Sri Swami Vishwananda: (after chanting Panduranga Hari & Panduranga Vittale Vittale with devotees) "I was saying, you know, after midnight that I will tell you about Shivaratri and that is Shivaratri."
SSV: "What is Shivaratri? Actually, Shivaratri is when you forget about your mind and what dwells only in your mind is the Divine. Actually, right now when you were singing and chanting Panduranga Vittale Vittale, Panduranga Vittale Vittale, you were not thinking. You were just chanting the Name of God and by the movement you didn’t think of anything. You were just concentrating on the vibration that was coming out from what you were chanting, no? And that’s what is Shivaratri, actually, which is uplifting you and really awakening what is deep inside of you.
(excerpt from Swamiji's talk "What is Shivaratri?")
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