Welcome to the podcast, SOTOMAYOR of Mystics and Mistakes.

Sadgrew, why is Shiva sometimes depicted as half men and half women.

Shiva in yoga is seen as the, not as a god, but as the aadhi yogi. That means he's the first yogi.

And the aadhi guru, that means the first yogi and the Adi guru that means the first guru.

And today yoga as a science, yoga as a system, yoga as a technology for inner well-being is available to us

only because of the feminine play that is, Parvati compelled him to teach. By himself himself he would have never done that.

So because he became the first guru, naturally he developed disciples and devotees of the first seven

disciples that he thought yoga too who are known as saptarishis.

Of these saptarishis,

the whole of southern mysticism has come from Agastiamoni.

He is everything grew us here because everything that we know is from him.

He was his Shiva's direct disciple.

Another disciple was Briquo.

Brigo became intensely devote about Shiva, that he became very feminine because devotion is

feminine. He became a great devotee of Shiva. So every day he comes

and he wants to do three times he wants to circumvent Shiva.

That means he wants to do protection three times.

He doesn't start his day without doing that.

And Parvati is right here.

By now she is also a fully enlightened being.

But he ignores her completely and he goes only around Shiva, never around both of them.

So poverty felt a little irked by this.

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