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Neelakantha: What I Learned From the God Who Held the Poison

Neelakantha: What I Learned From the God Who Held the Poison

Varaparla, Mali Ramachandra

Paperback

Biographies GeneralDeath & DyingHinduism

ISBN13: 9798186238362
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

I was twenty-six when my father died - the same month I finally found the words to tell him I loved him, wrapped in a promise about biryani I never got to keep.

What followed wasn't a search for meaning. It was a god who wouldn't leave me alone.

Neelakantha is the true account of how grief led one man to Shiva - not as an idea to study, but as a presence that showed up in dreams, in a rudraksha mala worn so its weight would keep a memory from fading, in water poured over a stone at midnight when nothing else was left to give. It is the story of becoming, slowly and without a plan, someone strong enough to carry what cannot be put down - the way Shiva himself carried poison in his throat rather than let it destroy the world, and never once pretended it didn't happen.

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