EveryThing Under The Globe

Remember love will always win

2008-08-20T09:37:00.001-07:00

I want to encourage you to do something that helps me achieve incredible success in my own life and in supporting the people that I coach. And that is to put into place a well designed system in the area or areas of love and relationship that you would love to create more success.

Let's say you set up a new communication system with your lover that you both agree upon looks like this:

1. You need to communicate something important.

2. You ask your partner when would be a good time to talk about this important issue. She/He lets you know a time. You have a date for communication-- either that moment, or later that day.

3. You communicate in a loving, honoring, and honest way expressing how you feel rather than placing blame towards your partner.

4. Your partner listens with receptivity.

5. You then listen to how your partner feels in a receptive manner.

6. From your conversation you create a new system that can honor your differences as well as support the health of your relationship, such as an agreement to give each other a loving kiss, hug and/or loving words prior to going to sleep instead of what's been frustrating you and then going to bed in two different worlds.
If Your Dating,
You must first create a successful dating system.And commit to IT,
and you will win everytime with what ever it is your looking for in that special person.

To create a new successful dating system:
1. Recognize what you really want in a partner.

2. Put your relationship past to rest by clearing up your old emotions.

3. Don't go out with everyone who asks. Be discerning about which dates will bring you health, energy and joy.

4. Be positive, honest, and self-confident all the time. You will be impressed by how many people will start to ask if they can set you up with a "wonderful person."

Successful tips to help in a current relationships:
1.Poems,often or not poems are always a useful tool in showing the person you love the most how creative you can be wether the poem was created by you or not.

2.Letter's, LOve Letters or bascic letter's can realy make that special someone in your life feel really content,joyful and overwhelmed with appreciation,And there fun.

3.Atrip to the theater occansionaly is alway's special wether your bringing him or her .

4. Reastraunts do not count,
Most people dream of having a great love relationship.
But you must first realize the essentials,
You have to figure yourself out.
What do I like,what do I want, exctr.
You must make some positive changes within Yourself—this is the key to attracting a good match. The right partner will come into your life if You become the right person for him or her.

Practice the following steps:
1. Become a better friend to yourself. Start treating yourself the way you would like to be treated. This will prepair you.

2. accept your own imperfect humanness with compassion, enabling to accept imperfections in others, to be less judgmental. Begin to have more realistic expectations of others.

3. Give yourself permission to love yourself and to experience more joy in life, thereby increasing your capacity to give and receive love.

4. Become grateful for all the good things in your life, which will change your mindset from scarcity consciousness to one of abundance.

5. Become more authentic—more honest with Yourself and others. Stop being afraid to reveal who you are, with shortcomings. This characteristic will appeal to them, and you will then discover a strong connection because of there own authenticity.

6. Hold a positive expectation in your mind that you would meet the right person. imagine yourself holding the love of your life in your arms, often doing this at night before falling to sleep. (There is power in visualizing a desired outcome as if it is happening now. Research has demonstrated that our brains react similarly to actual and imagined experiences. The subconscious mind can then help transform the imagined experience into reality.)

7. Dreams can come true!

And remember love will always win.

Regarding Salary Hike...!!!

2008-08-12T02:38:00.001-07:00

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M.Ravi Shanker
www.everythingundertheglobe.com
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More About What Backlinks Can Do For Your Site

2008-06-27T08:26:00.001-07:00

If you've read anything about or studied Search Engine Optimization, you've come across the term "backlink" at least once. For those of you new to SEO, you may be wondering what a backlink is, and why they are important. Backlinks have become so important to the scope of Search Engine Optimization, that they have become some of the main building blocks to good SEO.

Backlinks are links that are directed towards your website. Also knows as inbound links (IBL's). The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website. Backlinks are important for SEO because some search engines, especially Google, will give more credit to websites that have a good number of quality backlinks, and consider those websites more relevant than others in their results pages for a search query.

A Backlink (or inbound link, IBL) is a link from someone else's website to your own. Backlinks are one of the most important things to acquire if you want your website to list high in search engines.

These backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page and enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your website. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page. In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a website (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another website. Backlinks are also called incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.

The principle behind a backlink is very simple. The better your website is, the more people want to create a link to it. Over time, your website will likely acquire backlinks from other sites, especially if you have good content.

Another reason to achieve quality backlinks is to entice visitors to come to your website. You can't build a website, and then expect that people will find your website without pointing the way. You will probably have to get the word out there about your site. One way webmasters got the word out used to be through reciprocal linking.

There is much discussion in these last few months about reciprocal linking. In the last Google update, reciprocal links were one of the targets of the search engine's latest filter. Many webmasters had agreed upon reciprocal link exchanges, in order to boost their site's rankings with the sheer number of inbound links. In a link exchange, one web master places a link on his website that points to another webmasters website, and vice versa. Many of these links were simply not relevant, and were just discounted. So while the irrelevant inbound link was ignored, the outbound links still got counted, diluting the relevancy score of many websites. This caused a great many websites to drop off the Google map.

A backlink from a site that has quality content is reffered as quality backlinks or relevant backlinks. Relevant backlinks will hold you in a much better stead than a back link coming from a poorly designed or optimized site or from a site that has nothing to do with the theme of your site. The major search engines such as Google see incoming links from relevant sites, and give them more rank compared a backlink from an unrelated site. For example, if you have a website about web design products, your link strategy should target web design related sites.

Many webmasters have more than one website. Sometimes these websites are related, sometimes they are not. You have to also be careful about interlinking multiple websites on the same IP. If you own seven related websites, then a link to each of those websites on a page could hurt you, as it may look like to a search engine that you are trying to do something fishy. Many webmasters have tried to manipulate backlinks in this way and is referred to as backlink bombing.

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M.Ravi Shanker
http://www.rvshanker.wordpress.com
http://everythingundertheglobe.blogspot.com

Off-page Optimization Tips To Improve Your Website Rankings

2008-06-27T07:34:00.001-07:00

If we thinking about SEO optimization then the on-page issues are know as the backbone for any kind of website but we can't deny the numerous off-page factors which is actually boosting the search engine ranking position graph into various search engines day by day.

Actually the entire cumulative effects of off-page optimization increases the search engine scores into various search engines which are practically reflects the SE ranking through the help of on-page factors of that site.

Some times it is viewed that some SEO services clams that off-page optimization will be the determining influence of SEO optimization for any kind of keyword ranking but in a recent survey it was proved that a poor on-page optimized website will not able to receive the calculated goal through a brilliant off-page optimization.

We all know that the main goal of SEO optimization is to promote the selected keywords at search engines for batter ranking. Mainly the on-page factors are drown smartly into a website due to proper emphasis of the cumulative off-page results into the search engines for receiving superb keyword ranking.

1. Before starting the off-page optimization you need to know your site first thus you need a solid research work for your entire site. Checking of all required links i.e. inbound links, out bound links, broken links and cross links of the different pages of your site.

2. While starting off page optimization try to maintain a constant rate of submission. That means the rate of submission may be high or low but the main thing is to maintain that in a consistent manner to create a submission pattern into the search engines database.

3. When you are proceeding for any kind of link exchange (it may be reciprocal or triangular) you should not go for quantity of the number of links rather your approach for quality links is highly appreciable according to the organic SEO optimization strategies.

4. You should maintain a log for you maintaining, monitoring and regular tracking for out bounds links of your site. This log will helps you to reduce the number of bogus out bound links of your site.

5. Try to involve yourself to write down several articles regarding the theme of your website frequently and promote them in a quick manner. The number of articles has also a vest boosting effect to increase the search engine score of your website.

6. Nowadays content and banner exchange is really getting superior importance over to general reciprocal link building. Thus find out those important sites who are really seeking to exchange those things and convey them that you are also one of them.

7. According to off-page point of view any kinds of duplicate content exist at your site then it is very unfortunate work done for your site. Thus before starting off-page works obviously check that matter.

