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| Dressed as a yogin, wearing a tiger skin, covered with ashes from the funeral pyre and enveloped by writhing serpents, Shiva is the embodiment of radical behavior. He is often surrounded by ghosts and goblins (bhutas and ganas) that follow him from the cremation ground, where, according to one story, he is cursed to wonder holding a skull as a begging bowl. He is the Supreme Yogin who incinerated Kama, the god of Desire, an act that celebrates the yogin’s ability to transcend worldly attachments and to merge with the source of existence, the Supreme Consciousness that is later personified as Shiva himself in the Tantric tradition...read more about the spiritual symbolism of Shiva, the ‘Lord of Yoga.’ |
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