Book Review: 7 Secrets Of Shiva By Devdutt Pattanaik

by Yash Sharma · December 26, 2022

Devdutt Pattanaik’s book Seven Secrets of Shiva educates readers on Mahadeva Shiva-Sambhu and his many guises. A delightful read.

What is 7 Secrets of Shiva by Devdutt Pattanaik?

Seven Secrets of Shiva is a concise book about Lord Shiva and the stories and metaphors related to him. It also contains tales related to his family, i.e., Goddess Shakti, Lord Ganesha, and Kartikeya.

Seven Secrets of Shiva by Devdutt Pattanaik.

The language of the book is easy to read. It also contains several pictures of Lord Shiva in his various forms. I strongly recommend this book on Bholenath to not only his devotees but also to those who are eager to learn about the eternal religion, i.e., Hinduism.

The book is divided into the following seven chapters:

• Lingeshwara’s Secret

• Bhairava’s Secret

• Shankara’s Secret

• Bholenath’s Secret

• Ganesha’s Secret

• Murugan’s Secret

• Nataraja’s Secret

Crucial points

Some of these lines encapsulate the book.

1. Lord Shiva takes his devotee from finite to infinite.

2. In a deep meditative state, he is Shiva, i.e., indifferent to the people and world around him. And with Goddess Parvati in householder form, he’s Shankar.

3. Bhagwan Shiva is not only Yamantaka, the killer of the yama, or death. But he’s also Kamantaka, destroyer of kama, or desire.

4. The number three plays an important role in Shiva’s mythology. The Tripundra, the sacred mark of Shiva, is composed of three parallel lines. He holds in his hand a trident, a weapon with three blades. In temples, he is offered the sacred bilva leaf, a sprig with three leaves.

5. Bhagwan Shiva has many names, and some of them are as follows:

Pashu-Pati: Master of Animal Instincts
Yogeshwara: Lord of Yoga
Mrityunjaya: Conqueror of Death
Somasundara: The one who is as beautiful as the moon
Dakshinamurti: The one who sits facing south

Quotes

Some of the book’s quotations deserve readers’ attention as well.

• Wisdom lies in breaking free from all differences, divisions and limitations so that infinity may be realised.

• Nature has no favorites.

• Imagination, it is the one thing that separates us humans from animals.

Why should you read this book?

You can consider reading this book for the following reasons:

1. Interested in Indian mythology

2. Like to read about Lord Shiva

3. Interested in knowing about the Hinduism

My Ratings: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

I hope you like this. Thanks for reading. Jai Hind.

You can also order your copy of the book from Amazon India- Seven secrets of Shiva book

Yash Sharma

Namaste reader, My name is Yash, and books for me are like a medicine, which removes my ignorance and also helps me in behaving more like a human.Though I live in the world’s largest democracy, India, but when I look around, I realized that this democratic nation of mine has turned into a kind of feudal oligarchy or kleptocracy, where people from a particular community or I would say particular surname has hijacked this democracy, and the political parties in India has turned itself into a kind of family enterprises where the family members are the only shareholders. And I want to change this, and books are a weapon which is helping me, so that I can help others and my nation.Shukriya for reading this Thought of mine.