#Mahashivratri is the day of #Shiva. Wherever there is beauty, truth, and benevolence, there is Shiva. And, there is no place where the Shiva principle is absent. But, Shiva is not a person. It is that principle which is the summum bonum of the whole creation and pervades the entire universe. This principle, called the Shiva #Tattva, is the quintessence of life and is present deep within every living being. On Mahashivratri, we celebrate the Shiva Tattva by going deep within us, meditating, and rejoicing in the Shiva energy. There are certain days and time frames in a year when one’s mental health and spiritual faculties are enhanced and Mahashivratri is one such precious day.
प्रणम्य जगदुत्पत्तिस्थितिसंहारकारणम् । स्वर्गापवायोरिं त्रैलोक्यशरणं शिवम् ॥ १॥
नानामुनीनां बचनेरिदानों समासतः सद्भिषां नियोगात्।
सोपद्वारिनिदानलिनो निवध्यते रोगविनिधयोऽयम् ॥ २॥
नानातन्त्रविहीनानां भिपजामस्पमेधसाम् । सुर्ख विज्ञातुमातहमयमेव भविष्यति ॥ ३॥
Having propitiated to Lord Siva, who is the cause for the creation, maintenance and destruction of the Universe, bestower of heaven and salvation and the protector of all of the three worlds, I have composed this treatise ‘Roga Viniścaya’ on the advice of revered physicians, containing in brief, the sayings of various sages on the complications, bad prognosis, causes, signs, and symptoms of diseases. This will be of help to understand the di cases easily to those physicians who are of poor intellect and hence unable to study different treatises. ~Madhava Nidana