Life
today has become very challenging and stressful. More than ever before, people
are insecure and anxious about their future. As humans struggle to find
solutions to the mounting problems,, it is evident that we need a higher wisdom
and power to deal with the emerging crises.
It
is said in the scriptures that God comes at the time of extreme moral
degradation. There is a very famous shloka in Bhagavad Gita; Yada yada hi
dharmasya glanirbhawati bharat, abhyuthannam adharmasya tadatmanam srijamyaham”
Lokking at the deteriorating condition of the world,we can realize that the
time has come when God’s intervention is necessary to bring about a
transformation in the world.
Mahashivratri
or shiv Jayanti is the most significant of all festivals, for it marks the
descent of the Highest on high God Shiva in the human world to liberate human
souls from sin and suffering and re-establish heaven or Satyuga on earth. The
deep spiritual meaning of shivratri is that God descends on earth at the tidme
of extreme darkness (ratri) When the condition of the world has become
critical.
God
is incorporeal and immutable. The Shiva lignam denotes the incorporeal form of
God Shiva. It signifies the form of God as a point of light \, Which is very
similar to the description of God in many faiths. This is why the twelve
well-known as Jyotirlingam Math, signifying his form of light. The eternal
light that hangs above the ark in every synagogue, the altar lamps in churches,
and light symbols associated with Egyptian, Babylonian, Druid, and Norse gods corroborate
the widespread belief in the divin light being the image of the one,
incorporeal, Supreme Being.
The
literal meaning of the word Shiva is benefactor, or one who does good to all. Supreme
Soul Shiva bring benefit to all souls by performing the divine functions of
creating and sustaining a new, pure world and destroying all vices and evil in
the old, impure world, i.e., He gives liberation and salvation to all human
beings.
The
true fasting (upvaas) on Shivratri is that we abstain from vicious thoughts and
stay in His company. The true jagran or awakening means to awaken from
the slumber of spiritual ignorance and to protect the self from the evil
influence of vices such as lust, anger, greed, ego and attachment.
The
good news is that God has already arrived in this world to establish one
prosperity. He is in the process of bringing a revolutionary change in this
world through His elevated teaching in the form of Rajyoga. Shivratri thus
commemorates a momentous occasion, Marking the beginning of a new cycle of
time,, when the world passes from the Iron Age or Kaliyug
Into
the goden age or Satyug, when the negative gives way to the positive.
Today,
when corruption, unrighteousness and immorality have spread all over the world,
when ethical and moral values have declined drastically, the Prajapita Brahama
Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya is celebrating the 82nd Shivratri
commemorating the year when Godaly revlations first came through the human
medium of Prajapita Brahma in 1937.
Let
us celebrate this Shivratri and experience the blessings and benevolence of God
Shiva by crrying out in our personal life what shivratri commemorates, that is
destroying negative wyas of thinking and nurturing a pure and positive attitude
to illuminate our lives with God’s wisdom and divine virtues.
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