Swami Bon Maharaj's darshan of Lord Shiva

"Suddenly, my closed eyes were opened and I began to see, as if with newly gifted vision, a golden lotus floating down the current of the Ganges, that carries the fragrance of the lotus feet of Lord Vishnu.
It filled all the directions with its light, and when the lotus opened up and blossomed, blue-throated Lord Mahesvar Shiva himself appeared from it, with a bodily lustre outshining the sun itself!"

(taken from "On the Way to Vaikuntha")