of Syamala. As cursed, she fell in love with Lord Shiva and experiencing sex-starved married life and continuously suffering from the torture of Tarakasura and carving to have a son. Even miss the natural affections from her husband. Her first son is from sweat and is blind. He failed to recognize her as his mother but desired a physical sexual union with her. Her husband pierced his heart with the same Trident that she used on the battlefield. Now she plans to have the second son outside the womb. Now worried whether this newborn from her bodily dirt and his head would get cut by Lord Shiva with the same sword she used against MahisasuraThe story takes the reader to the Stunning Science hidden in the Rigveda Hiranyagarbha Sukta, Agni Sukta and Bhu Sukta unfolded now the Vedic Truths. The author explained that Mount Kailash, which is the center of the universe as Trika, the three folds energies of Water, Fire, and Air elements in the Sky and on the Earth. Rig Veda directly addresses Agni as energy. Artha- Veda, 20.41.1-3 describes Him as the Atomic energy.Agni transformed into matter beginning with water even as in liquid Fire form. The Earth surrounded by the liquid outer core, an iron alloy, whose convection-driven movement generates the geomagnetic field. Sivkishen Ji detailed that the inner core of the Earth has a diameter of about three-quarters that of the Moon and a mass density almost 13 times greater than the density of water. The mass of the inner core is about one hundred million- million - million tons -- which is about 30% greater than the mass of the Moon. About a billion amps of current are flowing into and out of the inner core, across the boundary between the inner and outer cores. This current, in the presence of a magnetic field, results in forces applied to the inner core, which then rotates. The magnetic field pushes eastwards on the inner core, causing it to spin faster than the Earth, but it also pushes in the opposite direction in the liquid outer core, which creates a westward motion. The discovery of such a fundamental property will advance planetary understanding.Mount Kailash acts like a Churning Rod of Cosmic Axis, causing dual spins of the Earth. As well, on the Cosmological Significance of Moon effect of Waxing Crescent that is more predominant on the fourth day of the waxing Moon. This could cause immense harm to the inhabits on the major tectonic plate, Indo-Australian Plate that includes the continent of Australia and surrounding ocean, and extends northwest to include the Indian subcontinent and adjacent waters.The release of undesired gravitational pull on the entire water kingdom of this region and allowing the "Plate" under the ocean to be erratic giving rise to earthquakes and volcano with heavy rains and cyclones along with unabated poisonous solar gases that might lead to chaos and diseases. This work teaches on how to be vigil and guard against the poisonous Moon rays released by converting as festivals on waxing crescent day in February/March, before the arrival of summer, celebrating Maha Shivaratri festival. More importantly, celebrating the Ganesha Chaturthi festival on waning crescent day in August-September, winter will protect the environment offering prayers with 21 leaves, flowers, and fruits. It is for the health and well-being of all. The reader will acquire a wealth of wisdom for all ages.

