Shiva is Krishna in Stillness

Shiva and Krishna are not opposites but complimentary. Krishna portrays the playful dance through the illusion of maya. Shiva portrays the profound stillness through the chaos of maya. 

Shiva is like a circuit breaker. He allows the poison or chaos to port through him. He remains motionless and allows the disturbance to move through the space of his stillness till all disturbances subside and dissolve. 

Krishna teaches of not dissolution but evolution through illusion. Both teach detachment. One from Chaos and one from Illusion. 

Both paths are full and complete in themselves. 

Krishna is the outer action of Shiva; Shiva is the inner silence of Krishna. One is not superior—they are complementary facets of the same cosmic consciousness.

The stillness of Shiva roots Krishna’s dance; Krishna’s joyous play enlivens Shiva’s silence. Together they teach: be still to go through chaos, play to evolve through it.

In chaos: sit in silent awareness like Shiva—without resistance, without identity. Become the observing self.

Then: when actions emerge—let them be playful, wholehearted, devotional like Krishna—flowing, without attachment to outcome.

This is the alchemy: silent meditation paired with joyful motion; witnessing the world and also dancing within it.

In both cases, the practitioner is detached—neither clinging to stillness nor to action. The contrast is not contradiction: it is integration. By dwelling in Shiva’s still flame, yet living as Krishna’s playful wind, you dissolve separation—and find your own.