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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.16,0:00:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord Shiva— primordial destroyer of evil,\Nslayer of demons,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.70,0:00:17.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,protector, and omniscient observer \Nof the universe—
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.21,0:00:19.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was testing his wife’s patience.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.97,0:00:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Historically, the union between \NShiva and Parvati was a glorious one.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.28,0:00:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They maintained the equilibrium \Nbetween thought and action
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.00,0:00:31.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on which the well-being \Nof the world depended.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.86,0:00:37.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without Parvati as the agent of energy, \Ngrowth, and transformation on Earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.52,0:00:42.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shiva would become a detached observer, \Nand the world would remain static.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.91,0:00:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But together, the two formed \Na divine union known as Ardhanarishvara––
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.09,0:00:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a sacred combination
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.84,0:00:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which brought fertility and connection \Nto all living things.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.12,0:00:57.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For these reasons, Parvati was worshipped\Nfar and wide
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.78,0:00:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the mother of the natural world––
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.99,0:01:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the essential counterpart \Nto Shiva’s powers of raw creation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.77,0:01:07.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She oversaw humanity’s material comforts;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.95,0:01:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ensured that the Earth’s inhabitants\Nwere bonded to each other
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.18,0:01:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.68,0:01:19.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet a rift had grown \Nbetween these two formidable forces.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.89,0:01:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While Parvati sustained daily life \Nwith care and control,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.50,0:01:28.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shiva had begun to belittle \Nhis wife’s essential work—
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.50,0:01:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and insisted on quarreling \Nabout their roles in the universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.50,0:01:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He believed that Brahma, \Nthe Creator of the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.42,0:01:40.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had conceived the material plane \Npurely for his own fancy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.11,0:01:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And therefore, all material things \Nwere merely distractions called māyā—
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.77,0:01:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing but a cosmic illusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.42,0:01:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For millennia Parvati \Nhad merely smiled knowingly
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.08,0:01:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Shiva dismissed \Nthe things she nurtured.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.20,0:01:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But upon His latest rebuke,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.19,0:01:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she knew she had to prove \Nthe importance of her work
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.66,0:02:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once and for all.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.05,0:02:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She took flight from the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.28,0:02:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,withdrawing her half of the cosmic energy\Nthat kept the Earth turning.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.54,0:02:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At her disappearance, a sudden, \Nterrifying and all-encompassing scarcity
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.18,0:02:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enveloped the world in eerie silence.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.24,0:02:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without Parvati, \Nthe land became dry and barren.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.80,0:02:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rivers shrank \Nand crops shriveled in the fields.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.72,0:02:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hunger descended on humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.16,0:02:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Parents struggled to console \Ntheir starving children
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.26,0:02:30.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while their own stomachs rumbled.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.17,0:02:34.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With nothing to eat, people no longer\Ngathered over heaped bowls of rice,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.50,0:02:37.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but withdrew and shrank \Nfrom the darkening world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.81,0:02:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To His shock and awe,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.54,0:02:44.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shiva also felt the profound emptiness\Nleft by his wife’s absence.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.75,0:02:46.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite His supreme power,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.90,0:02:51.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He too realized that He was not immune\Nto the need for sustenance,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.18,0:02:54.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and His yearning felt \Nbottomless and unbearable.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.92,0:02:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Shiva despaired \Nover the desolate Earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.80,0:03:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He came to realize that \Nthe material world
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.18,0:03:03.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could not be so easily dismissed.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.29,0:03:05.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At her husband’s epiphany,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.06,0:03:08.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the compassionate Parvati \Ncould no longer stand by
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.26,0:03:11.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and watch her devotees wasting away.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.12,0:03:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To walk among them \Nand restore their health,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.70,0:03:16.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she took the form of a new avatar,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.43,0:03:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carrying a golden bowl of porridge \Nand armed with a jewel-encrusted ladle.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.16,0:03:24.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As word of this hopeful figure spread,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.90,0:03:29.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was worshipped as Annapurna, \Nthe Goddess of food.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.19,0:03:33.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With the arrival of Annapurna, \Nthe world blossomed anew.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.61,0:03:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People rejoiced at fertility and food, \Nand communed together to give thanks.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.00,0:03:43.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some believe that Annapurna first appeared\Nin the sacred city of Kashi,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.63,0:03:46.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the Place of Freedom, \Non the banks of the Ganges—
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.73,0:03:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where she opened a kitchen \Nto fill the bellies of the people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.03,0:03:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until they could eat no more.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.12,0:03:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was not only mere mortals \Nwho were served at her feast.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.12,0:04:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Humbled at the scenes of earthly pleasure\Nblooming all around him,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.73,0:04:04.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord Shiva himself approached the goddess\Nwith an empty bowl
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.73,0:04:07.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and begged for food and forgiveness.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.39,0:04:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For this reason, the supreme deity \Nis sometimes portrayed as a poor beggar
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.01,0:04:14.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the mercy of Annapurna;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.14,0:04:19.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,holding her golden bowl in her left hand,\Nwhile the right forms the abhaya mudra––
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.41,0:04:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a gesture of safety and assurance.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.30,0:04:26.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With these symbols, \Nthis powerful avatar makes it clear
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.18,0:04:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the material world \Nis anything but an illusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.83,0:04:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather, it is a cycle of life \Nthat must be sustained—
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.01,0:04:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the feeding of open mouths \Nand rumbling bellies,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.32,0:04:39.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the equilibrium of the Earth.