In lack of prior context, people referred the first enlightened person as adiyogi (the first yogi). Later, on one full moon night (guru Purnima), adiyogi decided to share his wisdom with seven sages (sapta rishis) and became the first teacher, hence, he is also called adiguru (first guru). He had perceived something which no one had perceived before. As per one of the theories, Shiva means ‘that which is not’, representing everything which is beyond our perceivable limits, something from a completely different dimension. As Adiyogi perceived this unperceivable, thus, he is Shiva. Every human is believed to have capabilities of perceiving what Shiva has perceived, hence every human is also Shiva. Every tangible and intangible matter in the universe can be traced back to the same origin as of Shiva, hence everything around is also Shiva. In Riga Veda, word Shiva means good or auspicious. Etymologically word Shiva originates from root word “Shi” which means auspicious. It is a
Shiva at Himavat's kingdom Coiled around Shiva’s neck is a hooded Cobra. Cobra is unique as it spreads its hood when alert. Thus, an upraised hood of cobra around Shiva’s neck symbolizes alertness of the mind. When a Cobra is in alert state, it remains still, representing spiritual stillness contrasting to restlessness of nature. If human body is symmetrically divided into two halves, left and right, the heart is in left half of the body. Heart beats is rhythmic intervals, represents rhythmic nature of the world, as the world changes in rhythmic cycles, rhythmic in form of seasons, tides, phases of moon, etc. Right half of human body is still and silent, representing stillness of spiritual reality and wisdom. Shiva holds damru (drum) in his left hand to seek attention of the monkey mind towards wisdom and spirituality, he holds trident in his right hand, through wisdom, he promises destruction of fear. Fear induced because of ever changing material world. Trident and da