{"id":11631,"date":"2019-02-25T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T04:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/?p=11631"},"modified":"2019-02-25T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T04:30:56","slug":"great-night-of-shiva-one-night-exceeds-all-penances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/blog\/great-night-of-shiva-one-night-exceeds-all-penances","title":{"rendered":"Great Night Of Shiva: One Night Exceeds All Penances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Night Of Siva: One Night Exceeds All Penances\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OCz7ySrLXB4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maha Shivaratri is an auspicious time for merging with the consciousness of Lord Shiva. <strong>During this great night, his blessings are exponentially multiplied.<\/strong> The New Moon creates an opportunity for positive change in the lives of every spiritual aspirant.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>One Night = One Million Years of Meditation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Maha Shivaratri is a time for silencing the mind, silencing logic, silencing all sensory experiences, and for merging with the divine consciousness of Lord Siva himself.<strong> Praying to him on this one day is equivalent to meditating for one million years.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~ Dr. Pillai<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href='https:\/\/www.pillaicenter.com\/specials\/maha-shivaratri' class='big-button bigblue' target=\"_blank\">Join the 2019 Maha Shivaratri Prayer Offerings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. PIllai talks about Maha Shivarati and how this one evening of meditation is equivalent to a million years of meditation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[696,737,793,855,856,1013],"class_list":["post-11631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archetypes","category-dr-pillai","tag-meditation","tag-moon","tag-new-moon","tag-pillai","tag-pillai-center","tag-shiva"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.8 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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