About god shiva

Hariom Nama shivaya....I would like to share about the god shiva most of the peoples would ask me about him..Because he used to have snakes,moon,ganga and some other things in his body.Let me explain it
Jata (Matted Hair): The flows of his tangled hair represent Shiva as the noble of storm or Vayu, who is the slight form of breathing current in all existing beings. Therefore it is Shiva which is the support for all breathing creature. He is Pashupatinath.

Sacred Ganga:
The holiest of the holy rivers, Ganga flows starting on the tangled Hair of Shiva. According to a myth, Shiva acceptable an hole to the huge canal to cross the world and carry purify stream to person which being Ganga also denote fertility - single of the original feature of the Rudra

The Cobra Necklace:
The fatal cobra represent that “death” feature that Shiva has carefully occupied. The cobras just about his neckline too symbolize the sleeping energy, called Kundalini, the serpent control. The snake warped three times around the neckline of Lord Shiva depict the precedent, here and potential time. The snake look in the right way of Lord Shiva signify that the Lord’s perpetual laws of reason and honesty protect accepted arrange in the creation.

The Vibhuti:
Vibhuti is a three stripe of remains tired on the forehead that signify the Immortality of the spirit and evident of the beauty and manifest beauty of the Hindu Lord.
Let me say littile about it...acctualy you may see a white color stuff on the shiva head just like lined.vibhuti ash is generally the residue of cow dung that is burned in a sacred fire.

All the hindu peoples will use this for several reasons some of the reason let me give .

1.Placed on the forehead of devotees, it serves as a sectarian mark (tilaka). The practice of smearing holy ash on the forehead also exists in Zoroastrianism and Catholicism.

2.In worship connected with Lord Shiva it is a symbol of purity and is one of the main sacraments given at pūjā in all Śaivite temples and shrines.

3.The ash thus serves as a reminder to the believer to cast away selfish and worldly desires that wrap the self in maya, and calls to mind the story of how Shiva burned Kama (the god of desire) to ashes when Kama attempted to break Shiva's focus on the Divine Truth.

Tiger Skin:
Lord Shiva is exposed session on or trying a tiger crust. The tiger is the transportation of Shakti, the divinity of control and strength. Shiva is away from and higher than any variety of strength. He is the master of Shakti. The tiger skin that he wear the symbolize of conquest over each and every strength. Tiger also symbolize the desire. Thus meeting on tiger skin, Shiva indicate that he has occupied the desire.

Damaru (Drum):
A little beat through two sides divided from every extra by a slim neck-like formation which is represent the two entirely diverse state of being, uncertain and clear. Once a damaru which is Shaken, the sound created denote Nada, the space noise of AUM, which preserve be the heard through bottomless reflection.

Trishul (Trident):
A three-branched trident exposed adjacent to Lord Shiva symbolize His three basic power resolve, stroke and facts. Since a stick the trident represent the device of sentence to the evil doer resting on every one of the three plane – religious, slight and material.

Nandi, the Bull:Nandi which is said to be the vehicle of Lord Shiva. The bull represent both power and unawareness. Lord Shiva’s. The bull symbolize together control and influence. Lord Shiva’s use of the bull as his vehicle express the proposal that He remove the lack of knowledge and bequeath control the suggestion that He remove unawareness and bequeaths control of knowledge on His group.