To the well-known story of Shiva as Nilakantha Mahadeva, - the Great God with the Blue Throat, Swami Vivekananda gave his own interpretation:
"All beings, he said, who dwell within the folds of earthly consciousness, churn the ocean of Maya, that is human life, and obtain treasures that are pleasing to the senses; but soon the poison, death, must come to end the show. The monk, however, stands apart. Absorbed in the Self, he desires none of the enticing gifts which Maya offers; but like Mahadeva, he is ready to come to the assistance of those who lust after sense-pleasures, when, in the presence of death, they come to him (the monk) to save their souls. Then he destroys their Maya - their ignorance - and releases them from the fear of death. He also shows by this that the man of Realization has no fear of death.
-Life of Swami Vivekananda
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