8. Nowadays blog writing and also placing important sentences into same theme based blogs is really worthy for any kind of site. As a hole keeps some time to spend into your blog practices for the betterment of your site.

9. Register into several reputed same theme based forums and consulting with them your business policies. This is also a passive publicity of promoting your business and the main logic is that they are offering to put your signature where you can place your web address as a link.
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M.Ravi Shanker
http://everythingundertheglobe.blogspot.com

Want More Website Traffic? Improve Your Ranking In The Search Engines

2008-06-26T10:03:00.001-07:00

So many of the clients who come to me wanting their website designed, or redesigned, also want to know how to get more website traffic and better search engine placement without paying for the "pay-per-click" sponsorships on the engines themselves. There are specifically two things you can immediately focus on to have the maximum impact, for the least amount of investment-HTML Tags and Search Engine Submission.

While HTML coding might not "be your thing," it is important to understand the fundamentals so you can strategically position your website with the various search engines.

Use Meta tags and web copy to your advantage.

When a search engine visits your website it will look at the page title, the Meta tags, and the body text. Before submitting your website to the search engines, pay close attention that all of your HTML tags, including Meta tags, are descriptive and accurately reflect your site's content.

Page Titles and Meta Description Tags

Many of the major search engines place the highest priority on page title and Meta Description Tags. Without a descriptive page title, your site may have a difficult time being found, as you are not indexed properly. The page title should be 5-15 words in length and include your organization name and a descriptive phrase.

Example-Home Page: Go-To-Market Strategies - a Seattle-based sales and marketing consulting firm.

Example-Secondary Page: Go-To-Market Strategies - Marketing Services.

After your page titles are determined, be sure to use a Meta Description Tag on your home page, as this information is what most search engines display to potential visitors in the search results. The Meta Description Tag should be a brief description of your company and be limited to 25 words, or 200 characters.

Example: "Go-To-Market Strategies is a sales and marketing firm that helps small to medium sized companies integrate the magic of marketing with the science of sales."

Meta Keyword Tag

The Meta Keyword Tag should include words or phrases that people would use when searching for your company's products or services. A good way to find the most popular keywords is to inquire with a major search engine about paying for a keyword. They will give you a list for your industry segment. You may or may not choose to purchase some of these keywords if your budget allows, but either way you should include the most relevant in your website's Keyword Tag. Again, try to limit the Meta Keyword Tag to 150 words or 1000 characters and review your keywords frequently, dropping off the ones that aren't working for you or are no longer relevant.

Body Text

As you consider your website copy and the tags and titles you plan to use within the HTML code, you must make sure the language between the two is consistent. If the search engine finds your tags don't accurately reflect the body text within the site, they will rank you much lower in search results, or possibly not include you at all. To verify content is consistent, use words or phrases that are relevant to your business (often your positioning statement) on your "home" page in paragraph form. The search engine will then compare all the Meta tags to the text on the actual page to be sure you are not in violation of their rules and regulations.

When creating your body text, do not try to hide your text by making it extremely small or by making it the same colour as your background. Many search engines frown on extremely small text, light coloured fonts on light background, and dark coloured fonts on dark backgrounds. Today, a search engine will view hidden or small text as a spamming technique and penalize your website or completely remove it.

Also, be careful about pages built with graphics only. Without body text on a website, the search engine will see a blank page. It is true that a page containing graphics or a flash movie may look more attractive, but it can prove to be disastrous to your search engine positioning.

Submit your URL to all the major search engines.

You can do this yourself of course, but for the time and labor you would spend each month staying on top of it-and you HAVE to stay on top of it consistently to be effective-I recommend you use a service.

Finally, don't forget to promote your site on all of your marketing materials. This sounds basic, but it really is quite common for people to not include their URL on their business papers, marketing materials, email signatures, direct mail pieces, etc. Do a quick audit and make sure your URL is on EVERY communication piece.
Regards,

M.Ravi Shanker
http://everythingundertheglobe.blogspot.com

Top Reasons Why You Need SEO Services to Succeed Online

2008-06-26T09:54:00.001-07:00

Almost every website that provides services and has products to offer requires SEO services.

