How to Describe Siva?

Today, a song from Saint Tayumanavar for our contemplations.

CANTO TWENTY

The Indescribable
Song 1

You, the Being Absolute beyond speech, the ocean of bliss, the light effulgent, leaving me in invincible maya, where did You hide? Alas! Alas! You have offered me as victim to the dark God of death. So hard-hearted is He that easier by far is it to spin yarn out of stone than to expect mercy from Him. So tightfisted is He that He would store a whole sea in a mustard seed. Why You did this I know not.

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Siva as depicted by our Kerala muralist master.

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