The Scientific Significance of Mahashivaratri

everything that happens to the solar system happens to you in some way mahasavaratri night there is a natural upsurge of energy if you lie down you could also harm yourself so that night we have a celebration somewhere around six crore people would be watching senator you speak so logically and it makes sense to me but at the same time you're celebrating the religious festival of mahashivarathri the grand way at the isha yoga center for a young person like me these religious festivals seem like outdated rituals so i want to know what is the relevance of mahashivratri to the youth thank you what kind of festival would you like first of all maybe only the valentine's day or something that is also religious it's saint valentine all right so what is mahashivratri you need to understand this there are certain in india there are 365 festivals in a year yes today due to economic reasons and the way we have structured our work and things a whole lot of them have died still about 30 to 35 are being actively maybe more than that about 50 to 60 festivals are being celebrated by different people but that number also is decreasing largely maybe about 5 or six are being celebrated in a big way so some of them are social a few of them may be religious but hardly any religious ones some are all connected to the calendar almost every indian festival is connected to the calendar what's happening in the solar system we want to do something which is conducive for what's happening that day in the rest of the solar system why this is important is because what you call as my body right now what is human mechanism is has come out of this planet most people don't get it till you bury them they think they came from somewhere no this body is solar system is working like a potter's wheel to generate this so everything that happens to the solar system happens to you in some way so there is a very keen observation of what is happening in the solar system today accordingly we have crafted one kind of celebration and we do those specific things so on mahashivaratri knight to cut it short because this is an elaborate subject what you opened up on that day which doesn't fall on the same calendar you know the regular modern calendar date on that day there is a natural because you know planet is not spinning like this it is spinning a certain way and there's a precision to the planet you know what's a precision hello not precision in terms of uh exactness i'm talking about what is precision in terms of the planet the planet's axis is not simply rotating like this it is going like this it is a wobble there is a wobble to the planet always because of that wobble it creates a certain kind of situation on the planet so on that day especially in the northern hemisphere or only in the northern hemisphere there is a natural upsurge of energy there is a natural observation oh all this energy i don't believe you don't just go sit on the coast if there is a full moon night is the ocean rising hello so on your monday full monday do you see that oh the very ocean is trying to rise well over two thirds of your body is water what makes you think body water inside the body won't rise all the fluids in the body are also rising so you will see these things are there everywhere if you are in a if you ever been in a mental institution no you could have gone there just you will see on full moon days and new moon days people take extra care because those who are psychologically disturbed become far more disturbed people think moon causes madness that's why lunar and luni and all this stuff moon does not cause madness it just pulls everything up if you're a little crazy it makes you more crazy you're a little loving it makes you more loving you're a little meditative it makes you more meditative whatever is your quality gets enhanced because it's kind of there's an upsurge in the system this particular day after the solstice happens in december 22nd of december is the winter solstice after that the planetary precision is such that there is a natural upsurge on that particular night in a very big way if on that night if you lie down this means when the energies are trying to move like this you're kind of obstructing it it is not only that you lose the benefit you could also harm yourself in in a very sensitive way all these things matter to you only when you want to be a full-fledged human being when i say a full-fledged human being you want every faculty that can be opened up in the home human being you want it to be opened not if you are that kind by evening you're drunk and sleeping what is there also you want to kill it that's up to you but if you want to be a full-fledged human being you want to full scale everything happening to you you observe all these small small changes that happen in the system and take care of that so you want to sit straight you want your spine to be erect on that night when energies are moving upward you want to help it further go up not like this so we created what is called as jagaran that means to stay alert and to stay erect how to keep people erect just make them sick you think they will if i make you sit for another five six hours you will simply sit no i have to entertain you hello so that night we have a celebration from evening 6 to morning 6 12 hours non-stop music dance meditation various things being done so that everybody stays alert nearly a million people are in one place but these numbers were exploding so now we have large screens in over 130 cities across the country in southern india so that people gather there and too many don't come here but still it'll run into somewhere around 700 to 800 000 people in one place and over 86 channels are telecasting it live so how many millions of people are watching we don't know last year they said it could be somewhere around six crore people could be watching this time it's going to be much more so it's grown that big because people find the benefit of what it is you do one thing on that night without getting drunk or drugged just sit alert you don't like celebration so you simply sit like this it's up to you so you need to understand this a human being needs celebration if celebration has to happen in your life you need some sense of playfulness otherwise there's no celebration most people can celebrate only if you get them drunk i will show you a million people in one place not a drop of drink allowed anywhere but you will see full night not one person will sleep everybody's on on on okay you