Download or read book Mesmerizing written by Sivkishen Ji and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his updated research work, the Kingdom of Shiva, the author, Sivkishen Ji has brought out high voluminous content as a most reliable reference work of Vedic Wisdom that placed all the hard to get facts and hard to decode Vedic Hymns. Sivkishen Ji added new material in this Mesmerizing Kingdom of Shiva Series-3 and the entire plot woven typically setting the unique circumstances to propel in the story teaching science from the essence of Rig Vedic Hymns, Marut Suktas, Sri Rudram Namakam, and Chamakam, Agama Shastra, Temple Architecture, Vastu Purusha, Sri Rudram, All-Powerful Microbes, Sri Chakra, Shilpa Shastra, and Cosmic Energy. He explained how the Vedas have harnessed their capabilities and Agamas adopted them in all rituals of worship, customs, and etiquette bestowed with the positive energy, and get removed the negative thoughts instantly. The author Sivkishen Ji is having both electronic and traditional publishing rights under US copyright registration ISBN TX 8-238-600 dated 15.02.2016 for his work Kingdom of Shiva and also holding copyright under registration No 54426 of 2013 25th September 2013.The very birth of Adi Parashakti as Parvati, Lord Vishnu as Ganga being her elder sister and Lord Brahma as Ekaparna and Lord Shiva as Ekapatala in the divine womb of Mainavati queen consort of Himalayan Mount King Himavan.The main character in this work is Syamala, became Sthapati Sivani, the chief Sevita of Kanakachala Temple, being Sthapati, and became an authority on Vedas, and Agamas, since learned all sciences from Yoginis, Yakshini, Matrikas and the guardians of Sri Chakra. Sthapati Sivani was very happy and rejoicing, and dutifully taking care of all the rituals of the Temple duly assisted by 1404 Kanya Sevita, who was wholly devoted to the service of Kanakachala Temple. As directed by the great goddess, the queen Mainavati and king Himavan with his most beloved four daughters accompanied by Yogins Somaprabha, Jaya, Vijaya, and Jayanthi. All of them reached Kanakachala Temple in the 'Mesmerizing' Shambala, the Kingdom of Shiva by 'Manasa Vahana' to arrange a ceremony of their initiation and impart the fourfold highest knowledgeNandiswara and Sevita Sivani were all set to receive the King Himavan and his Queen Mainavati and their beloved daughters Ganga, Parvati, Ekaparna, and Ekapatala along with the 64 Yogins, 25 Sumangali, and 18 Rishika along with Ashta Yakshini and Saptamatrika. Now the most Mesmerizing story moves forward.Sivkishen Ji, the author lucidly explains Vedic Sciences. The author took great care in bringing out this even more vividly with authenticity while e delivering Vedic Wisdom admittedly a difficult subject being the essence of Vedas, Samhitas, Upanishads, Puranas, and Epic Literature. Throughout this history, one thing has remained constant. Magnets made from solid materials as iron attracted to it. The mesmerizing fact is that Microbes create "soft" magnets that can flow and change shape, and that could be a boon to medicine and robotics.This work teaches why each significant stage of life, from conception to cremation, celebrated, as a reminder that life is a gift from God should live with respect.The author presented this work at par with Devi Bhagavata, Devi Gita, Shiva Purana, Padma Purana, Ganesha Purana, Linga Purana, Brahmanda Purana, Agni Purana, Vayu Purana, Srimad Bhagavat as well other mythological works with colourful illustrations that were licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License and Content under CC-BY-SA. This is truly 'Mesmerizing' as it is unfolding the creative secrets with a scientific base of Vedic wisdom and opens the mind to the cosmos around it and creating a whirlpool of cosmic power and thus imparting wisdom in the field of Vedic literature. This work enriches the younger generation with the most important tenet of Dharma, which bestows them good karma, character, and health!Read, cherish, and share now

Download or read book Understanding Shiva written by D. K. Hema Hari and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Water Wars written by Vandana Shiva and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world's most prominent radical scientist."The GuardianVandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmentalist and campaigner, examines the e~water warse(tm) of the twenty-first century: the aggressive privatization by the multinationals of communal water rights.While drought and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The water wars of the twenty-first century may match -- or even surpass -- the oil wars of the twentieth. In Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit, acclaimed author Vandana Shiva sheds light on the activists who are fighting corporate manoeuvres to convert this life-sustaining resource into more gold for the elites.In Water Wars, Shiva uses her remarkable knowledge of science and society to outline the emergence of corporate culture and the historical erosion of communal water rights. Using the international water trade and industrial activities such as damming, mining, and aquafarming as her lens, Shiva exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor as they are stripped of rights to a precious common good.Shiva calls for a movement to preserve water access for all, and offers a blueprint for global resistance based on examples of successful campaigns.

Download or read book Meeting Shiva written by Tiziana Stupia and published by Changemakers Books. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meeting Shiva is a spiritual memoir. Tiziana, a single woman in her mid-thirties, is at the end of an adventurous overland trip through the Himalayas, which she embarked on to search for her tantric soul mate. When the soul mate hasn’t materialized after eight months of wandering through Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan and India, she decides to go home. Before her departure, she sets out on a final mountain trip. It is here that she meets Rudra, the man she has been waiting for all her life. But there is a catch: Rudra is a sannyasi, a celibate Hindu monk who lives in an austere ashram in the remote Himalayas. The two get drawn into an intense, romantic relationship that soon spirals out of control as Tiziana is drawn into a past long forgotten that ultimately leads her through pain and misery to healing and transformation. ,

Download or read book Shiva written by David Frawley and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Shiva is the personification of all the main practices of Yoga, as the origin and ruling power over asana, prana, mantra, inner seeing and meditation. The current book unfolds the presence, light, energy and consciousness of the Supreme Shiva to take us beyond all death and duality.

