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According to Hindu mythology, when the lovely Parvati was unable to win Shiva’s love, she set aside her jewels, donned the garb of a hermit and retreated to a mountain to meditate upon Shiva and practice austerities. After she embraced the life of a renunciate for some time, Shiva finally accepted her as his wife. | According to Hindu mythology, when the lovely Parvati was unable to win Shiva’s love, she set aside her jewels, donned the garb of a hermit and retreated to a mountain to meditate upon Shiva and practice austerities. After she embraced the life of a renunciate for some time, Shiva finally accepted her as his wife. | ||
Hindus believe that Shiva lives on the summit of Mount Kailas. He is pictured there both as a solitary ascetic and with his Shakti, Parvati. John Snelling, in his book ''The Sacred Mountain'', recounts how Parvati contributed to the origin of Shiva’s [[third eye]]: | Hindus believe that Shiva lives on the summit of [[Mount Kailas]]. He is pictured there both as a solitary ascetic and with his Shakti, Parvati. John Snelling, in his book ''The Sacred Mountain'', recounts how Parvati contributed to the origin of Shiva’s [[third eye]]: | ||
<blockquote>Legend describes [Parvati] playfully covering her Lord’s eyes as he sat in meditation on a peak of Himalaya. Instantly all light and life were extinguished in the universe until, out of compassion for all beings, the god opened his third eye, which blazed like a new sun. So intense was its blazing that it scorched the mountains and forests of [the Himalayas] to oblivion. Only when he saw that the daughter of the mountain was properly contrite did he relent and restore her father [who is the mountain] to his former estate.<ref>John Snelling, ''The Sacred Mountain'', rev. and enl. ed. (London: East-West Publications, 1990), p. 11.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>Legend describes [Parvati] playfully covering her Lord’s eyes as he sat in meditation on a peak of Himalaya. Instantly all light and life were extinguished in the universe until, out of compassion for all beings, the god opened his third eye, which blazed like a new sun. So intense was its blazing that it scorched the mountains and forests of [the Himalayas] to oblivion. Only when he saw that the daughter of the mountain was properly contrite did he relent and restore her father [who is the mountain] to his former estate.<ref>John Snelling, ''The Sacred Mountain'', rev. and enl. ed. (London: East-West Publications, 1990), p. 11.</ref></blockquote> | ||