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Maha Shivratri is a Hindu festival celebrated yearly in appreciation of the god Mahadev. Celebration of this day reason is that marriage of god Shiva and goddess Parvati. This festival, also called as 'Shivratri' or 'Great Night of Shiva', sign of the union of Shiva and Shakti.
Maha Shivratri is celebrate on the Krishna Paksha Chaturdashi of Hindu calendar month Maagha . This festival comes in February or March as per the Gregorian calendar. In whole year comes totlay 12 shivaratris, but Maha Shivarathri is the most holy and like to shiva also. On this day all temples decorated with lights and crowded by devotees.
A lot of traditional folk story related with the mahashivratri. Once story is that , before ago one trapper went to jungle and drown the animals for his food. One day when a trapper not found any animal to drown for his food in a jungle, he watched on the division of a Woodapple tree. In order to attract deer, he begun falling the leafs of the tree on the below land, unfamiliar in lower place of tree one shiva LIngam situated. Happy with the Woodapple leafs and the patience of the trapper, it is surprised that Lord Shiva came in front of the trapper and sanctified him with sanity. From that day on ahead, the trapper closed to eat meat.
People keep fast on this day. Maha Shivratri start from before the sunrise. That day , married women go to the shiva temple and worship the god shiva and beal leaves, milk and water offering on shivalingam. Some people in home making soil shivlingma to worship .
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All-day keep fast and an all-night doing jagaran. All through the day, devotees sing "Om Namah Shivaya", the spritual mantra of Shiva. Penances are performed in order to gain boons in the practice of Yoga and meditation, in order to reach life's highest good steadily and swiftly.
