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NAMAH SHIVAY This is a pretty good book to have an idea of importance of Lord Shiva and his major legends in Hindu Mythology, . .
it is an abridged version of Siva Purana one ofimportant puranas in Hindu faith and religion, . . If someone Want to know deeper stuff about Lord Siva it's better to read thepages book which covers everything, . . but I recommend this book to anyone who want to have a great reading experience of Lord Siva legends and have a life changing experience, . . Author has made a good attempt in summarizing the great Siva Purana, but too much of pervert sensual imagination in the narration undermines the spirituality of the purana, Those who do not have prior reading of purana are likely to misinterpret and completely miss the teachings of the great Purana,

This book reveals the Shivapurana in a light that hasn't been witnessed in any book I have read so far, A very complicated text made simple to understand especially fr a generation that ends to question religion, An easy and amazing read,stars

AUM Namah Shivaya, I am struggling to finish this book as everytime I try reading this book after only few pages it left me with disgust, The way it is describing all the stories are so full of sensuality and without meaning that it has exactly opposite impact on the reader as it should have been.
I am not sure if this is what it is written in the original purana but I would never recommend this book to anyone who is an admirer of Lord Shiva and wanting to understand more about him.
This book is too literal that the true essence and beauty is lost,
Can't blame the author, the original is too ancient that I guess it requires tremendous amount of dedication and effort and research to truly be able to translate such work.
“an insight on lord siva, lots of untold faboulus stories, Great book the legend of Lord Shiva explained in simple words, . . easy to read and digest, . . apt for any newbies to our Great Indian Culture and Mythology, A must read

For me the best part of the book is getting to know so many Siva stories in details which I always wanted bcz I am a ardent devotee of the Mahadeva.
The way major stories are transformed in English from Sanskrit,is really commandable, For some stories I have heard different versions from other folklores but I believe the version told by Mr, Menon in Siva Purana is the true one, Out of curiosity I want to ask Mr, Menon that in almost all the chapters barring few you mentioned different incidents of explicit sexual acts between Gods and Goddesses and other mortal beings,were all of them actually told in the Sanskrit versionas no chapter/page/lines/verses was referred from the oiginal piece.
Rather it is applicable in all stories as neither of them was mentioned with referrence, Would love to get a reply on this "As I see images of solar prominences,
Have I glimpsed the opening of another eye
The unifying third that perceives and destroys it all

In a trance I watch those dancing flames
Looping onto themselves at times,
Jumping up with sheer abandon at others.


In the darkness that surrounds this brilliance,
I have seen the bluethroated one
And his consort wrapped in red too,

Melded in their eternal dance
Balancing conception with annihilation,
and blending sustenance with genesis,

It is Him surely, is it not"

This is how I saw Him while reading this amazing rendition of the shiva purana, I love this book, it is my favorite book of all time, I adore Siva!

The stories are amazing, the settings, the creatures, the love, all of it, This was the first book by Ramesh Menon I read, and my first ancient Indian text, I was delighted with space ships, pleiadians, fairies, demons and on and on, I never imagined that a book so old could contain so much, I also enjoyed the relationships between Siva, Vishnu and Brahma, I laughed and cried. Excellent! This is my first attempt at reading the Siva Purana hence i do not have a reference, I found the stories intriguing and the writing fluid, The book is in a narrative form and it seems like an english translation of the

versions available, “It is by the wonder of the fivesyllabled mantra that the worlds, the Vedas, the rishis, the dharma, the universe, and the devas exist, 'AUM Namah Sivayah' is the seed of all the living, ”
Ramesh Menon, SIVA PURANA


Unputdownable! This is the one best book, I've read in, The exquisite untamed charm of its own kind!

Hailing from a highly religious Shaiva family, I had been familiar with almost all the stories of Original Shiva Purana in Tamil, which I have listened to, like anthologies in my childhood, in the typical Tirunelveli style, along with sessions on Thevaram amp Thiruvasagam Muttrothudhal.


