 Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Ice. Ice. Great. Hi, welcome back to our stupid, rag-tod-giddy department. I'm Ragu Paulson, Instagram and Twitter. It's so juicy content. It's so juicy. It's a patron. Also, follow our official Twitter account. I was so overwhelmed with the juicy content that I couldn't go on. Today, uh, please tell me this has nothing to do with your mother's nipples, weird thing to say, uh, but yeah, the uh, today's the 21st, uh, so it's the, it's uh, there's a festival, wait a minute, that's so, that hardly ever happens in India, I know, festivals, I know, um, I'm gonna mispronounce it, please forgive me, Mahashivrati. Mahashivrati, significance, reason of celebration, rituals and more, Hindi festival, Mahashivrati, it's a description video about this festival. So this is a two-fer, we're gonna do this and then right after we're gonna have a song that I believe has to definitely wrote, yes, I wrote it, it's great, um, but yeah, here we go. Here we go. Mahashivrati is the major festival in Hinduism. It is celebrated annually in honor of Lord Shiva. In Shiva temples, Om Lama Shivay, the sacred mantra is chanted throughout the day. Let us know something about Mahashivrati. Mahashivrati is particularly important in the Shaivism tradition of Hinduism. Mahashivrati is a festival notable for its focus, fasting and meditation on Lord Shiva. The Shaiva Hindus mark the Shivrati night as overcoming darkness and ignorance in one's life and the world through Shiva. When is Mahashivrati celebrated? The festival is celebrated on the new moon day in the month of Mark, Falgun, according to the Hindu calendar. There is a Shivratri in every lunar solar month of the Hindu calendar, on a month's thirteenth, ninth or fourteenth day, but once a year in late winter and before the arrival of spring, marks Mahashivratri, which means the great night of Shiva. Let's explore some believed stories behind celebrating this holy day. The most popular story is that Mahashivratri is the day on which Shiva married Goddess Parvati. There is a tale which associates the day to Samudra Manthan, in which Shiva saved the world by consuming emerged poison and arresting it in his throat through yogic powers. Another tale has it that after the earth was faced with an imminent destruction, Goddess Parvati pledged with Lord Shiva to save the world. Leased with her prayers, Lord Shiva agreed to save the world, on the pretext that the people of the earth would have to worship him with dedication and passion. How does people celebrate Shiva festival? Mahashivratri observances include poojas, abhishek, fasting and staying awake at night with prayers. People visit Shiva temples and chant the sacred mantra Om Namah Shivay. Some people perform Mahamritinjay Mantra. Hindu temples across the country are decorated with colorful lights. Large processions are carried out throughout the city, with people thronging the streets to catch a glimpse of idol of Lord Shiva. Rituals of the day. Abhishek on Shivaling is a major ritual of Mahashivratri. Abhishek or bathing the Shivaling is performed using milk, honey, sugar, black sesame seeds, galgajal, etc. After this, sandalwood paste and rice are applied on Shivaling. Thereafter, fresh fruits and flowers are offered. The celebration takes place at the major Jyothi Link Shiv temples of India, such as in Varanasi and Somnath are particularly frequented on Mahashivratri. They serve also as sites for fairs and special events. The most popular Mahashivratri celebrations take place in Ujjain, believed to be the place of residence of Lord Shiva. Mahashivratri is the most important festival in Kashmir. It is celebrated as the anniversary of marriage of Shiva and Parvati. Mahashivratri is celebrated widely in the temples all over Nepal, but especially in the Pashupatinath temple. Significance of the festival. Mahashivratri is very significant for people who are on the spiritual path. Mahashivratri Vrat is believed to be very powerful, which helps a person to attain control over worldly pressures and temptations. On this night, the northern hemisphere of the planet is positioned in such a way that there is a natural upsurge of energy in a human being. This is a day where nature is pushing one towards one's spiritual peak. On Mahashivratri, married women pray for the well-being of their husbands. Unmarried women pray for a husband like Shiva, considered as the ideal husband. Shiva is also worshipped as the Adi Guru, first teacher from whom the yogic tradition originates. Wish you all a very happy Mahashivratri. For more videos like this, subscribe to our channel and click on the bell icon to get notified when we upload a new video. Also, it's a good video because I was like, oh, so what are they doing? And