Shivarati Message from Gurudev in a letter
"Nature specializes in a kind of Paradox: Nature destroys and her
destructions are all always constructive destructions. The bud
is destroyed when the flower blooms, and the flower fades when
the fruit emerges, and the fruit decays when seeds are scattered
and seeds decay when plants sprout.
This process of constructive destruction is Shiva, the annihilator. This
Shiva-Ratri is the destruction of the ego (PFT attitude) in the discovery
of the Self (Shiva).
May all devotees come to experience at least the shy rays of the early
dawn at the end of one's inner ratri, in emerging beams of Shiva spirit
in us.
Be quiet. Be silent within. Blind.Deaf, Mum - be. Invoke. Be expectant.
Let Shiva happen - TRY."
-Swami Chinmayananda
