I welcome you all with My love and respect. 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 a time when nature cooperates, supports, and helps you experience a higher consciousness. In many ways, nature supports and creates all possibilities and makes everything available to us to experience the higher consciousness. That is the ultimate truth. Vedic Masters, Rishis, have done so much research in this field. They could very clearly predict and find out when nature supports you for higher consciousness: when the Divine descends in the body when the Divine will descend in the deities, and when you can ascend into the Divine. Our Masters were so thorough in this field that they could predict and help people.
Shivaratri is an important time when timelessness enters into time when space enters into place when brahmana enters into pindanda. The whole of nature supports you to experience your higher energy, your higher self, and your higher consciousness. This is the same night, almost the same time, when Shiva, Mahadeva, the first and foremost incarnation on Earth, happened. He expressed Himself as a light shaft, as a light beam, He assumed a form to grace Brahma and Vishnu.
Brahma and Vishnu fought for who is the greatest. Please understand. It is a beautiful story. Brahma represents intellect. Vishnu represents wealth. Intellect and wealth will always fight over 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 starts flying, and 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 an excellent, blissful experience. So, both of them have utterly failed. But one nice thing about wealth is that 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 returns and says, “I cannot find out; please forgive Me.” That’s perfectly okay with Shiva. Shiva says, “Perfectly okay, don’t worry. If you understand, that’s enough.” Unfortunately, intellect can never come down because it is too much for intellect. Intellectuals 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. A flower was falling from Shiva’s ears. He returns with a false witness, saying, “I saw Your head.” Shiva 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 superconscious energy, has to reveal itself to the world and elevate the world to its level. Elevate the beings to their level.
Tonight is the night when the Divine revealed itself and elevated all the beings to its level. So, understand that the first and foremost incarnation on Earth, or in the time zone, happened today and precisely at midnight. From this darkness, the excellent light beam happened; the conscious shaft was expressed. The most colorful incarnation of Shiva, the multi-dimensional incarnation, happened in the time zone of this Mahashivaratri.
