5: Mahashivaratri

There are three class of people who celebrate it across India. They are:

• The family people – who look at Mahashivaratri as the marriage anniversary of Lord Shiva or Mahadev (Greatest or Supreme of all Gods).
• The ambitious people – who look to overcome all adversaries and conquer everything to achieve their ambitions because they look it as the night when Lord Shiva conquered every single enemy he had.
• The ascetics – who look at the night Mahashivaratri as the night of stillness.

In Hinduism, Lord Shiva is worshiped as God by some while others don’t worship him as God. They look upon him as the Adi Guru – the first guru of the world from whom all the knowledge transcended into this universe. Mahashivaratri for the ascetics is the night when after millennia of meditation, Lord Shiva became absolutely still. So, this is the night of stillness.