In plain words
"Tomorrow the war begins; who is to take on which duties, who is to set out in which directions": so they were making their plan. At that moment Duryodhana came. Droṇācārya, the guru, had told him a word the Pāṇḍavas did not know and sent him. "Over this they will be beaten; they will be put to shame," he thought. Duryodhana came running. He came up to them: "Khagaja! Is it for you to fight with me?" he said. The Pāṇḍavas did not know what khagaja meant. If one of them, Arjuna or Dharmarāja, came forward, it would be a disgrace. People would think, "They are fools who do not know the meaning of words." Kṛṣṇa, who recognised this truth, looked towards Bhīma and signed to him to rise. Bhīma rose. Duryodhana did not know the meaning. He went back. The Pāṇḍavas asked Kṛṣṇa, "Swami! This is not a name our mother gave. Who gave this name? What does khagaja mean?" "Kha, the sky; ga, the wind; ja, born. Wind was born of the sky. The one born of the wind is Bhīma." God knows everything, but not everyone knows it. Only because Kṛṣṇa, the protector of all, protected the Pāṇḍavas in this way did they go on to win victory everywhere. The Pāṇḍavas too took refuge in Kṛṣṇa. When you take refuge in God in that way, there is no defeat at all, in anything. In everything we gain nothing but victory. We must gain victory, gain Ānanda, experience Ānanda, experience happiness. If we want to experience what is auspicious, we must develop the feeling of God.
They speak of the darśan of the Ātmaliṅga, of the darśan of the Jyotirliṅga. They speak of the darśan of the Agniliṅga, of the darśan of the Vāyuliṅga. All five liṅgas are there. But the mind has a bond with tonight. The night is dark. The mind too is dark. But "candramā manaso jātaḥ": there is a bond between the moon and the mind. The moon has 16 powers. Of these sixteen powers, 15 are dissolved. Only one power remains. Through this whole night, since there is only one power, we can master it. For one person to fight with 16 is hard. For 16 to fight with one is easy. Today only one power remains in the mind. To master it, we must master it by contemplating God. Resolved to win victory in this, people have kept up the contemplation of God all this night. The sixteen kalās that were in the mind merged in God. That itself is the darśan of the Jyotirliṅga. Śivarātri means the auspicious night. We must win complete victory by contemplating God. The ancient ṛṣis did such practices and gained the result. Divinity stays very close. Magnetism arises in us. All the kalās in the body are unchecked. Tonight a divine power arises that attracts even the hairs. A certain power of sound arises in us. The power of speech comes. The power of light grows. All the powers grow. By growing, it takes form as divine radiance. This is what is called Śivarātri. The auspicious night. Today we must take care not to enter into bad qualities and evil thoughts. What we must know is this: we need not search for God, thinking He is somewhere far off. We must develop well the truth that we ourselves are God, and grow firm in that conviction. Only when we lay this foundation firmly can we face whatever troubles come. God is not somewhere far off. He is right within us. God is, He is. Where? We ourselves, we ourselves. We must achieve this truth well and firmly.
Embodiments of Prema! Prema is God. God is Prema. When our words are full of Prema, our conduct is full of Prema, and our very life is turned into Prema, everything becomes Prema.