These sites needed visitors to promote their products and to continuously improve their sales. Due to these reason, almost all website owners are now applying and working with the SEO companies of their choice. Website owners are becoming more familiar with the benefits of the SEO services to their clients.

Through search engine optimization or the SEO services are the manner wherein a certain website is enhanced and improved in order to achieve its full function. There are several SEO services that a SEO company provides its clients. These includes the analyzing the client's website, analyzing the competitor's website, working on the improvement of the client's website and continuous maintenance of the website to retain its ranking in the search engine.

SEO services start when they analyze your site. This is where the SEO services providers learn every part of your site. They study its present PR rank, competitors, links and most especially the contents. They also find the flow of the audience going to your site. From these alone, they can analyze if your site is an effective site. This leads to the reason why SEO services are needed, to be able to generate traffic. The traffic is the life of a website.

Remember, the more visitors that come and visit your site, the greater chances that they can spread the information to others and it can also lead to greater sales and revenue.

There are several ways on how the SEO services help in increase the traffic of a website. These are through the Internet marketing strategies like the pay-per-click, link building and organic search engine optimization (SEO). The pay-per-click strategy depends on the keywords that you use in creating your advertisement.

Further, the better the keywords that you use with respect to your products, the more chances that your site will be visited. Example, your products are jewelry. With the use of SEO services strategies, you can use keywords like low priced diamonds, pure gold jewelry or even wedding rings and engagement rings in order for your site to be discovered first during the search. On one hand, if your products are related to travel, you can use keywords such as group package or cheaper seasonal rates and the like. SEO services providers would give you reasons why you need to use these keywords must be written well in the contents of the site.

What are all these SEO services strategies mean? Primarily, the more informative your sites is, the more and frequent the visits that you will receive from thousands and millions of online users globally. You'll get all the help you need in optimizing your site's contents through valuable support of the SEO services providers. What do these providers do actually? For one, to make the keywords more effective, SEO services try to find the keywords that are related to your products.

You can also use the keywords that individuals frequently use when searching for your products through the search engines.

The paid links are usually associated with the membership for joining a certain directories or sites which offers linkage. The websites under these directories are usually high-ranking sites that make profit by accepting links. They allow newer sites to be linked with them but require payment in return. These sites usually have an area within their site where links are associated interchangeably.

On the other hand, other sites actually allow free links, as long as the site owners provide an exchange links to their site or they have to share the free links with other merchants as well. There are other sites that also offer free links but the exposure of the link is not usually that long compared with the paid sites. These sites are alternately paced with other sites that wish to be linked as well. This interlinking strategy is one of the best Internet Marketing promotion and strategy of the SEO services providers.

Finally, SEO services providers have this organic search engine optimization. This is the slow but sure strategy for websites. It is the most effective strategy among the three. This works by achieving a decent rank from the search engines and from that rank, you will slowly move upwards.

The website is enhanced and improved by the SEO services applied for to be able to achieve a rank in the search engine. From its initial rank, it will slowly acquire traffic and will slowly increase in rank over time.

This may take a long time compared with the previously mentioned strategies but it will last longer too. To invite traffic, your site must be attractive and filled with information needed by your target audience. It is important to consider the information written on it because it will help in the ranking of your site in the future.

SEO services needs to be continuous in order to maintain the rank of your site.
Regards,

M.Ravi Shanker
www.rvshanker.wordpress.com

Timing photos..

2008-06-25T21:47:00.001-07:00

"Never try to be normal.

Always question others.
BE The unexpected in your friends lives !
Most of the time, they will be glad you were ;-)
Walk on the grass and have fun with life.
It's sure better than letting life get you down."

Peace,

Regards,

M.Ravi Shanker
www.rvshanker.wordpress.com

Natural Search Engine Optimization Specialist - Drive Organic Traffic Using Wordpress

2008-06-25T03:56:00.000-07:00

Search engines have become the way people are looking for information online. Therefore, search engine optimization or SEO specialists has become a popular technique all website owners are doing to drive more search engine traffic to their website. There are various ways of optimizing a website, this involves onpage and offpage optimization. It is very difficult to predict how search engine rank your website, however, blogging has become a proven and effective strategy for SEO your website.

