MAHA SHIVARATRI
"Festivals With Poetic Greetings" is the book that provides complete information
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Light is created, but darkness is self-created; the universe emerged, but nothingness was already there. The dark void behind the Universe represents Shiva: one without beginning or end. The day before every new moon is the darkest day of the month, therefore known as Shivaratri; but the one that occurs in February-March on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight in the lunar month of Phalguna is called Maha Shivaratri, as it is believed to have the greatest spiritual significance. A divine energy rises up in a human being on this night. Those who stay awake at the Maha Shivaratri night, holding their spine in an erect position, receive and store this energy, and this is why this festival is celebrated all night long. The night of Mahashivratri offers a person an opportunity to experience the oneness of all. Unlike all other festivals, it is solemn and strict. Devotees fast for twenty-four hours and worship Shiva by bathing Shivalingam with milk, yoghurt, honey, ghee, and sugar while chanting ‘Om Namah Shivaya’. Then they spend the night singing hymns in praise of Lord Shiva or practising yoga. According to a legend, Shivaratri marks the divine dance of creation that Shiva performed on this night. Some Scriptures say, “On this day, Lord Shiva drank all the poison produced from the churned ocean and saved the whole universe from destruction and ignorance.” It is believed that the sages and deities bathed Lord Shiva with milk, curd, honey, ghee, and sugar, poured sugarcane juice and gangajal over his head, applied chandan paste on his forehead and offered bhang, dhatura, ber, and other things to reduce the effect of that hazardous poison. It later became a ritual. According to another legend, Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati got married on the Mahashivaratri night. This festival is considered extremely auspicious because those who offer prayers to Lord Shiva on this sacred day get blessed with marital bliss and long, healthy, and happy life. His grace fulfils all the desires of the devotees.
The creation consists of energy, matter, and sense and continuously undergoes three eternal processes: birth, survival, and end. Now that the working agent for the processes is energy, which is also considered to have female characteristics, our ancient thinkers modelled the icons of two Mahadevies to represent it in its three different roles. But when they thought that the everlasting and senseless parts of the energy engaged in the three jobs could do nothing unless they were operated by something that knew what to do and not to do, and at the same time found them violating no law either, though they had been able to, they continued the search and discovered a great mind controlling and running them. They then contrived the idols of two Mahadevas to symbolise that great mind. The first of the Mahadevas is called Sadashiv, the husband of Maha Durga, who was witnessed by the thinkers as a big blast, creating universes, and her other form, named Mahakali, as a black thing in the centre of the universes, devouring everything which was unnecessary. Now the things made up of matter are interdependent and therefore useful; and all that is useful has value. Then everything that is valuable is wealth, and wealth is called Mahalaxami, the consort of Narayan, the second of the Mahadevas, who, like a king, rules the universes and enforces unalterable laws favourable to the entities in terms of their survival and lust for life. Thus, the idols of gods and goddesses are personified as natural and paranormal phenomena.
Greetings
Those who worship Shiva enjoy a harmless life and finally have a comfortable journey to heaven. Om Namah Shivay... Mahashivratri ki sabko shubhkaamnayen!
&
In the form of sense, Shiv pervades the universe.
This day in His consort himself He did immerse
The cosmic laws that govern all things to make.
So, His wedding anniversary today we celebrate!
May Gauri Shankar bless you with a caring and loving partner, and a blissful life forevermore!
&
On the auspicious day of Mahashivaratri,
Shiva answered the prayers of Shailputri.
The Energy married with the great Sense
And came into being the cosmos immense.
Shiva swigged the dark waste of the ocean;
He is bathed so as to moderate the poison.
Pour milk, curd, ghee, honey, Sugar on him
Be blessed with delight and the desired thing.
Keep fast, light ghee lamps and stotram chant,
Find a life partner of whom you are very fond.
Wish you a very Happy Maha Shivaratri!
Uplifting Words
The energy you spend worrying is sufficient to ease your worries.
Rudeness closes the doors of a relationship so tightly that apologies fail to open them again.
