00:00What if saving those you loved meant severing your own head?
00:03You would share your bread, but would you give your life?
00:07The Pranatosani Tantra records a sacrifice that stunned the worlds.
00:11Parvati, the Divine Mother, walked the riverbank with her two companions.
00:15Jaya and Vijaya, her attendants, collapsed from desperate hunger.
00:19Mother, give us food.
00:20They wept, or we perish here.
00:22But the dry forest offered no fruit, grain or water.
00:26The creator of life, unable to feed her children.
00:29Look closer.
00:30As their strength failed, the goddess made her choice.
00:34She drew a scimitar, smiled at them, and raised the blade.
00:38With one strike, she severed her own head.
00:42Three streams of crimson blood squirted into the air.
00:45Her left hand caught her head, drinking the central stream.
00:48The two attendants drank the side streams.
00:50Their strength instantly restored.
00:53Eat your fill.
00:54Her head laughed.
00:55A mother never starves her own.
00:56The world's bowed to her sacred form.
00:59Shinnamastam, the severed one.
01:01She cut her neck, so others lived.
01:03What you give away, stays yours.
01:06Follow for one sacred story every day.
