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Nisargadatta Maharaj
Excerpt from: All Search for Happiness is Misery

What you take to be the ‘I’ in the ‘I am’ is not you. To know that your are is natural, to know what you are is the result of much investigation. You will have to explore the entire field of consciousness and go beyond it. For this you must find the right teacher and create the conditions needed for discovery. Generally speaking, there are two ways: external and internal.

Either you live with somebody who knows the Truth and submit yourself entirely to his guiding and molding influence, or you seek the inner guide and follow the inner light wherever it takes you. In both cases your personal desires and fears must be disregarded. You learn either by proximity or by investigation, the passive or the active way.

You either let yourself be carried by the river of life and love represented by your Guru, or you make your own efforts, guided by your inner star. In both cases you must move on, you must be earnest. Rare are the people who are lucky to find somebody worthy of trust and love. Most of them must take the hard way, the way of intelligence and understanding, of discrimination and detachment (viveka-vairagya). This is the way open to all.

Once you say ‘I want to find Truth,’ all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.

You already have all the experience you need, otherwise you would not have come here. You need not gather any more, rather you must go beyond experience. Whatever effort you make, whatever method (sadhana) you follow, will merely generate more experience, but will not take you beyond. Nor will reading books help you. They will enrich your mind, but the person you are will remain intact. If you expect any benefits from your search, material, mental or spiritual, you have missed the point.

Truth gives no advantage. It gives you no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and the freedom from the false. This is mere imagination, however noble! In truth you do not help others, because there are no others. You divide people into noble and ignoble and ask the noble to help the ignoble. You separate, you evaluate, you judge and condemn -- in the name of truth you destroy it.

Your very desire to formulate truth denies it, because it cannot be contained in words. Truth can be expressed only by the denial of the false -- in action. For this you must see the false as false (viveka) and reject it (vairagya). Renunciation of the false is liberating and energizing. It lays open the road to perfection.

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Maha Shivaratri - The Great Night of Lord Shiva

Shiva is the ultimate power, the Adiyogi. He is where we come from and in him, we will return. Also known as auspicious, propitious, gracious, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly, in whom all things lie, all pervading, embodiment of grace, Lord of the dance, the sacred void which is endless, pure energy.

During Maha Shivaratri, devotees stay awake all night chanting the name of Lord Shiva. This year it will be celebrated in South India on the night of the 13th of February while in North India on the night of the 14th of February.

There are a number of popular legends related to Maha Shivaratri.

It is believed that on this day, Lord Shiva married Parvati.
It is also believed that on this night, Lord Shiva performed the Tandava Dance (cosmic cycle of creation, preservation and dissolution).

Maha Shivaratri is celebrated as the day Lord Shiva saved the universe, when during the churning of the ocean He drunk the poison and held it in his throat becoming known as Neelkanth.

Another legend associated to Mahashivaratri is the Shiva Linga (also known as Lingodbhavamurthy). According to the story, Brahma and Vishnu searched hard to discover the Aadi (beginning) and the Antha (end) of Lord Shiva. On this auspicious night, Lord Shiva manifested himself in the form of linga to reveal that there is no beginning or end to His Being. This story is associated with the formation of the holy hill Arunachala.

Another legend related to Mahashivaratri is the descent of Holy River Ganga from the heavens, when Lord Shiva held out his thick matted hair and softened Ganga's journey to earth.

Another famous story is one of a hunter who unknowingly dropped bael leaves on a Shivalinga and attained Moksha. While hunting in the forest, Suswara the hunter shot a deer but could not return home as night fell on the forest. To spend the night, he climbed a bael tree. He kept awake the whole night because of hunger and thirst. He shed tears thinking about his wife and children who would starve without food. To divert his mind, he engaged himself in plucking bael leaves and dropping them. This happened on Maha Shivaratri. There was a Shiva Lingam under the tree and unknowingly, the hunter worshipped Lord Shiva throughout the night. Moreover, he had fasted all day and night. Thus he received salvation. This fable was narrated by, Bhishma, discoursing on Dharma whilst resting on the bed of arrows during the Kurukshetra war (Mahabharata).

Happy and Blessed Mahashivaratri
OM NAMAH SHIVAYA!
HAR HAR MAHADEV!!

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