<P> When she reaches her father's abode, no one welcomes Her apart from Her mother . Daksha does not even acknowledge Her and actually burns with anger that She has turned up uninvited . Sati looks around and sees no oblations set apart for Shiva and the lack of respect of her father causes Her mind to rage with great anger . She faces Her father's court and announces that Shiva is the father of the universe and the beneficent of all . It is the same Shiva that Her father vilifies . She burns Her body with the fires of Yoga. Her guards are beaten and thrashed. When Shiva came to know this, he sends Virabhadra, who wreaks havoc of the sacrifice and Daksha is slain . As Sati is about to die, She asks Lord Hari of the boon that she be devoted to Shiva's feet in successive births . She is reborn as Parvati, the daughter of Himachal and Mena . </P> <P> Years after the birth of Parvati, Nārad Muni visits her parents Himachal and Mena . Himachal asks Nārad what the future holds for his daughter . Nārad says that Parvati will be adorned with good traits and win unfailing love of her husband . She will remain ever united with him and bring great glory upon her parents . The only drawback is that her husband will be an ascetic with matted hair who is naked and of hideous accoutrements . Himachal and Mena become disconsolate while Parvati is greatly pleased, as she senses from Nārad's words that her boon from Vishnu is coming true . Nārad explains to Himachal that the only person who shows the virtues as described by him is Shiva . Parvati's parents are immediately uplifted and as Nārad leaves, he asks Parvati to fix Her thoughts on Hari and practice austerity . The young Parvati enters the forest and performs great penances in order to obtain Shiva . Her body thins greatly due to her self - mortification after which Brahma declares that she should cease her severe penances as Shiva would soon be hers . History had produced many great sages, but none had performed such penances as this . Brahma instructs that her father would soon come for her and that she should return home with him . </P> <P> Ever since Sati had quit her body, Shiva had begun chanting Ram's name and entered into a great trance . Through his mystic power, Ram asks Shiva to marry Parvati . Shiva says that this is not a justifiable request but the word of a master cannot be set aside and must be obeyed . Shiva remains in his great trance . Around that time the demon Tāraka was causing distress and was in full flourish . Brahma declares that the son of Shiva will kill Tāraka, but for this to happen His wedding with Parvati needs to be arranged and for that to happen, Shiva's trance has to be broken . It is decided that the God of Love should be sent to awaken Shiva . He fires five arrows of flowers at Shiva's breast, the trance is broken and Shiva awakens . Shiva is enraged and, through his third eye, reduces Love to ashes . Love's consort Rati faints as soon as she hears of her husband's demise . Seeing the helpless woman, Shiva foretells that her husband will now be called bodiless and shall dominate all without a body form . When Krishna descends on earth, her husband would be born as His son Pradyumna . Thereafter Brahma and other gods approach Shiva and declare that they wish to witness His wedding with their own eyes . Remembering Vishnu's early request, Shiva gladly agrees and Brahma proceeds to arrange the marriage . </P> <P> Shiva has no real family and so his attendants begin to adorn Him for His wedding to Parvati . His hair is formed into a crown with serpents forming a crest . Serpents form His earrings, bracelets and adorn his neck and He is smeared in ashes and has lion's skin wrapped around His loins . He heads the wedding procession and Vishnu and Brahma, as well as a host of spirits, gandharavs and danavs follow behind . After the wedding, Parvati and Shiva return to Kailash where Parvati asks questions around Rama's divinity . Here Shiva begins his narration of Ram Leela . </P>

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