27 Feb 2025 evening – Lord Siva’s Lila (English) | London, UK | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

PART 1

  • The Vedic Trinity: Brahma, Visnu and Siva.
  • ⁠Siva’s lila with Daksa, his proud and envious father-in-law.
  • ⁠Sati Devi’s sad lila going to her father Daksa’s fire ceremony even though she was uninvited, and the painful insults she heard her father utter against Siva.
  • ⁠About the lila in which Lord Visnu cut Sati Devi’s self-incinerated body with the Sudarsana-cakra and the 51 areas that became sacred when those parts fell on the soil of India.
  • ⁠Story of Parvati and Siva’s lilas.
  • ⁠Story of the Mountains Himalayan and Vindhyachal, brothers who fought over who was higher and greater.
  • ⁠Lila about the five daughters of Vindhyachal kidnapped by Putana: Candravali, Lalita, Visaka, Tungavidya and Radharani.
  • ⁠During each kalpa (long period of time between each cycle of the four ages), the lilas happen a little differently.
  • ⁠Funny lila of the singing and dancing contest between Parvati and Siva.
  • ⁠Lila of Narada Rsi visiting Parvati Devi and asking her if she knows why Siva wears a garland of skulls and ashes on his skin.
  • ⁠In truth Narada Rsi does not create confusion, his actions aim to foster loving exchanges.
  • ⁠Lila of Siva reciting the Bhagavatam to Parvati.

PART 2

Short hari-katha after the evening program

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