You know the story of the Samudra Manthana, but do you know the part where Shiva gets angry and forces a re-start?
This account, specific to the Kashidas version of the Mahabharata, argues that the process was not complete until Shiva intervened. When he commanded the exhausted devas and asuras to continue, the result was not the desired nectar, but a massive cloud of world-ending poison.
Shiva’s subsequent act—drinking the poison and holding it in his throat to become Neelakantha—is not just a heroic moment. It is a fundamental statement about the nature of existence: any creative process produces inevitable toxicity, and a stabilizing force is needed to absorb that chaos without being destroyed by it.
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