7 Secrets Hindu Calendar Art - Chapter 3: Ardhanari's Secret

Male - creating sustaining, destroying

Female - knowledge, wealth, power

We create, sustain, destroy regardless of race

Gods are within all of us. Goddesses are around all of us.

Society has corrupted the meanings

Purusha, silent witness to game of life.

Upanishads - two truths, a truth which changes and a truth which does not change

Changing and unchanging truths

Sustaining, Unstaining 

Stillness - ash and snow - Shiva 

Left Side of the Body - Change

Right Side of the Body - Still

Male half - formless divine 

Female Half - divine that has form

Tripura Sundari Source

7 Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art - Chapter 4: Shiva's Secret Part 1

Shiva - The destroyer

What does Shiva destroy?

Scriptures tell us repeatedly that he is kamataka, Yamantaka, and Tripurantaka: destroyer of kama, destroyer of Yama, destroyer of tripura, which means destroyer of deiser, death and the three worlds

What are the three worlds: the earth, the atmosphere, the sky

Public, private, and other

Shiva three ash lines are the three lines for the three worlds

He destroys by shutting his eyes

Kali - movement

Tripurasundari - Goddess of the three worlds

Part 2
Shiva and Sati.
When Sati dies, Shiva is enraged. Gods sent Karma to help Shiva become married.

Shankara, the house holder 
Somasundara, when shiva become a presentable groom

Shiva consumed the poisoned to help save the word.

The river from his head represents life.  

Shiva is Eka-pada
Right foot - spiritual reality 
Shiva is forced into fatherhood.