 of the many names that Shiva is referred to. Soma is one of the important names. Soma literally means intoxication. If there is no intoxication, you will never be mad enough to jump into the ultimate void, which is only leverage. So, Soma like Soma Sundara is one of prominent names of Shiva. Always in a great, but fully alert. So, the story goes like this. Shiva was sitting near Kailash in a completely inebriated state. Then you spread all over India that there is a man sitting, so magnificent a man that slowly year after year, year after year people started making the pilgrimage. There was a girl who was a princess in the Himalayan kingdom. Her name was Parvati. And when she heard this, she said, I want to go and see him. The moment she set her eyes upon him, she just so completely overwhelmed by him. She said, if I marry, I marry only this man. Then somebody else played a conspiracy and he decided to get married. A big wedding was organized. Anybody who is anybody is there. The bride is all decked up. Everybody is waiting for the groom to come. And the groom came. Shiva walked in, ashmured, dreadlocked, fully inebriated. And all his friends, these goblins and demented beings making all kinds of noises. Parvati's mother Meena saw this man and his friends. And when she thought that her daughter is going to marry this man, she just fainted and fell. Then they revived her and she was completely heartbroken. How can I give my daughter to this man? He's wild. He's completely uncivilized. He's not even a man. He's something else. So Parvati went and begged Shiva for me, whichever way you are. For some reason, you put on a hideous form and come. This is also okay with me. But for my mother's sake, just saw a better form. Then he said, okay. And then he turned into a very graceful and beautiful form which was referred to as Soma Sundar, drunk but beautiful. Completely inaugurated eyeballs up. But he became utterly beautiful. Then Meena revived and looked and looked at this magnificent man standing there and she said, I would like to give my daughter to this man, not to that one. So inauguration, intoxication is an essential quality of meditativeness. If that's not there, if you're not drunk, how can you just sit? It was the most torturous thing. Simpliciting there like this, trying to concentrate on something. So that's his essential quality. So he carried the moon. That's his embolism that he is always drunk upon himself. No substances. So when we said, Shiva constantly drank Soma Darshan, he was not an alcoholic. He just imbibed the moon beams which he carried always in his hair and constantly drunk. But this blissful state is not a goal by itself. This blissful states eliminate the fear of suffering. Only when the fear of suffering is gone, only when this idea what will happen to me is completely eliminated from you, you would dare to explore life. Otherwise you only want to protect it. Whether a carrier or a business, it's all about security. Marriage is about security. Everything is about security. As long as the fear of suffering is constantly playing its role, now you will not dare to really go into deeper dimensions of life. Only if you're drunk like this but fully alert. Now, there is no fear of suffering. You're willing to go anywhere.