Everything originates from nothing and returns to nothing, as contemporary science is now able to demonstrate to us. Vast nothingness is the foundation of existence and the essence of the cosmos. The galaxies are merely a scattering, a minor event. Shiva is the name for the remaining wide empty space. That is the birthplace of everything and the place where everything is pulled back into oblivion. Shiva is the source of everything and is the source of Shiva.