How can I experience Lord Shiva?
Ways to connect with Lord Shiva
- Free your mind of all clutter and be pure as fire –Remember your mind doesn’t control you and your actions.
- Chant Om Namah Shiva- Start with daily practice of 108 times mantra and increase in multiples like 216,432 and keep going, you can achieve surprising benefits.
Why do I feel connected to Shiva?
A big reason for feeling drawn to Lord Shiva is that he is ‘asutosh’, easily pleased. He doesn’t seem to want much ritually, just bael leaves and water, if that. They say that one of Lord Shiva’s functions in our lives is to cure us of the presumption of thinking we know it all.
How do you feel the presence of Lord Shiva?
If you are willing to see the abode of Mahadev but cannot manage to see Kailash yet, then go to Kankeshwar Temple in Alibaug. You feel his presence. The temple is situated on the top of the hill, there are many long stairs to climb.
How does Lord Shiva look in real?
In his representations as a man, Shiva always has a blue face and throat. Strictly speaking his body is white, but images often show him with a blue body too. The extra eye represents the wisdom and insight that Shiva has.
What makes Shiva happy?
After taking a bath, one should offer milk and honey to Lord Shiva. It is believed that doing this, the problems related to livelihood, job or business gets eliminated. After that, devotees should perform Abhishek of Shiva linga by bhasma and water. After Abhishekh of Shivling, one should offer sandalwood.
Is Lord Shiva muscular?
Shiva, a Puranic god, started small as Rudra (meaning savage or wild) in the Rig Veda. Thus, from being a well-built muscular god, he becomes an old and poor dwarf with disheveled hair.
Why milk is poured on Shivling?
When milk, which is believed to be one of the best conductors of positive energies, is poured on to the lingam, the flow of energies begin to concentrate towards the lingam, and the devotee becomes the receiver of the outflow for his closest proximity to the lingam.