This Saturday and Sunday, Kathmandu has seen a good amount of
rain. Winter season is concluding and spring will take over. Hence, change of
the season could be the prime reason for this rain. Nevertheless, the great
festival to worship lord Shiva – Mahashivaratri falls this year on 7th March (Falgun 24), and the rain might have welcomed the festival of high energy! The famous
notion that it always rains around the time of Mahashivaratri proved right this
year as well.
The day before the new moon in every month is called
Shivaratri. That makes all total of 12 Shivaratris in a calendar year. The
particular Shivaratri that falls in the month of February-March is known as
Mahashivaratri, which is widely celebrated by Hindus especially in Nepal and
India. According to Hindu gurus, there will be a natural upsurge and
origination of positive energy in every worshipper at the night of
Mahashivaratri.
They further suggest worshipper to get alive all night of
Mahashivaratri, and sit still making your spine vertical. The special worship
of the great lord Shiva in this particular manner and time will bring leaps of
energy into the worshipper’s body. It is also supported by scientific studies.
Since the night of Mahashivaratri is longest night of the year, strong and
positive rays are propagating in the atmosphere. Eventually, one will get them
in this particular night.
Now, let’s talk about Shiva for a while. According to history
of Hindu religion, Shiva is the Adi Guru. He was the first guru to practice and
teach yoga to his disciples. Yoga is quite different from religion itself. So
that many foreigners who don’t follow Hindu religion also practices yoga that
first practiced by Shiva. On the night of first ever Mahashivaratri, Shiva had
performed Tandav dance which is famous among his followers till now.
Shivaratri has always been my favorite festival thanks to
gigantic and larger than life figure of lord Shiva. I always put Shiva ahead of
any of our 33 crore gods. I celebrate Mahashivaratri by making myself holy for
the day and night of Mahashivaratri and visiting Pashupatinath and worshipping
there.
Happy Mahashivaratri to all!
(Published in The Himalayan Times on Wednesday, 2nd March 2016.)
(Published in The Himalayan Times on Wednesday, 2nd March 2016.)
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