Shivaratri celebrates God’s descent to destroy all evil

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 82^nd 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.