Monday,
04 March 2019
Cosmic
Night of Shiva
The
Speaking Tree | India | ET
By PRANAV
KHULLAR
Shiva is
the three-eyed One whose blue-stained neck is a symbolic reminder of his
capacity to remove toxins from the world.
The Yajur
Veda describes Him as the Master Yogin, Mahadeva, the great God. The
panchakshara mantra, Aum Namah Shivaye, is a timeless chant propitiating the
inscrutable invoking the easy-to-please Ashutosh.
Bhishma
in his discourse on Dharma to Yudhishthir in the Mahabharata, describes the
observance of the Mahashivratri fast by King Chitrabhanu.
By doing
so, he unwittingly worshipped a linga that was embedded in the earth, with the
bilva leaves sacred to Shiva and, so, earned merit.
This
allegorical story represents everyman’s inner journey, passing through the
complex mind, with its conscious thinking and subconscious desires, where lust,
hatred, greed and jealousy have to be overcome by rising above them, as Suswara
climbed up the tree.
His
nightlong vigil is a call to alertness and viveka, and the dawning of day
symbolises the awakening into cosmic consciousness.
DISCLAIMER
: Views expressed above are the author's own.
Quote
from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
In the
Bhagavad-Gita Lord Krishna tells His disciple that it is very necessary to
subdue the senses and learn to control the body and mind, but He says again
that although one may starve the senses and thereby deaden their feeling , one has not gained much spirituality
because distress still linger in the heart; when , however , one has seen the
Supreme, then all desires and limitations drop all forever . so whatever we do
, whether we give discipline to the body and mind or whether we turn our whole
thoughts n the opposite direction we must not forget that the main object of all
our practice is to educate our inner being, to unfold our spiritual nature and
to bring us face to face with the Supreme ; for He is the one real aim and
object of all our search.
When we
meditate on Him with conviction, then our heart becomes illumined with His light
and we attain super-consciousness, the consciousness which includes all lesser
forms of consciousness . as we go about our ordinary life, there fore, we
should sometimes stop, draw our selves within and try to get the other point of
view , to see that t other aspect of our life . it is this balancing of the two
sides and gaining a state of equilibrium which prepares our mind for the
knowledge of the Supreme. So long, however , as it is over powered by one
aspect of life-the physical and material-we can never know our inner being and
our soul will be strayed even though our body is fed.
But, if He exists?
I
drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and
evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed
at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on
something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well,
if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He
exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten
minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy
that I derive 4m.
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