I welcome you all with My love and respects. Shivaratri: Shivaratri, is the time when timelessness penetrates time. Timelessness descends into the time zone. Space descends into the place zone. Brahmanda descends into the pindanda. Macrocosm descends into the microcosm. It is time when the whole nature cooperates, supports, helps you to experience the higher consciousness. In many ways nature supports, creates all possibilities, makes everything available to us to experience the higher consciousness. That is the ultimate truth. Vedic Masters, Rishis, have done so much of research in this field. They were able to very clearly predict and find out the timings when nature supports you for higher consciousness; when Divine descends in the body, when Divine will descend in the deities, when you can ascend into the Divine. Our Masters were so thorough in this field, they were able to predict and help people.

Shivaratri is an important time when timelessness enters into time, when space enters into place, when brahmanda enters into pindanda. The whole nature is supporting you now to experience your higher energy, your higher self, your higher consciousness. This is the same night, almost same time, Shiva, Mahadeva, the first and foremost incarnation on planet Earth happened. He expressed Himself as a light shaft, as a light beam, He assumed a form to grace Brahma and Vishnu.

Tonight is the night when Divine revealed itself and elevated all the beings to its level.

Brahma and Vishnu had the fight, who is the greatest. Please understand. It is a beautiful story. Brahma represents intellect. Vishnu represents wealth. Intellect and wealth will always fight who is greater. So Shiva, super consciousness, appears in front and says, “Any one of you try to find My beginning or My end, then we can accept you are the greatest.” Of course, the intellect just starts flying, Brahma starts flying. And wealth starts digging, Vishnu starts digging. Neither the wealth nor the intellect can find the beginning or the end of consciousness. Neither can lead you to the ultimate. Neither can lead you to the great bliss experience. So, both of them have utterly failed. But one nice thing with wealth, it at least reveals the truth to you, at one point your efforts are useless. You are not going to achieve the ultimate bliss through wealth. The depression of success happens to you.

Vishnu comes back and says, “I am not able to find out, please forgive Me.” That’s perfectly okay with Shiva. Shiva says, “Perfectly okay, don’t worry. If you just understand, that’s enough.” But unfortunately intellect can never come down because it is too much for intellect. Intellect can never accept the truth. It cannot lead you to the truth. It cannot show you the truth. So, He comes back with a false witness, with a false witness. A flower which was falling from Shiva’s ears. He comes back with a false witness saying, “I saw Your head.” Shiva just smiles. Of course Shiva knows He has not seen and suddenly Brahma also realizes He has lied. Neither intellect nor wealth can lead you to the ultimate. Then Shiva Himself reveals Himself to the whole world. The consciousness, the super conscious energy, has to reveal itself to the world and elevate the world to its level. Elevate the beings to its level.

Tonight is the night when Divine revealed itself and elevated all the beings to its level. So, understand the first and foremost incarnation on planet Earth, or on the time zone, happened today, and exactly at midnight. From this darkness, the great light beam happened; The conscious shaft expressed. Shiva, the multi dimensional incarnation, the most colorful incarnation happened on the time zone on this Maha Shivaratri.

This Shiva Ratri, My message is only one word: Inner Awakening. Awaken your inner space; the tremendous potential energy which is inside you – awaken that. That is what we call in tradition, Kundalini. Awakening that higher consciousness. Our inner space is filled with darkness. That is why you don’t know what is happening there. Ninety nine percent of your activities are done almost in darkness. You don’t know why you talk the way you talk. You don’t know why you like something. You don’t know why you hate something. You don’t know why you behave the way in which you are behaving. You don’t know anything. You don’t know why you look the way you look. You don’t know why you act the way you act. All the activities are happening in a deep darkness, which is dangerous not only for you, for the people who are living around you.

Tonight’s the night to Wake Up from All Your Delusions

Awakening your inner space – The ideal of Shiva… Shiva is the being whose inner space is completely awakened, who is living in light, radiating the energy. If inner awakening happens in you, you are living as Shiva. So, this Shiva Ratri, we dedicate to awaken the kundalini for inner awakening. To awaken the potential energy which is inside you. Understand few things about this kundalini, inner awakening: When the inner awakening happens, each chakra comes to life, each energy center comes to life. You can see, beautifully in Shiva’s story this inner awakening is described. A person in whom all the seven chakras are awakened, are in light, is Shiva. Who has experienced the Kundalini awakening is Shiva. Kundalini is metaphysically portrayed as a snake. That is why Shiva’s pictures are always portrayed as Him with many snakes – around the neck, the head, all over his body. Means each and every chakra is awakened. Not only the major seven chakras. In the hands and all you have minor chakras – even those chakras are awakened. That is why you will see snake in the hands of Shiva.

