2019 International Shri Shiva Puja: “Try to follow the qualities of Shri Mahadeva”
"Today is Śhivarātri and today is the day we pray to Lord Śhiva. On the outside, we can gain mastery on our body, its movements, the mind, ego and various functions. Whatever is there in the universe, we can know it and use it like whatever elements that there are in the earth, and what grows, we can use them. We can gain complete supremacy over all this. But this is all an outside manifestation. What we are within is the Spirit. We are Śhiva. What is on the outside is destructible. What is born will die. What is created will be destroyed. But what is within, is our Ātmā, who is our Śhiva, who is a reflection as Sadāśhiva, is indestructible, desireless and free. It is not stuck to anything. It is stainless. By obtaining that Śhiva, and getting the Light of that Śhiva, we also slowly get renounced. The outside remains as it is, but within, is the Ātmā – permanent and indestructible, always emitting its light."
1990-0223 Śhivarātri Pūjā (Hindi), Ātma-sākṣhātkārī kī Viśheṣhatāem̐ (Attributes of Self-realization), Flora Palace, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Pranava swaroopaya, chidakasaya, Aakasa dik swaroopaya, Graha nakshatra maline, Sakalaya, Kalanka rahithaya, Sakala lokaika karthre, Sakala lokaika bharthre,
Sakala lokaika samharthre, SAkala lokaika gurave,
Sakala lokaika Sakshine, Sakala nigama guhyaya,
He who is the form of “Om”, He who is the divine ether, He who is personification of sky and directions, He who wears stars and planets as Garlands,
He who is everything, He who does not have any dark spot, He who creates all the world, He who manages all the worlds,
He who destroys all the worlds, He who is the teacher of all the world, He who is a witness of all the world, He who is hiding in all reasoning.
Shiva Kavach
Sage Rishabha, from Skanda Purana
"While drinking the poison of the whole world, you all know this that He drank the whole poison in the beginning and whatever is the poison of the world drinking that He keeps this world cool and give happiness to the world. Whatever thing that becomes dead, finished, all that is resided in His Kingdom and those who are greatest evil, there prison get closed from the dust of his feet. By the blessing of Śhivjī they are imprisoned. There is a Kingdom of Moon on His forehead. Moon is spontaneous brother of Lakṣhmī and that’s why it is called that he has kept his brother-in-law on his forehead. The poets have made a very strange kind of his description and He has taken the burden of Gaṅgā on His head very beautifully.
As if He is the remover of the ego of all the beings. He has contained in His jaṭās [tress], egoist as Gaṅgā, so much tremendous are His jaṭās. He also drinks ego which is there in human beings and that is how He protects this world from egoist people."
1976-0229 Śhivarātri Pūjā (Hindi), Utpatti -- Ādi Śhakti aur Śhiva ka Swarūp (Genesis -- Ādi Śhakti and Śhiva in Form), Mumbai, Maharashtra, Indi
Lalat.Pe Hai Chandra Ma
Jata Me Gangadhar.
Chadi Hai Bhasma Ang. Pe
Gale Me Sarpahar. Hai
O Lord Shiva, the moon is shinning on Your forehead. Your hair is tied as a jatt (coils) on top of your head. A small stream of the River Ganges if flowing from this Jata. Your body is covered with incense powder and the Divine ointments
Nava Rahe Hai Shesh. Dev.
Sar Tumhari Bhakti Me
Hai Koti Surya Ka Prakash
Shiv Tumhari Shakti Mein
Shesha (the Serpent God) is coiled around Your neck like a garland. In His devotion to You, Shesha is doing a joyful dance by rhythmically swaying His head from side to side. The power of Your Shakti (Shiv Shakti) is illuminating Your Being as well as the cosmos with the radiance of a thousand suns.
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"My only desire, if I have any desire, is that `Try to follow the qualities of Śhrī Mahādeva.' How great He is, how detached He is, absolutely detached. He lives with bones and things like that. He is not bothered about where He is, what He lives with, what He has, nothing. So detached, and we should be detached like that.
At the same time, we should be very loving like Him, extremely loving. How His heart is full of love for others, how He looks after others. I am warning you, because I know you all love Me very much, but you should also love each other, you should have a loving heart, and have satisfaction in loving others. If you could develop that, your height will grow, your depth in Sahaja Yoga will grow. It's all right, the Goddess gives you the śhraddhā, all right, but the depth of śhraddhā, in Sanskrit, or in Hindi and Marathi I don't know, but in Marathi they call it dyas [śhraddhā]. Just deep in to that love, drenched in to that love, enjoying that love -- then you don't want anything. What do you want? You've got everything. So what do you want now? Just like the greatness of Śhrī Mahādeva. He's so great that He's detached. What does He want? I mean nothing is greater than Him, nothing is more important than Him. Then what does He want? He doesn't want anything. That's why He's detached. This detachment you have to develop."
2001-0225 Śhivarātri Pūjā, The Destructive Power of Śhrī Mahādeva, Śhrī Śhiv Chatrapatī Sports Complex Stadium, Balewadi, Mahalunge, Pune, Maharashtra, India
"So to enjoy Sahaja Yoga you must know that it’s not dry vibrations only, but is the bhakti. That is the joy of Shiva’s quality, the quality of joy that He adds to our life."
