Download or read book Meditations on Shiva written by Constantina Rhodes and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1995-01-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utpaladeva was a siddha and one of the great philosophers of Kashmir Shaivism. His poetry serves, and has for a thousand years served, as a guidebook for the spiritual path, providing words to express the otherwise ineffable experiences of personal transformation.