{"id":172,"date":"2010-01-12T06:47:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T01:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-01-12T07:53:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T02:23:01","slug":"shivaratri-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/kolkataashram\/172\/shivaratri-celebrations","title":{"rendered":"Shivaratri Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>24th Feb, 2009<\/strong> &#8211; The MA Math at Kolkata celebrated Maha Shivaratri in Bramasthanam Temple at Ashram premises, in a very grand manner. The programs started from early morning of 23rd February and was evenly distributed throughout the day with Special Rudra Abhishekam, Maha Mrityunjaya Homam, Satsang on Shiva Mahima , Shiva Manasa Pooja at different pre-selected hours and finally ended with 108 Kalasha Abhishekam followed by Aarati and Prasad on the early morning of 24th February.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local devotees had gathered in large numbers at the temple premises to offer puja on this auspicious day to Lord Shiva. This unique occasion enabled them to individually offer pujas particularly during Kalasha Abhisekham.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pujas were performed in all reverence by Br. Sadashiva Chaitanya, and was ably assisted by Bramasthanam Temple priest Br. Nirmal. Sadashivaji conducted the entire program and also gave an enlightening talk on the Mahima of Maha Shivaratri   The programs also included recitation of Guru strotram, Bhajan, Arati, and distribution of Prasad to all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border:thin dotted black; padding:3mm;\"><img style=\"float:left;margin-right:5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/images\/pinRed.jpg\"\/>If you're new here, you may want to <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"> subscribe to our newsletter [By: <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/feeds.feedburner.com\/AmmaKolkata');\" rel=\"nofollow\"   href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/AmmaKolkata\">RSS feed <\/a> | <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=AmmaKolkata&loc=en_US');\" rel=\"nofollow\"   href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=AmmaKolkata&loc=en_US\"> Email<\/a> ]<\/span> for the latest updates<\/a>. It\u2019s FREE. Thanks for visiting!<\/p><div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><ul class=\"addtoany_list\"><li><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ammakolkata.org%2Fblog%2Fkolkataashram%2F172%2Fshivaratri-celebrations&amp;linkname=Shivaratri%20Celebrations\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24th Feb, 2009 &#8211; The MA Math at Kolkata celebrated Maha Shivaratri in Bramasthanam Temple at Ashram premises, in a very grand manner. The programs started from early morning of 23rd February and was evenly distributed throughout the day with Special Rudra Abhishekam, Maha Mrityunjaya Homam, Satsang on Shiva Mahima , Shiva Manasa Pooja at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ammakolkata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}