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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord Shiva – primordial destroyer of evil,\Nslayer of demons, protector,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and omniscient observer of the universe –\Nwas testing his wife’s patience.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Historically, the union between Shiva \Nand Parvati was a glorious one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They maintained the equilibrium between \Nthought and action
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on which the well-being \Nof the world depended.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without Parvati as the agent of energy, \Ngrowth, and transformation on earth,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shiva would become a detached observer, \Nand the world would remain static.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But together, the two formed a divine \Nunion known as Ardhanarishvara–
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a sacred combination
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which brought fertility and connection \Nto all living things.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For these reasons, Parvati was worshipped\Nfar and wide
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the mother of the natural world–
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the essential counterpart to Shiva’s \Npowers of raw creation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She oversaw humanity’s material comforts;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ensured that the earth’s inhabitants\Nwere bonded to each other
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet a rift had grown between these \Ntwo formidable forces.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While Parvati sustained daily life with \Ncare and control,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shiva had begun to be-little his wife’s \Nessential work–
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and insisted on quarreling about \Ntheir roles in the universe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He believed that Brahma, the Creator \Nof the world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had conceived the material plane \Npurely for his own fancy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And therefore, all material things \Nwere merely distractions called māyā–
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing but a cosmic illusion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For millennia Parvati had merely smiled \Nknowingly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Shiva dismissed the things she \Nnurtured.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But upon His latest rebuke,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she knew she had to prove the \Nimportance of her work once and for all.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She took flight from the world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,withdrawing her half of the cosmic \Nenergy that kept the earth turning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At her disappearance, a sudden, terrifying\Nand all-encompassing scarcity
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enveloped the world in eerie silence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without Parvati, the land became dry \Nand barren.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rivers shrank and crops \Nshriveled in the fields.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hunger descended on humanity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parents struggled to console their \Nstarving children
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while their own stomachs rumbled.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And with nothing to eat, people no longer\Ngathered over heaped bowls of rice,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but withdrew and shrank from \Nthe darkening world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To His shock and awe,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shiva also felt the profound emptiness\Nleft by his wife’s absence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite His supreme power,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He too realized that He was not immune\Nto the need for sustenance,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and His yearning felt bottomless \Nand unbearable.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Shiva despaired over the desolate \Nearth,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He came to realize that the material \Nworld could not be so easily dismissed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At her husband’s epiphany,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the compassionate Parvati could no longer\Nstand by
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and watch her devotees wasting away.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To walk among them and \Nrestore their health,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she took the form of a new avatar,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carrying a golden bowl of porridge \Nand armed with a jewel-encrusted ladle.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As word of this hopeful figure spread,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was worshipped as Annapurna, \Nthe Goddess of food.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the arrival of Annapurna, \Nthe world blossomed anew.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People rejoiced at fertility and food, \Nand communed together to give thanks.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some believe that Annapurna first appeared\Nin the sacred city of Kashi,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the Place of Freedom, \Non the banks of the Ganges–
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where she opened a kitchen to fill the\Nbellies of the people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until they could eat no more.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was not only mere mortals who were \Nserved at her feast.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Humbled at the scenes of earthly pleasure\Nblooming all around him,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord Shiva himself approached the goddess\Nwith an empty bowl
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and begged for food and forgiveness.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For this reason, the supreme deity is \Nsometimes portrayed as a poor beggar
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the mercy of Annapurna;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,holding her golden bowl in her left hand,\Nwhile the right forms the abhaya mudra–
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a gesture of safety and assurance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With these symbols, this powerful avatar \Nmakes it clear
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the material world is anything \Nbut an illusion.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather, it is a cycle of life that must be\Nsustained–
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the feeding of open mouths and \Nrumbling bellies,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the equilibrium of the earth.