Maha Shivratree : From a Modern Yogic Perspective by Meghna Raghoobar
Greetings everyone!
I can’t believe that we are already ending February 2020. This year is going really fast, or may be, it’s just me doing a lot of things even though I feel I have paused a bit with life at the moment. Talking about pausing, I still have my last and final paper left for my Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Exams 200 HR this Saturday, and felt like jotting you few words on Mahashivratree as we are the eve of it today.
Before getting into the gist of the festival, my concept of prayer is a non-conventional one. I am not the kind of person whom you will find in front of an idol praying. We have quite few idols at home, and I look at them with deep respect ,but I am not attached to them and I don’t pray them(that does not mean that they don’t have energy powers). The very fact that my parents lovingly pray them, I believe that they have a certain amount of energy powers poured into them from the source (after all, the world is made of energy), and as humans we do have the capabilities to put our positive and/or negative energy in whatever objects we want to.
So yes, Shivalingum and idols have energy powers because as humans we have given them that energy to connect with us and guide us through. When the priest comes at your place, take your idol and do certain ritual with it, it give it some energy powers from the source. And it’s a reality whether you believe in them or you feel disconnected to them.
However, my deeper understanding of life, existence, universe, God, Supreme Energy, Brahma, The Father, Allah (whatever you may name it), made me come to one conclusion; religion was man made, and each era had it’s own saints, sages, god messengers that had to come at that point in time to create the transformational change before the world collapse. I don’t think one religion is better than the other, I think each one had a purpose to fulfilled at a specific place and time and it had followers.
If you ask me what is my religion today, my answer is none, but for sure culturally I feel very close to the Hindu Culture as I was brought up in this culture. And the fact that I was brought up in this culture, made question things, understand things deeper, and not abide to every single thing that it says.
That said what is Mahashivratree in simple word for me :
a) The cosmos down-pouring a lot of energy on Planet Earth for Humanity
b) An elevation of consciousness bound to happen on Planet Earth
c) More Love and Compassion
How I would have celebrated that if I had no exams ?
18.00–19.00 : Sunset Yoga at the Beach
07.00–08.00 : Sea Bath if you are in Mauritius or Bath in Ganges River if you are in India to cleanse all your chakras
08.00–10.00 : Bath, Diner and Bonding
08.00- 09.00 : Reading a book
09.00 -10.00 : Triambakam Mantra
10.00–11.00 : Dancing to activate my Kundalini
11.00–1.00 : Silent Meditation
1.00–2.00 : Preparing for Hiking
2.00–3.00 : Hiking to connect with the source
3.00–4.00 : Hiking to connect with the source
4.00–5.00 : Breathing Techniques and Sun Salutation
5.00–6.00 : Sharing love Bonding, Tea and Snacks
Let’s do that next year in Mauritius with HolistiZen.
Have a great MahaShivratree!
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