God is positive. Man is negative. If contact is made, the
Divine current flows from positive to negative. For this reason the Indian
tradition of touching a Divine person. But without some form of discipline and
limitation, people would be touching face and body. Hence, the custom of
touching the lotus feet.
In India, the most auspicious times to meditate are when the
moon is in its dark phase, or waning, and is therefore least disruptive. Let
Baba explain it:
Shivaratri is observed
every month on the fourteenth night of the dark half; for the Moon, which is
the presiding Deity of the human mind, has only just one night more to be a
nonentity with no influence on the agitations of the mind. In the month of
Magha, the fourteenth night is named Maha (great) Shivaratri for it is sacred
for another reason too. It is the day on which Shiva takes the Linga form, for
the benefit of seekers.
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