Lord Shiva is known as God of destruction in Hinduism. He is an ascetic, and most of the time, He is found in deep meditation in secluded place. He is OK, until and unless, someone tries to disrupt His deep meditation. No other gods have power to control lord Shiva, if He takes His Rudra form. Whoever deviate Him from His meditation for some evil purpose, He incinerates them to ashes. Once, Kaamdev tried to delude Him by putting the desire in His heart to get Him married with Parvati. Lord Shiva found disturbance in His meditation and sneered at Kaamdev and incinerated him to ashes. No desire can bound or swerve Him. Three demon brothers of Tripura, by the boon of Brahma, became invincible by any other gods. They permeated their atrocity all over the three words. Lord Shiva found them on the path of unrighteousness and the danger for the creation. Although, those three demons were the great devotee of Lord Shiva, He incinerated them and their city Tripura into ashes for the establishment of the peace and harmony in the creation, and put the ashes of the city on His forehead horizontally.
In some cases, we find that Lord Shiva did not incinerate the disturber to ashes but decapitated the heads only without any marks on their body. Lord Shiva is the embodiment of soul, a Purusha, and Parvati is the embodiment of material, the Prakriti. Vinayak did not recognize Shiva and stopped Him to meet Parvati. Lord Shiva decapitated his head. Brahma, the creator, ogled his own creation, Shatrupa. On this, lord Shiva decapitated Brahma`s fifth head. Prajapati Daksh is a mind borne son of Brahma, and father of Sati (form of Shakti or Parvati). Daksh did not respect Lord Shiva and ignored Sati in his Yagna. Lord Shiva in Bhairav form disrupted his Yagna and decapitated Daksh`s head. On pacify of Lord Shiva, their heads were superseded with elephant`s head (Ganesha) and billy-goat`s head (Daksh). Brahma`s fifth head was not required to be superseded, as his fifth head was so engrossed with attachment and arrogance of his creation that it was not possible to change, but to destroy it to make Brahma to think and act with his other four heads.
Kaamdev is a god of Desire. Desires indulge a creature in the cycle of material pool. He is God, nothing is unreachable for Him, and He is far above of desire. So he completely destroyed Kaamdev, the desire. Tripura city was created by three demons against the creation and nature, hence was creating imbalance in the universe. So, He destroyed Tripura completely.
The head is the embodiment of thought. There was not issue with Brahma, Vinayak or Daskh. There was problem with their thought. They had become arrogant and attached. They refused to recognize the true self, the soul. By superseding their thought, they got enlightened, and became venerable. In these cases, they were not required to be destroyed utterly, but merely to change their thought. These mythological legends are indicating that no one is great by birth but by thought. The possibility is there for anyone to be great by changing one`s thought under the guidance of supreme.
By: Manoj Kumar Baitha
(Source : http://manojbaitha.blogspot.in/)
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