Maha Sivarathri.

[Guest guest]

Dear friends and devotees,

 

Bhakti is eternal.

 

As I am still having breathlessness and intermittent hospitalization I

am unable to be with you.

 

I am more inclined to join with you all every time. I see god in you all

and your wishes are making me to improve

 

Today is the auspicious Sivarathri. I too join to pray Lord Siva to

bless one and all for a healthy and prosperous life and to give peace to

the Universe.

 

With love and regards,

 

Sastry

 

 

 

Siva as Jyotirlinga is the supreme Soul

 

The term `Siva' is a confluence of two syllables, `Si'

and `Va', meaning the `redeemer of sins' and

`liberator of sufferings'. The Svetasvetara Upanishad says,

" Siva is minuter than the minutest " . He is often considered to

convey a divine dot, a point or seed of cosmic creation, sustenance and

conclusion. In numerical counting, the devout Hindus says `Siva'

instead of uttering `one' which points to His position in the

universe as the originator.

 

Sivapurana mentions the oval flame or jyotirlinga form of Siva. The

Sanskrit suffix linga signifies mark, sign, symbol, quality or

characteristics of an entity that has two phonetic parts: in or laya and

gam or agamana respectively, referring to the process of destruction and

recreation which Siva epitomises.

 

Siva is effulgent and beyond three attributes of sattva, rajas and

tamas. With rajas in the form of Brahma, He creates; with sattva in the

form of Vishnu, He preserves, and with tamas in the form of Rudra, He

destroys.

 

When the world is in darkness of ignorance Siva appears in the form of a

column of light, Jyotirlinga, in front of deities Brahma and Vishnu. In

the race to prove their superiority they try to fathom the column of

light, but fail.

 

Siva, along with all human souls, dwells in the supreme abode of divine

illumination and complete silence. It is called Santi Dhama or Parama

Dhama and is located amidst the sixth element of sacred light, far

beyond the physical universe.

 

Localised in incarnated bodies through successive births and interaction

with material world, humans experience entropy and complete loss of all

available energy. They pray for divine intervention and help. In human

ignorance, Jyotirlinga Siva descends on earth in the corporeal body of

Prajapita Brahma and reveals His sacred knowledge about soul, supreme

soul, and world drama, law of karma and rajayoga meditation for

recharging human souls by linking their minds to the supreme source of

spiritual energies.

 

His divine knowledge, revealed through Brahma, gives us insight to see

the self and other beings as soul (tiny conscientious point of divine

light in the forehead) and to experience its innate and original

qualities of purity, peace, love, bliss, knowledge, power and happiness.

 

The regular practice of such soul consciousness would make you so light,

positive, peaceful, blissful and powerful that your meditation and

contemplation become effortless. Cultivation of soul consciousness would

also foster essential unity, harmony and brotherhood of mankind under

the spiritual fatherhood of one incorporeal Supreme Being.

 

By seeking the companionship of Supreme Soul Siva in meditation, we need

not make special efforts to weed out unwanted, negative and harmful

personality traits, habits, leanings and dependencies as they would

automatically not only get sublimated in the subtle fire of intellectual

communion or yoga of our inner self with the divine being, but would

also be substituted with the natural, pure, positive, healthy and

benevolent qualities, powers and proclivities.

 

Being firmly seated in the joyful experience of our inner-self, we can

smoothly connect and commune with the Almighty who is the eternal source

of infinite spiritual knowledge, virtues and strength. By this simple

and natural process of introspection and contemplation on self and the

Supreme, we can empower ourselves and become one with Sat-Chit-Anand,

truth consciousness-bliss.