A poem about coming to terms or the merging of the Ascetic and the Erotic. The beauty of the story lies in how Parvati attains Shiva through Penance.
Remarkable though, in the whole os the Hindu mythology She is the only woman who becomes the Goddess, becomes Shakti, the Supreme Power. This is the mystery, called the one of Being and Becoming (Bhava – Bhavani). I believe both are as close as they are fleetingly far. As mentioned in kumarsambhavan, after years of penance, Parvati becomes the great Yogini, the counterpart of Shiva, the great Yogi.
Kumara is an abstract concept – one of descent of the Timeless into Time and Space, of the One, the ungendered Ardhanarishwara. Whereby Parvati becomes the better half ( 
) of Shiva, the beautiful, all powerful Shakti. It is she who brings out the essence of Creativism, in the ultimate destroyer of the Universe. In Shiva-Shakti one can see a juxtaposition of matter and anti-matter, of being and becoming, of love and destruction, all together, with and without annihilation of the Self. She proves the idea of being and becoming from Human to God, a form from where you can see through and around at the same time.
Read it cause Kalidas has been at his literary best!
