About the Book: Shiva: LORD OF THE COSMIC DANCE
Of all the gods in Hinduism, Shiva is the most fascinating and intriguing. He
is an outsider who lives on the fringes of tradition and is yet not only a
prominent third of the great Hindu Trinity but also Mahadev—the greatest of them
all— baffling and transcending human presuppositions of the Divine. In his
supremacy, Shiva stands outside, even contradicts, human categories and
conventions. He appears to be the embodiment of paradoxes but in fact transcends
them—the epitome of rage and horror as Bhairava and Rudra and yet also the
zenith of auspiciousness and gentleness as Pashupati