Lord Siva in Nandagram

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Dear Avadhut Prabhu and all other vaisnava friends and wellwishers

Please accept my humble dandavats thrown in the dust of your lotusfeet

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

You asked me about Lord Siva's pastime in Nandagram.

Actually Lord Siva eternally resides there.Lord Siva himself is manifested as

the sacred Nandisvara hill upon which Nanda Maharaja build

his palace.Nandi- isvara means obviously the Lord of Nandi,the bull carrier of

Lord Siva.

The Brajabasis,and Gaudia vaisnavas sometimes take stones from this hill,and

put them on a small asana,and put eyes on the stone like other devotees do on

a Salagrama Sila.They paint the Siva tilaka on the stone

and worship these stones as nondifferent from Lord Siva,serving Krsna

by being a hill.

Lord Siva one day came to the house of Nanda Maharaja,and knocked on the

door.He asked M.Yasoda to be allowed to see Krsna,actually he was disguised as

a beggar.And he requested to be given some of Krsnas remnants.

And M.Yasoda said :" Baba you look so scary that my little boy will be afraid

of you,so please go away"!

Krsna being the antarayami,the supersoul in everyones hear understood what had

taken place.He started to cry and would not stop,and He refused to eat

whatever Yasoda Mata gave him.

He told His mother he would not eat till she called back the beggar she had

rejected that morning.So she went and looked for Lord Siva,and she found him

nearby meditating.She asked him to please come and take Krsna Prasadam,and

always visit every day.

When Siva returned with M.YAsoda the Bala Gopala stopped crying and smiled

beautifully and clapped His hands in joy.

So Lord Siva would come everyday to M.Yasoda's house to get some of Krsna's

remnants.

At this temple this pastime is remembered by a Siva linga inside the

courtcompound of the temple.So please visit this place when you go to

Vrindavana and pay your obasiences to Lord Mahadev,Siva.He will bless us to

become free from false ego and develop our real KC ego.

Your insignificant servant

Payonidhi das