Why does Lord Shiva wear Lion’s Skin?
Everyone Knows that every item worn on the body of Lord Shiva has special significance, Not only this, but there are many parts of the body which have special significance, like his three eyes, damru, trident, snake, around his neck, and then the tiger skin. Today in this article we are going to talk about the lion skin worn on the body of Lord Shiva. After all, why is Lord Shankar wearing the skin of a Lion?
In whatever picture we have seen of Lord Shiva, we have seen him wearing the skin f a tiger. But even today most of us do not know why this is so, so let us tell you that actually there is a mythological story behind it .
According
to Shiv Purana, seeing the attractive image of Bhole Shankar, the wives of the
sages started getting attracted towards him and started gazing at him. When the
sages noticed this, they became very angry. The sages felt that their wives
were deviating from the path. The sages became very angry and vowed to punish
Lord Shiva.
To punish,
the sages dug a big pit in the path of Lord Shiva. When Lord Shiva was passing
through that path, he fell into a pit. After this, the sages also left a lion
in that pit. After this, the sages also released a lion could make Lord Shiva
its prey.
After that
Lord Bhole Shankar killed the lion, wore the lion’s skin as a cloth and came
out of the pit. Ehen the sages and sages saw Lord Shiva like this, they were
astonished. Later they realized that they were astonished. Later they realized
that he was not an ordinary human being but the real God of Gods, Mahadev.
Later they also apologies for their mistake
Har Har Mahadev
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