#1147 - The Scientific Significance of Mahashivaratri | Mahashivaratri

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

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Responding to a question on whether youth should celebrate Mahashivratri, and whether it is an outdated religious ritual in modern times, Sadhguru speaks about the science and significance of Mahashivratri. He looks at why one should stay awake on this night to reap the maximum benefits of the natural upsurge of energy that takes place in the Northern Hemisphere. Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast, SOTOMAYOR of Mystics and mistakes.
0:20.0	Scepder you speak so logically and it makes sense to me but at the same time you're celebrating the religious festival of Mahashavratri in a grand way at the Isha Yoga Center.
0:28.0	For a young person like
0:33.7	outdated rituals so I want to know what is the relevance of myhvratri to the youth
0:38.6	thank you
0:40.3	what kind of festival would you like? First of all,
0:44.0	maybe only the Valentin's day or something?
0:48.0	That is also religious, it's Saint Valentin. All right? So what is Mahishivratri?
0:57.0	You need to understand this. There are certain, in India, there are 365 festivals in a year.
1:05.0	Yes.
1:07.0	Today, due to economic reasons and the way we have structured our work and things,
1:12.0	a whole lot of them have died, still about... we have
1:14.0	died, died, still about 30 to 35 are being actively.
1:18.0	Maybe more than that.
1:20.0	About 50 to 60 festivals are being celebrated by different people but that number also is
1:26.0	decreasing largely maybe about five or six are being celebrated in a big way. So some of them are social, a few of them may be
1:38.6	religious but hardly any religious ones. Some are all connected to the calendar. Almost every Indian festival is connected to
1:46.6	the calendar what's happening in the solar system. We want to do something which is
1:51.6	conducive for what's happening that day in the rest of the solar system
1:56.4	Why this is important is because what you call as my body right now. What is human mechanism is
2:05.0	Has come out of this planet most people don't get it till you bury them
2:10.7	They think they came from somewhere.
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