In plain words
Īśvara's mount is Nandi; Pārvatī Devī's mount is the lion. As a rule, a lion that sees a bull will not leave it alone. A bull that sees a lion is badly frightened. Yet Nandi, who carries Īśvara, and the lion, who carries Pārvatī, live in harmony and set an example. Nor is that all. Subrahmaṇya's mount is the peacock, Vināyaka rides upon a mouse, and Īśvara's ornaments are cobras. As a rule, snakes hiss hard at the sight of a peacock, and when they see a mouse they try to catch it and swallow it. Yet the peacock that carries Subrahmaṇya, the mouse that carries Gaṇapati and the snakes that adorn Īśvara live together in unity. And then, what is Īśvara's own form like? The Gaṅgā upon His head... the moon on His crest of hair... fire in the eye on His brow! Water and fire are opposites. Yet these do not act as opposites in the least; they live in harmony and set an example. “Even though people's natures are opposed to one another, give hatred no room and live in peace. Take our family as your ideal”: this is what Pārvatī and Īśvara teach mankind.
With the sliver of the crescent moon glittering on His head, with His lovely mass of matted hair, with the gleam of the heavenly river flowing in those locks, with the striking eye upon His brow, with a throat as dark as the jamun fruit, with a serpent bangle on His wrist, with an elephant's hide wound about His waist, with sacred ash smeared all over His body, with a large vermilion mark painted on His forehead, with lips reddened by betel, shining in all the six śāstras, putting the dark lilies to shame and robbing them of their beauty, with a body of a bright dark hue...