{"id":726,"date":"2026-07-16T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=726"},"modified":"2025-07-22T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-96-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-96-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 96 \u2013 Dancing with \u015aiva"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DwS-Lesson-96.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Recording: Gurudeva&#8217;s cloned voice<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Are the Festival Days of \u015aaivism?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u015aLOKA 96<br>Festivals are special times of communion with God and Gods, of family and community sharing and s\u0101dhana. \u015aaivites observe numerous festivals in the temple and the home, and special holy days each week and month. Aum.<br><br>BH\u0100SHYA<br>Monday is the Hindu holy day in the North of India, and Friday in the South, set aside each week for attending the temple, cleaning and decorating the home shrine, devout prayer, japa and scriptural study. These are not days of rest, for we carry on our usual work. Among the major Deity festivals are Mah\u0101\u015bivar\u0101tri, Vaik\u0101si Vi\u015b\u0101kham, Ga\u1e47e\u015ba Chaturth\u012b, Skanda Shash\u1e6dh\u012b, K\u1e5bittik\u0101 D\u012bpam, Vin\u0101yaka Vratam, \u0100rdr\u0101 Dar\u015banam and Tai Pusam. Temples also hold a ten-day annual festival called Brahmotsava, often on the Uttar\u0101phalgun\u012b nakshatra in March-April, as well as honor the anniversary day of their founding. Festivals are auspicious and sacred days of family and community togetherness, and of s\u0101dhana, fasting, meditation, worship and retreat from worldly concerns. \u015aaivites offer special prayers to \u015aiva, Ga\u1e47e\u015ba and K\u0101rttikeya on propitious days each month according to the Hindu sacred calendar. The Vedas proclaim, \u201cBehold now a man who unwinds and sets the thread, a man who unwinds it right up to the vault of heaven. Here are the pegs; they are fastened to the place of worship. The S\u0101ma Veda hymns are used for weaving shuttles.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Are the Festival Days of \u015aaivism? \u015aLOKA 96Festivals are special times of communion with God and Gods, of family and community sharing and s\u0101dhana. \u015aaivites observe numerous festivals in the temple and the home, and special holy days each week and month. Aum. BH\u0100SHYAMonday is the Hindu holy day in the North of India, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-96-dancing-with-siva\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing-with-siva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5257,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/5257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}