You will not have a problem with anyone if only you can accept this man who is a complex amalgamation of everything that life can be. The whole struggle with one’s life is we are always trying to pick out what is beautiful and what is not, what is good and what is bad.
Such a complex amalgamation of all the qualities of existence have been put into one person because if you can accept this one being, you have crossed life itself. Completely contradictory aspects of life have been built into the personality of Shiva. The so-called civilization has conveniently eliminated all those un-digestible stories about Shiva, but that is where the essence of Shiva is.
Gods, demons, and all kind of creatures in the world worship him. He is everything – he is the ugliest, he is the most beautiful he is the best and he is the worst he is the most disciplined, he is a drunkard. But if you read through the Shiva Purana, you cannot identify Shiva as a good person or a bad person. Generally, in most parts of the world, anything that people refer to as divine is always referred to as good.
