The auspicious and holy festival of Sivaratri will fall on the 3rd of March. On that day the environs of the ashram at the tapobhumi, the sacred place of Gurudev’s austerities, along the banks of the rivers and within the sanctum sanctorum of temples, will resound the most sacred and holy mantra ‘Har Har Bam Namah Parvati Pataye Har Mahadeva’. Several aspirants will receive initiations. This is a day of renunciation and austerities, self-restraint and inner faith.
Sivaratri represents the un-awakened consciousness in the darkness of an aspirant’s life. It is the awakening which comes after successfully battling through struggles and heralds the birth of a new dawn. An aspirant’s Sivaratri is not only complete with worship, offerings, abhishek and chanting of mantras. Not just observing vows, fasting and keeping vigil makes a sannyasin’s Sivaratri meaningful.
What is essential is the continuous vision of never ending rays of divine light within the darkness of ignorance as well as having eyes which can seek out the divine path amidst the dense areas of one’s life with the illumination of that divine light.
In the divine presence of our Guru, come let us sit by the holy Ganga and renew our sacred vows.