1991-0216 Śhivarātri Pūjā, Four Nāḍīs of the Heart, Cinema Garden Theater, Chianciano Terme, Italy
"He is the God of Tamoguṇa. He is the cold, he is the God of all that is not active.
So first of all this Earth when it receded from the Sun which was very hot was taken very near to the Moon. The Moon is the brother-in-law of Śhiva. So it was taken so close to Moon that the whole Earth got covered with ice. And it was then gradually moved towards the Sun. When it was moved towards the Sun, gradually then it started melting. And the point that did not melt at all was the point where Śhiva was to be established. That was – and is still that spot, and that spot is the Kailāśh. The ice never melts there and if you see the whole mountain is like the face of Śhiva – the eyes, the nose and everything you can see clearly getting out – and all the year round it keeps its shape as it is.
That is how Śhiva was created, and He was placed in a Witness State, as a spectator of all that happens on this Earth."
1982-0220 Śhivarātri Pūjā, The Establishment of Lord Śhiva (We Have to Take Śhiva and Establish Him into the Virāṭ) and Śhiva Tattwa (What Makes Mother Pleased), New Delhi, India
"So, today I hope we all pray that, `O Lord, give us strength and that source of attraction by which we give up all other attractions of all the pleasures of joy, of ego, of everything that we think of, but we should fall into the pure joy form of the Śhiva Tattwa. Absolutely.'
I hope I've been able to kh explain to you why I am here today and why today is a very big day. You all who are here are specially very lucky people, who should think that God has been kind to you, that He has chosen you today to be here, to listen to this.
And then, once you get detached, you'll start feeling responsible, abhiyukt: responsible. But the responsibili[ty] not giving ego but responsibility which is executing by itself, which is expressing by itself, manifesting by itself.
May God bless you.
1984-0229 Śhivarātri Pūjā, Bring Śhiva Tattwa to the Brain and Practice the Śhiva Tattwa by Practicing Detachment (Fifth Dimension in the Human Being, The So-called Limited Brain It Has Become the Unlimited Spirit, and After Realization a Complete Detachment), Banks of Chandrabhāgā River near Śhrī Viṭṭhala Temple, Paṇḍharpur, Maharashtra, India
Nirgunaya, Nishkaamaya, Nirupaplavaya, Niravadhyaya, Nirantharaya, Nishkaranaya, Nirathangaya, Nishprapanchaya,
Nissangaya, Nirdwandwaya, NIradharaya, Neeraagaya,
Nishkrodhaya, Nirmoolaya, Nishpapaya, Nirbhayaya, Nivikalpaya, Nirbhedhaya,
Nishkriyaya, Nisthoolaya, Nissamsayaya, Niranjanaya, Nirupamavibhavaya
He who does not have any properties, He who does not have any desires, He who is separate from all dangers, He who is permanent, He who does not have any cause, He who does not have any worry, He who is different from the world, He who is not in any group, He who is not plural, He who does not have any basis, He does not have likes, He who is not angry, He who does not have any roots, He who is above all sins, He who is not afraid, He who is not bound by time, He who does not differentiate, He who is action less, He who is above all, He who does not have any doubts, He who is without stains, He who has matchless assets
Shiva Kavach Sage Rishabha, from Skanda Puran
"This is the height of Śhivjī’s innocence. He is an embodiment of such innocence, that when Rāvaṇa told Him that, “Now you better give me your Śhakti,” He [Śhiva] gave him even that. Such an innocence! So much ingenuous! One who doesn’t know what is evil! Consume evil, consume everything, get and consume whatever is to be consumed. As it is said that ‘all the evils are washed out.’ So you can understand, that the evils are washed out in Gaṅgā because it has come out of Śhivjī’s matted hair (jaṭā)."
1977-0216 Śhivarātri Pūjā (Hindi), Śhivajī Ke Ūpara Sārā Saṃsāra Nirbhara Hai (The Whole World Is Dependent on Śhivajī), New Delhi, India
Aatmaa Tvam Girijaa Matih Sahacharaah Praannaah Shareeram Grham
Puujaa Te Vishayopabhoga-Rachanaa Nidraa Samaadhi-Sthitih |
San.chaarah Padayoh Pradakshinna-Vidhih Stotraanni Sarvaa Giro
Yadnyat-Karma Karomi Tat-Tad-Akhilam Shambho Tava-Araadhanam | O Lord, You are my Atma (Soul), Devi Girija (the Divine Mother) is my Buddhi (Pure Intellect), the Shiva Ganas (the Companions or Attendants) are my Prana and my Body is Your Temple,
... My Interactions with the World are Your Worship and my Sleep is the State of Samadhi (complete absorption in You),
... My Feet Walking about is Your Pradakshina (Circumambulation); all my Speech are Your Hymns of Praises,
... Whatever work I do, all that is Your Aradhana (Worship), O Shambhu.
(Shiva Manasa Puja - Ratnai Kalpitam Asanam
composed by Shri Adi Shankaracharya)
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Gaiye Ganpati Jagvandan
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Bolo Shiv Shiva Shambhu Bam Bam Bam
(Hindi 118 - Australian edition Songbook)
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Dam Dam Dam Dam Damaru Baje
(Hindi 116 - Australian edition Songbook)
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Shiva Aarti
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Jai Śhrī Mātājī!
On behalf of the festivity team!