If the people you lead do not prosper and thrive, you are using them rather than leading them.
Light is created, but darkness is self-created; the universe emerged, but nothingness was already there. The dark void behind the Universe represents Shiva: one without beginning or end. The day before every new moon is the darkest day of the month, therefore known as Shivaratri; but the one that occurs in February-March on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight in the lunar month of Phalguna is called Maha Shivaratri, as it is believed to have the greatest spiritual significance. A divine energy rises up in a human being on this night. Those who stay awake at the Maha Shivaratri night, holding their spine in an erect position, receive and store this energy, and this is why this festival is celebrated all night long. The night of Mahashivratri offers a person an opportunity to experience the oneness of all. Unlike all other festivals, it is solemn and strict. Devotees fast for twenty-four hours and worship Shiva by bathing Shivalingam with milk, yoghurt, honey, ghee, and sugar while chanting ‘Om Namah Shivaya’. Then they spend the night singing hymns in praise of Lord Shiva or practising yoga. According to a legend, Shivaratri marks the divine dance of creation that Shiva performed on this night. Some Scriptures say, “On this day, Lord Shiva drank all the poison produced from the churned ocean and saved the whole universe from destruction and ignorance.” It is believed that the sages and deities bathed Lord Shiva with milk, curd, honey, ghee, and sugar, poured sugarcane juice and gangajal over his head, applied chandan paste on his forehead and offered bhang, dhatura, ber, and other things to reduce the effect of that hazardous poison. It later became a ritual. According to another legend, Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati got married on the Mahashivaratri night. This festival is considered extremely auspicious because those who offer prayers to Lord Shiva on this sacred day get blessed with marital bliss and long, healthy, and happy life. His grace fulfils all the desires of the devotees.
The creation consists of energy, matter, and sense and continuously undergoes three eternal processes: birth, survival, and end. Now that the working agent for the processes is energy, which is also considered to have female characteristics, our ancient thinkers modelled the icons of two Mahadevies to represent it in its three different roles. But when they thought that the everlasting and senseless parts of the energy engaged in the three jobs could do nothing unless they were operated by something that knew what to do and not to do, and at the same time found them violating no law either, though they had been able to, they continued the search and discovered a great mind controlling and running them. They then contrived the idols of two Mahadevas to symbolise that great mind. The first of the Mahadevas is called Sadashiv, the husband of Maha Durga, who was witnessed by the thinkers as a big blast, creating universes, and her other form, named Mahakali, as a black thing in the centre of the universes, devouring everything which was unnecessary. Now the things made up of matter are interdependent and therefore useful; and all that is useful has value. Then everything that is valuable is wealth, and wealth is called Mahalaxami, the consort of Narayan, the second of the Mahadevas, who, like a king, rules the universes and enforces unalterable laws favourable to the entities in terms of their survival and lust for life. Thus, the idols of gods and goddesses are personified as natural and paranormal phenomena.
Greetings
Those who worship Shiva enjoy a harmless life and finally have a comfortable journey to heaven. Om Namah Shivay... Mahashivratri ki sabko shubhkaamnayen!
&
In the form of sense, Shiv pervades the universe.
This day in His consort himself He did immerse
The cosmic laws that govern all things to make.
So, His wedding anniversary today we celebrate!
May Gauri Shankar bless you with a caring and loving partner, and a blissful life forevermore!
&
On the auspicious day of Mahashivaratri,
Shiva answered the prayers of Shailputri.
The Energy married with the great Sense
And came into being the cosmos immense.
Shiva swigged the dark waste of the ocean;
He is bathed so as to moderate the poison.
Pour milk, curd, ghee, honey, Sugar on him
Be blessed with delight and the desired thing.
Keep fast, light ghee lamps and stotram chant,
Find a life partner of whom you are very fond.
Wish you a very Happy Maha Shivaratri!
Uplifting Words
The energy you spend worrying is sufficient to ease your worries.
Rudeness closes the doors of a relationship so tightly that apologies fail to open them again.
If the people you lead do not prosper and thrive, you are using them rather than leading them.
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