Lord Shiva is the god of the yogis, self-controlled and celibate, whhile at he same time a remarkable lover of his spouse. he is the destroyer, following Brahma the creator and Visnu the preserver, after which Brahma again creates the world and so on. Shiva is responsible for change both in the form of death and destruction and in the positive sense of destroying the ego, the false indentication. The Ppurans are filled with some awe-inspiring stories about lord Shiva that you wouldn't have heard of. Let's explore a man, a myth or just Divine? According to Sadhguru Sri vasudeva- "In the yogic culture, Shiva is not seen as a God. He was a being who walked this land and lived in the Himalayan region. As the very source of the yogic traditions, his contribution in the making of human consciousness is too phenomenal to e ignored. Every possible way in which you could approach and transform the human mechanism into an ultimate possibility was explored thousands years ago. The sophistication of it is unbelievable.| Let's look at some mysterious Shiva legends. The five lov stories of Lord Shiva, most of us know about Parvati but Shiva has many wives, which are the symbols of feminine power. All of these goddesses are well known and worshippped. Their names are Shakti, Parvati, Uma, Durga and Kali. Each of these goddesses stands for something significant- Parvati is the goddess of love and romance. Uma is the goddess of motherhood. Durga is the goddess of justice and Kali, the last of the four, is known to be the goddess of death. Let's take a look at these love stories. Shiva and Shakti, Sati- since childhood itself, was devoted to Shiva. She chose to serve Him as His consort and when offes for prospective husgands began coming her way, she shunned them all, turning to mediate on Shiva. She oblserved rigorous peance, gradually giving up all food and water, subsisting on jsut leaves and them giving that up too. Finally, Siva appeared before her. he smiled at her for he knew what was in her mind. Before she could complee her request, Shiva consented to marry her. Shiva and Kali- There are man different stories in Hindusm that show an association between the two dities, Shiva and Kali. The exact degree of this association is under debate, with many claims indetifuing Kali as a sonsort of Shiva.