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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

#1385 - Monday's Importance for Shiva Devotees

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Sadhguru answers a question about why devotees worship Shiva on Mondays, the significance of Mondays for powerfully consecrated lingas, and their connection with the solar system. Set the context for a joyful, exuberant day with a short, powerful message from Sadhguru. Explore a range of subjects with Sadhguru, discover how every aspect of life can be a stepping stone, and learn to make the most of the potential that a human being embodies.  Conscious Planet: ⁠https://www.consciousplanet.org⁠ Sadhguru App (Download): ⁠https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app⁠ Official Sadhguru Website: ⁠https://isha.sadhguru.org⁠ Sadhguru Exclusive: ⁠https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive⁠ Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast,

0:07.0

Sadguru of Mystics and Mistakes.

0:12.0

Satguru, why are Mondays important to Shiva devotees? See, the lunar calendar is worked in a certain way.

0:27.6

Let's say 28 days approximately.

0:31.6

In these 28 days, four segments are four weeks.

0:38.3

Today, this Monday, Tuesday, Soamawarra, you know?

0:46.3

It's Soma Wara.

0:49.3

So Soma means it's an intoxication day.

0:55.0

It's a day to get intoxicated.

0:58.0

Not at the Tasmac shop.

1:01.0

Ah, the Shiva Temple.

1:05.0

But that was relevant if you were only following that lunar calendar,

1:13.3

then the months would be different, you know, the dates would be different.

1:19.2

Then Mondays always came on that day that is relevant in terms of the lunar cycle.

1:27.3

But today, we have taken the same nomenclature and put it into another system which is more like metric system,

1:34.3

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

1:36.3

I don't know why they didn't make 100 days in a month or 10 days in a month or something like that.

1:43.3

They made 30 and for, because it didn't go well, they made 1.30, 131, another 28, 29.

1:51.0

This is a hot-patch calendar.

1:54.0

But that's become the world's ways because it is imposed by the Western societies and it's taken as a standard calendar today,

2:04.6

it is absolute watch watch because it has no relevance to the planetary system.

2:11.6

The lunar calendar or the loony solar calendar that we follow has relevance and the months change accordingly

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