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.
