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Rudra - The Creator of the Cosmos

The Shiv Puran introduces us to the sequence of the manifestation of Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma. And during the significant argument and fight between Vishnu and Brahma, the story later introduces us to the awesome aspect of the Shiva Linga. The journey of Vishnu as a boar and Brahma as a swan, in their years of quest to search for the beginning and the end of the Shiva Linga is tremendously depicted in the story, and has splendid metaphorical paradigms. The perspective of the Shiva Linga as an ego-buster between Brahma and Vishnu boggles the mind. The aspect of Shiva, as the creator of the cosmos is dwelt upon in this book. The aspect of Brahma as the creator, of Vishnu as the preserver and that of Shiva as the destroyer much later to the events presented here. The manner in which Shiva would explain the difference between Shiva as the creator of the cosmos and that of Brahma as the creator after the cosmos has come into existence is the most significant of the puranas of this land of ours. There are several Creation stories, but this is certainly not any one of them. This is the very First of all.

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