God Śiva created everything and its opposite—joy and sorrow, birth and death, pleasure and pain—all that is seemingly good and bad. Here the artist has drawn two people, one living in darkness and the other in light, yet both are seated in Siva’s gracious palm, illustrating that to Śiva both souls are divine, no matter what they do; one is not damned and the other redeemed. There is no intrinsic evil, no Satan or Devil that opposes His will.§