Shiva means Infinite,the creator,preserver and distroyer of evils.Shiva is formless.The power or Shakti of Shiva is callled Parvati.Ganesha and Kartik were the first two illumined positive soul to merge with Shiva after attaining nirvana.They are also called the son of God just like Christ. Although people can meditate and take the postive energy.Few go for piligrimage round Mount Kailasha which has a high density of positive energy.People have never climbed it but they make 7 rounds of the mountain. The scientific reason for not climbing Mount Kailasha is that our body is not tuned with the high positive energy. Hindu art has depicted shiva using different artforms. Lord Shiva veritably presides over the worlds largest experiment as scientists today sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the worlds most powerful particle accelerator at the CERN laboratory near Geneva in search of the 'God particle'. The Natraja is the clearest image of the activity of God which any art or religion can boast of" ... "Thousands of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics There are various mythological stories behind Shiva which has been spoken and they are shruti. copyrights Hinduism Glance