Why Lord Shiva 🙏 is called Mahadev or Maheshwara 🙏?
As a spiritual seeker and a keen student of Lord Shiva 🔱🙏 I often come across to a question "Why Lord Shiva 🙏 is called Mahadev or Maheshwara?" Here's my depiction on the same... The word Mahadev literally means the biggest god or the superlative one who is second to none. The other meaning is also the leader of all gods. Thus, the expression visualizes Shiva as the highest god in the hierarchy with the other gods occurring in the various strata of the pyramid. Shiva worshipped as Natraj best brings out this Mahadev principle. Lord Natraj is the dancing form of Lord Shiva. He is shown to be engaged in a cosmic dance. He has in him all the five elements namely sky (symbolized by the double drum or the percussion instrument he holds in his hand), air (symbolized by the deer he holds in his hands), fire (held in one of the hands), water (the holy Ganges flowing from his matted hair), and earth (the holy ash smeared all over his body). Cosmic dance is the final dance that ...