The second theme is the translucency of the material object of worship. The annual temple festival provides a rich illustration of Śiva’s multiple forms.
Therefore, the material forms that he may inhabit are also many and diverse. According to the Śaivas, Śiva intervenes pervasively throughout the cosmos. This essay examines how priests and worshipers addressed these issues in. Theistic schools of thought like the Śaiva Siddhānta and their iconophilic ritual practices are responsible for the profusion of religious images we see in Hinduism. The early medieval Śaiva Siddhānta school, a theistic school of Hinduism, positively embraced material forms as means for worshipers to approach the god Śiva.
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