Blogging, in particular Wordpress Blog, is an the best natural search engine specialist. Why am I saying that?

1. Search engines like fresh content. You can write and post new content on your blog very easily. There isn't any complicated HTML coding for you to deal with.

2. You can perform your onpage optimization easily using Wordpress. There are various plugin tools you can use to insert meta description, page title and meta keywords.

3. Next, wordpress has a built in function to ping the search engine upon a new post on your website. That helps to inform the search engine bot to visit and index your website.

4. One powerful feature of Wordpress is that it contains various open source plug in available for you to insert keywords or tags in individual post. You can also generate a Google sitemap automatically to make it easier for Google to index your page.

5. Offpage optimization can be achieved easily too using Web 2.0 technique such as social bookmarking, digg, technorati, RSS... etc. Using Wordpress blogging, you are building a community around your blog and you encourage more reader participation using the comments section.

So, if you have a website and you like to search engine optimize your website. You must utilize Wordpress as your natural search engine optimization specialist, remember, using a Wordpress is FREE, you do not need to hire an expensive SEO specialist to perform the task for you.

Source: Ezine Articles

Site Ranking On Search Engine - What You Need To Know!

2008-06-25T03:51:00.000-07:00

Anyone who has some sort of clue about website creation and SEO will understand that having their website ranked high in the search engines is a must have for their site in order to gain free traffic to the site. Getting a Site Ranking on a search engine is not that difficult. Of course, without traffic your site will become obsolete.

Nobody on the net will visit the site which in turn means bad business for you! You could have the best looking site with the most attractive products for your market to sell to them, but if they cant find your business you will quickly fail!

So what can you do to prevent this failure from happening? Well... there are a couple of ways in which you can do this! You can if you have the money for it, hire an SEO company to look after the SEO of your website. This is fine if you have Tens of thousands of Dollars to budget for this kind of project. Its pretty expensive don't you think? However you can do SEO this yourself, it will not cost you as much as an SEO company will charge you and its not that difficult either.

A couple of things you need to know about SEO.

1) Onpage optimization

2) Offpage optimization

Onpage optimization refers to customizing your site's pages so that it is more search engine friendly. Offpage optimization refers to the building of backlinks (incoming links) to your website.Which is more important. Well, they are both very important factors but offpage optimization is more of an important factor to getting a good site ranking on a search engine. So you need to really concentrate on building back links to your website. Quantity and quality are the key points here. Your aim is to try and get as many Quality links from quality sites.

There are other ways to boast your number of back links to your site. Some of these back links include using social bookmarking sites to create incoming links, posting on forums, writing articles and using blogs are also a great way to have a site ranking on a search engine!

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Source: Ezine Articles

Customized SEO Tricks

2008-06-25T03:50:00.000-07:00

Customized SEO tricks – maybe I should not call it tricks, because that implies some kind of trickery – but what I am really thinking of is doing your own customized SEO and making it really easy.

So, whatever it is called, customized SEO should be really easy. And I am going to share with you some of what I call ‘tricks’.

Customized SEO trick #1: Your onpage optimization has one purpose: it tells the search engines what your site is about. Your offpage optimization tells the search engines that your web site is important. You must have both. But I think that people spend far too long on onpage optimization. It is just necessary for the search engines, but does not really add any huge weight to how important the search engines think your site is, so it doesn’t really impact your ranking a lot – maybe 10%.

Customized SEO trick #2: You need lots of backlinks to your web site from similarly themed websites and those backlinks should propagate in a natural fashion. That means not too many new ones per week. That means that your anchor text cannot be exactly the same from anchor link to anchor link. If they are all the same, the search engines figure you hired somebody to get you a bunch of links – and that doesn’t mean your site is important. And that what the search engines want to know.

