Mangalore decked up for Maha Shivaratri

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March 1, 2011

Mangalore, March 1: The city of Mangalore has geared up for the Great Night of Shiva, popularly known as Maha Shivaratri. The festival will be observed with traditional fervour and gaiety across various temples in Dakshina Kannada district on Wednesday, March 2.

A large number of people are expected to throng major temples across the city including Sri Kshetra Kadri and Sri Kshetra Gokarnanateshwara early on Wednesday morning.

The major Shiva temples in the city are fully decked up and geared up for this occasion.

Maha Shivaratri, is a festival during which devotees give up food and sleep, to engage in prayer and worship of Shiva for spiritual purification.

Hindus believe that it is a rare occasion for the individual soul to be aware of the supreme consciousness. It is a festival of auspiciousness.

Devotees sing in Shiva's praise to acquire spiritual power. They worship Shivalinga with bilva leaves. According to their belief it is the symbolical union of individual soul with the supreme soul.

Kudroli Gokarnanatheshwara Temple will observe double jubilee as it will receive a grand gift of silver chariot on the occasion of Shivaratri.

The ratha weighing 4,500 kg and gifted to the Sri Kshetra by Ramesh Kumar, Urmila Ramesh Kumar and family was brought to the Kshetra with pomp and splendour on February 18.

Ahead of the formal dedication of the ratha, various pre-rituals have been going on since February 25.

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