Meaning of MahaShivratri

 
Scrolling through the numerous customary Shivratri wishes on WhatsApp while enjoying the morning breeze sitting inside a bus, my head wheeled out to a distant, abstract thought, of, we all being Shiva in our individual journeys of life. Just as Shiva, the vairagi, the renouncer, is gently cajoled into being a householder, come into the maintream life. As a renouncer, though he is detached and free of some duties, but as a householder, he can be seen performing responsibilities that in totality lead to his achieving - self actualization, the ultimate purpose of an individual. Likewise, in a cosmic way, we all are born as Shiva, free and boundless, however our interaction with the world, the every day hustle, the struggle, is prakriti (Shakti, Parvathi), churns us towards our ultimate goal of being our best self. Maha Shivratri in this case then becomes the unison of our boundless selves with the Prakriti, the world around us!

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