Download or read book Book of Shiva written by Namita Gokhale and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shiva: Destroyer and Protector, Supreme Ascetic and Lord of the Universe. He is Ardhanarishwara, half-man and half-woman; he is Neelakantha, who drank poison to save the three worlds-and yet, when crazed with grief at the death of Sati, set about destroying them. Shiva holds within him the answers to some of the greatest dilemmas that have perplexed mankind. Who is Shiva? Why does he roam the world as a naked ascetic covered with ash? What was the tandava? What is the story behind the worship of the linga and what vision of the world does it signify? Namita Gokhale examines these questions and many others that lie within the myriad of stories about Shiva. Even as she unravels his complexities, she finds a philosophy and worldview that is terrifying and yet life affirming-an outlook that is to many the essence of Indian thought.

Download or read book In Search of Shiva written by Haroon Khalid and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden within the rising tide of Islamic puritanism and extremism in Pakistan there is another world of Islamic religiosity which does not look towards the Middle East for its religious identity but is instead rooted in the cultural beliefs of South Asia. Comprising traditions that have their roots in the antiquity of the Indus Valley Civilization, it finds expression in shrines of phallic offerings, sacred animals and sacred trees. In the backdrop of economic development and rising extremism, these shrines exist as an anomaly and are increasingly at risk of being eroded. Growing connectivity between rural and urban areas further threatens the distinctiveness of these shrines and religious traditions. In Search of Shiva documents these religious traditions and studies how they have survived over the years and are now adapting to the increasingly rigid religious climate in Pakistan.

Download or read book Age of Shiva written by James Lovegrove and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE AGE OF WAR! Zachary Bramwell, better known as the comics artist Zak Zap, is pushing forty and wondering why his life isn’t as exciting as the lives of the superheroes he draws. Then he’s shanghaied by black-suited goons and flown to Mount Meru, a vast complex built atop an island in the Maldives. There, Zak meets a trio of billionaire businessmen who put him to work designing costumes for a team of godlike super-powered beings based on the ten avatars of Vishnu from Hindu mythology. The Ten Avatars battle demons and aliens and seem to be the saviours of a world teetering on collapse. But their presence is itself a harbinger of apocalypse. The Vedic “fourth age” of civilisation, Kali Yuga, is coming to an end, and Zak has a ringside seat for the final, all-out war that threatens the destruction of Earth.

Download or read book Shiva written by Wolf-Dieter Storl and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive look at all the aspects of multi-natured Shiva • Explores the shamanic roots of world spirituality as exemplified by this Hindu god who shares many of the attributes of the Norse Odin and the Celtic Cernunnos • Looks at Shiva’s relation to contemporary culture, Tantra, and the dualistic religions of the West To his devotees Shiva is the entire universe and the core of all beings. Hindu myth shows him appearing at the beginning of creation as a giant pillar of fire from which this world sprang forth. Yet he is also the most approachable of gods, for he is the lover of lovers and the devotee of his devotees. Of the 1,008 names of Shiva, Pashupati, Lord of Animals, is one of the most common. His special relation to animals along with his trickster nature reveal the deep connection of Shiva to shamanism and other gods such as the Norse Odin and the Celtic Cernunnos that came out of the Paleolithic traditions. Ethnologist Wolf-Dieter Storl was first captivated by Shiva when he was in India as a visiting scholar at Benares Hindu University. In this book he invites readers to join in the lively and mythical world of Shiva, or Mahadev, God of All Gods. Shiva is a study in contrasts: As the lord of dance he looses himself in ecstatic abandon; with his consort Parvati he can make love for 10,000 years. Both men and women worship him for his ability to unite and balance masculine and feminine energies. But as the ascetic Shankar he sits in deep meditation, shunning women, and none dare disturb him lest he open his third eye and immolate the entire universe. Lord of intoxicants and poisons, he is the keeper of secret occult knowledge and powers, for which he is worshipped by yogis and demons alike. Shiva dances both the joy of being and the dance of doom--but in every aspect he breaks through the false ego to reveal the true self lying within. This is his true power.