Dear All,

The month of Shravana starts today, the holiest month of the year for hindus. For Shiva bhakts every Shravana Somvar is of special significance and they celebrate it through going to shiva temple offering bel leaves, flowers, milk and ganga jal to shiva linga and keeping  सावन सोमवार व्रत.

Every year Kanwarias travel to Haridwar, Rishikesh , Gangotri and Guamukh to fetch holy Ganga water . The whole month of Shravana, Lord Shiva is worshiped and at the end of month Raksha Bandhan is celebrated on Poornima(Full moon).

Happy Shravana

Jai Neelkanth Mahadev

Happy Navratri to all of you.

Dear All,

Today 28th September 2011 Sharad Navratri starts  and will end on 5th October 2011.These nine days nine forms of durga are worshipped. The  first three days are for worshipping goddess of shakti Durga,  followed by worshipping goddess of wealth Lakshmi for next three days and last three days goddess of knowledge saraswati is worshipped.

 

On the very next day of navratri end vijaydashmi is celebrated which is 6th October 2011.

May the goddess bless us all.

Happy Navratri .

Today is Hanuman Jayanti.

Dear Freinds,

Today is Hanuman Jayanti , the birth day of  Shri Hanuman Ji.On the  full moon of chaitra month,Hanuman Ji was born as the eleventh Rudra avatar.

May lord bless all with courage and free from fear.

Jai Bajrang Bali

Wish you all a very happy Ram Navmi .

Dear Friends ,

It is my pleasure and delight to write this post to wish everybody a happy Ram Navmi.

Today is the birthday of Bhagwan Shri Ram, born as son of King Dasharatha and Queen Kausalya in Ayodhaya .On the ninth day of chaitra month during the bright phase of the moon, Lord Shri Ram the incarnation of lord Vishnu came to this earth .Shri Rama is the seventh incarnation of lord Vishnu.

Ayodhya the birth place of Shri Ram people come in lakhs to get his blessings ,other significant places associated with Shri Ram are Ujjain and Rameshwaram.In the praise of Shri Ram , bhajans and kirtans takes place in temples .

May Lord Shri Ram Bless all of us with peace and happiness throughout our life.

Jai Shri Ram

Jai shri Ram

Maha Shivratri ke Shubh Kaamnaye Sabhi ko.

Dear Friends ,

Today on this auspicious day I wish all of you a happy Maha Shivratri.May lord shiv bless all of us with courage and happiness .

Today I want to share one of the NeelKanth Mahadev's photo which is been beautifully decorated with flowers, fruits and sweets in the evening hour.

Neelkanth Mahadev mandir is 22 kilometers from Lakshman Jhula in Rishikesh .

Om Namah Shivay

Introduction about NeelKanth Mahadev

                          "Om Namah Shivay"

Samudra Manthan Story

Samudra Manthan(Churning of ocean) is mentioned in the puranas.Once king of gods Indra was on his elephant when he met Muni Durvasa who handed a special garland.Lord Indra took the garland and gave it to the elephant that garland.The elephant irritated by the smell of the flower threw the garland in the ground.Muni Durvasa felt insulted as the garland was a dwelling of Sri(fortune) and should be accepted as prasad.Angry with Lord Indra Muni Durvasa cursed Indra that Devas will be their strength ,power and fortune.

Puranas mention this as one of the reason for "Samudra Manthan".Since devas were defeated by demons ,so devas felt the need for immortality .Devas with the help of lord vishnu hatched a plan to churn the ocean to have nectar of immortality .

The task of churning Nectar of mortality was very difficult task and required efforts of both devas and demons to churn the ocean.Next question came how to churn the ocean ? This is when  Lord vishnu took the second avatar as Kurma Avatar(Tortoise). Mount  Mandaranchal  was kept over Kurma Avatar and king of serpents Vasuki became the rope for churning.

During the churning Moon,Goddess Lakshmi ,Kamdhenu were born and  also  lot of precious ratna,herbs were produced. But before the nectar could come  ,Halahala(poison) came out  .The Halahala was so poisness that it could kill everyone ,which caused panic among devas and asuras.

This is when devas and asuras  approached  "Shiv Shankar Mahadeva" for help and Bholenath Shiv Shankar drank that poison happily .This Halahala was so poisness that it changed the color of throat to blue. This is the reason why Shiv Shankar is also said as "NeelKanth Mahadev" where "Neel" means blue and "Kanth" means throat.

 

 

 

NeelKanth decorated

                            "Om Namah Shivay"

Everyday in the mandir at 4:30am in the morning there is arti .It's really beautiful to attend and have the grace of mahadev.Similarly in the evening hours there is also arti and during this arti "NeelKanth" is beautifully decorated with flowers  .Each day "NeelKanth" is decorated in different fashion.I have one of the photos which I would like to share.

Har Har Mahadev

Jai NeelKanth Mahadev

                                                                          "Om Namah Shivay"

I am extremely fortunate to visit NeelKanth Mahadev Temple near Rishikesh and it gives me profound happiness to share the "Saakshaat"  neelkanth photos.

Har Har Mahadev
Shiv Bhakt