{"id":969,"date":"2026-08-22T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/?p=969"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:00:03","slug":"lesson-133-dancing-with-siva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-133-dancing-with-siva\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 133 \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-133.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\">Does Hinduism Have Epics and Myths?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u015aLOKA 133<br>The Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata and R\u0101m\u0101ya\u1e47a are Hinduism\u2019s most renowned epic histories, called Itih\u0101sa. The Pur\u0101\u1e47as are popular folk narratives, teaching faith, belief and ethics in mythology, allegory, legend and symbolism. Aum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BH\u0100SHYA<br>Hinduism\u2019s poetic stories of \u1e5bishis, Gods, heroes and demons are sung by gifted pa\u1e47\u1e0ditas and traveling bards, narrated to children and portrayed in dramas and festivals. The Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata, the world\u2019s longest epic poem, is the legend of two ancient dynasties whose great battle of Kurukshetra is the scene of the Bhagavad G\u012bt\u0101, the eloquent spiritual dialog between Arjuna and K\u1e5bish\u1e47a. The R\u0101m\u0101ya\u1e47a relates the life of R\u0101ma, a heroic king revered as the ideal man. The Pur\u0101\u1e47as, like the Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata, are encyclopedic in scope, containing teachings on s\u0101dhana, philosophy, dharma, ritual, language and the arts, architecture, agriculture, magic charms and more. Of eighteen principal Pur\u0101\u1e47as, six honor God as \u015aiva, six as Vish\u1e47u and six as Brahm\u0101. The witty Pa\u00f1chatantra, eminent among the \u201cstory\u201d literature, or kath\u0101, portrays wisdom through animal fables and parables. The Bhagavad G\u012bt\u0101 proclaims, \u201cHe who reads this sacred dialog of ours, by him I consider Myself worshiped through the sacrifice of knowledge. And the man who listens to it with faith and without scoffing, liberated, he shall attain to the happy realm of the righteous.\u201d Aum Nama\u1e25 \u015aiv\u0101ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Hinduism Have Epics and Myths? \u015aLOKA 133The Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata and R\u0101m\u0101ya\u1e47a are Hinduism\u2019s most renowned epic histories, called Itih\u0101sa. The Pur\u0101\u1e47as are popular folk narratives, teaching faith, belief and ethics in mythology, allegory, legend and symbolism. Aum. BH\u0100SHYAHinduism\u2019s poetic stories of \u1e5bishis, Gods, heroes and demons are sung by gifted pa\u1e47\u1e0ditas and traveling bards, narrated <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/lesson-133-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-969","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\/969","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=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kauaishindumonastery.com\/mc-daily-lessons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}