Shiva Trilogy book review

Series – The Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathi

Har Har Mahadev 🙏

Part 1 – The Immortals of Meluha

Summary - It begins with introducing Shiva. He arrives in the city of Meluha on the request of King Daksha, whose land has been faced by terrorist attacks from the Chandravanshi tribe which he believes has allied with the Nagas. While in Meluha, Shiva is recognized as the Neelkanth – an incarnation of the Mahadev, after he drinks the Somras – a healing potion, which makes his throat turns blue.

Part 2 – The Secret of the Nagas

Shiva searches for the truth in a land of deadly mysteries – only to find that nothing is what it seems.

In the second book the ‘Secret of the Nagas’, Shiva plays the role of being the savior who has left his homeland to fight evil. He and Sati are happily married.

Part 3 – The Oath of the Vayuputra

In this part, Shiva realizes that Nagas are not his enemies and determines to unveil the root of all evil and his true enemy. Along this path, Shiva learns that the Nagas are not evil, and joins the hands with the Nagas to find out the real evil.

The war ends with Sati’s death, but an enraged Shiva decides to use Pashupatistra to annihilate Devpuri forever.

Likes about the complete series -

1. This line from " The Secret of the Nagas" taught me something very important about life:

“The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don’t care a damn as to what happens to the other person.”

2. From the book of “The Oath of the Vayuputras”

One Sanskrit Shloka came up and it is the harsh reality which we do not want to accept

Ati sarvatra varjayet:

Excess of anything is bad. Some of us are attracted to Good.

Favorite Character - Sati 

When Sati ji was dying, he told her 2 sons “Ganesh” & “Kartikeya” a life lesson message.

She told to Ganesh that – Always remember how I died because Ganesh was the calm person so she wants to ensure that he remembers how bravely she fought and died on the battlefield (the great sign of Kshtriya)

She told to Kartikeya that – Always remember how I lived my life because Kartikeya is known as Lord of war so she wants to ensure that Kartikeya should lead a very simple and calm life.