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Month: January 2018

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30 Jan

MAHASHIVRATRI AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE

The Hindu festival of Mahashivaratri is celebrated on the 14th day of the dark fortnight of the Magh month, as per the Hindu lunar calendar. Maha Shivaratri literally means 'the night (ratri) of the Supreme God principle (Shiva)'.   LORD SHIVA Lord Shiva is considered as the soul of everything. The lord represents truth, peace, beauty, and infinity, the essence of our soul as well. Hence, it is said that when we worship Lord Shiva, we recognize dwell in these higher qualities within ourselves – a connection with oneself.   MAHASHIVRATRI SIGNIFICANCE Mahashivratri is a day of Lord Shiva – a day we connect with the lord and thus ourselves. Worshipping Lord Shiva this day bestows one with happiness and prosperity. Some believe that on this day Lord Shiva performed the Tandava - the creation, preservation and destruction dance. However, the most popular belief is that the Mahashivratri night marks the wedding day of God Shiva
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05 Jan

Shiva: The Dance of Cosmos

Dancing is an ancient form of magic. The dancer becomes amplified into a being endowed with supra-normal powers. His personality is transformed. Like yoga, the dance induces trance, ecstasy, the experience of the divine, the realization of one’s own secret nature, and, finally, mergence into the divine essence. In India consequently the dance has flourished side by side with the terrific austerities of the meditation grove- fasting, breathing exercises, absolute introversion. To work magic, to put enchantments upon others, one has first to put enchantments on oneself. And this is effected as well by the dance as by prayer, fasting and meditation. (Heinrich Zimmer from his book “Philosophies of India.”) Shiva, therefore, the arch-yogi of the gods, is necessarily also the master of the dance. Nataraja , King of Dancers echoes the same thought process. The only important thing to note here is that this is not an ordinary, mortal dance.
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