The trinity comprises Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Shiva, the destroyer. If Brahma is the Creator, then who created Brahma? Vishnu created Brahma. If Vishnu created Brahma, then how come Brahma is the Creator? If Vishnu created Brahma, then who created Vishnu? Shiva did. Shiva is the creator? But, Shiva is the destroyer! So, how come the destroyer was the creator who created Vishnu, who in turn created the creator? Now, THAT is indeed a story.

And it does come out from within another great story, - the great Shiv Puran. For us to understand creation, we would need to understand about that point of time, just before creation. If the Cosmos exists, and the Universe exists, and the Solar System exists, then probably there was a moment in Time, when this did not exist. If it did not exist, then how did Matter, and so much of Matter that our mind cannot comprehend at all, how did this Matter get created? Did it take up considerable time to be created? Did it take millions and billions and trillions of our planet’s years for this cosmos to be created, and then did it take more time for it to travel around the great void and for the various universes, galaxies and systems to settle in to where they are to be found today? The Shiva Shakti merges into the whole universe. Shiva has been associated with destruction, but transformation, new beginning for the better, can only happen when something is destroyed. Shiva is the factor of transformation. “Sham” means peace and good and “kara” means one who does good deeds. “Shankara” means one who gives peace and does good.

The whole of Creation is the dance or play of Shiva, the tandav or dance of one consciousness, one seed, which manifested into a million species in the world. The whole world moving in an auspicious rhythm of innocence and intelligence is Shiva. He, Mahadeva, is the permanent and eternal source of energy – the one and only eternal state of being.