The extremely lucid language of sitelinkRamesh Menon presents the most delicious amp auspicious Prasada of ShaivaSiddhanta in a way to ingest inexhaustible, in English, The battle scenes were pictureperfect, especially the encounter of Kartikeya and Tarakasura, I became a fan of Mr, Menon's writing, and am intending to proceed with his books into make it a more remarkable year of reading,

First, I found the sensual contents quite repugnant as part of the highlyrevered Siva Purana, But, later understood that the author had taken a bold step to expose the Grihastha aspect of the Universal Lord,

Thiruchitrambalam

Gratitude to SruthaVenkatesan for recommending this to me, and for my first buddyread,

The story of Shiva, the Adiyogi is always fascinating and when the stories are told describing the Adiyogi as Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent and the ultimate God, it gets even more interesting.
For the ones who have not read the Shiva Purana, this is a faithful adaption of the same and a comfortable gateway into the entry of the mighty world of Shiva.
This is a good book, It contains short stories about Lord Shiva, I found the stories about Twelve Jyotirlinga most useful, These provide a very useful knowledge about Lord Shiva's greatness, What a powerful and a surreal depiction of Siva ! Very different style of writing compared to Menon's previous books I've read,

Not to be mistaken as one of the 'Modern rendition' its ancient, antiquated but aweinspiring nonetheless,

Siva and VIshnu's depiction and their reincarnates are spellbinding, Shiva the ultimate God

Book for Shiva by Ramesh Menon
This book encompasses the myth of ShivaSati, ShivaParvati, origin stories of Ganesha and Kartikeya, stories about all twelve Jyotirlingas, and demons which Shiva kills, which can't be killed by other Gods.
Stories here make one believe why is Shiva the biggest of Gods, not the Vishnu, Sustainer of God trinity, one might get a different feeling if one reads some other Puranas, as there are some stories where Vishnu has accepted the defeat and either went to Shiva or sent Indra, King of Heaven, perpetually troubled by Asuras, to Shiva for help.

I learned that many characters like Rudra, Virabhadra and Kirtimukha he who eats himself, Google it! emerge from Shiva, and are actually essence Shiva, I previously thought Shiva reincarnated themselves into them but not Shiva sent them out while he was busy doing meditation or sex, His stories with Sati and Parvati both reincarnation of Mother Goddess Kali shows the human side of God we know not much off, Story of Sati, as it is told here, seemed like a warning story for parents of a female child, It is essentially a story of girl who wasn't loved by her parents at all and ended up selfimmolating herself, Of course, she would be born again: what would Shiva without her But one must have a strong reason for the Goddess to be reborn and her marriage with Shiva.
So thanks to Brahma, creator of God trinity, who gave a boon to Tarakasura that he will die only at the hands of Shiva's son, So, that's why Kartikeya/Murugan, was born, who has mysterious birth read can't explain scientifically! Same goes for Shiva's other son, Ganesha and unique childhood, Third son Shiva which is not well known in northern India is Ayyappan or Ayyappa Swamy, who originated from lusty union of Shiva with Mohini Vishnu, in presence of Parvati.
One might read the reasons like some asura will only be killed by the union of two males, which seems like a later addition to me, I could be wrong!
The two villains who turned out to be almost invincible until, of course, Shiva Showed up to the fight yes they weren't even killed by Shiva's positive essences: Rudra, Virabhadra etc.
are Jalandhara and Andhaka both originated from Shiva's essence, Surprise!. Their birth and their childhood once again demonstrate the inability of Shiva to really take parenting seriously Remember Kartikeya was abandoned too! Nope, I haven't heard that they raise him either.
as he abandoned Jalandhara or given Andhaka for foster parenting to asuras, They were tough villains and had to be killed using Oedipus complex, when these asuras have taken a liking to their own mother, Parvati, unknowingly, of course, Shiva used this glitch in the boon to kill two of his sons,
Though I thoroughly enjoyed the stories narrated in this book but Shiva, being the biggest God, granted these stories an inevitability that by the end everything will be alright no surprise, of happiness.
In addition, the author had often ended the stories, with religious warnings and morals,
Overall, author has curated interesting stories from Shiva Purana which paints the picture of ultra cool, aloof, meditative, and destructive Shiva, He had also narrated stories about his family and his villains, I only wish that the author had told them with complete abandon, without the baggage of religiousness, as he did in his book, Krishna,
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