Mahashiva_Ratri_Best_Response

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Namaste Madamji,

It is interesting to note - That "Shankar" conjoined with "Mamta" to generate this good response, offbeat, yet logical one.

With regards,

Sreeram_Srinivas

, "vinita kumar" <shankar_mamta wrote:>> Yoga> Mahashivarathri – Opening the third eye> The 14th day of every month or the day before the New Moon which is > the darkest> night in the lunar month, is known as Shivarathri. Among all the 12 > Shivarathris in> a year Mahashivarathri is the most powerful one. On this day the > planetary> positions, especially in the northern hemisphere, are such there is > a natural> upsurge of energies in the human system.> In the yogic tradition, Shiva is not worshipped as a God but > considered as the Adi> Guru, the first Guru from whom the knowledge originated. For the > ascetics that is> the day he became one with the Kailash; he became like a mountain - > still,> absolutely still. After many millennia in meditation, one day he > became absolutely> still; that day is Mahashivarathri. All movement in him stopped and > he became> utterly still, so ascetics see Mahashivarathri as the day of > stillness.> Shiva has always been referred to as Triambaka in so many ways > because he has> a third eye. The third eye is the eye of vision. These two eyes are > sensory organs;> they feed the mind with all nonsense because what you see is not the > truth. You> see this person, think something about him; if you see that person > it is something> about him, but you are not able to see the Shiva in him. These two > eyes don't see> the truth so another eye, an eye of deeper penetration, has to be > opened up. In> this country, in this tradition, knowing doesn't mean reading books, > knowing> doesn't mean listening to someone, knowing doesn't mean getting > information> from here and there. Knowing means opening up a new vision into > life. So true> knowing means your third eye has to open up. If your third eye is > not opened then> there is no way you can see Shiva. So this day, the Mahashivarathri > day, that> possibility, nature is bringing it close. Everyday it is possible; > it is not that you will> have to wait for this day. But this day nature offers it to you > easily.> One of the prescriptions for today is you do not lie down in > horizontal positions;> remain in a vertical position. Remaining vertical alone is not > sufficient; we will> have to be in such position where we are not ourselves. Allow him to > be; you are> not. Shiva means `that which is not'. If you become like that the > possibility of> opening up new vision into life, looking at life with clarity is > possible.> Any amount of thinking, any amount of philosophising, will not bring > clarity into> your mind. Only when vision opens, only then there is clarity. > Nobody, no> situation, can distort this clarity within you. But the logical > clarity you create,> anybody can distort it. So today is an opportunity for you to become > a> "Triambaka", for you to open your third eye.> Mahashivarathri is very significant for people who are in the > spiritual process, it is> also very significant for people who are in family situations, and > it is also very> significant for the ambitious in the world. By people who live in > family situations,> Mahashivarathri is worshiped as Shiva's wedding anniversary. For the > ascetics that> is the day he became one with the Kailash, because he became like a > mountain -> still, absolutely still. And the ambitious of the world see that day > as the day Shiva> conquered all his enemies. Now, why are this day and this night held > in so much> importance in yogic traditions? Modern science has gone through many > phases and> arrived at a point today where they're out to prove to you that > everything that you> know as life, everything that you know as matter and existence, > everything that> you know as the cosmos, as galaxies, it is all just one energy > manifesting itself in> millions and millions of ways. This reality is an experiential > reality in every yogi;> the word "yogi" means just that. As you know, the word "yoga" means > union. The> word "yogi" means one who has known the oneness of existence.> When I say "yoga," I'm not referring to any one particular practice > or system; all> longing to know the unbounded, all longing to know the oneness in > the existence> is yoga. This night offers one such opportunity to experience this.> The sages and seers of the past recognised this natural phenomenon > in the human> body and they made it a part of the tradition to make use of that > day as a day of> sadhana, as a day of intensifying the spiritual processes. In Isha > we have set up a> tradition where the Shivarathri day every month is of importance to > people who> are here. The Mahashivarathri, which occurs once in a year, is of > even greater> significance. We want to be aware, awake, focused, and vertical > also. So various> situations are created at Isha Yoga Center on this day, combining > powerful> meditations and celebration, which will definitely keep you awake.> > Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev>