Postive Thinking: Shivratri
Yogi Ashwini
The sun rises every morning and sets every evening; water evaporates and comes back to us as rain. If you look at creation around you, everything to do with it is a cycle. Nothing is permanent and there is no such thing as destruction. Einstein retold us what the Vedas have been saying for thousands of years — that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it only changes form.
Just because the day is over and the sun has set does not mean that the day will not come again. The darkest of nights leads to the brightest of days. Creation consists of opposites, to make a whole. When these opposites diverge it is called destruction and when they converge it is called birth.
The night of Shivratri is a night of birth. It is a night of merger, a night of creation, a night of manifestation and a night of thought fulfillment. The word shiva consists of shav, which is a dead body and i, which is shakti — the force which runs creation. This force needs a vehicle or a body to manifest into, so shav becomes shiv and a child is born. Similarly, the night of Shivratri has the power to give birth to your thoughts.
Sound is a powerful medium for the manifestation of thought. Mantra, which is a codified sound, has the potential to create anything in the physical — be it a material desire or the form of shaktis that run this creation. On the night of Shivratri, the ability of mantras increases by many times and effects generated far exceed several months of mantra sadhna combined. Mantra has to initiated by a guru who has himself perfected it; only then will it fructify inside you.
Sanatan Kriya details the panchakshar mantra, ‘namah shivaye yavashi manah’ , which when chanted on the night of Shivratri after getting it from your guru and keeping the awareness of the image of your guru in front of you, will give you the experience of the swaroop of shiv right in front of you, provided your guru is free from the clutches of maya and has not charged you a fee.
Yogi Ashwini is the guiding light of Dhyan Ashram and can be reached at dhyan@dhyanfoundation.com. For more details, visit www.dhyanfoundation.com.
Yogi Ashwini
The sun rises every morning and sets every evening; water evaporates and comes back to us as rain. If you look at creation around you, everything to do with it is a cycle. Nothing is permanent and there is no such thing as destruction. Einstein retold us what the Vedas have been saying for thousands of years — that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it only changes form.
Just because the day is over and the sun has set does not mean that the day will not come again. The darkest of nights leads to the brightest of days. Creation consists of opposites, to make a whole. When these opposites diverge it is called destruction and when they converge it is called birth.
The night of Shivratri is a night of birth. It is a night of merger, a night of creation, a night of manifestation and a night of thought fulfillment. The word shiva consists of shav, which is a dead body and i, which is shakti — the force which runs creation. This force needs a vehicle or a body to manifest into, so shav becomes shiv and a child is born. Similarly, the night of Shivratri has the power to give birth to your thoughts.
Sound is a powerful medium for the manifestation of thought. Mantra, which is a codified sound, has the potential to create anything in the physical — be it a material desire or the form of shaktis that run this creation. On the night of Shivratri, the ability of mantras increases by many times and effects generated far exceed several months of mantra sadhna combined. Mantra has to initiated by a guru who has himself perfected it; only then will it fructify inside you.
Sanatan Kriya details the panchakshar mantra, ‘namah shivaye yavashi manah’ , which when chanted on the night of Shivratri after getting it from your guru and keeping the awareness of the image of your guru in front of you, will give you the experience of the swaroop of shiv right in front of you, provided your guru is free from the clutches of maya and has not charged you a fee.
Yogi Ashwini is the guiding light of Dhyan Ashram and can be reached at dhyan@dhyanfoundation.com. For more details, visit www.dhyanfoundation.com.
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