Description of Kirtimukha

भोगा न भुक्ता वयमेव भुक्ताः, तपो न तप्तं वयमेव तप्ताः। कालो न यातो वयमेव याताः, तृष्णा न जीर्णा वयमेव जीणार्ः ॥

The pleasures of life are not consumed by us, it is we that are consumed by the pleasures.

A penance is not performed by us, we merely suffer the pain of the penance.

Time has not gone by, We have been carried away by time (without our consent and away from our goal).

Our longings have not been fulfilled or exhausted, we have been wasted by our longings.

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Once upon a time, a certain yogi who was a little too proud of himself arrived to see Shiva simply sitting there.

He stared at him, attempting to irritate him. Shiva refused to answer by merely sitting there, so he abused him. When Shiva didn’t react, he prodded him in the chest and added, “You’re merely sitting there because you’re terrified of me.” You have no idea what I know, and you lack my abilities.

This irritated Shiva to the point where he pulled a hair from his head and created a monster out of it, telling the demon, “eat eat up this yogi. He has no right to be on this world.” Within minutes, the demon had grown to enormous proportions and was following the yogi.

Yogi was afraid, so he ran up to Shiva and cried out, “Please, help me, don’t let this creature eat me.” Then Shiva changed his mind and replied, “All right, just leave and let him go.” The yogi then fled, horrified.