Customized SEO trick #3: Use your keyword a lot in your page – but do not stuff your page. Use it as much as you can, in a natural fashion. Use your keywords in your text anchor links

Source: http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Customized-SEO-Tricks&id=480542

About Lord Shiva

2008-06-25T02:14:00.000-07:00

Shiva (Sanskrit: Auspicious One) is one of the main deities of Hinduism that is worshipped as the paramount lord by the Shaivaite sects of India. In Hinduism, Lord Shiva is regarded as the representation of the Supreme Being. He is known as the third element in the Hindu Trinity (Trimurti), the other two members being Lord Brahma - the creator and Lord Vishnu - the protector. Shiva is the destructive form of the Almighty. As the cycle of destruction and recreation is always in a circle, Shiva’s primary responsibility is maintaining the life cycle. Scholars say, as the Mahakaal, Shiva destroys and dissolves everything into nothingness but as Shankara, he also reproduces that which has been destroyed and dissolved. His symbol of Lingam or the phallus represents this reproductive power.

Lord Shiva is also considered to be the most unique of all Hindu gods and also the God of all. A great ascetic, Shiva is the only godhead who is forever in deep meditation, totally absorbed in contemplation in His abode, Kailaasa Mountain in the great Himalaya. Lord Shiva is also said to be inseparable from Shakti - Parvati the daughter of Himavaan - Haimavati. There is no Shiva without Shakti and no Shakti without Shiva, the two are one - or the absolute state of being. Shiva is often shown with many faces, as creator, destroyer and preserver in total command of the cosmos. He contains both good and evil. He is moody, free of inhibitions, easy to please, protector of the down trodden, and has the power to alter the laws of destiny. Thus, it is Lord Shiva is known as the God of mercy and kindness. He protects his devotees from all evil that are always around us. He blesses his followers with grace, knowledge and peace.

Shiva as Ardhanareeswara Lord Shiva is said to be half man and half woman. In the full figure of Siva the male and female principles are united. Shiva Linga - the symbol of Lord Shiva which consists of both Lingam (phallus) and yoni (the female organ) represent the totality of his nature and the totality of all created existence.

God Nataraj where his dance is to the beat and rhythm of creation. He is also shown in sculptures with many hands. One pair of hands, for example, represents the balance between life and death. Shiva is 'tri netra' or three eyed, and is 'neela kantha' - blue-necked (having consumed poison to save the world from destruction). Besides, there are a lot many attributes associated with Lord Shiva. Here is a brief description of some of the important symbols that depict Lord Shiva. Each of his depiction signifies a different aspect of his Supreme Being.

Unclad body covered with ashes: This form of Lord Shiva depicts that Lord Shiva’s presence is much higher than this physical phenomenon. According to some scholars, Shiva’s body smeared with cemetery ash points to the philosophy of the life and death and the fact that death is the ultimate reality of the life.

Jata (Matted Hair): The flow of his matted hair represents Shiva as the Lord of Wind or Vayu, who is the subtle form of breath present in all living beings. Thus it is Shiva which is the lifeline for all living being. He is Pashupatinath.

Sacred Ganga: The holiest of the holy rivers, Ganga flows from the matted hair of Shiva. According to a legend, Shiva allowed an outlet to the great river to traverse the earth and bring purifying water to human being. Ganga also denotes fertility - one of the creative aspects of the Rudra.

The Third Eye: Lord Shiva is known as the three eyed Lord or Tryambaka Deva. The sun is his right eye, the moon left while the third eye of Shiva on his forehead is the eye of wisdom. It is the eye that looks beyond the obvious. The third eye can search evil from anywhere and destroys it completely.

Half-Open Eyes: The half-open eyes show that the universes cycle in process. When the eyes are completely closed it signifies the dissolvent of the universe and when it is completely open a new cycle of creation begins.

Crescent: Shiva bears on his head the crescent of the panchami (fifth day) moon. This is placed near the fiery third eye and this shows the power of Soma, the sacrificial offering, which is the representative of moon. It means that Shiva possesses the power of procreation along with the power of destruction. The moon is also a measure of time, thus Crescent also represent his control over time.

