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Articles: Festivals | Maha Sivaratri
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But, by the conclusion that we can draw from an analysis of the dream-condition, we can conclude to some extent that in the waking state also we are in a fool's paradise. What is the guarantee that we will not wake up again from this waking world, into something else? As in dream you did not know that you were dreaming, in this waking also you do not know that you are in a state similar to dream. You think that this world in waking is a hard fact and a solid reality, just as you believed the world of dream also to be. Now to the senses an absence of perception is, equal to darkness, the darkness that we experience in deep sleep.
Let us come back to the subject of Sivaratri, the night of Siva. When you perceive an object you call it waking. When you do not perceive it, it is darkness. Now you see in the waking condition, the so-called waking world, present before us a world of objects as we are intelligent. In dream also there is a sort of intelligence. But in sleep there is no intelligence. What happens? The senses and the intellect withdraw themselves into their source. There is no perceptional activity and so the absence of perception is equated to the presence of darkness. The cosmic Primeval condition of the creative will of God, before creation - a state appearing like darkness, or night-is what we call the condition of Siva.
It is very important to remember that the state of Siva is the primordial condition of the creative will of God, where there is no externality of perception, there being nothing outside God; and so, for us, it is like darkness or night. It is Siva's night, Sivaratri. For Him it is not night. It is all Light. Siva is not sitting in darkness. The Creative Will of God is Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, all combined. Sometimes we designate this condition as Isvara. The Supreme Absolute, which is indeterminable, when it is associated with the Creative Will with a tendency to create the Cosmos, is Isvara in Vedantic parlance and Siva in Puranic terminology. This is the very precise condition described in the Nasadiya Sukta of the Veda as Tamas or darkness.
This is to repeat again, darkness due to the excess of the Light of the divine Absolute. If you look at God, what will you see? You will see nothing. The eyes cannot see Him. Because He is such dazzling light. When the frequency of light gets intensified to a very high level, light will not be seen by the eyes. When the frequency is lowered, comes down to the level of the structure of the retina of the eye, only then you can see light. There are various kinds of lights, various intensities or frequencies, and the higher frequencies are incapable of cognisance by the senses on account of their structural deformity. So if you see God, you will see nothing.
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