26 Feb 2025 evening – Shiva-ratri (English) | London, UK | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • The qualification to get the position of Brahma and Shiva.
  • Number of qualities of a jiva, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama and Krishna.
  • A funny story about how a foreigner in India mistook the fireflies for mosquitoes that were looking for him with torches to drink his blood.
  • Shiva is called Shankara because his tattva is mixed (not fully jiva-tattva and not fully vishnu-tattva).
  • Lila of a small boy standing on shiva-lingam and getting the position of Kuvera by Shiva.
  • Shiva is easily pleased and easily gets angry.
  • Shiva never takes intoxicants because he is a Vaishnava.
  • Devi Parvati asked Shiva why he preached Mayavada philosophy.
  • Devi Parvati’s offence to Chitraketu Maharaja.
  • Never hide anything from your guru.
  • The origin of Mauni-amavasya: Shivaji, in meditation, saw his wife disguising herself as Sita Devi to control Ramachandra and rejected her.
  • Shiva is Gopeshvara Mahadeva. Without his mercy no one can enter the rasa dance.
  • Lila of how Shiva got into rasa dance and caused disturbance to Krishna.

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