The Cobra Necklace: This suggests that Shiva is beyond the powers of death and is often the sole support in case of distress. He swallowed the poison kalketu for the wellbeing of the Universe. The deadly cobra represents that “death” aspect that Shiva has thoroughly conquered. The cobras around his neck also represent the dormant energy, called Kundalini, the serpent power. The snake curled three times around the neck of Lord Shiva depicts the past, present and future time. The snake looking in the right direction of Lord Shiva signifies that the Lord's perpetual laws of reason and justice preserve natural order in the universe.

The Vibhuti: Vibhuti is a three line of ashes drawn on the forehead that signifies the Immortality of the soul and manifested glory of the Lord.

Tiger Skin: Lord Shiva is shown sitting on or wearing a tiger skin. The tiger is the vehicle of Shakti, the Goddess of power and force. Shiva is beyond and above any kind of force. He is the master of Shakti. The tiger skin that he wears symbolizes victory over every force. Tiger also represent lust. Thus sitting on Tiger skin, Shiva indicates that he has conquered lust.

The Elephant & Deer Skin: Shiva also wears elephant skins. Elephants represent pride. Wearing elephant skin, Shiva indicates that he has conquered pride. Similarly deer represent the flickering mind. Shiva wears deer skin which indicates that he has controlled the mind perfectly.

Rudraksha Necklace: ‘Rudra’ is the other name of Shiva. It also means strict or uncompromising and ‘aksha’ means eye. Rudraksha, the necklace worn by Lord Shiva shows that he is firm about his cosmic laws and to maintain law and order in the universe. The necklace has 108 beads, which symbolize the elements used in the creation of the world.

Damaru (Drum): A small drum with two sides alienated from each other by a thin neck-like structure represents the two utterly different states of existence, unclear and clear. When a damaru is shaken, the sound formed denotes Nada, the cosmic sound of AUM, which can be heard during deep meditation.

Trishul (Trident): A three-branched trident shown adjoining to Lord Shiva symbolizes His three fundamental powers will, action and knowledge. As a weapon the trident represents the instrument of punishment to the evil doer on all the three planes - spiritual, subtle and physical.

Nandi, the Bull: Nandi is said to be the vehicle of Lord Shiva. The bull represents both power and ignorance. Lord Shiva's use of the bull as his vehicle expresses the idea that He removes ignorance and bequeaths power of wisdom on His followers.

A Prayer to Lord Shiva

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Brahma Murari surarchita Lingam
Nirmala bhasita sobhita Lingam
Janmaja dukha vinasaka Lingam
Tat pranamami Sadasiva Lingam

Devamuni pravararchita Lingam
Kamadahana karunakara Lingam
Ravana darpa vinasaka Lingam
Tat pranamami Sadasiva Lingam

Sarva sugandhi sulepita Lingam
Buddhi vivardhana karana Lingam
Siddha surasura vandita Lingam
Tat pranamami Sadasiva Lingam

Kanaka maha mani bhushita Lingam
Paniphati veshtitha shobhita Lingam
Dakshasu yajna vinashana Lingam
Tat pranamami Sadasiva Lingam

Kumkuma chandana lepita Lingam
Pankaja hara sushosbhita Lingam
Sanchita papa vinashana Lingam
Tat pranamami Sadasiva Lingam

Devaganarchita sevita Lingam
Bhavair bhaktibhi revacha Lingam
Dinakarakoti prabhakara Lingam
Tat pranamami Sadasiva Lingam

Ashtadalo pariveshtia Lingam
Sarva samudbhava karana Lingam
Ashtadaridra vinashana Lingam
Tatpranamami Sadashiva Lingam

Suraguru suravara pujita Lingam
Suravana pushpa sadarchita Lingam
Paratparam paramatmaka Lingam
Tatpranamami Sadashiva Lingam

Lingashtakamidam punyam
Yat Pathet Shivasannidhau
Shivalokamavapnoti
Shivena saha modate.