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Shiva and Parvati's marriage

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