The Kashmir Shaiv Darsana : ( Kashmir Shaivism ) teaches us that Lord Shiva has five principal acts Sristi : creation Sthiti :preservation Samhara: dissolution Vilaya: Veiling Anugraha :Revealing In the beginning, Shiva emanates the world by his own shakti ( sristi) . He then enters it as a player, but one who has forgotten his own Divine nature, from shiva he is now a jiva. ( vilaya) As Jiva, he is a Bhokta- experient and goes through all the travails, finally he becomes curious to find out if