then she was like, what do they do? Right? Yeah, read my mind very straight to the point, very clear, at least for those of you who know it better than we do, if you can tell us if this was a good video. In that day, it's something that we did. Yeah. Is that what she was saying? Oh, mama. Absolutely. Which is, which was why, you know, we were actually considering doing something to that song. I was going to do a tap dance to that song and just we both felt, yeah. Yeah, no, it's a prayer. We didn't want to touch that. We don't want people to be disrespectful. Yeah. But even though we just wanted to do it because we loved that song. Yeah, it was just the rhythm and everything worked really, really well. But anyways, now this is a song, I'm guessing it has to do with it. I think Amitabh Bakchan is singing. Yeah, it's a song featuring, it's Jai Jai Kedara song featuring Kailash Kher, Amitabh Bakchan, Arjit Singh, Sonu Negam, and Shreya Gosho. Yeah, wow. And then the devotional song on Shiva the Destroyer. This has been sung by 13 people, including Big B, Kailash Kher, Sonu Negam, Shreya Gosho. The song was recorded in 2016 as a project by the state government to showcase the progress made by the state after the natural disaster and flood in 2013, which causes extensive damage to the pilgrimage route and took thousands of lives. Oh, after a successful restoration, the pilgrimage route has been reopened for the devotees. Is that the route we saw with all of the people on it that had the line going up the lettuce now? Hill? One second. Sorry. Somebody came inside. We have to do some construction. But now we are going, we are getting to the song with Amitabh Bakchan and a lot of other people. Jai Jai Kedara. Yep. Here we go. Oh, come to me this time. Get your mind to make your safe and smooth. It was great. Thank you Jayant for the subs. Yes, thank you so much. And yeah, that is the same movie about a flood near the Himalayas. Yeah, that was a combination of both truth and not like the love story wasn't true, but the catastrophe was true, which I'm assuming took out that not only the people who live there, but what we saw in the other video, everybody going up the side of the mountain. I'm assuming that's the trail that was destroyed and they read the government rebuilt. Oh, okay. Right? Yeah. Yeah. And so they make a trek up there. They make a trek to the temple for this festival and maybe other things as well, I would assume. So interesting. Not just once a year, but it's a beautiful song. Yeah, it was very pretty. Really good. I don't know what it's called. What does it call them? A bunch of people sing it one time? The harmonies or unison? Yeah, whatever. The harmony or yeah, that's not only that's the word I was looking for, but good harmony of all the people singing and a lot of them what? No. I was singing in a different word. I don't know what it was. But that's what I'm meaning. Yeah, the sound of everybody singing together. The coronation of everybody. Ah, yes. Collaboration. Yeah. Was that it? That might have been. Okay. I don't know why I couldn't think of collaboration. Weird. But yeah, it was really pretty. Amitabh Bakshan has a great deep baritone voice. He really does have a nice voice. Yeah. Much better than a fake one that we... Yeah. And we were being generously kind to and it was like, that's not big B. No, I've appreciated when we've heard him sing and it seems that any time we have it's just been these devotional songs. Is he like a, one of the, I don't know what the word is for, but like the Hindu, not a, one of the faces of like Hinduism in India now, because I believe he is Hindu. Yeah, I believe he is as well. So like one of the faces, like the one who's like a outspoken person about that and then always wishes people well on that day. I think so. I'm assuming he's looked to that. Yeah, looked to that. I think so. Correct us if we're wrong, but it sure seems that way from what we've seen. Almost every video, almost every holiday, he's either singing a song or... He's involved in some way. Yeah. So he seems like he's very involved in that, which is cool to see. Great video and I'm hoping everybody... What, how do you say it again? Have a great, maha shvarati. If we say happy maha shvarati to everybody who's celebrating out there and you're trekking, safe travels to you. Yeah, because it looks like that trek can be a bit treacherous up there. Might have been. Yeah, and I mean, I think that's why they were saying that that one gentleman was saying, I will make sure your trip is safe and good. It looks like it's a little treacherous. If it's that one with a clip right over there, that's scary. Yeah, but yeah, happy maha shvarati to everyone who's celebrating. And forgive us if we're mispronouncing it.