Inner Awakening… Shiva is a being in whom the inner awakening has happened. You can see beautifully from the stories, how metaphysically they are describing, Shiva is a being in whom inner awakening has happened. In Shiva, the muladhara is pure – awakened muladhara. That is what they say through the story of Manmatha dahana. Please understand. It is wonderful story. Manmatha dahana. The story says, Shiva was sitting and meditating. The devatas, they wanted to disturb Shiva. So, they are sending Manmatha and Manmatha throws the arrows. Shiva opens His third eye and burns Manmatha. Don’t take it literally. It has a metaphysical meaning. And another wonderful thing you should know, Shiva burnt the Manmatha, then married Parvati. Understand, it means the marriage was not based on lust, the marriage was not based on fantasy. The whole story, such a wonderful story. And Manmatha throws his arrows – means, trying to create fantasy inside Shiva. He opens his third eye – means inner awakening. He opens his third eye and by just his presence, intense presence… Opening third eye means bringing your awareness to its peak.

If you bring your awareness to its peak… Please understand, if you bring your awareness to its peak, this moment, you are opening the third eye. When the opening of the third eye happens, suddenly you will see all the fantasies are burnt. They are not there any more. So, Shiva’s muladhara is awakened muladhara. When you awaken your muladhara by intense awareness, you will become Shiva. Nothing, simple technique, very simple technique. Whenever fantasy overtakes you, I am not even saying suppress it. Just bring intense awareness. If it is more powerful than your awareness, it will move your body. Make it act. Be aware, don’t try to suppress. If it is less powerful than your awareness, it will just die down. If it is more powerful than your awareness, it may make your body move. Allow it. But just be aware intensely. You will see the experience will add more understanding to you. Even if there is experience, physical experiences, suddenly it will add more understanding, more awareness to you. Bringing awareness to the root chakra, muladhara chakra, awakens your being, Shiva’s being whose muladhara is awakened. That is what they mean by this story.

Not sleeping this night is considered as a great spiritual practice. Why, not sleeping is considered as a spiritual practice? This is actually a technique to stabilize your mind. Usually your mind listens to your body’s comforts and in the recorded routine, not sleeping means you need to say ‘no’ to your mind. How many times you say ‘no’ to your mind? Try your best, always it will play its game. As long as the possibility that you may say ‘yes’ at one moment exists, mind will play its game, but if you decide very clearly, ‘i am not going to say ‘yes’ how many time mind may try, simply mind will stop even asking you to say ‘yes’.

Just do not be awake this night – use this night to be awakened yourself. Let you all be awakened!

See, mind will be alive as long as the possibility for dilemma exists. The possibility for dilemma is closed, mind won’t be alive. Today just try, tell yourself very clearly. No question of saying ‘yes’ to the mind. ‘Manasasya sthiraha mantraha’, which makes your mind sthira, strong, is mantra. Take a strong decision that you will not let your mind decide. You will not say ‘yes’ to your mind. Simply you will see, sleep will disappear. It’s wonderful technique saying clear-cut ‘no’ to your mind. There are so many things, so many reasons why our masters created this, all these traditions and techniques and methods.

Today is Amavasya, new moon day-the possibility for intense energy. Human mind goes up and down along with lunar. Understand, when the new moon day or full moon day, you see the ocean, you will see big waves. Ocean will be excited. The power of moon on the planet earth, ocean will be excited. Salt water, your body is also filled with 80% salt water. Just like the ocean getting excited, your body also will be excited. Fluid which runs in your body also will be excited. The Masters, they know the power which moon exercises over the human beings on the planet earth… That is the reason they created all these great traditions and puja and worships on the new moon day.

Whatever you do today will be strongly record inside you, whether it is positive or negative. So naturally our Masters wants us, they all tell us to keep yourself awake and not only keeping awake, use this time to be aware, to be in high Consciousness and are saying you just keep awake. You remain awake this night and tomorrow morning you will sleep and if you are aware and conscious of whatever is happening here, and this whole night if you remain aware of the present moment, not only you will be awake, you will be awakened! The possibility for awakening exists on this great day! So be in this present moment, sit with a clear awareness and experience, connect with whatever is happening here.