The world trembles
When in anger you stumble
When in anger you stumble
Your fiery veins
Pumping out lava drains
Destruction complete
Leaves a charred earth
One whiff of rain
Germinating tree
Giver of life
Help overcome strife
Conception manifests free
Women in souls married to thee
Destroyer of evil
Let good prevail
In faith of mother nature to never fail
Scan from your third eye
But from your lofty Himalayan abode
Let cool winds chill you
By their beauty and grace
I bow to you
Let your anger be
Devouring the sinful
And never me.
Note: Lord Shiva is self-controlled and celibate, while at the same time a lover of his spouse, Shakti. He is the destroyer of the world following Brahma, the creator, and Vishnu, the preserver, after which Brahma again creates the world and so on. Shiva is responsible for change both in the form of death and destruction, and in the positive sense in destroying the ego, the false identification with the form. This also envisages the shedding of old habits and attachments. All that has a beginning by necessity much have an end. In destruction, truly nothing is destroyed but the illusion of individuality. Hence, the power of destruction associated with Lord Shiva has great purifying power, both on a more personal level when problems make us see reality more clearly as well as on a more universal level. Destruction opens the path for a new creation of the universe, a new opportunity for the beauty of universal illusion to unfold. As Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram, i.e., Truth, Goodness & Beauty, Lord Shiva represents the most essential goodness if mankind.
