Shiva Songs: Lord

Shiva leaned forward and touched Manu’s throat. "The song is never in the voice, child. It is in the listening. You did not chant my name to please me. You chanted it because you could not bear to feel separate from me. That ache is the melody."

Parvati smiled. "Then sing to yourself." lord shiva songs

And if you listen very, very carefully, you can still hear it. A low, eternal, compassionate hum beneath the noise of the world. The song that holds all of creation together, note by note, breath by breath. Shiva leaned forward and touched Manu’s throat

In the cremation grounds, where a lonely tantric sat waiting for death, the skulls around him began to gently rattle in time with the beat. The tantric looked up, and for the first time, he saw not horror, but the dance of atoms returning to their source. A smile touched his lips. He was no longer afraid. He had heard the song of letting go. You did not chant my name to please me