Wherever there is truth there is Shiva. Wherever there is beauty there is Shiva. Wherever there is benevolence there is Shiva. And there is not a place where the principle that is Shiva, is not there. Shivaratri is an occasion to remember that, ‘I am Shiva, I am that principle, I am the truth, eternity, beauty, and benevolence'.
Shiva is Beauty, yet He is Unseen
Shiva is Benevolent, yet He is Fierce
Shiva is Truth, yet He cannot be known by the intellect
Shiva is Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram.
